I freakin’ LOVE Space Cowboys. It drags a bit in the middle, but the first and third acts are fantastic.

I guess your options for ‘near-future space exploration’ tales are pretty limited to sailors, prospectors or pioneers (sometimes all three at once).

I don’t remember where I read it, but someone once also pointed out that the potatoes would have been irradiated prior to launch to prevent budding. I still watch that movie any time it’s on.

The most fun I had at any movie this summer was Dora and the Lost City of Gold. I went to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood the day before, and Dora was a 96-minute balm for my soul...

While I agree with your overall point on Titanic’s run-time, I think the real beginning of this trend was Braveheart.

Those were the A.C. Crispin ones, yes? I do recall those being a great recommendation for her other works. The Battle of Nar Shadda (I think? it’s been tw**cough*cough** years since I’ve read them) in particular struck me as written very visually. I still wonder if they’d have gone in a similar direction with Qi’Ra as…

No need to run away. You aren’t wrong, it’d be a good platform to showcase someone of his morality. That also opens the door to giving us Prince Xixor stepping in to the underworld vacuum left by Jabba’s death...

Ms. Cills, please keep writing these types of articles. Only continual education and constant reinforcement can help otherwise intelligent individuals from falling for these people’s schitck. They are scum, preying on the naive and emotionally vulnerable.

Which is why I find his death SO perversely satisfying. It instantly reduces every “Who is Snoke, REALLY?” theory to irrelevance by basically saying, “Who cares? He’s DEAD now!” I realize that puts me in the minority of internet opinions, but I hate JJ mystery boxes so, so much...flames...side of my face...heaving…

Agreed that he doesn’t need to be back in really any capacity. Johnson killed him off because there was no story reason to keep him. As others here have already noted, Abrams loves setting up mysteries, but often falls flat when “resolving” them. While Force Awakens is super fun to watch (for me), it leaves too many…

So Ad Astra has flown pretty much under my radar, but having finally watched a trailer, I have to ask - is this a sequel to Space Cowboys? Has Hawk been living on the moon for the past 20 years? Can anyone convince me this is not the case?

Right!? Erica Jong is one of the last people I would ever want to start beef with. I would lose.

He’s wearing different armor bits in this pic. In the trailer and sizzle footage from Celebration, the only piece of beskar (the metal from which Mandos forge their armor) looks to be his helmet. Shoulder, chest and leg plates are all brown and weathered, and clearly some other material. In the new pic, pauldrons,…

I know it’s heresy to recommend anyone other than Eckstein to play a live-action Ahsoka, but I’d kind of like them to go with Caity Lotz (IF this were to happen).

As I understand it now, they ate everything that the catfish would have normally lived on, and so they were basically starved out by the invasive species.

Yup, some people tried this in a private lake near where I grew up. They were supposed to eat the weeds that would overbloom every summer. Within a year, the carp had pretty much overrun the lake. Barely even a bluegill or sunfish to be caught, let alone the once-plentiful catfish there. And the seaweed never seemed…

While I think his take on Zsasz would be something to see, I wonder if he isn’t a straight-up villain. I’d love to see him portray King Faraday, give him juicy scenes with Waller...

Costuming is great, loving the bare feet, and the actual head crests. But that face... Far, FAR too human. They’re Trandoshans, not Jem-Haddar. I’ll be curious to see if they insert some line about these being a particular race of Trandoshans, if only because we’ve seen how they should look and move in The Clone Wars.

Indeed, but man. Staying aboard DS9 for a couple nights, playing Dabo in Quark’s, a joyride on the Defiant to foil a Founder or Romulan plot, only to then hop a shuttle to the Halcyon, and your experience there... I think I could talk myself into that whatever the cost...

I think the only way this could happen is if CBS/Viacom were to partner with Universal or Six Flags (owned by Time-Warner?) to bring the experience to at least 2 parks. Six Flags mostly has their coasters to brag about, and parks in the midwest, so I’m unclear just how much business Disney resorts poach from them…