The Stand The one quality about Stephen King that seems most consistent with his work is that while he possesses the ability to actually come up with some amazing stories and concepts, it is usually in his execution of telling these stories that he can generally come up a bit flat, something which can be […]
Star Trek In making this 2009 revival of the revered sci-fi franchise, director J.J. Abrams took a major risk, using new actors in the roles that were so emphatically identified with the original crew, and potentially pissing millions of fans off in the process. A lot of that is cleared up by the brilliant time […]
Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Khan Certainly there have been cases where a sequel turned out to be an actual better film than its predecessor, whether it’s because of a bigger budget, or maybe because it expanded upon the original’s premise in a much more satisfying fashion, or maybe because it just did a […]
Star Trek 3: The Search For Spock Sometimes in a popular franchise, the very creative direction of the storyline itself can be dictated by the behnd the scenes drama going on with the productions themselves. Thus was the case with the Star Trek Series and the legendary Leonard Nimoy as Spock, playing out his death […]
Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home As fortune smiled upon the box office take for Star Trek 3, so was things now allowed to go in a new direction creatively. With Leonard Nimoy’s initial foray into directing on The Search For Spock considered to be a rousing success, this time around the producers basically gave […]
Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country After the unmitigated disaster that was Star Trek 5, with its slew of Razzie Awards, it’s half baked religious metaphors and allegories and worst of all, its goofy, stupid sense of humor showing the beloved original crew of The Starship Enterprise acting like idiot children and being completely out […]
Star Trek First Contact Star Trek Generations can best be considered a failure to launch for The Next Generation crew’s first ever foray into the world of being a cinematic franchise, hampered greatly by an indifferent William Shatner miming his way through passing the torch to Patrick Stewart’s Picard en route to an especially lousy […]
Star Trek Generations 1991’s Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country turned out to be more than a dignified and fitting sendoff for William Shatner’s Captain James T. Kirk and his gallant original crew, breathing fresh life into the franchise one last time and allowing them all to go out on the high note which they […]
Star Trek Insurrection The Next Generation crew of Star Trek had literally stumbled out of the gate in their first cinematic outing (Generations), hampered greatly by an indifferent William Shatner wearily retiring from his Captain Kirk role in what amounted to being a botched passing of the torch to Patrick Stewart’s Picard. Then came First […]