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“You are Starfleet. To the core.” Patrick Stewart does a better job of convincing me of the emotional contours of Picard’s departure from Starfleet in this episode; in the prologue flashback, we see him emerging from the immediately-post-Mars, let’s-still-save-Romulus meeting,…
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THELMA & LOUISE Blu-ray Review: Soaring Into the Criterion Collection
A gregarious polyglot as a filmmaker, Ridley Scott has tried a bit of everything. By the time Thelma & Louise hits screens in 1991, he has already made two of the most important science fiction films of all time, and…
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Best of a bad batch
Are we there yet? Are we at the point where we, as a citizenry, can acknowledge that The Mandalorian is pretty bad now… and that it wasn’t ever, actually, particularly good? My own stance on the series has been: it…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Maps and Legends”
“The sheer. Fucking. Hubris.” “Maps and Legends” opens with a banger flashback sequence where the androids (here called “synths”) commit their act of… terrorism? Sabotage?… on Mars. If you’ve ever played Alien: Isolation, you’ll recognize the vibe: ghost-eyed indestructible beings…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Remembrance”
“I don’t want the game to end.” The first episode of Star Trek: Picard is a huge episode of television. Premieres were never this show’s problem. Each season begins formidably, with intent writ large across entertaining hours, which see us…
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An open letter in support of independent cinemas in Canada
Dear MP Marci Ien, MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam, Minister Pablo Rodriguez, and Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, Do you support The Revue Cinema, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Imagine Cinemas Market Square, and the Ontario Place Cinesphere? I’ve been enjoying great movies at great cinemas…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — NEMESIS rewatch
“It seems as though we are truly sailing into the unknown.” What, then, of Data? The reason I needed to hit both First Contact and Nemesis on my way into Star Trek: Picard‘s first season was that while the modern…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — FIRST CONTACT rewatch
We’ve been here before. Quite literally in this case — I covered Star Trek: First Contact, the second Next Generation feature film, as part of Blogging the Next Generation. More broadly, I started, and finished, that project a decade ago:…
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“The fun part of winter is over”
The fun part of winter is over. After it was over, it snowed for 30 weeks, and the cat got a toothache, and all the matches on Hinge were unappealing. I applied for Survivor. (Legitimately this time.) Everything Everywhere won…
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What Star Trek isn’t
Like many from the TNG Generation, I’m enjoying the third season of Star Trek: Picard, although — like, I’m hoping, at least a few of us — I feel a bit silly about it. I’m aware that, for example, my…
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