The first official look at the new Star Trek film, set to be released this summer, was like a Christmas miracle to Trekkie fans overwhelmed with Star Wars hoopla. A small gift to the fans of the other Star franchise. Here is the trailer for Star Trek: Beyond. Go ahead, it’s okay, take another look….
I can definitively tell you what I enjoyed the most in theaters this year. I can tell you which films I think will (or at least, should) win awards. I can tell you which films were the ones that resonated with me the most spiritually. I can even tell you which films were dreadfully disappointing….
97% of the water on earth is salt, 2% is locked up in ice and snow, leaving 1% for 7+ billion people. So what in the world are we going to do to prevent a water apocalypse?
?I just wanted to give people a reason to believe.? In Don Verdean an archaeologist and dueling pastors seem to be trying to find ways to bolster people?s faith, but it all finally boils down to feeding their own egos. We have to keep in mind this is very broad satire from Jared and Jerusha…
?You must love this?living in a camper on the streets of New York spreading Christmas cheer.? In Christmas, Again Noel (Kentucker Audley) works the night shift at a New York City Christmas tree lot. He has worked here for the last few Christmases. But this year he is doing it without the woman who has…
Youth is a meditation on what it means to have grown old. Writer/director Paolo Sorrentino (who won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for The Great Silence) says in the production notes, ?The question I asked myself was, how does one look to the future when one is no longer young?? That kind of existential…
The widespread critical and commercial success of?Despicable Me I & II?guaranteed that the little yellow beings would get their own film. While the character of Gru (Steve Carrell) was their leader/master/boss in the original pair of films, the prequel,?Minions, promised to fill us in on how Kevin, Stuart, and Bob ended up working in the…
In 1988, Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) spoofed police and buddy films everywhere with the breakthrough The Naked Gun! From the Files of Police Squad!?Three years later,?The Naked Gun 2.5: The Smell Of Fear?followed, with?The Naked Gun 33.3: The Final Insult?arriving in 1994. Over six years, Nielsen worked with David Zucker and then Peter Segal…
Sometimes Christmas just doesn?t work out. In A Very Murray Christmas (directed by Sofia Coppola and currently streaming on Netflix) Bill Murray?s live Christmas Eve TV special is completely undone by a massive storm and power outage. When he and Paul Shaffer head to a hotel bar to drown their holiday sorrows, they encounter others…
The fifth episode of Breakthrough presents a number of energy visionaries who are committed to ?spinning the wheel? in ways that will be beneficial to our children and grandchildren.
