Dominic Messier is a 20-year plus entertainment writer veteran whose words have appeared everywhere from local FM radio in Quebec's Eastern Townships, to the Sherbrooke Record, before a move to Toronto in 2000. Dom's written for Bell Media, the now-defunct Suite101 media site and most recently, over at Pop Culture Landscape. He still lives in Toronto with his lovely, incredible wife Naomi Szeben.
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Lifelong Serling Student We all know the theme song by heart. We all have a favorite classic episode, either it be about a monster on the airplane wing, a nearsighted man unable to read books in a post-apocalyptic world or aliens looking to cook…AHEM, serve man. The original series’…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and TV Writer A show the helped revive a failing kids network in the mid 2000s, Nickelodeon’s popular series Avatar The Last Airbender is a reminder of just how far the high definition format can take a cherished animated series to the next level, while still being limited by available technology…
By Dominic Messier, Cyberdyne Critic Model Series 101 We heard the familiar advice, we ignored the common sense to keep running for our lives, yet here we are again, bearing witness to poor souls being hunted by an unstoppable foe hellbent on a singular mission to eradicate its target to ensure the downfall of…
By Dominic Messier, Founder,Editor and Film Writer An ambitious sequel to an otherwise imaginative live-action reinvention of the popular animated 1959 Disney classic, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil tries way too hard to come up with any original idea, only to stretch too thin and crash land into a messy, convoluted mess that would require a…
Review by Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer Of all film genres, the one that is arguably the hardest to pull of with any form of accuracy, is the war film. Many have been made, only a handful are recognized as masterpieces of their respective eras, testaments to every major military conflict of…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and TV Writer After a busy and tumultuous first season, CBS All Access’ foray into the Star Trek universe decided to push the envelope by tapping yet again into well known lore from the original series, while still creating new avenues to explore strange new life and civilizations. And boy oh…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Honorary Sixth Beatle Given how saturated with explosive blockbusters and other CGI-laden megahits the summer film season can be, it’s always refreshing to see what counter-programming emerges as a healing balm to all the noise and busy visuals on the big screen. What’s even more unusual is a…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and TV Writer After seven busy years solving crimes all over the greater New York City area, it was finally time to say goodbye to Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) as they faced one last enemy before moving on into the post-TV world. …
Greetings, ye olde Beatles fans! To help celebrate the release of Danny Boyle’s highly entertaining and touchingly hilarious musical comedy YESTERDAY, out on Digital today and hitting home video shelves in 4K Ultra HD, Bly-Ray and DVD on September 24th, Skip It Or Love It is teaming up with Universal Home Video to give away…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer There you have it: Now the highest grossing movie of all time, with 21 movies helping it build up a backstory for the ages, the oh-so-packed closing chapter Avengers: Endgame proves a well worn saying from the Star Trek universe, namely that the needs of the many outweigh…