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...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Sep 29, 2015 | TV & Movies
I watched the second episode of Gotham today. I should have been working, but I’m trying to clear off the DVR. What a mistake. The only good thing was Sean Pertwee in a scene with Lucius Fox. This entire episode was a lesson in what not to do starting with false jeopardy/tension. If anybody hates SPOILERS stop now. So Baby Batman has discovered daddy’s secret hide out, and starts to access the computer which Alfred smashes. Then Bruce “fires” him. One teensy,...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 16, 2015 | TV & Movies
Let me stipulate right up front that I loved this movie. I want to see it again and that’s really rare for me. I went in torn between hope and trepidation. This was either going to be very good or a total train wreck. On the one hand you had Guy Ritchie directing. On the other it was based on the Man From U.N.C.L.E I loved the show as a little kid. I was madly in love with Illya Kuryakin. I even got to go on the set because of my father’s business partners in Los Angeles...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 14, 2015 | TV & Movies
I’ve spent a lot of time in Hollywood trying to sell various shows. Everything from a western set in NM in 1840 to contemporary thrillers, to shows about the army’s CID division. (Yes, I pitched that before NCIS went on the air, but I was a girl and the reaction in the room was “nobody’s interested in the military. *sigh*). I’ve also tried very had to sell science fiction shows. Even had a pilot shot of one of them. What I ran into over and over and over...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jul 24, 2015 | TV & Movies
I’m just back from seeing ANT MAN with my friends Len Wein and Christine Valada. I really liked it. It’s a slight film, but it has heart and humor and thank god we weren’t threatening New York, or the Earth or the Galaxy or the whole damn Universe (Thor: The Dark World). We were also watching it at the sybaritic Cinepolis theater with the full bar and meals and four kinds of popcorn (caramel corn — yum) and reclining leather seats with foot rests, etc. etc. Paul...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jul 10, 2015 | TV & Movies
Yeah, I’m late to the party. What can I say? I’ve become spoiled with streaming and none of the streaming services — Hulu Plus/Netflix — I had downloaded to my XBox were showing Orphan Black when ever I went to look for it. I don’t want to wait for physical discs to arrive at the house so I kept putting off watching the show. Then XBox Live offered a free month of Amazon Prime. I knew Amazon had the series because I watched the pilot over at my friend, Mike...
