By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and TV Writer The long-awaited next chapter (or chronologically speaking, the previous?) in the Star Trek canon has now hit the home video format after a successful first season outing on the CBS All-Access premium channel, and like many of its predecessors, it doesn’t disappoint one bit. Despite its…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer Given this decade’s thematic movement towards the live-action adaptation of animated works, mostly thanks to modern visual effects finally able to offer worthy results, does it really come as any surprise that the mighty House of Mouse, who by now not only still owns its own animated films, but Lucasfilm,…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and TV Writer We’ve all heard the various MacGyver jokes over the years: “Here’s an apple, a pen and some matches…now go build me a bomb!” The versatility with which the TV anti-hero, whose ability to create solutions to complex problems using everyday items became an 80s trademark in its…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer In the annals of filmmaking, there are numerous, excellent examples of how to offer a great, honest and rewarding musical biopic, one based on the most popular figures of modern music history. Take Oliver Stone’s The Doors, for example. How a director can aptly summarize years…