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ThisPhillipBrian
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PhillipBrian grew up across America--living in 15 states and 40 cities/towns before he turned 21. To this day travel is intrinsic to his nature. He is a dad, a triathlete (completing over 50 triathlons), a dinner theatre actor, an avid film, music, novel, history, and culture buff.
"The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country." - Bobby Kennedy
Film, television, and literary reviews.
Let's discuss cinema legends, entertainment's biggest franchises, historical happenings, and water cooler moments.
PhillipBrian grew up across America--living in 15 states and 40 cities/towns before he turned 21. To this day travel is intrinsic to his nature. He is a dad, a triathlete (completing over 50 triathlons), a dinner theatre actor, an avid film, music, novel, history, and culture buff.
"The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country." - Bobby Kennedy
"X-Files: Perihelion" by Claudia Gray -- A REVIEW
Review of X Files Perihelion
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Claudia Gray
The X-Files is an American science fiction-thriller media franchise created by Chris Carter. The franchise generally focused on paranormal or unexplained happenings. The first franchise release-simply titled The X-Files-debuted in September 1993 and ended in May 2002. The show was a hit for Fox, and its characters and slogans (e.g., "The Truth Is Out There", "Trust No One", "I Want to Believe") became pop culture touchstones in the 1990s. 1996 saw the premiere of a second series set in the same universe but covering a storyline independent of the X-Files mythology, titled Millennium. In 1998, the first X-Files feature film titled The X-Files was ...
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Claudia Gray
The X-Files is an American science fiction-thriller media franchise created by Chris Carter. The franchise generally focused on paranormal or unexplained happenings. The first franchise release-simply titled The X-Files-debuted in September 1993 and ended in May 2002. The show was a hit for Fox, and its characters and slogans (e.g., "The Truth Is Out There", "Trust No One", "I Want to Believe") became pop culture touchstones in the 1990s. 1996 saw the premiere of a second series set in the same universe but covering a storyline independent of the X-Files mythology, titled Millennium. In 1998, the first X-Files feature film titled The X-Files was ...
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"Star Trek: Lost to Eternity" by Greg Cox -- A REVIEW
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Review of Lost to Eternity 2024: Almost forty years ago, marine biologist Gillian Taylor stormed away from her dream job at San Francisco's Cetacean Institute - and was never seen or heard from again. Now a new true crime podcast has reopened that cold case, but investigator Melinda Silver has no idea that her search for the truth about Gillian's disappearance will ultimately stretch across tim...
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F -- MOVIE REVIEW
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Available on Netflix July 3rd 2024 Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is a 2024 American action comedy film directed by Mark Molloy and written by Will Beall, Tom Gormican, and Kevin Etten from a story by Beall. Serving as the fourth installment in the Beverly Hills Cop film series and a sequel to Beverly Hills Cop III (1994), Eddie Murphy (who also produces) reprises his role as Axel Foley, with Judge ...
REVIEW of "The Acolyte"--A Star Wars Streaming Premiere
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Review of Star Trek: Discovery -- Series Finale
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Review of Star Trek: Discovery Series Finale Forgive the tech issue. It was an uphill battle. I will correct before recording again. Star Trek: Discovery is an American science fiction television series created by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman for the streaming service CBS All Access (later rebranded as Paramount ). It is the seventh Star Trek series and debuted in 2017. The series follows the...
Review of Star Trek: Discovery -- Season 5, Episodes 7,8,&9
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Review of Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episodes 7,8,&9 Star Trek: Discovery is an American science fiction television series created by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman for the streaming service CBS All Access (later rebranded as Paramount ). It is the seventh Star Trek series and debuted in 2017. The series follows the crew of the starship Discovery beginning a decade before Star Trek: The Ori...
