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 […]
Star Trek: The Motion Picture Star Trek is something that has turned out to be so many things to so many people in its long history as a pop culture institution that it wound up transcending it’s humble origins in so many ways into becoming more than what was obviously intended. Considered to be the […]
Stardust Many times when a big-budget movie is made, the filmmakers make a mistake of casting an unknown in the lead role who is so bad that he literally stinks up the joint and ruins the experience. This is pretty much the exception: Charlie Cox as Tristen actually manages to come across well, and pulls […]
Starman Science fiction movies depicting the story of an alien visitation (or invasion) have traditionally gone the route of having the aliens in question usually wind up being of the malevolent sort (none more spectacularly so than in Independence Day) with the occasional ambivalent type (Klaatu in The Day The Earth Stood Still) as well. […]
Stepfather Before he gained a legion of fans starring as the mysterious John Locke on ABC’s Lost, Terry O’Quinn was best known for his powerhouse performance in this independent 1987 horror film (later unwisely remade), playing a serial killer with a habit of marrying into families in a neverending quest for the “perfect family”, only […]
Stir Crazy Many people today still remember the movie comedy team-ups between the two legends Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor even though the irony of those films was that Wilder was the real star and Pryor essentially played second fiddle. This 1980 release was by far the most financially successful of their films, grossing over […]