Movie Diary 2023 (4/6-5/31): Let’s Just Get Through May to Start
Two sentences per movie. The last time I did a retro movie diary, I had three weeks to catch up on. Now I have…more than that. No sweat!
Tag: Nicholas Meyer
100 American Movies to Save: Setbacks (1984-1987)
You can find the introduction and index for this series here. Film Director Year Type “Fluffy Bun” John Sedelmaier 1984 Industrial film Return to Oz Walter Murch 1985 Narrative feature Desert Hearts Donna Deitch 1985 Narrative feature What Sex Am I? Lee Grant 1985 Documentary Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Leonard Nimoy 1986 Narrative feature… Read More 100 American Movies to Save: Setbacks (1984-1987)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
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)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) – Redux
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 