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Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science
Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science (1997–2001)
10/10
Great Series
10 December 2019
As a child who was born in 1991, I remember when Discovery Channel Canada was actually based on knowledge and science; their series such as Forbidden Places, Exhibit A and Frontiers of Construction; these all caught and held my attention. Exhibit A was a Canadian production that was created by Robert Lang; it took a look at various cold cases and crimes that had occurred in the 80s to about 1997. Most of the stories were from Toronto and Ontario, fewer were from the rest of Canada and from the United States. For its time the acting and re-enactments were great, undertaken by alot Canadian actors.

As of this review you can currently find all 5 seasons for free on the Tubi website and app.
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Rin Tin Tin: K-9 Cop
Rin Tin Tin: K-9 Cop (1988–1993)
10/10
Man, I wish I grew up a few years earlier.
15 February 2009
I have to say "Katts and Dog" was such an awesome show, and even though I was born in 1991, I really didn't see it until 1999 or 2000 when Showcase had rights to broadcast it. It is brought back so many memories of my childhood, and what Toronto really looked like while I was a little kid. Heck there was one episode which was filmed in my current high school, Leaside High School(even though the renamed it "Riverdale" for filming purposes) and it really brought it home for me. They had such good scripts and it brought out the reality of being a cop, and inspired me to go a get a German Shepherd Dog, and at one point made me want to become a cop, but now I don't think that it is a great idea. But it has such good values, and to believe it had better success in the States with 5 seasons and while good old "Due South" had 4 seasons. Heck with 5 seasons there should at least be a DVD out, and I wonder if Atlantique Productions is out of business which would be sad. But man this show is just well put together and had about the same actors that would be later used in Due South. The values such as drugs, losing a loved one, dealing with personal hardships, are just so nice to relate to.

Excellent show, wish there was a DVD. I hope Alliance takes over the distribution and copyright for this stuff.
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Maximum Overdrive
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
4/10
Reasons to hate or rent this movie
29 August 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Reasons why it is a b-movie. It tries to add SciFi but fails it has a bad storyline The date is June 19th, 1987. The Earth has passed into the diffuse tail of Rhea-M, a rogue comet, where the planet will stay for the next eight days. Strange occurrences begin to take place shortly after the Earth enters the diffuse tail and causes the Auroa Borealis to show up over central America and all electronics and machines to turn on mysteriously which wouldn't really happen in real life because electronics are supposed to be tamper proof. So why would Stephen King make such a movie he only knows how to write plots and thats it; it shows because most of the movies based on his books a b-movies like this one. So when these vehicles and electronics start going against there makers meaning the people the only ones left are truck stop employees, two honeymooners and a boy. So all the trucks start swarming the stop including a HAPPY TOYZ TRUCK truck with a giant clown's head at the front of the cab. So all the trucks swarm the stop while the employees try to make an plan to escape. Then more trucks start to join the swarm and are hungry for fuel. So the trucks start talking in Morse code to the employees to fill them up. "Yawn" I am getting bored. Where were we oh yes, the employees agree to fill the trucks up but one of the men throws a grenade in one of the trucks and runs back. Once some of the have run out of fuel the employees make their escape. The head to a dock and are spotted by a automatic restaurant drive-thru but they blow it up plus a ice cream truck which tries to stop them. They make it to the dock just to see one the employees's wife killed and so the husband tries to get the ring and get killed by the clown truck. So another employee get out a rocket launcher swear at the truck and kills it. So why rent it? Well if you like trucks and are into movies where people get killed by trucks and people getting killed by vending machines which is fun fine by me rent it. Fine by me a 4 out of 10
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The Brain
The Brain (1988)
The Brain and why we hate it and laugh at it.
21 July 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Why we laugh at THE BRAIN and why we hate it. Hmm lets see, it was made in Toronto sorry the city I live in. It has a not so scary monkey face brain, that lives in a lab connected up to a computer, and eats anything that it makes it's minions bring to it; including the odd psychiatrist. It has a teenage boy and a teenage girl who seem lost in the movie. The Brain goes after it's victims who don't believe in it's Scientology. Strange characters and poor effects, like the boy thinking his car is attacking him with tentacles, oh and the doctor being easily killed and green blood coming out of him. Effects please, the brain grows itself a head in between it's two lobes. They use bars of sodium to create explosion and spoiler to kill the brain. Which I find hilariously funny to laugh at because of how easily the brain got killed; oh in that ending the brain chases after the teenage boy and girl while being pulled by a trolley with gasping and snarling noises put in as an effect. I saw this movie when I was 11 and it didn't scare me it just made me think about how bad it was and how much I laughed at it.

A 2 out of 5, movies from Toronto in 1980's sucked, HA I said it.
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