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“Why is this child here?” The first great episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation represents such a substantial elevation over its brethren that it takes a minute or two to become accustomed to its quality; everything about “Where No…
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Electronic Oblivion: A Hymn to the Fallen
My JVC handicam was on its last legs; it was no longer able to play back tapes reliably, and I figured its ability to record would be out the window in short order. This was the small camera I bought…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Naked Now”
“It never happened.” The Data/Tasha Yar sex scene remains a standout of not just Star Trek: The Next Generation but the entire Star Trek franchise, and possibly the whole history of shipping and slash fiction and cosplay and ooey-gooey SF…
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Review: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
“But the Joker cannot win,” a broken and defeated Batman pronounced at the end of The Dark Knight, conjuring a lie which drives the engine of The Dark Knight Rises. Terrorists always do win, is the problem; their part of…
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Tim Burton’s BATMAN RETURNS: A Look Back
“The Bat, The Cat, The Penguin,” the movie posters snarled in the summer of 1992, and Batman Returns did not disappoint; here was a Gotham bestiary par excellence. If the task of sequelizing Batman was an inherently thankless one –…
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Tim Burton’s BATMAN: A Look Back
Batman arrived at the exact right moment in my young life to become the Thing With Which I Was The Most Obsessed for the entirety of the subsequent six or seven years. It eventually took, I think, about a year…
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Blogging The Next Generation: “Encounter at Farpoint”
“Well, this is a new ship, but she’s got the right name.” The entire gulf between the male and female of our species might be mapped in the lack of understanding in my girlfriend’s eyes, as I attempted to explain…
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My Week With Alien, Part 5: PROMETHEUS
Originally published at The Substream. Spoilers. Thrilling and dangerous, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is the vigorous work of a mature director, returning with terrifying intelligence to the rigours and riddles of long-ago dreams. The film does as advertised. It is hard…
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