Return to Tomorrow… Sunday, September 15th, 2019. A few months shy of the 40th anniversary of “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”’s debut (Dec. 7th), and my local AMC Theatre chain in coordination with Fathom Events had a special weekend screening of this film that I last saw theatrically about 37th years ago (on a double-bill…
A personal tour of Rod Serling’s “The Night Gallery”…
When I was a little boy (far too little to watch horror, anyway), I was madly in love with monsters and the supernatural. I used to build monster model kits with loving patience. “Famous Monsters of Filmland” magazine was my first magazine subscription and monthly bible (rest in peace, Forry Ackerman). The late Rod Serling’s…
Time has been kind to “Star Trek: Enterprise” (2001-2005)…
“Let’s go.” In September of 2001 (that month that lives in infamy) a new Star Trek series debuted called “Enterprise”. It was also released minus the Star Trek brand name (at first…it was reinstated by Season 2). Produced by longtime Star Trek writer/producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, the series was a prequel to TOS…
The enduring legacy, and ongoing relevance of Kenneth Johnson’s “V”…
****MOTHERSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** 1983’s “V.” In 1983, writer/director/producer Kenneth Johnson (“Six Million Dollar Man” “Bionic Woman” “The Incredible Hulk”), the man responsible for much of the TV that made up my childhood, released an epic two-night miniseries about a fleet of manned, giant flying saucers that come to Earth “in peace.” The onboard alien ‘Visitors’ appear…
Retro-Musings: 1972’s “Silent Running” is a space odyssey rooted in the earth…
Nearly half a century ago, special effects pioneer Doug Trumbull (“2001: A Space Odyssey” “Blade Runner” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”) took the director’s chair (at the tender age of 28) to make a low budget ecological sci-fi called “Silent Running.” The movie came from a script by writers Derek Washburn, Michael Cimino (both…
“Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” is a fanciful collision between fact and pulp fiction…
**** 70MM SPOILERS!**** Imagine if Jack and Rose had somehow saved the Titanic. Or if Kevin Costner’s Jim Garrison managed to stop Oswald before he shot JFK. What if Marvel’s Captain America put Hitler behind bars and prematurely ended World War 2? If any of these scenarios are too much to imagine, let alone enjoy,…
Retro-Musings: “Jason and the Argonauts” (1963) is still sea-worthy today…
Waaaay back in my childhood back in the 1970s and 1980s, I was a huge fan of the stop-motion animated films of cinematic FX maestro Ray Harryhausen. Harryhausen was, from the 1950s through the mid-1970s, a one man “Industrial Light & Magic.” Usually working without assistance, Harryhausen would build his armatured puppets and carefully shift…
My Trekcore interview with Rekha Sharma…
On my recent pilgrima–er, visit to the annual Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas, I was asked by my friend Bob Stutzman to do an interview for Trekcore.com with Rekha Sharma, who played “Commander Ellen Landry” (both Prime and Mirror Universe incarnations) in the first season of “Star Trek: Discovery,” as well as President Laura…
Deep Space Nog: Another conversation with Aron Eisenberg…
Last year at the annual Star Trek convention in Las Vegas, I had the privilege of interviewing Aron Eisenberg, the “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” (DS9) actor who played the Ferengi character “Nog.” Over the course of 7 seasons, Nog went from a petty thief to a decorated Starfleet officer… arguably the single greatest character…
Star Trek Las Vegas, 2019: Reverse angle on the viewer…
My wife and I spent much of last week (July 31st-August 4th) attending the “Star Trek Las Vegas” convention. My friends Nick and George were there this time (flying in from all over the country) as well as my wife, who couldn’t accompany me on the previous two Star Trek Las Vegas conventions, so I…
“Star Trek: Picard” trailer and the First Duty Starfleet Museum…
****BORG-CUBE SIZED SPOILERS!!!**** Last week, the new CBS-All Access Star Trek series “Picard” (streaming in “early 2020”) debuted a new trailer at San Diego Comic Con that promised a few more familiar faces than previously hinted. Some of those familiar faces include Star Trek: Voyager alum “Seven of Nine” (played by a seemingly ageless Jeri…
San Diego Comic Con 2019, final Megapost: Memories of Apollo 11, the Star Trek pilot, and The Night Gallery…
Another San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) is in the rearview mirror, and once again, it was (as usual) another grand, exhausting, epic celebration of pop culture. As readers of this site may or may not know, I usually don’t wait in line all night for the ‘big ticket’ events, such as those held in the…