Review of Star Trek: Discovery -- Season 5, Episodes 5&6
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Review of Star Trek: Discovery--Face the Strange (Season 5, Episode 4)
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Review of Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 4 Star Trek: Discovery is an American science fiction television series created by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman for the streaming service CBS All Access (later rebranded as Paramount ). It is the seventh Star Trek series and debuted in 2017. The series follows the crew of the starship Discovery beginning a decade before Star Trek: The Original ...
Review of Star Trek: Discovery--Jinaal (Season 5, Episode 3)
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Review of Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 3 Star Trek: Discovery is an American science fiction television series created by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman for the streaming service CBS All Access (later rebranded as Paramount ). It is the seventh Star Trek series and debuted in 2017. The series follows the crew of the starship Discovery beginning a decade before Star Trek: The Original ...
Review of Star Trek: Discovery -- Season 5, Episodes 1&2
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Review of Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episodes 1&2 Star Trek: Discovery is an American science fiction television series created by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman for the streaming service CBS All Access (later rebranded as Paramount ). It is the seventh Star Trek series and debuted in 2017. The series follows the crew of the starship Discovery beginning a decade before Star Trek: The Origin...
"You Can Call Me Bill" -- A REVIEW
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An intimate portrait of William Shatner's personal journey over nine decades on this Earth, You Can Call Me Bill strips away all the masks he has worn to embody countless characters, and reveals the man behind it all. Star Trek (From WikiPedia) William Shatner[3][4] OC (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor. In a career spanning seven decades, he is best known for his portrayal of James T. K...
"The Wolf Gift" by Anne Rice -- A REVIEW
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A Non Spoiler Review of Anne Rice Novel The Wolf Gift is the thirty-first novel by Gothic writer Anne Rice, published in February 2012 by Random House. The novel tells the tale of Reuben Golding, a well to do journalist at the fictional San Francisco Observer who is attacked by and turned into a werewolf. He spends the duration of the story fleeing the authorities, the media, and DNA analysts. ...
5 Awesome Things to Watch on Paramount+ Right Now
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Paramount is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Paramount Global. The service's content is drawn primarily from the libraries of CBS Media Ventures, CBS Studios, Paramount Media Networks (formerly Viacom Media Networks and ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks), and Paramount Pictures, while also including original series and films, live streaming sport...
"The Bad Weather Friend" by Dean Koontz -- A REVIEW
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A Non Spoiler Review of Koontz's newest novel, The Bad Weather Friend. My review only discusses previously released info from the publisher, the set up of the story, and my critique of the overall product. No to extremely mild spoilers. Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945) is an American author. His novels are billed as suspense thrillers, but frequently incorporate elements of horror, fantasy, ...
"The Ascent" by Adam Plantinga -- A REVIEW
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The Ascent When a high security prison fails, a down-on-his luck cop and the governor’s daughter are going to have to team up if they’re going to escape in this "jaw-dropping, authentic, and absolutely gripping" (Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author) debut thriller from Adam Plantinga, whose first nonfiction book Lee Child praised as “truly excellent.” Kurt Argento, an ex-Detroit ...
"Enterprise Incidents with Scott and Steve" -- A REVIEW
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Holiday Entertainment You May Have Missed and a Review of "The Holdovers"
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"The Little Liar" by Mitch Albom -- A REVIEW
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"Opposable Thumbs" by Matt Singer -- A REVIEW
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"The Exchange" by John Grisham -- A REVIEW
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"Resurrection Walk" by Michael Connelly -- A REVIEW
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"Back to the Future: The Musical" -- REVIEW
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Breaking Away (1979) -- RETRO MOVIE REVIEW
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Review of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds -- Season 2, Episode 10 (Hegemony)
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Review of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds -- Season 2, Episode 9 (Subspace Rhapsody)
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Review of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds -- Season 2, Episode 8 (Under the Cloak of War)
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"After Death" by Dean Koontz -- A REVIEW
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Review of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds -- Season 2, Episode 7 (Those Old Scientists)
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Review of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2, Episode 7 (Those Old Scientists)
Great review looking forward to reading. Favourite episode season 3 episode 3 d.p.o but love them all
I think I may give those Audible original full cast stories a go. They are on RUclips now too.
