by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 8, 2015 | TV & Movies
Otherwise known as the-Bond-franchise-takes-a-trip-down-memory-lane-and-we-remember-that-road-was-pretty-damn-silly. This film was a real disappointment for me. I’d been looking forward to it for months and last night I headed over for the 9:30 showing at the Cinepolis. Thank god I was at the sybaritic theater with the big leather reclining seats with footrests and waiters ready to bring you food and alcohol. I should have gone with the alcohol. I almost ordered a margarita about...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 30, 2015 | TV & Movies
Oh, dear. Where to start. First the good. Tom Hiddleston is so handsome and so charming and such a good actor. He can do more with a look then many actors can manage with a half page soliloquy. He also dances beautifully. yes, Tom I’ll waltz with you anytime and he’s in this film a lot. Then there’s the rest — ********SPOILERS*************SPOILERS************SPOILERS************SPOILERS**********SPOILERS You have been warned. I said to a friend this...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 28, 2015 | TV & Movies
Okay, so now I can talk about the work I’ll be doing for Star Trek: Renegades. As many of you probably know there has been a tradition of fans of the show making their own episodes and putting them up on-line. They range in quality, but some are produced by people in “the Industry” as we call it. Renegades is one of those. I was approached by executive producer Sky Conway and asked if I would come on board. I said I would have to look at the pilot they had produced and also...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 23, 2015 | TV & Movies
I love this show. Yeah, the first 3/4 of the first season were shaky, but I liked the people enough — especially Coulson to hang in there. I was also fascinated with Grant Ward and not just because he’s pretty (though that helped). I just knew there was more to that guy then just being the pretty boy. Then the whole Hydra thing hit, and yeah, I was totally there. Now we’ve got inhumans and other planets, and wow. What we also have is really interesting analysis of human...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 20, 2015 | TV & Movies
Last night I went over to the Cocteau theater to listen to George R.R. interview Andy Weir, author of THE MARTIAN. I had read the book several months ago and enjoyed it enormously because I’m a giant space geek. It’s fun and funny and makes science and scientists cool. It’s also a very short book so I finished it with in two days. I then went off with GRRM and others to see the movie. Which was great fun and inspiring, and apart from making cuts was a very faithful...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 16, 2015 | TV & Movies
I had a lot on my mind last night and found sleep to be eluding me. I was going to watch my recording of ARROW, but at one point I went channel surfing and came across McCloud an old TV show from the 1970’s. Dennis Weaver was the star and it was a show about a marshal from Taos New Mexico who ends up doing police work in New York City. It was a classic “fish out of water” story that Hollywood loves so much. It also had a hero who was from New Mexico so of course I watched...
