Tim: Glad to report we’re back for another conversation. Also glad to report that this one may have less structure in mind than any previous conversation we’ve had. (That we’re typing and putting on a blog. I have no doubt this would not even register in real life.) Howdy, Matt. Matt: I’m wondering how many… Read More Baumann and Burch Conversations #8: Trilogies
Dir. David Livingston. Starring Avery Brooks, Louise Fletcher, Rosalind Chao (I’ve had this blog for three years now, and I have never written a post on Deep Space Nine. Not once! That amazes me.) There’s a wonderful scene in “Q-Less,” the sixth episode of DS9, where Q shows up with Vash for reasons not much… Read More Star Trek: Deep Space Nine S1E20, “In the Hands of the Prophets”
Dir. Nicholas Meyer. Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban We’re going to try something which I used to do for my Glee reviews…I’m streaming this movie on Netflix instant. I’m going to write down reactions I have to what’s going on as the movie occurs. This used to take me about 150 minutes with a forty-five… Read More Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
I like to think that an omniscient God has a master list of every science-fiction film that has ever been made or will ever be made, and this list is ordered from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Plan 9 from Outer Space. While sci-fi is particularly fecund ground for bad film, Star Trek Into Darkness has to be a… Read More Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Seeing Things Secondhand 