Every fall brings a slew of new television shows. Most don’t last beyond a few episodes, and even fewer get to finish their first years. Despite the fact that science-fiction as a genre (in any media) is considered to have…
Paramount’s “Star Trek” franchise has spawned 10 feature films (including the upcoming “Nemesis”), 5 television shows, and a pop sub-culture with world-wide penetration. No other tele-film series has such a continuous and evolving presence in the eyes of the world,…
Corporate siblings Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema dominated the box office during late-2001 with “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring”. “HP 2” and “LOTR 2” are about to…
For the second year in a row, The Criterion Collection and the Sundance Channel are partnering to present a selection of cinematic works from around the world in the “The Sundance Channel Presents Classic World Cinema from The Criterion Collection”…
According to the biography at his Web site (www.philipkdick.com), between 1952 and 1982 when he died, science-fiction author Philip K. Dick wrote thirty-six novels and five collections of short stories. Ironically, after struggling in relative obscurity for much of that…
Paramount’s “Star Trek” franchise has spawned 9 feature films (and counting), 5 television shows (and counting), and a pop sub-culture with world-wide penetration. No other telefilm series has such a continuous and evolving presence in the eyes of the world,…
It’s remarkable how much Jackie Chan’s movies have improved since his 1985 American starring debut in “The Protector.” Maybe Chan should have not have placed so much trust back then in writer-director James Glickenhaus, whose major screen credits include “Suicide…
“Kate & Leopold” comes this close (image of two fingers being held as closely together as possible without actually touching), this close, to getting an unqualified recommendation. It’s quite good, but it takes very nearly the whole first half of…
When “The Parent Trap” came out in 1961, I was in high school. It starred Haley Mills and was distinctly a “girl’s movie.” I avoided it like a pubescent plague. Indeed, I continued avoiding it for over forty years until…
Warner Bros. has Batman and Superman. MGM has James Bond. Fox has “Star Wars” and “Alien.” So what? Paramount has “Star Trek,” a franchise that has spawned 9 feature films (and counting), 5 television shows (and counting), and a pop…