Star Trek: The Motion Picture and the Longest Look at a Starship
A fan’s rewatch of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the 1979 film that put Kirk, Spock and McCoy on the big screen, from the refitted Enterprise to V’Ger.
A fan’s rewatch of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the 1979 film that put Kirk, Spock and McCoy on the big screen, from the refitted Enterprise to V’Ger.
A fan’s rewatch of Superman from 1978: Christopher Reeve’s Clark Kent, Pa Kent in Smallville, that flight with Lois and the night he turned the world back.
A fan’s rewatch of Star Wars: A New Hope, from Luke at the twin suns to Han’s return over the Death Star, and the genre it started for a generation.
A fan’s rewatch of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, from mashed potato mountains to the mothership, and why Roy Neary’s choice still gets me.
My honest Practical Magic 2 review: Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return, but the magic doesn’t quite land for me.
The last post in the Doomsday rewatch. A separate universe, a frightened Reed Richards and a child on the board all turn out to be exactly the point.
Rewatching Thunderbolts before Avengers Doomsday, where the team holding the Avengers name and the most powerful character in the MCU are both unsolved problems.
A rewatch of Practical Magic finds a thin story saved by Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, and a properly fun family dynamic. An easy 4 out of 5.
Rewatching Captain America Brave New World ahead of Avengers Doomsday, where the adamantium subplot finally looks like deliberate setup rather than filler.
Rewatching Deadpool and Wolverine before Avengers Doomsday, where the Fox handover and one Comic-Con announcement turned out to matter far more than the plot.
Rewatching The Marvels before Avengers Doomsday. Marvel put its first real step toward the X-Men crossover at the end of its least-watched film.
Rewatching Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 before Avengers Doomsday, where staying out of the multiverse machinery turns out to be the reason it still works.
Rewatching Quantumania before Avengers Doomsday. It was built to launch a decade of Kang, that decade was cancelled, and the film is now a museum piece.
Rewatching Black Panther: Wakanda Forever before Avengers Doomsday. The treaty I disliked in 2022 turns out to be the most useful thing in the film.
Rewatching Thor: Love and Thunder before Avengers Doomsday. It set up three things in 2022 and four years later not one of them went anywhere.
Rewatching Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness before Doomsday. It said incursion out loud in 2022 and nobody was really listening.
Rewatching Shang-Chi before Avengers Doomsday. Five years on, the rings are still broadcasting to something and nobody has ever said what.
Rewatching X-Men: Days of Future Past before Avengers Doomsday. It repaired the timeline in 2014 and the franchise ignored the repair within three years.
Starting a nine-month MCU rewatch before Avengers Doomsday with the four early Fox X-Men films, and the two actors who have been arguing since 2000.
Rewatching Logan before Avengers Doomsday. In 2017 I said time would tell after repeated viewings. It told, and both goodbyes in it have since been undone.
Rewatching Thor: Ragnarok before Avengers Doomsday. That triumphant ending lasts about six months, and the tone that saved Thor later went much too far.