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Here’s a fascinating/hilarious article assessing the Ghostbusters‘ Risky Business Plan. Those of you in finance, take note! And, speaking of Ghostbusters, here’s a link to 50 Reasons Why Ghostbusters Just Might Be The Greatest Film of All Time. Terminator: The Sa
Josh Reviews Star Trek: Voyager “Full Circle”
I can’t believe I actually purchased a book with Star Trek: Voyager in the title! (For those of you just tuning in, despite my intense love for Star Trek, I have a rather large amount of disdain for Voyager, the most boring and uninspired of the Trek series.) And even more t
After “All Good Things” — Josh continues his review of The Sky’s the Limit!
Yesterday I began reviewing a collection of short-stories entitled The Sky’s the Limit, which was part of Pocket Books’ 20th anniversary salute to Star Trek: The Next Generation. In my last post, I reviewed the stories set during the run of the Next Gen TV show. Toda
Twenty Years of Next Gen!! Josh Reviews The Sky’s The Limit
2007 was, believe it or not, the TWENTIETH anniversary of the launch of the very first Star Trek spin-off, Star Trek: The Next Generation. The pilot episode, “Encounter at Farpoint,” is terribly clunky when looked at today, but as a kid watching that very first episode I
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Click here for a terrific three-essay series that delves into the first three Indiana Jones films. These are all really well-written pieces, filled to the brim with love for the cinematic adventures of Dr. Jones. Clever tourists wrecking the world one monument at a time. Don’
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Big dumb summer movie trailer alert! It’s the new trailer for Transformers 2, filled with lots of robot smashing action, and the new trailer for G.I. Joe, filled with Ninjas and, um, Eiffel Tower smashing action! Sigh. Hard to believe these two iconic and beloved cartoons
Death in the Shadow of New Life — Josh reviews J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek!
It’s been a long road. After walking disgustedly out of the opening weekend screening of the catastrophically terrible Star Trek: Nemesis back in December, 2002, I knew that Trek was at a low point. It seemed uncertain what, if any, future the franchise had after the release
Star Trek: Myriad Universes
Star Trek fever continues here at MotionPicturesComics.com! Did you miss my list of the Top Twenty Episodes of Star Trek? Then check it out! Previously this week I’ve written about Pocket Books’ excellent two-book Star Trek: Mirror Universe series, as well as their
Continuing Adventures in the Mirror Universe
Yesterday I discussed the two terrific collections of Star Trek: Mirror Universe novellas, “Glass Empires” and “Obsidian Alliances.” I commented that my only real complaint was that so many of the stories ended on cliffhangers that seemed to beg for further t
Star Trek: Mirror Universe
One of the most delightful surprises about the last few years of Pocket Books’ Star Trek novels (about which I have waxed poetic here, here, and here) has been the way the writers and editors have fleshed out the Mirror Universe. This concept was first introduced in the Classic