I think you give excellent reviews. Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose 4th episode season 3 one of my favorites
Great choice
Two that always jump to mind for me when the X Files is mentioned is Home--that episode is one of the best horror episodes of TV ever made. And the other one is Vienen, in which Mulder and Doggett are investigating a series of deaths on an oil rig. But now that has me thinking about the Arctic episode in which Mulder and Scully experience their version of The Thing.
@thisphillipbrian great choices. I always answer this and wait to see others replies because I constantly forget about certain episodes even though I rewatch twice a year. Great picks . On horror episodes the host die hand die vertz I think it is is amazing chinga and bad blood
For Pete being her partner he sure never did much in any of the books. Barbara and Jerome always just seem to pop up right at the end to save holly. For all the reference and friendship she talked about having with Ralph from the outsiders he is never even really mentioned at all in this which I found weird cause she talks about him so much in if it bleeds. All in all though I love holly and bill Hodges trilogy. Would love to see more of this character and hope they do a tv show of this book like they did Mr Mercedes.
I don't really consider myself a Star Trek fan, but the book sounds interesting. I'd want to go watch the Voyage Home again before reading the book. If you find yourself looking for a fun fantasy book, I have to recommend "Small Gods" by Sir Terry Pratchett. It's book 13 in the Discworld series, but it is a standalone title. It does an amazing job of looking at religion and philosophy through a comedic and thought-provoking lens. The audio book is 12 hours and is performed by Andy Serkis who does a great job bringing the characters to life.
It must be a good book, because I could feel the passion in your review.
Sounds interesting! Love the idea of a 2024 podcast. And! Voyage home may be my favorite tos film.
The Voyage Home is simply a damn good film.
This film sucks Eddie Murphy can not do axel any More. Eddie can kiss my ass. You all just kissing ass on this bad movie because of Eddie
It was good enough I thought it would be garbage when straight to Netflix’s it be good if they did a robocop movie like the old one again I would go see
I liked it a lot.. The cop who arrested Axel was Bria Murphy, Eddie's real daughter.
That's cool. Thank you for sharing that tidbit. 👊
Axel F was great!
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Thanks for a good reaction enjoyed this movie
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Back in the 80s, when I got my first keyboard, one of the first things I learned was the Axel F theme. Nice review Phill!
It is a very cool theme.
I'm excited to watch it when I get time.
Let me know what you think
Which movie did a better job? This one or the new Top Gun?
The new Top Gun. But this would have been worth a movie ticket 🎟️
Shooter McGavin! I didn’t have high hopes for this, but it delivered!
Mr. Murder 😊
That's a good book. 📖
Dude be honest. The show is bad beyond words.
If he said that, he’d be lying.
@@Shadowkey392 It's worse than Asoka, even on ratings. And Asoka was pure rubbish.
Not beyond words, but I think I ended thinking episodes 1 and 6 were good and the rest was mediocre or less than mediocre. They had some neat ideas, but some poor execution. I'm looking forward to Andor season two. I liked season one a lot. As far as Ashoka, when there are two exceptionally dynamic characters, like Ashoka and Thrawn, but I find myself distracted by everything else in the room... it's not a good sign. I am looking forward to the Patterson cut, because I think he can (for the most part) fix Ashoka.
Just finished this and I have only gotten about 30 seconds into your review, but I wanted to post this before I see what you have to say. I liked the first 75%. The ending felt cheap in a way. Kind of a cop out to me. But I still enjoyed it overall and will start the second book soon.
I loved when she steps outside the ship to do the repairs that they make a point of showing her magnetic boots (as if to correct the running problem of gravity not being a thing in star wars flicks, like they said to themselves "we don't want to look stupid"). Only to immediately have a fire break out in the same scene... there's no oxygen in space. Just pick a lane and stick with it. Either it is representational and you don't need to explain how a bomber drops bombs in space or how a horse runs on a ship in space because it doesn't matter, or it's literal in which case magnetic boots is the least of your concerns.
