Someone like me is born every minute
I want to be cynical about it, but man, that Star Wars trailer hit all the right notes. That first shot, the pan across the desert, is so perfectly calculated. “Desert? Again? Ho hum. Oh, look, a...
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I’m filing this one under “film,” because it technically qualifies. But only just. I’ve finally seen my very first Michael Bay Transformers movie, and by all accounts it is the worst: Age of...
View ArticleSpoiled rotten
Star Wars is the first movie I remember seeing in a theater, assuming you count a drive-in as a theater. I was very young, and I only remember flashes of that night: As I recall it, my parents had...
View ArticleDeep Space Nine catch-up post #1
Whoops, I fell behind on the Star Trek posts there… not that much of anyone cares, but still, I was doing this as an attempt to maintain creative discipline. And I’ve failed! Part of the gap comes from...
View ArticleDeep Space Nine catch-up post #2
It’s a faaaaaaaake!! “In the Pale Moonlight” I was surprised, after viewing this episode, to discover some people consider it the best hour of Deep Space Nine ever put to film — or, indeed, the single...
View ArticleDeep Space Nine catch-up post #3
Oh no. “Profit and Lace” I haven’t gone totally cold into my journey through the unknown reaches of Trek; for one thing, people keep warning me about Very Good episode… and Very Bad ones. I haven’t...
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