A female astronomer encounters pushback and restrictions in her race to decipher an alleged message from extraterrestrial life, and I’m turn make contact with them.
Forbidden Planet (1956) [Science Fiction Month]
Stop me if this sounds familiar. An organized crew aboard an intergalactic vessel travels to a far off world to check in on its inhabitants. Communication is made, and a mysterious threat entices the crew to come down to the planet and investigate. The crew comes into contact with science and fantasy far beyond their initial comprehension. By the end of their adventure the audience experiences a romantic entanglement, a unique monster, and a plot focusing on the dangers of one’s own hubris.
Alien: Earth [2025]
A Xenomorph and other monsters crash land on Earth, leading to corporate factions fighting over them (and a whole lot more) in Noah Hawley’s TV series, Alien: Earth.
One Battle After Another [2025]
Several forces vie for control of a young woman, mainly her father, in one of the year’s best films, Paul Thomas Anderson’s wildly entertaining One Battle After Another.
Interstellar (2014) [Science Fiction Month]
A father, and former NASA genius, takes to the stars in search of a new home planet for humanity, leaving behind his children and inadvertently finding out about the unbreakable bond that is love.
Haunted Hotel [2025]
A family tries to run a failing haunted hotel in Matt Roller’s hilarious adult animated horror-comedy Haunted Hotel, streaming on Netflix.
Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Ali Baba Bunny (1957)
Ali Baba Bunny (1957)
Directed by Chuck Jones
Story by Michael Maltese
Music by Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn
Animation by Richard Thompson, Ken Harris, Abe Levitow, Ben Washam and Harry Love
The major problem with the Bugs Bunny-Daffy Duck frenemy cartoons is the surplus amount gags focused on Daffy, with Bugs serving mostly as a polite onlooker to the violent humiliation generated by his web-footed friend’s self-destructive greed, jealousy, and rudeness. “Ali Baba Bunny” is the best of these pairings because Bugs shares an equal load of generated laughs with Daffy, and the two work in unison in dealing with a memorable adversary. The result is one of the very best of the Bugs Bunny series, as well as one of the most comically satisfying cartoons ever made.
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