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Written by Declan Shalvey, Rory McConville | Art by Joe Palmer | Published by Image Comics

Is it me, or have Image been putting out some particularly good books of late? They’ve always been pretty consistent in terms of quality, and pretty diverse in terms of content, but of lately they’ve been hitting quite a few home runs. I wanted to review an Image book this time round, and it was quite tough to choose from all the great stuff out there, Geiger by Geoff Johns especially coming very close. This book jumped out the most though, with a blurb that promised future crime syndicates and time travel, can’t really go wrong there. I’ve also not read a book by Declan Shalvey I didn’t enjoy, so my hopes for this book are high. In these days of very crowded comic book shelves, you need to get noticed,...

Veteran TV producer Jeffrey M. Hayes, who oversaw development of “MacGyver” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation” as executive VP of Paramount Pictures, has died from an illness unrelated to Covid. He was 68.

Hayes started his career as a producer, writer and director with Aaron Spelling Productions, where he worked on memorable series including “Vega$” and “T.J. Hooker.”

In the late 1980s, Hayes went to Australia’s Gold Coast where he began to build the infrastructure for a longstanding operation that would produce over 300 hours of international television. He later served as president of Village Roadshow Pictures Television, where he executive produced “Sahara,” “In Pursuit of Honor” and the TV remake of “Mission Impossible.”

In 2000, Hayes started his own production company, Coote/Hayes Productions, and served as executive producer for projects such as “Salem’s Lot,” “Starter Wife” and “Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King,” where he first met director-producer Brian Henson.

Stars: Adam Rayner, Eliza Dushku, Roger Moore, James Remar, Thomas Kretschmann, Enrique Murciano, Sammi Hanratty, Kirsty Mitchell, Yani Gellman, Greg Grunberg, Beatrice Rosen, Ian Ogilvy, Alec Secareanu, Sonalii Castillo, Christopher Villiers | Written by Jesse Alexander, Tony Giglio | Directed by Ernie Barbarash

An expanded version of a failed TV pilot, whose first trailer debuted waaay back in 2013, this iteration of The Saint is already on the backfoot before it begins. You have a rejected pilot, “fixed” with reshoots, Twice(!) – which is why Ernie Barbarash is now the credited director and not Simon West (Con Air, Tomb Raider) who is now credited as Executive Producer instead – and featuring not one but Two previous Saints in the cast, Roger Moore and Ian Ogilvy, just to remind you of how good both actors were in the role… Oh, and then there’s memories of the Val Kilmer movie to sour the audiences view...

Brian Trenchard-Smith has, by his own estimation, directed "42 crimes against cinema"... which brings us to his latest filmmaking infraction, Drive Hard starring John Cusack and Thomas Jane.

From Rlj/Image Entertainment, Drive Hard will be available via VOD this week on September 4 and in theaters and on iTunes on October 3.

The action/adventure film was written by Brian along with Chad Law, Evan Law and Brigitte Jean Allen. Here's a synopsis:

With a heist in mind, a mysterious American called Keller (Cusack) arrives in Brisbane needing a getaway driver. Rather than recruit one from the local underworld, he tricks a driving school instructor, Roberts (Jane) into taking the wheel.

Keller chose well, Roberts just happens to be a washed out Formula-One driver. Chased by the cops and the mob, Roberts is forced to use his racing skills to evade pursuit on a Hard Drive that takes the two along the Gold Coast of Australia.

Go figure, Rachel Nichols is the lead in a new Canadian made/produced sci-fi TV show called “Continuum”. I hadn’t even heard of the show until it popped up during a search I was doing for one of Nichols’ other movie projects. The premise isn’t entirely bad. It’s essentially “Time Trax” with Dale Midkiff from the early ’90s, except starring Nichols, who, yes, is a major improvement. No offense to you Dale Midkiff fans out there. All two of you. The premise for “Continuum” goes something like this: A detective from the year 2077 finds herself trapped in present day Vancouver and searching for ruthless criminals from the future. That detective is Rachel Nichols. She has to team up with some locals to complete her mission. Check out a couple of promos for the show below. Again, it doesn’t look too bad. The show recently made its premiere on Canadian TV,...

Welcome back to another edition of The Pitch, my column where I openly submit ideas to Hollywood and fans on existing properties. Sort of a spec-script in column form. For argument sakes, it’s a Pitch letter. In today’s cinematic realm, Hollywood is filled with all sorts of gusto in trying to remake everything they can for newer generations. It’s the insatiable belief and desire from all the thirty-somethings and forty-somethings running the studios, making projects to red0, and putting a stamp on things they grew up watching. Perhaps it’s also the belief that today’s filmmaking techniques are better for such great ideas of yesteryear. Currently on the television front, Hawaii Five-o and Rockford Files are going to make debuts sometime this Fall in their respective networks. In the theaters we have already seen revivals of classic and iconic series, like Star Trek and The A-Team,...

From 1985, Alan Dale entered many millions of households on a daily basis as the loveable Jim Robinson in Neighbours until the character suffered a fatal heart attack in 1993. But Dale avoided the obscurity that befalls the majority of former soap stars (or allegedly kebab meat in the case of Bouncer) by nabbing recurring parts in major shows like The O.C. and Ugly Betty before his characters on those were also killed off by heart attacks. Talk about getting typecast! But fortunately, the institution known as Alan Dale has scooped an impressive number of stints in a dazzling array of cult shows along the way. Here's a look at those televisual entities that have been fortunate enough to have had Dale in their midst. It's time to build a shrine... Time Trax: Mr Bergdorf - 1994 Just one year after he left Ramsay Street, Alan Dale (more)...