The character: Khan Noonien Singh The actor: Ricardo Montalban The movie: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan The most ludicrous thing that happens in The Wrath of Khan is that there’s a secret password in a secret Starfleet database that allows one ship to hack into another. It’s about as likely as the much… Read More Better than AFI’s Heroes and Villains: Villain #42
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
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 