By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer What’s that, you say? The House of Mouse is re-releasing another one of its catalogue titles, AGAIN? Well, there’s nothing wrong with that, when you think about it. For one thing, it’s another chance for a new generation to acquire a fine gem in their home…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer A worthy, trivia-filled follow-up to the successful and popular 2012 film about two kids’ arcade characters who become the unlikeliest of buddies, Disney’s Ralph Breaks the Internet brings the computer and online world to life, taking its heroes through adventures they could never possibly imagine, into a new…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer (Not to Mention Inveterate Trekkie ) Just imagine it. . 53 years. Over a half century of stories born from a single TV concept imagined and retooled by a former airline pilot named Gene Roddenberry, who dared to dream about humanity having progressed past its petty…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer By definition, having hundreds of millions of dollars in production funds shouldn’t necessarily mean one should sacrifice quality over quantity. Furthermore, one should expect that source material wouldn’t be skimmed over, much less vaguely referenced for commercial gain. And yet, this seems to be the case…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer There are so many tropes to think of in modern science-fiction, both written and cinematic: there’s time travel, robot Armageddon, space faring and my personal favorite, human evolution by way of genetic advancement or manipulation, leading to your garden variety super soldier or Avenger of choice,…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer I may be in the minority opinion on this, but I feel that modern cinema should produce more Westerns. I mean, with the resurgence of the genre via crossover sci-fi hybrids like HBO’s Westworld, as well as a handful of genre pics sporadically popping up in the last…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer To anyone who’s been paying attention to the divided superhero market in the last twenty years, there have been a few undeniable business facts that would otherwise boggle (or at least confuse) the untrained mind, were it not for repeated explanatory breakdowns as to why Batman…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer Just take a moment and close your eyes, and think back on that shortlist of films that have affected your psyche, both intellectually and emotionally, with their incredible writing, well-rounded acting and poignant, topical settings. Of course, that list will vary from person to person, yet anyone…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer After five action packed Mission Impossible films going back two decades, you’d think that the Impossible Missions Force would have run out of global crises, death-defying rescues and triple crosses in order to flush out their enemies… Well, you were wrong. But in a very good way….
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…