As the great show “Battlestar Galactica” winds down, we spend an episode with our beloved characters as they come to grips with their rather bleak futures.
A note to first time BSG watchers; these aren’t the reviews for you. I plan to write about the show with the ending in mind. If you haven’t seen the show, you will be spoiled on stuff that happens at the end. You’ve been warned.
Earlier this week, Oscar nominations came out, and while once again I’ve seen a paltry number of the films nominated, I’m going to throw my hat in the ring and make some predictions I will likely eat in the end.
But ah well, that’s part of the fun, but we’re going to shake things up a bit this time. For this year’s prognostications, I’m going with two categories, what I believe will happen and what I would like to happen.
Let’s get to it (and good luck to you all playing the home game). See you in February.
Starbuck bonds with a mysterious piano player, which reignites an old passion, while Chief spends the episode trying to save Boomer’s life, with some disastrous consequences.
A note to first time BSG watchers; these aren’t the reviews for you. I plan to write about the show with the ending in mind. If you haven’t seen the show, you will be spoiled on stuff that happens at the end. You’ve been warned.
Tried as I might, I could not get into “Willow.”
Some of it comes down to timing; had I seen this at a much younger age, I could totally see myself getting swept up in this story of a dwarf named Willow (Warwick Davis) who must protect a baby from the evil Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh) who wishes to kill her.
He meets some other travelers along the way to help him, such as two Brownies, Franjean(Rick Overton) and Rool (Kevin Pollak), a ne’er do well swordsman Madmartigan (Val Kilmer) and Fin Raziel (Patricia Hayes) a good witch who has been transformed into a muskrat.
It’s a solid setup, a tale as old as time, but a lot of the kiddie elements, like any scenes with the Brownies or when the love potion goes wrong for Madmartigan, just fall flat to these adult eyes. And while I’ll give the filmmakers props for bucking the trend of the day and making the chosen one a girl, “Willow” still amounts to a story about a bunch of dudes (even the other women can’t act on their own until the men come along).
“Willow” tried its best to impress me, but sadly, I’m a little too old for a tale this simplistic.
“Willow” (1988)
Written by Bob Dolman
Directed by Ron Howard
Starring: Warwick Davis (Willow)
Val Kilmer (Madmartigan)
So, here we are again, reviewing the movies I saw in the past year and seeing what stuck out and what faded away. My list of movies was quite a bit shorter this year (I finally went and got myself a life; didn’t see that one coming). But while the quantity was small, the quality was remarkable.
Or maybe I’ve just gotten more forgiving. Anyway, here’s my list, in alphabetical order.
An old friend returns to the fleet, and all sorts of problems spark up. Baltar also returns to his people only to discover they don’t quite need him back.
A note to first time BSG watchers; these aren’t the reviews for you. I plan to write about the show with the ending in mind. If you haven’t seen the show, you will be spoiled on stuff that happens at the end. You’ve been warned.
The
mutiny and its aftermath are still close to the surface as Anders
prepares for brain surgery (and shares some history with his fellow
Cylons); and our mysterious 12th
Cylon returns to the forefront.
A
note to first time BSG watchers; these
aren’t the reviews for you.
I plan to write about the show with the ending in mind. If you
haven’t seen the show, you will be spoiled on stuff that happens at
the end. You’ve been warned.
In the last couple of years (let’s be honest, the last decade or so), Pixar has held the monopoly on good animated kiddie films. Sure, other companies have been producing films here and there, but the ones I can remember the clearest belong to that little upstart company married to Disney.
I’d even go so far as to say that other childrens’ films really get a bad rap for not being Pixar films. So when I can, I try to branch out to other companies, just to see what’s going on out there. And while Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog” has a lot to offer (especially to girls looking for a nonprincess character to love), I can’t help but think how much better this film would have been with Pixar’s magic touch.
Mutiny continues to cast shadows all over Galactica, as sides are chosen and friends are lost.
A note to first time BSG watchers; these aren’t the reviews for you. I plan to write about the show with the ending in mind. If you haven’t seen the show, you will be spoiled on stuff that happens at the end. You’ve been warned.