Dir. George Waggner. Starring Lon Chaney, Jr., Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers Dir. William F. Claxton. Starring Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun Both of these pictures—one a classic horror movie from Universal and the other a marvelously terrible horror movie that made me go “Aw!” for ninety minutes—begin with scientific invocations. In 1941, one goes… Read More The Wolf Man (1941) and Night of the Lepus (1972)
Dir. Nicholas Meyer. Starring William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, Christopher Plummer It’s a little hard to love the execution of The Undiscovered Country, a movie which throws quotes from Shakespeare around with total abandon in lieu of actualy dialogue—which suffers from a lack of any really good scenes between the one where Kirk (Shatner) and McCoy (Kelley)… Read More Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Dir. Nicholas Meyer. Starring William Shatner, Ricardo Montalban, Leonard Nimoy 1:34:51– What I will say is that the dude holding Terrell looks exactly like a sad Will Ferrell. When I wrote that back in May of 2013, I was in the habit of writing about movies and TV with linear recaps rather than the more… Read More Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) – Redux
Seeing Things Secondhand 