I recall similar arguments and protests when Nolan announced that he had cast Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight. All I can say is, unless you are a hardcore Trek fan who think JJ Abrams pissed all over the Trek timeline and mythology, he managed to reboot Star Trek and turn it into something fresh and…

Seems like a deep dive into a shallow pool. It's a cable television program and represents the next evolution in cable's slow march toward unintentionally legitimizing the gratuitous in order to reap the rewards of being "edgy" or "shocking". We all gasped in subdued horror as shows like The Sopranos, Oz, and…

Why have glass at all? One would think with all of the technology available that the use of cameras and some sort of virtual environment inside a helmet would make much more sense. See Iron Man for example of said concept. But, I nitpick. I really do enjoy seeing the faces of the actors so I can forego a little…

Love the totally impractical full fishbowl helmets. Nice, creative way to get around the problem of obscuring the actors' faces with a piece of equipment that would make far more sense.

Incredibles II??? The one sequel that fans seems to want is the one sequel they seem unwilling to make. Instead we get sequels to Cars and Monsters Inc.

I see that big Ferris Wheel in London has joined the long, distinguished list of easily recognizable world landmarks that are blown up, imploded, invaded, or just plain destroyed every summer by your average blockbuster. Hopefully the Eiffel Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, The Empire State Building, and Big Ben are…

Was Patrick Stewart ever young??? And it's official, Sean Young's home movie is more watchable than Dune.

Is Astroworld still there? Haven't lived in Texas in 20+ years, heard a rumor a while back that it's long since been erased.

It also looks a great deal like the dragons that Tolkien drew onto the Map that Thorin and Company use in their quest.

I remember some of the complaints. What exactly was Aliens anyway - was it a horror movie? An action movie? A science fiction movie? Horror fans hated it because it was too SciFi and too action oriented. SciFi fans hated because it was too much of an action film and didn't delve into the mysteries of science and…

For me the most interesting aspect of true space opera has always been the writer’s approach to what I call the essential Space Opera conundrum. Einstein’s discovery of the theory of relativity very literally shut the proverbial door on an essential element in any decent space opera – the ability traverse massive…

Read somewhere that Robert Jordan initially planned for Wheel of Time to be a trilogy. At a staggering 14 books and 1 prequel it's hard to imagine.

Absolutely - that duel from beginning to end was like a 15 minute microcasm of everything that was wrong with the prequels: from too much CGI to contrived interactions and a forced enmity between lifelong friends to an almost complete disregard for physics or reality. After six years of pointless confrontations, of…

Out of every blatant and not-so-blatant attempt to replicate the success of LOST, The River came the closest but I agree that in the end, these are not characters I am interested in long term. But the central mystery and the mythology were intriguing enough to keep me watching along with most of my friends.

The entire opening sequence is pointless. So Lando, Chewie, Luke, Leia, and the droids all come up with this plan where Lando will infiltrate Jabba’s palace so that he can…what? Confirm that Han is there? I thought that was obvious? What possible reason could there have been for Lando to go undercover? And then…