Guest: Rick Forchuk - TV Week Magazine Columnist and CKNW Contributor

In theatres:

- Dog Man (2025): This animated action film from Dreamworks Animation is definitely either an acquired taste, or something that will work for individuals with no taste at all, namely kids who know the character as a spinoff from the "Captain Underpants Epic Movie" (2017) which was itself inspired by the "Captain Underpants" children's graphic novels by David Pilkey. This new movie is directed by Peter Hastings who co-wrote the script along with originator Pilkey, and has the stage set when a police officer and his canine companion, a police dog, are seriously injured on the job and emergency surgery is required to save one or both of them. The end result is the half-man-half-dog entity who cannot speak, but who is still sworn to protect and to serve, as well as to roll over and play dead

- Companion (2025): This is a very difficult film to review without falling into major spoiler territory. I don't recall ever having seen a preview of the film, and reading about it on the Internet Movie DataBase (IMDB.com) says almost nothing about it other than, and I quote, "A billionaire's death sets off a chain of events for Iris and her friends during a weekend trip to his lakeside estate." That's it. In the cast are Iris, played by Sophie Thatcher from the series "Yellow Jackets," her boyfriend Josh played by Jack Quaid of "The Hunger Games" and the Amazon Prime superhero series "The Boys," and who is, incidentally, the son of actors Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, and Lucas Gage from the series "White Lotus." And yes, they are all at the billionaire's estate for the weekend when things go unthinkably wrong

On Paramount+:

- Star Trek: Section 31 (2025): I am a significant "Star Trek" fan, and have been since day one ... significant enough to know that aficionados of this genre bristle at being called "Trekkies," when the correct term is "Trekkers." This new movie that stars Michelle Yeoh, has as much to do with the "Star Trek" franchise as one would get from a McDonalds with no golden arches, no Big Macs, fries, or Quarter Pounders, and not a Happy Meal in sight. I found the film profoundly disappointing and saw it as much closer to Yeoh's turn in the Oscar-winning "Everything Everywhere All at Once" than to anything in the "Star Trek" universe