This column will not be a review or deep dive of a movie or TV series, but I wanted to give a heads-up to longtime readers that there’s going to be a minor change going forward with regards to reviewing content from Paramount+. This includes nearly all of the Star Trek TV shows and movies,…
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Paramount+’s “School Spirits” ends its third season with a four-alarm finale…
******SPIRITS & SPOILERS!****** Created by sibling writer/creators Nate & Megan Trinrud, the young adult supernatural drama “School Spirits” debuted three years ago, and I discovered it almost by accident. For clarity, I am the absolute wrong demographic for this series (a boring, old guy), but my wife and I used to enjoy “Buffy the Vampire…
“Star Trek: Discovery” (2017-2024); the often-problematic series that reignited Star Trek ends its own ‘five-year mission’…
*****SPORE-DRIVE SPOILERS!****** Premiering in September of 2017 on the then all-new “CBS All Access” streaming service, which quickly became ParamountPlus, “Star Trek: Discovery” (DSC) has finally ended a five-season run; a season earlier than expected. Five seasons is two seasons more than the original “Star Trek” (1966-9), though a couple seasons shy of most Star…
My ongoing reasons for owning physical media…
In an earlier column from six years ago, I sang the praises of physical media ownership (“Still crazy after all these years; why I continue to collect physical media”). And I still do. I’ve been watching a few recent YouTube videos which make the case for collecting VHS tapes, DVDs, Blu-Rays and 4K discs, even in…
“Star Trek: Prodigy” safely docks at Netflix…
Some good news to relay on this Friday the 13th; Star Trek: Prodigy, my favorite series of animated Star Trek since Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973-4), has found a new home with Netflix after its unceremonious and illogical removal from the Paramount+ streaming platform. Paramount+ was intended to be Star Trek’s one-stop place to…
A few words about the unjust cancellation (and removal) of “Star Trek: Prodigy”…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS***** Just as I was thankful to my Paramount+ subscription for last Thursday’s sensational episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” ( “Ad Astra Per Aspera” ), I was abruptly blindsided the next day by news that the streaming service was cancelling—and removing—the entirety of “Star Trek: Prodigy” from its platform, despite the fact…
CBS/Paramount+’s “True Lies” reboot fails to reach critical mass…
*****TRUE SPOILERS!***** “La Totale!” (1991) Written by Simon Michaël, Didier Kaminka and director Claude Zidi, “La Totale!” was a French action-comedy involving a seemingly dull telecommunications employee, named François Voisin (Thierry Lhermitte) who misses a surprise 40th birthday party from his bored wife Hélène (Miou-Miou), while planting a surveillance device during a dangerous mission. François,…
Michelle Yeoh returns to “Star Trek: Section 31” for a Paramount+ movie…
The Announcement “Paramount+ today announced it has officially greenlit Star Trek: Section 31 starring Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh. In this special original movie event for the service, Yeoh will return to her role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou, a character she first played in Star Trek: Discovery’s first season. In Star Trek: Section 31, Emperor Philippa Georgiou joins a secret division of Starfleet tasked…
“Star Trek: Prodigy” is the franchise’s most unexpected surprise…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** Created by Kevin and Alex Hageman and overseen by an Alex Kurtzman-led team of producers, the Paramount+/Nickelodeon coproduction Star Trek: Prodigy (PRO) is a new animated Star Trek series consciously geared towards younger audiences, after the debut of the more adult (and arguably less mature) Star Trek: Lower Decks. Having recently finished 20…
“Beavis and Butthead Do the Universe” sends the boys into a black hole. Huhuhuh … ‘hole’
*****SPOILERS!!***** 1990s Guilty Pleasure Back in late 1993, I remember my sister telling me about a new cartoon series on MTV called “Beavis and Butthead” (1993-1998), which chronicled the misadventures of two aimless, idiotic teenage boys who created all kinds of chaos in between mocking music videos. Before then, I vaguely remembered hearing of Beavis…
New poster for “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” epitomizes Roddenberry’s ‘space western’ in a single image…
*****POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS***** Yesterday (as of this writing) a flood of rumors emerged regarding the slew of new Star Trek coming out this year; this month’s return of Star Trek: Discovery (Feb. 10th), the season 2 premiere of Star Trek: Picard (March 3rd), more rumors of the long-gestating Star Trek…
Star Trek: Discovery’s 4th season opens with a “Kobayashi Maru” scenario…
RE: PARAMOUNT+/NETFLIX DECISION I usually post spoiler warnings in most of these columns, but I’m doing so with a vengeance for this new season of Star Trek: Discovery reviews in light of a recent real-life controversy. Star Trek: Discovery, which is seen in the United States on Paramount+, CTV Sci-Fi channel in Canada, and on…