Tag: startrek
Notes on Streaming: I AM THE NIGHT Goes Retro LA for a Classic Mystery
Plus: Star Trek: Discovery returns, A Discovery of Witches takes flight.
Giveaway: Win a Copy of STAR TREK: THE ART OF JOHN EAVES
Over the past few decades, John Eaves has had a major impact on the look of the Star Trek Universe and played a pivotal role in shaping Gene Roddenberry's vision. Starting with his work on Star Trek V: The Final...
Destroy All Monsters: FIRST CONTACT Is When STAR TREK Sold Out
Look at them guns! That's Patrick Stewart in 1996's Star Trek: First Contact, a movie which had a lot of actual guns in it, too, arming the crew of the Starship Enterprise with their own skinny version of the pulse...
New STAR TREK BEYOND Trailer Goes Where No One Has Gone Before
I have no idea what to expect from Star Trek Beyond. Oh, I've been keeping up with the marketing and, especially, the trailers. The first one, released back in December, appeared to promise a "goofy adventure," as our own Todd...
Interview: Anton Yelchin on GREEN ROOM, STAR TREK, Hardcore Punk & Softcore Porn
Getting to interview filmmakers and actors can sometimes be quite a thrill, sometimes a surprising dud. The fluctuation in quality is sometimes disheartening, when people you’d like to think of in glowing terms give pat answers honed by years of...
Destroy All Monsters: DEEP SPACE NINE And The Challenge Of Community
You owe Star Trek: Deep Space Nine a second look. It might be a good way to drain the time between now and Bryan Fuller's Star Trek reboot next year. The best aspects of Deep Space Nine set a benchmark...
Have Your Say: To Boldly Go... Where?
Yesterday the news hit the Internet that the Star Trek franchise keeps Trekking, and not just in cinemas but also as a new streaming television series. My first reaction was "Cool!", but afterwards it got me thinking: exactly WHY do...
STAR TREK: Stream Me Up, Scotty
A new Star Trek series is on its way to the streaming universe. The series will debut in January 2017, according to Deadline, and will be available to watch exclusively on CBS All Access, a streaming service available on a...
Destroy All Monsters: The Problem With The TOMORROWLAND Thesis
I enjoyed Tomorrowland. There was a joy about the way Brad Bird shot the film that reminded me of early Spielberg, and if the whole thing ends up turning on the audience's willingness to believe that George Clooney has harboured...
Justin Lin Takes The Helm Of Third STAR TREK Film
THR is reporting that Justin Lin, the director that took the Fast & Furious franchise to a new level, will be taking the captain's chair of the USS Enterprise in the third Star Trek film. He takes over the directing gig...
Review: TO BE TAKEI Is Okay, By George
George Takei (pronounced Tak-AY, not Tak-EYE or Tak-EEE - and don't you forget it!) has a speech he often gives. It's a formal speech about the persecution his family experienced in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, that briefly...
Hot Docs 2014 Review: THE GREEN GIRL Reveals Prolific Actress, Director, And Aviator Susan Oliver
Proving in its own way that most actors of a certain era ended their careers with a guest spot on Murder, She Wrote before quietly going into obscurity, The Green Girl presents its sexy Star Trek hook, that of the...
7 Superior Sequels (And Some Runners-Up)
Sequels are generally maligned, and most of the time rightly so. If a movie has been financially successful you can count on the fact someone will want to start a franchise out of it, raking in more money out of...
Korean Box Office: STAR TREK Leads Hollywood Onslaught
Local fare continues to be overwhelmed at the Korean box office as it scored a meagre 17% market share compared with a much healthier 54% last year. What's more, despite a number of blockbusters on offer, business was also down...
AnarchyVision: Talking STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS, MUD and THE ICEMAN
Another Twitchvision chat with Scott Laurie, this time me gushing about J.J.'s latest Star Trek film, which I unabashedly loved.Also talked about he fabbo Mud, and the less fabbo The Iceman, both with Michael Shannon doing his thing.Video embedded below.Update:...
70s Rewind: STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE Still Goes Slowly Where No One Wants to Go
In December 1979, Star Trek: The Motion Picture was a major letdown. Earlier in the decade, a handful of my school friends banded together to form the Science Fiction Club. Initially, we discussed Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy, Ray Bradbury's stories,...
Review: STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Boldly Goes Not Very Far
Star Trek Into Darkness begins with a thrilling chase sequence on a distant planet; a scene of immediacy and big budget spectacle. The film continues in this manner for most of its run time, punctuated by scenes that are less...
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Meets Spocko
In this video, the cast of Star Trek Into Darkness -- Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho, and Alice Eve -- as well as director J.J. Abrams -- sit down for a chat with...
Japanese STAR TREK Trailer Teases Out Some Fresh Footage
Japan is getting all the new toys when it comes to big Hollywood releases these days. We just had a new Japanese trailer for The Wolverine that featured new footage and now here comes a Japanese offering for Star Trek:...
"Punch It!" - Newest Trailer for J.J.'s STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS
I must say, the project continues to look pretty exciting, even if it does seem like the end of Return of the Jedi with Kirk as Lando and Spock as Nien Nunb. What's nice is that formerly this would be...
