Movies

I took my daughter with me to see the new Superman film on Thursday night.  I go back with Superman movies to the original 1978 Christopher Reeve film.  I was 13 when that came out and it was right up my alley.  Everything – and I mean the other three Reeve films too – gets […]

This one feels bizarre.  It just snuck up on me late this evening on 3 Jul 2025.  I saw a meme online that Back to the Future turned 40 today, so I had to go look it up.  Yup, indeed.  Was released on 3 Jul 1985.  Holy crap.  That feels wrong, because it doesn’t FEEL […]

I’m writing this early in the morning on 20 Jun 2025.   That date is significant because 50 years ago to the day (20 Jun 1975) was the release of the original Jaws movie.  Bruce the shark is bloody 50 years old now. It doesn’t seem like a film that should be that old.  When […]

Here’s some pre viewing thoughts.  This movie has a pretty awful reputation.  Most people tend to rank it last of the four TNG movies.  Now I’m going to go all stupid and say something like it’s the best, because it clearly was not.  But I don’t think it’s the worst (that’s Insurrection).  My memory has […]

  I wanted to lead off this review with a statement I’m making before watching any of it.  I’ve always had this movie filed in my brain as “this is too small – this is a boring movie”.  I’ve never really cared for it.  There’s nothing explicitly awful about it (well, almost nothing).  The problem […]

After the success of Star Trek: Generations, another Star Trek film was put into production in short order.  This is the first Trek movie that’s solely the Next Generation crew – it didn’t have the crutch of Kirk and other TOS characters like the last film did.  Not that they really needed it, but this […]

The seventh Star Trek movie is for me one the belies the “odd number movies aren’t that good”.  It’s perhaps not Wrath of Khan or Voyage Home, but there’s a lot to like about this.  Having said that, it has a few problems, but none of which are bad enough to take down my overall […]