cult film freak: nathan fillion

Written by James M. Tate / 10/18/2018 / No comments / 2018 , action , cop , nathan fillion , series , TV

NATHAN FILLION SERIES 'THE ROOKIE' QUICK SUMMARY REVIEW

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nathan Fillion <i>just kinda</i> headlines THE ROOKIE Year: 2018 Grade: F—</u></td></tr>
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Seconds can feel like minutes, and minutes like hours on TV, or cinema, which can carry a lot of information in a short amount of time... And five of those could have provided a montage of this 49-year-old man going from <i>wanting to 
become an old cop</i> to actually <i>becoming </i>an old cop. Random shots of basic 
training, or... something... anything...<br>
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Played by a thinned-down, Jason Bateman-looking Nathan Fillion, THE ROOKIE is both an appropriate
 and ironic title, but he's on-the-beat too quick
while we're introduced to the other rookies, all the right 
young age and each resembling a magazine model (the most beautiful hopping right in bed with Fillion's unassuming John Nolan, as if he were the former star of CASTLE instead of a midlife-crisis-suffering everyman). Without a chance to really learn about this guy, the shallow and cliché co-stars are forced upon us — feeling like <i>yet another cop series</i> in an ocean brimming with them. So while being 
promised something slightly different, THE ROOKIE is more 
bland dough from the same old boring cookie cutter. And worse.<br>

2018, action, cop, nathan fillion, series, TV

NATHAN FILLION SERIES 'THE ROOKIE' QUICK SUMMARY REVIEW

Nathan Fillion just kinda headlines THE ROOKIE Year: 2018 Grade: F— Seconds can feel like minutes, and minutes like hours on TV, or cin...

Written by James M. Tate / 2/17/2016 / No comments / adam baldwin , joss whedon , nathan fillion , science-fiction , zeroes

THRUSTING INTO FIREFLY

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Review/Writeup of the first episode of the Joss Whedon cult adored science-fiction television series FIREFLY</u></td></tr>
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By now everyone in the know has seen FIREFLY and this post is just to center on the pilot episode, watched for the first time by a Cult Film Freak, who was drinking and smoking while watching Orson Welles in TOUCH OF EVIL, a killer shark in JAWS, Dustin Hoffman in STRAW DOGS and perpetually high as a kite (stuck in a tree), and thus, with only a DVD player and no cable, and worst yet, no website, had not only <i>not</i> been there and done that in 2002 when FIREFLY was flying high, but is now ready to watch twelve more episodes on Netflix, and a movie, to boot... But let's start out by simply, starting out already...<br>

adam baldwin, joss whedon, nathan fillion, science-fiction, zeroes

THRUSTING INTO FIREFLY

Review/Writeup of the first episode of the Joss Whedon cult adored science-fiction television series FIREFLY By now everyone in the know...

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