Perhaps a better title for this post would have been “A Tale of Two Clint Eastwoods,” but I’m no Eastwood expert. I know he’s done quite a bit of directing as well as acting over recent decades, and I haven’t kept up with his work. That’s because I rarely watch modern films, since Hollywood has gone progressively so dark.| James Perloff
The cult of the Divine Order rules over its home dimension, which it dubs “the light universe”, with an iron fist, ruled over by the entity known only as His Divine Shadow (Walter Borden) – a messianic figure whose essence is passed down from body to body, the brains of his former bodies being preserved … Continue reading Lexxual Debauchery: Season 1| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: after a tentative beginning and a gradual process of refinement and development, Deep Space Nine kicked off the Dominion plot arc, which saw growing tensions leading to a slide towards conflict. The show ended its fifth season with the Dominion War erupting, leading to season 6 beginning with an intriguing experiment … Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Season of Leavetaking| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: after being hauled to the Delta Quadrant by the vastly powerful entity known as the Caretaker, the USS Voyager has spent entirely too much time dealing with the Kazon, picked up the trail of the Borg, and dialled up the sexy by adding Jeri Ryan to the cast. Now series co-creator … Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – The Season of the Dark Frontier| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
To all external appearances, Stephen Brown (Chris Wilkes) is an ordinary British lad in his late teens, living with his dad Simon (Tony Goddard), his stepmother Jennifer (Angie Goddard), and his st…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Summer – touch wood – is over, at least where I am. Signs of autumn have emerged disturbingly early, suggesting that climate change has done a real number on plant growth and natural cycles this year. Doom beckons. What better time to gear up for the spooky half of the year with some delicious gialli? … Continue reading August Moons, Glass Dolls, and Murder Rock| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
While researching my next 9/11 blog post—about the many anomalies of the planes on September 11, 2001—I went through the recovered forum threads for the now-defunct website of Pilots for 9/11 Truth. In doing so, I learned, for the first time, of a 2012 movie about 9/11 that I’d never…| James Perloff
The story so far: Wes Craven’s original A Nightmare On Elm Street craftily blended the techniques and tropes of the slasher movie as developed by Halloween, Friday the 13th, and a tidal wave of imitators, and then added a gleefully surreal twist to proceedings by having the danger reside not in the waking world but … Continue reading Wes Craven’s Nightmares Old and New – Part 2| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
It’s been a difficult time for Starfleet, but now that the Enterprise-E has defeated the Borg Queen’s plan to assimilate Earth and the tide has begun to turn in the Dominion War, Picard…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: with the withdrawal of Cardassian forces from Bajor, the Federation took over the Cardassian space station known as Terek Nor and renamed it Deep Space 9. As the command crew deal…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The history of the bundle of neopagan movements known as “Wicca” is contentious. Almost as soon as it hit the public consciousness in the 1950s, it splintered, these schisms and off-sho…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
After spending its early seasons going through growing pains under Michael Piller’s watch, in its third season Deep Space Nine was given into the care of Ira Steven Behr, who spent that perio…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: after a strong but truncated first season, Voyager went astray a little in its second season, largely because of an excessive reliance on Kazon plot which just didn’t pan ou…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Years ago at the Battle of Wolf 359, Starfleet was tested to its limit against the Borg, not least because they had successfully abducted and assimilated none other than Jean-Luc Picard. As Locutus…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: after spending its first two seasons under the stewardship of Michael Piller, Deep Space Nine spent its third season shifting gear, new showrunner Ira Steven Behr swiftly making h…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
(Note: all images in this post are in the public domain.) Without even going into the well-known degradations of modern Hollywood, I have written about the past politicization of the Academy Awards—for example, the shunning of It’s a Wonderful Life for “Best Picture” of 1946 in favor of the politicized The Best Years of Our […]| James Perloff
It is the 1st Century BC; the Roman Republic’s slide into dictatorship and Empire is gathering apace, driven not by Julius Caesar (John Gavin), who is as yet a young patrician still making a …| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Welcome to the Summer of Cyberpunk! Over August I’m going to be reviewing a few choice movies from the 1990s boom in cyberpunk-influenced cinema. Sure, Blade Runner in 1982 might have inaugur…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
To what extent can you call Andrei Tarkovsky the Soviet answer to Stanley Kubrick? Both of them did their most acclaimed work from the 1960s to 1980s, both of them created technically polished film…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
OK, first off a bit of housekeeping about Season/Series numbering. The first full Ncuti Gatwa-fronted season of Doctor Who is being marketed as “Season One” (the word I hear is that Dis…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Time for the second half of my look at Stanley Kubrick’s mature output as a director – defined as his output post-Spartacus, when he’d become a big enough deal in Hollywood that h…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
