On the day after Christmas, an important part of my childhood vanished when the world learned that Gerry Anderson passed away. You see, I grew up pretty well in the ‘sticks.’ Oh, my sticks probably…
A film cynic I know once described life as nothing more than “the time spent between Die Hard movie premieres.” While I don’t necessarily agree with him, I can understand and appreciate the sentiments. The…
As I will be traveling to visit family for the holidays, I thought it entirely apropos to give the final update and interpretation on the current status of our impending ‘Mayan Doom’ scheduled to take…
We human beings love to spread our seed. Science teaches us what happens when we do, and science fiction revels in the idea of mankind inevitably going from Point A to Point B. Whether its…
Well, Skyfall is upon us. It’s done gangbusters at the box office. If positive press is any indication, then one might conclude that nobody does it better than Bond. On her majesty’s secret service, he’s…
For the record, I could count the number of my friends who watch Showtime’s Homeland. Both of them swear by it. In fact, they stop short of calling it the best program on television ever….
Probably like many of you, I’ve watched a lot of films. Thousands, probably. I honestly couldn’t venture a guess. I only know that I’ve filled my leisure hours with just about anything that looked like…
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I remember reading a very specific interview with George Lucas. In it, he was asked why he’d begun telling his Star Wars story with the…
If I learned one lesson from Fox’s The X Files, it’s that shows reach a point in their production history when the decline in storytelling is inevitable. That doesn’t mean that each and every episode…