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-in-Chief and Film Writer There’s a great and illuminating scene in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park, where a certain fictitious chaotician named Ian Malcolm (brilliantly overplayed by Jeff Goldblum) confronts billionaire industrialist John Hammond (Sir Richard Attenborough) as to scientists being so busy with seeing if they could clone dinosaurs,…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and TV Writer Think back on your favorite fanged fiction. The decade is irrelevant, be it Christopher Lee or Bela Lugosi or (shudder!) George Hamilton, everyone’s had their vampire fix either on the big screen or on their television sets. As a guy born in the mid-seventies, I was…
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 In what can only be optimistically described as a dead-on-arrival, violent last nail in a cinematic coffin, the last installment in Fox’s X-Men prequel franchise disrespectfully ignores its own backstory, to offer us a very poorly conceived chapter which doesn’t even bother drawing its plot elements from…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer Just in time for the early summer period, here comes another hit by the Illumination Studio boys, those gifted computer animation guys responsible for notable titles like Despicable Me, Minions, Hop, Sing and all their related sequels. A direct follow-up to The Secret Life of Pets, this somewhat uneven…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer Moving forward with its latest trend of turning each of its animated box office successes into (arguably) unnecessary live-action remakes, the House of Mouse has produced a CGI-laden extravaganza in the form of Aladdin, bringing the streets and skies of Agrabah to vibrant life. Is the finished…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Doggone It, Make Mine Marvel! While highly anticipated and hyped over the past year since the opening salvo that was Avengers: Infinity War, the lengthy but 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 the needs of…