Movie Cars: 1968 Ford Mustang GT (Bullitt, 1968)

Starting off our series on the best of movie vehicles is the 1968 Ford Mustang GT from Peter Yates’s film Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen in the titular role.  While the film itself is a worthy one, with lots of good action and a thought-provoking crime story that solidified Steve McQueen as one of the most

Month of Horror Masterposts: Psycho

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Month of Horror Masterposts: Carnival of Souls

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Episode Spotlight: Star Trek Season 1: Episode 5: The Enemy Within

“Captain’s log, stardate 1672.1. Specimen gathering mission on planet Alpha 177. Unknown to any of us during this time a duplicate of me, some strange alter ego, had been created by the transporter malfunction.” The first of Captain Kirk’s Captain’s Logs of The Enemy Within serves as a relatively apt description of the episode in

Musical Memory

Musical Memory

Musical Memory

Episode Spotlight: The Twilight Zone Season 3, Episode 19: The Hunt

“An old man and a hound-dog named Rip, off for an evening’s pleasure in quest of raccoon. Usually, these evenings end with one tired old man, one battle-scarred hound dog, and one or more extremely dead raccoons, but as you may suspect, that will not be the case tonight. These hunters won’t be coming home

Star Trek: Final Thoughts

I confess, I don’t remember a time in my life where I didn’t know what Star Trek was. Both of my parents discovered the show decades before I was born, thanks to reruns during the ‘70s.  They grew up with it, and in turn, showed it to me.  I grew up knowing Kirk, Spock, McCoy,

Star Trek: Facets of Filmmaking

As it turns out, before Star Trek was fully realized in the form we know today, the show was originally not going to be about Kirk and the Enterprise at all.  In fact, it was going to be about a ship called the S.S. Yorktown, captained by a man named Robert April, on a mission