Not Yesterday’s Enterprise. This is one of those columns I wish I didn’t have to write, but I wanted to make a one-stop column addressing much of the simmering, seething anger I see online for just about any Star Trek made beyond 2005—or beyond 1987, for some. For as long as I can remember, each…
Month: July 2021
Seeing double with the riotously audacious “Face/Off” (1997)…
A Piece of the Action. One day, waaaay back in late summer or fall of 1996 (I can’t remember exactly when), a friend and I played a bit of ‘scheduled hooky’ from work and enjoyed what would now be called a ‘mental health day’ for both of us. One of the things on our unscheduled…
The long delayed release of “A Quiet Place: Part II” (2021) delivers the nerve juice…
Quiet Time. ******SHHHH! SPOILERS AHEAD****** A few years ago, a horror movie pal and I went to go see writer/director/star John Krasinski’s new horror flick “A Quiet Place”, and while the movie had some gaps in logic, I was surprised at how caught up we both became with the story’s simple premise: “Be quiet, or…
Experiencing “Black Widow” (2021) at our ad-hoc home movie theater…
Our Pandemic Movie Theater. As I already mentioned in a previous column I did last year (“At-home projection: How I learned to love my movie collection all over again…“), the COVID pandemic put the kibosh on movie attendance for me—and going to the movies was once a favorite pastime of mine. However, a safely-masked visit…
Wading deep into the waters of “JAWS 2” (1978)…
Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back In The Water… The unprecedented success of Steven Spielberg’s “JAWS” (1975) not only inaugurated the summer movie phenomenon, but it also guaranteed a sequel, despite the finality of JAWS’ conclusion. As I’ve said more than once on this site, JAWS is one of my favorite…
The man behind the modern superhero movie, Richard Donner (1930-2021)…
Making Us Believe A Man Could Fly. I still remember going to see “Superman: The Movie” back in the winter of 1978. I wasn’t a big superhero fan in those days, to be honest. Yes, I read some random Marvel comics (“Hulk,” “SpiderMan,” “Fantastic Four”), and I watched the occasional episode of “Wonder Woman” (primarily…
“The Incredible Hulk” (1977-1982); a look back at Marvel’s first successful TV adaptation…
Anger Management. As a 10 year old kid back in 1977, I remember watching the serious, somber TV-movie pilot of “The Incredible Hulk,” written, produced and directed by Kenneth Johnson (“The Bionic Woman,” “V,” “Alien Nation”). Unlike the primary colored “Hulk” comic books I read from the local drugstore, the TV movie pilot was horror…