Reviewing Movies

What is it with Hollywood conventions, I lived through the 60ies and clothing did not look like it had hung in mothballs, furniture like it had moulded, or wall paper like it had been fading for half a century. And the sky did not have a twilight cast. That may have described my  Great-Uncle’s house but then he didn’t have electricity either. Were jets capable of Mach II in 1947?

What Dark Skies has going for it is Eric Close’s good looks, square shoulders and solid frame. The show seems to incorporate every possible conspiracy theory ever associated with Area 51 and whatever occurred at Roswell, New Mexico. So far it’s touched on Frances Gary Powers, Saturn Rocket Launches at Cape Kennedy, The Kennedy Assassination, The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, and Howard Hughes.

Just past the midway point of the first and only season the character of Julliette is introduced. By now a Soviet cliché she is the ultimate ball crusher who chews through her first scene like a hot knife slicing butter. Shortly after John’s girlfriend is essentially written out of the series and guess who becomes his love interest.