Captain’s log: 2257 I take on the first season of Short Treks this week which aired between the first and second season of Star Trek: Discovery, Featuring shorter tales, some that will have a direct effect on future episodes and events. The first episode, Runaway, lets Tilly (Mary Wiseman) have a bit of a moment…
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Star Trek: Discovery (2017) – Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad, and Si Vas Pacem, Para Bellum
Captain’s log: stardate 2136.8 (which is a bit weird considering when the story takes place, and how stardates work in the next episode, not to mention The Original Series) Aron Eli Coleite and Jesse Alexander pen Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad, which first aired on 29 October, 2017. Harry Mudd (Rainn Wilson)…
Star Trek: Discovery (2017) – Choose Your Pain, and Lethe
Captain’s log: December 2256 Kemp Powers pens the teleplay for Choose Your Pain from a story by Gretchen J. Berg, Aaron Harberts and Kemp. It first aired on 15 October, 2017, and sees a familiar character return to this version of the Trek Universe. While Micheal Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) starts to worry about the pain…
Star Trek: Discovery (2018) – Blu-Ray
The most controversial incarnation of Star Trek has come to blu-ray as season one comes home from Paramount Pictures. Featuring a gorgeous picture and sound transfer, no matter where you stand on the show itself, it looks and sounds amazing. Set after Star Trek: Enterprise, and a decade before The Original Series this incarnation of…
The Meg (2018) – Blu-Ray Review
Going into this movie, I was reminded of a piece of dialogue from Back to the Future Part II – “Shark still looks fake.” But that doesn’t really hold Warner Brothers’ The Meg, which releases today on blu-ray and DVD from being a silly bit of cinematic confection. A Chinese-American co-pro, shot largely in New…
WSFF – Celebrity Shorts
Last night was a treat for both Sue and I at the Worldwide Short Film Festival featured was a program called Celebrity Shorts and every one of them was a delight. We started with a heart-warming and joyous tail featuring Dame Judi Dench, and a cameo by Tom Hiddleston in a short from the United…
