Featuring Tom Cruise (Interview with the Vampire, Top Gun), Colin Farrell (A Home at the End of the World, Total Recall, Daredevil) Neal McDonough (Arrow, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow), and Kathryn Morris (Xena: Warrior Princess), and directed by Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Back to the Future film series, *batteries not included, An American … Continue reading
Featuring Keira Knightley (Pirates of the Caribbean film trilogy, Pride and Prejudice), Ralph Fiennes (The Avengers, Maid in Manhattan), Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron), Charlotte Rampling (London Spy), and Dominic Cooper (Mamma Mia!, Captain America: The First Avenger), The Duchess is a film based on Amanda Foreman’s biography of the 18th-century English aristocrat … Continue reading
Featuring Tom Cruise (Top Gun), Christian Slater (FernGully: The Last Rainforest), Kirsten Dunst (Bring It On!), Thandie Newton (The Pursuit of Happyness, The Chronicles of Riddick), and Stephen Rea (Underworld: Awakening), Interview with the Vampire is a drama horror film directed by Neil Jordan. It is based on the 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire by Anne … Continue reading
Directed by Tony Scott (Enemy of the State, Unstoppable), I remember seeing Top Gun at the house of my friend Marlyan with, then best friend, Jennifer back in South Lawrence ages and ages ago. It was a nice summer day when this happened, certainly, and fairly close to the O’Connell South Common. The film features … Continue reading
Featuring Erick Avari (Stargate, Stargate SG-1, Independence Day, The Mummy), Jennifer Garner (Dude, Where’s My Car?, Pearl Harbor), Colin Farrell (A Home at the End of the World, Total Recall), Ellen Pompeo (Grey’s Anatomy), and Ben Affleck (Dogma, Good Will Hunting, Pearl Harbor, Forces of Nature), Daredevil is directed by Mark Steven Johnson (Ghost Rider film series) based upon … Continue reading
Season 8 Season 7 Season 6 Season 5 Season 4 Season Three introduces the character of Cole Turner, as an Assistant District Attorney (and demonic assassin known as Belthazor) working for the the Triad. He had been dispatched by the Source of all Evil himself to kill the Charmed Ones, but ends up falling in love … Continue reading
Featuring Devon Sawa (Final Destination), Seth Green (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Jessica Alba (Fantastic Four film series), and Vivica A. Fox (Independence Day, Batman & Robin), Idle Hands is a stoner dark comedy body horror film directed by Rodman Flender, and written by Terri Hughes and Ron Milbauer. Notably, the film features the band, The Offspring, which was … Continue reading
Featuring Colin Farrell (Total Recall), A Home at the End of the World is a film with a screenplay adapted by Michael Cunningham based on his 1990 novel of the same name. I have always found it to be a very good film. According to the Ten Years Ago blog post on the film: A … Continue reading
Serving as a prequel to the independent film Sordid Lives, the series features Rue McClanahan (The Golden Girls, Mama’s Family, Maude), Olivia Newton-John (Grease), and Caroline Rhea (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch). Having watched the series, I found it wonderful, beautiful, and easy to relate to, even though I have not seen the original film. According … Continue reading
Like The Jeffersons, Maude was actually the first spin-off of All In The Family, having two years of development by the time The Jeffersons first aired. Featuring Bea Arthur (The Golden Girls) as Democrat Maude Finlay, and Rue McClanahan (The Golden Girls, Mama’s Family) as Vivian Harmon, the sweet and scatterbrained second wife of next-door neighbor, … Continue reading
As someone who consumes a hell of a lot of media, I can honestly say I have also been a major consumer of spoilers, but I am not the only one – in a certain way, aren’t we all? Before going further, I would like to correctly define what the definition of “spoilers” is, as … Continue reading
Ghost Light reminds me somewhat of a certain Moffat companion, Clara Oswald. If you swap Ace with Clara, there can be found this similarity, but that is where the similarities seem to end. Clara’s backstory was never fleshed out to begin with, and come Series 8 it’d be all about Danny Pink, yet Series 9 would … Continue reading
Featuring Ian McKellen (X-Men film series, The Lord of the Rings film series, The Hobbit film series, Doctor Who‘s The Snowmen), Claire Danes (Princess Mononoke, The Hours, Terminator: Rise of the Machines), Michelle Pfeiffer (Batman Returns, Hairspray, What Lies Beneath), Peter O’Toole (Casanova), and Henry Cavill (Man of Steel), Stardust a film adaptation of the 1999 Neil Gaiman (Doctor Who‘s The Doctor’s Wife) … Continue reading
Featuring Michelle Pfeiffer (Batman Returns, Hairspray), What Lies Beneath is psychological horror film directed by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future film series, Contact). According to Roger Ebert: What Lies Beneath” opens with an hour or so of standard thriller scare tactics, done effectively, and then plops into a morass of absurdity. Lacking a smarter … Continue reading
The Trial of a Time Lord encompasses the entire 23 season of the show, and has A Christmas Carol sort of feeling to it. It’s also one of the poorest stories ever created for Doctor Who, having a descent build-up ending on a very, very low note. The series at this time had just faced a chance … Continue reading
I do know a thing about internet trolling, as I have my own family to give the greatest credit for this, giving me lots of experience on the psychological factors, and understanding of it’s context. If you think they are different in person than on the internet – think again – as my experience with … Continue reading
Season 8 Season 7 Season 6 Season 5 Season 4 is considered the last good season the show ever had, which also serves as a soft-reboot given Shannon Doherty left the show over potential feuds with other cast. McGowan’s Paige was a great addition, bringing a freshness to the series already 3 years old. … Continue reading
Unlike the apocalyptic 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, Godzilla, and Independence Day, Roland Emmerich’s Universal Soldier is much more akin to Stargate in terms of atmosphere and characterization – with more actions sequences. The film features Dolph Lundgren (Masters of the Universe), Michael Jai White (Spawn), Robert Trebor (Xena: Warrior Princess), and Jerry Orbach (Murder, … Continue reading
Arc of Infinity effectively kicks of the 20th anniversary season, which features a returning foe from the Doctor’s past in every serial. This time it is Omega, who appeared in the 10th anniversary special, The Three Doctors. Notably, Commander Maxil is played by Colin Baker, who would later become the Sixth Incarnation of the Doctor. … Continue reading
The Magician’s Apprentice follows up after Death in Heaven with the death of Missy the Master, and Last Christmas where Clara and the Doctor worked on their relationship, and Clara got to say goodbye to Danny Pink. More importantly though, the episode features an array of returning characters, including Kate Stewart and UNIT, the Shadow … Continue reading
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