You can have fire in space, so long as what’s burning is also supplying the gas. And it doesn’t have to be oxygen, either. It just has to be an oxidizer.
KOTOR reference! Which is better than anything in the show, so far. So here's the deal: I watched both of them. I thought Carrie-Anne Moss' character was a complete waste. I was excited for her in this show. And she was simply used for publicity and to give us Jedi master Trinity for all of 6 minutes. AmandLa Stenberg can act. And she gives some intensity to Mae and some humanity to Osha(OSHA? Really? To a character who is a Mech[a]nic?). Master Sol has some potential. X23 may as well, eventually. The rest of the cast, thus far, is bland. The writing is bad(I mean really bad). The acting is meh to bad. The sets are horrid. The clothing looks cheap and bargain basement. And then, if you paid attention to any of the press junket, it has given me even more to be worried about. This appears to be a show designed to be off-putting to anyone who likes Lucas's vision of star wars. How this show got double the budget of Obi Wan is beyond me. I read somewhere that Disney +'s Star Wars shows look like fan films. And, I have to admit, I agree(with the very obvious exception of Andor--which happens to be the best live-action star wars we've had in decades). I liked the first couple of seasons of Mandalorian. I liked some of Obi Wan. Book of Boba Fett is an insult to the character. Ahsoka was mostly tolerable--but probably because I love the character and Rosario Dawson is great in anything she does. However, Disney appears to be just breaking star wars with no end in sight. Perhaps Disney should give the show runners of Andor creative control. Because even Filoni is disappointing me of late. And he's put his seal of approval on Acolyte. I hope the rumors about the next episode are not true...
I liked it, but I didn’t love it. I will watch another episode, but I was losing interest by the end of episode 2.
Yes. The first episode I liked a lot more than the second. It is a far cry from the excellence of Andor. However, it may find its footing.
I just realized something about McCarthy but most of his movies are extremely odd as if they're not inviting for non-whites or a more progressive way of thinking.......It's like McCarthy got off on playing the lovable douche bag throughout most of his work and now it's like you see that in his writing - most notable ''Walking With Sam''. It's like no my guy you hated the Brat Pack era but you had no issue milking it for what it was and barely did anything but play the ''conservative white guy'' in most of your work.
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"A Time to Kill" and "The Client" are my favorite books. I'm reading this one right now, and struggling to get through it. I started watching reviews to see if it was going to redeem itself. I'm not even sure I'll finish this book.
Those two are great. This one is not. Thank you for watching and commenting.
Whistlespeak was ok. Mirrors was mostly ok. I think I'm done with mirrorverse episodes in Trek, though. Why every star trek series feels it necessary to throw one in is beyond me. I think the last time it was done well was DS9. And, fwiw, I loved the idea of O'Brien trying to steal the Defiant(or was it build his own? Or both?). Incidentally, the Defiant is probably my favorite ship. Back to these episodes...to put it delicately, Tilly does not an endurance athlete make. Absolutely horrible choice. The prime directive violation and shattering this Culture's religious belief was treated as an afterthought. I did like the reassurance that Burnham gave saying that the technology shown doesn't mean there are no gods. It was nice. But the whole thing was a bit too cavalier. The only saving grace(see what I did there?) was that a different alien race interfered with this pre-warp society centuries ago and created what is essentially a cult of human sacrifice. And if Burnham really is called to task for this, that's the angle she should argue.
I'm not big on documentaries but this one sounds interesting.
I think you'd like it.
I feel the same about After Death. that he is now short cutting is book with AI assistance.
The first book I read from Dean Koontz the bad seed 😂I still think about that opening scene 🎬 with him pushing the girl off the ledge😢
Harper Harper 😆 🧢
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Dynamic Duo! We need Bats and bird brain on a federation ship!
