Star Trek: Boldly Going to the Big Screen
William Shatner. Photo: Paramount Ever since the original TV series went into syndication, the Star Trek mania kept building throughout the 1970s. The time was ripe for the first movie adaptation and…
Return of the Jedi: A Case of the Cutes
Carrie Fisher. Photo: 20th Century Fox When I told a friend of mine that I had recently reviewed the first three Star Wars movies and reached the conclusion that the…
Empire Strikes Back: Deeper Space
Photo: 20th Century Fox I went back to this old favorite certain that I would be less impressed this time and give it a lower rating. But I’m surprised to…
Star Trek: Nemesis
The crew of the Enterprise are tricked into going to the planet of Romulus where they encounter a human clone who desperately needs Captain Picard's (Patrick Stewart) body... The tenth…
Star Wars: A Princess Calls for Help
Photo: 20th Century Fox Many people of my age grew up watching the Star Wars franchise. I never did; my movie nerd era didn’t begin until I was 16 and…
The Stepford Wives: Accept No Substitute
Katharine Ross. Photo: Columbia Screenwriter William Goldman was less than happy about director Bryan Forbes’s lack of integrity. The filmmaker had cast his wife, Nanette Newman, as one of the…
Terminator 2: Batting for the Other Team
Edward Furlong and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Photo: Tri-Star Pictures I was certainly part of the target audience for this film when it came out in 1991. I was 15 and the…
Terminator: The Deadly Energizer Rabbit
Arnold Schwarzenegger. Photo: Orion Pictures James Cameron has fought hard for The Terminator. He claims that the idea for the film came to him in a dream, but few question…
Back to the Future Part III
Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) is stuck in 1885 and will be murdered, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) learns, unless he can travel back in time from 1955 and warn the…
The Matrix: Rage Against the Machines
Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves. Photo: Warner When Larry and Andy Wachowski were working as screenwriters on a film called Assassins (1995), they showed producer Joel Silver another script. He…