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An Author's Adventures in Space Travel, Science Fiction, and Worlds Beyond
Today we continue our Star Trek adventures with the ninth entry in the series. Picard and crew are back, along with their snazzy new spaceship, the Enterprise-E, that was specially designed for the big screen. This is one of the odd-numbered Star Trek movies, with a reputation to suit; fans generally view it as mediocre,... Continue Reading →
When we last saw the Next Generation crew on the big screen, they took over from Captain Kirk with an awkward, confused, ultimately anticlimactic passing of the torch. Not the film debut they deserved. Thankfully, the next movie got things on the right track again—and boy is it a movie. It's got action! It's got... Continue Reading →
You find the darndest things in the back catalog of Amazon Prime. One of those darndest things is the 1980 feature Saturn 3—a film that tried to ride the wave of late-'70s sci-fi (Star Wars, Alien, Star Trek: The Motion Picture) by deploying ambitious effects, A-list actors, and a dizzily imaginative script. It did not... Continue Reading →
Anyone who has worked retail knows that the customer is often wrong. By extension, the market is often wrong. Nowhere is that truer than at the box office, where a copy-paste rehash can rake in billions if it pushes the right buttons, while audiences turn up their noses at works of genuine beauty and creativity.... Continue Reading →
At long last, we return to the Star Trek franchise. For today's post we're going to follow up from my review of The Undiscovered Country with the next installment in the series. This is a deeply uneven film that attempted, with some success, to pass the baton from the Original Series crew to the cast... Continue Reading →
This movie is deranged. But that's a good thing. Today's subject: Mad God, crafted over 30 years by animator Phil Tippett, a work of staggering ambition that is not for the faint of heart (or queasy of stomach). Let us venture into the realms of madness, now, and take a look. Theatrical release poster. First... Continue Reading →
We all have our bad days at work. Sometimes you have to deal with an abrasive, domineering boss. Sometimes you're tasked with meeting impossibly high quotas, despite unclear instructions and faulty equipment. And sometimes, all those things are going on at once, and you happen to be working in the control room of Chernobyl Reactor... Continue Reading →
Today let's welcome my buddy Eamon Minges for something very different from his usual fare: this site's first-ever guest movie review! Read about the sci-fi/horror cult classic Daybreakers below... I want to start by thanking my lifelong friend, Nic Quattromani, for allowing me to make this guest post on his blog. Nic has been very... Continue Reading →
Laurence Fishburne is aboard a creepy spaceship again. This time the destination is Titan, not Neptune, and instead of an all-out horror flick, we get something much more psychological. Today's feature: the 2024 movie Slingshot. Slingshot came out on August 30. I saw it on August 31, and I'm writing this just three hours after... Continue Reading →
Lately I've made a habit of perusing my local library for movies and television on DVD. This is mostly because I'm a cheapskate who refuses to pay for streaming services, but that's not the only reason---the library DVD shelf is also a great place for unexpected finds. While you might have a hard time looking... Continue Reading →