Bruce Wayne as a captain and Dick Grayson as the 1st officer is the elseworlds story we didn't know we wanted, but we do.
That episode was boring
Boring
I'm halfway through it and so far I'm not impressed
How did you feel about once you finished it? Middle of the pack for Koontz? Below average? Above average?
B for first two episodes season 5 is generous. Action Saru!!
Saru may be the stand out character of the entire series.
13 Star Trek 5 The final frontier F 12 Star Trek Nemesis D 11 Star Trek The motion picture D 10 Star Trek Insurrection C 9 Star Trek Generations C 8 Star Trek Into Darkness B 7 Star Trek 3 The search for Spock B 6 Star Trek Beyond A 5 Star Trek 2009 A 4 Star Trek 4 The voyage home A 3 Star Trek 6 The undiscovered country S 2 Star Trek First contact S 1 Star Trek 2 The wrath of Khan S
Is the S for superb? Thanks for the list.
Reviewing Target Audience’s TOS reactions?
This is a ridiculous excuse of a book by Grisham. Totally crapped on the memory of Mitch and Abby is this garbage. Agree with your ED rating on this one.
It was disappointing. Thank you for watching and commenting.
When he was dancing and singing in the forest had me cracking up 😂😂 I listened to the audio book. A few years ago. The second book was disappointing..
I may just pass on the second one.
The Last Werewolf! Three book series. First person narrative. Has werewolves and vampires. By Glen Duncan. Amazing writer. I feel like I've mentioned this before. Favorite Anne Rice novel has to be Queen of the Damned(not the movie). I've read most of her vampire books as well as The Witching hour and The Mummy(or Ramses the Damned). But, you really can't experience the Vampire Chronicles without Interview first. It has an aura of mystery that was lacking in the later novels. Louis and Claudia's search for old world vampires, having no idea what was or wasn't out there. You have to also understand how Louis viewed Lestat. And how Lestat, at that time, behaved. If you enter the series from Lestat it gives a wholly different view.
On the list.
It has a 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon And a 4.1 stars on Goodreads I'm looking forward to reading The Ascent
I studied the Tylenol murders, from a crisis management perspective, in school. Fascinating stuff. Will have to check it out.
The end of otc capsules
I need to binge watch some Paramount+. Appreciate the suggestions!!
There's a lot of good stuff.
I love Dean I have grown up reading him since I was 9 years old. I’m 44! Once he left and went to aliens it broke my heart. The very first book I read was the voice of the night. I will never ever forget why I became a fan. Scary violent sad empowering. Just something about it. ❤
I started reading Dean when I was 13 and then read everything he penned for years. I think he's a bit hit and miss now, but this was a hit. I liked it.
Was waiting for Trek. Paramount has some great stuff going for it right now.
Trek might be their flagship.
Really good book
I'm stoked for Mitch's next novel.
I arranged an appearance by Harlan Ellison at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore in Newport Beach in 1994. It was for the short-story collection "Mind Fields" with the paintings by Jacek Yerka. Dean Koontz stopped by and invited Harlan out to lunch afterward. A great day with TWO superb writers! I intend to find a copy of this latest book for my trip to Asia in twelve days.
Thanks for watching and commenting. Also, that's very cool.
Seems I have so little time to read, these days, that I feel guilty reading for entertainment. BUT, your review makes me want to lighten up and give it a try. I haven’t read any of his books, but I did see the movie, Servants of Twilight, and really enjoyed it.
Koontz can be hit and miss. I read Servants of the Twilight when I was high school and really liked it. I found the ending to be nearly perfect. I can't recall if the movie ended the same way.
Sounds like a great read. Thanks for the review.
I heard Holly was a real Gas...
I really appreciate that you mention the audiobook as a visually impaired person who relays on this format to consume books.
The audio performance is a key part of a novel's presentation. I try to review both the audio and written version when possible. Thank you for coming to the channel. I look forward to your thoughts on the books reviewed here.