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 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…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and TV Writer The year is 1975. I’m one year-old in Canada, but somewhere out there, on a British soundstage, a producer mostly known for some TV hits involving puppetry and miniatures decides he’d ride the post Star Trek vibe from the Americas and film a series in which a lunar…
By Dominic Messier, Founder,Editor and Film Writer The latest in a string of live-action adaptations of Disney’s own catalogue of animated classics, Dumbo is a frustrating double-edged sword, in that it does pull at the heartstrings while benefiting from director Tim Burton’s flair for the fantastic, though it does so at the expense of any…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer As a means to bring in some much needed reinforcement in the Infinity War saga, the folks at Marvel had decided to give us a throwback to a few decades ago, when none of the superheroes had yet gone public (except perhaps Captain America back in…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Entertainment Writer A most fascinating look at the earlier days off by Ol’ Blue Eyes, SINATRA IN PALM SPRINGS: THE PLACE HE CALLED HOME is an extremely insightful look into Frank Sinatra’s home away from it all, Palm Springs, California, and how he influenced and contributed to a…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer A much anticipated sequel that was extremely high on hype but oh so short on delivery, M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass ended up being one of those projects fans had waited for in vain, only to be disappointed beyond belief by a flat story that never believed in its…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer After six or so modern-age films about complex cybernetic alien lifeforms battling each other with Earth as a backdrop, audiences were starting to feel a bit of the fatigue from hyper-kinetic fight scenes between Autobots and Decepticons. To add to the problem, very few of the…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer As we mentioned back in December, it’s been 54 long years since Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke graced movie screens with their legendary song and dance numbers, loosely based on the writings of P.L. Travers about the magical nanny who’s “practically perfect in every way.”…