Edmund Kattak wrote: The old series could put in those social ideas without drawing attention to itself by not insulting, pandering, or pontificating to the audience. Now, it has to be in your face.

On the nosey.

When I saw ST:TMP in 1979, I hated it. A buddy and I saw it theatrically last year for it's 40th anniversary and compared to today's junk, ST:TMP has become surprisingly watchable.

Kate Ellinger's essay stinks, but the worst of a sorry lot is by a guy named John-Paul Checkett, PhD--psychologist by day, crummy writer by night.
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The booklet in the Arrow release contains 4 or 5 awful essays concerning Flash Gordon. However, the addition the documentary Life After Flash makes the Limited Edition worth the extra few bucks. Life After Flash is a moving look at a flawed man and his late in life redemption. I would unhesitatingly...

I thought LAD was delicious in The Great Train Robbery.

Andy, I recall a few months ago, you made the same argument against Toy Story 4 when it grossed $125 million in its opening weekend and basically doubled that in the first week.

Wow, It debuts with 30% less than it’s predecessor! I suspect word of mouth will not help this installment and predict a much larger than usual 50+% drop off next weekend. Fortunately, for WB, it doesn’t look like they spent a fortune to produce it (I thought it looked remarkably shoddy in parts) so...

When I saw Dumbo, I found it bla. But, after seeing Aladdin and The Lion King it’s starting to look pretty good. 😀 All three movies are pretty dire and not a patch on the originals. Looking for anything in the positive column: Dumbo looks good, especially the Pink Elephant sequence; Aladdin’s leads ...

I’m betting Lion King will be behind Avengers, Toy Story third and Spider-man fourth. The Fast and Furious might be big or tumble like many others this summer. However, in my opinion anything making between 400-500 domestic can’t be considered a disappointment in any rational sense (unless it cost m...

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Toy Story 4 doubled it’s opening weekend gross by Sunday. In other words, it “under performed” last weekend with a $118 million debut weekend, but it’s now sitting at $236 million. So a huge part of it’s earnings are coming in during the week, which should not be too sur...

Please correct me if I am wrong, but the only two “summer” releases, so far, to beat or meet expectations have been John Wick 3 and Aladdin. As one is a sequel and the other is a remake/reimagining, I think it’s safe to say you can’t predict what the hell the public wants.

I read the book and was not impressed.

However, I find it amusing that in spite of King’s dislike of Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining, Doctor Sleep’s trailer uses so much footage from the 1980 film.

I read and enjoyed the book when it came out in 1994, so I was really looking forward to this limited series. The first two episodes were OK, episodes three and four dropped off in quality and the final two episodes reminded me why I usually skip “movies” on The National Geographic Channel.

Very interesting.

I think replacing 2-5,000 years of tradition with...Stan Lee (aplologies to Stan Lee) is mind boggling.

Way too young. Prayers to friends and family.