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Tomorrow Calling (1993)
Stylish, worth a look for fans of Gibson
The lead actor is appealing and holds the mood of the piece, but his elocution and softer speaking style make the narration hard to hear. As this piece relies heavily on narration, that's a pretty devastating flaw.
This low budget Channel 4 production is more Alphaville than Star Wars and the filmmakers did a very good job of creating a lo-fi science fiction film. The artistic direction and mise-en-scène are what make this adaptation work. This is why many short stories without such setting or atmosphere make for horrible adaptations.
Again, the narration is crucial in adaptations like these-unless you can convert much of the prose into dialog-and that was a big failure in Tomorrow Calling. They might've had something if they went back to Gibson and tried to create a script exploring Toyah Wilcox's character: she's easily the best thing here.
The Rockford Files: The Hammer of C Block (1976)
Terribly over-rated episode
You can read many of the other reviews here for the disgusting and shocking rationalization by Jim for the death of a character and why his former prison frenemy shouldn't blame himself for it. Truthfully, that is one of the final scenes and this episode was all but unwatchable long before that. Isaac Hayes and the character of Gandy were the subject of a push by NBC (as evidenced by the theme song created by Hayes and his character appearing in a further 2 episodes). The fact is Isaac Hayes was no actor. Sure it was fun to see him in Truck Turner, but the wooden acting gets old. Unfortunately, they decided to cast all of the African American characters with some rather stiff thespians. This represented a failure at social commentary and even just entertaining on par with your average episode of The Rockford Files.