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The Reviewinator: Star Trek IV – The Voyage Home (1986)
Remember in the first season of the show when the Enterprise crew travelled back in time to 1966? And now exactly twenty years later they have to travel back to 1986? It’s almost as if their fictional timeline is parallel … Continue reading
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The Reviewinator: Star Trek III – The Search For Spock (1984)
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock. What a horrible title. Putting the name of the guy who died in the last movie right in the title of its sequel can mean only one thing: he’s coming back. Just imagine … Continue reading
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The Reviewinator: Star Trek II – The Wrath of Khan (1982)
“KHAN!!! KHAN!!! KHAAAAAAAAN!!!” And now every TV show and movie that ever quoted that line suddenly makes sense. I first heard about The Wrath of Khan from Seinfeld, when Kramer was learning Karate, so I was really looking forward to this … Continue reading
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The Reviewinator: Star Trek – The Motion Picture (1979)
10 years after the show was cancelled, the entire cast of The Original Series reunited to make the first movie in a franchise that’s still going strong to this day. With Star Wars becoming a monster success in 1977, renewed … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Jessica Alba in “Camp Nowhere”
For a brief period in the 90’s, summer camp kid comedies were hot stuff. Within this niche genre we find such movies as Heavyweights, Addams Family Values, and the subject of this post: Camp Nowhere (1994). The story of a … Continue reading
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The Reviewinator: Star Trek – The Original Series (1966-1969)
Space, the final fron—nope, not doing that! After 50 years, we all get it: Star Trek is a space show, with fast ships and quirky aliens and exotic new worlds, and the kind of visionary technology that would later inspire things like cellphones … Continue reading
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Army Of One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1xGh53LEQQ An American civilian sets out on his own to find Osama Bin Laden. 2016 has been a pretty strange year for movies, filled with mediocre blockbusters and some truly bizarre smaller-budget films. I thought Swiss Army Man was going … Continue reading
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31 Horror Movies in 31 Days: Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Italian uber-Producer Dino De Laurentiis basically wrote a blank check to author Stephen King when he requisitioned him to be the director of this kitschy, submental miscarriage. King is not Wolfgang Petersen and therefore, the technocratic rampage with machines, car … Continue reading
31 Horror Movies in 31 Days: Graveyard Shift (1990)
Subterranean horror doesn’t get much more Augean or sordid than Graveyard Shift which endeavors to make the audience feel like they need a tetanus shot after the last frame. In that respect of sweatshop atmosphere, the film is a humdinger. … Continue reading
Shouts From the Back Row – Episode 266 – The Blair Witch Project
It’s been 17 years since The Blair Witch Project shocked audiences, created a cultural phenomenon, and popularized a style of low-budget horror filmmaking that we’re still seeing today. And now, after all this time, there’s another Blair Witch movie, which … Continue reading