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Here’s what the Criterion Collection is good for: equal parts enshrining of significant milestones in the art of film (see last week’s review of Ikiru), and the championing of striking works of filmcraft that have somehow slipped from the narrative…
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Review: SPECTRE
From A to Bond was a countdown rewatch, in alphabetical order, of the James Bond movies, which I wrote for The Substream leading up to the release of SKYFALL in 2012. I’ve continued the format for the SPECTRE review, and…
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Tatttooo: if she be worthy
I waited thirty years to get my first tattoo and seven more to get my second; tattoo #3 follows #2 at a hair-raising 15 months, and was also the shortest inception-to-ink turnaround in my life. If Tumblr is to be…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “All Good Things…”
“And the sky’s the limit.” There’s that shot at the end of “All Good Things…,” the last episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where Captain Picard starts dealing a poker hand to his crew – he’s never, in seven…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Preemptive Strike”
“Laren, what’s going on?” The penultimate episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation ties off the series’ last great recurring character, with a final visit for Ensign Ro, here promoted to Lieutenant. Since her introduction in Season Five, Ro transitioned…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Emergence”
“I’ll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth…!” The seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation is awful. I’m on the record with that throughout: people grouse about Seasons One and Two, and there are certainly…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Bloodlines”
“You’ll never look at your hairline again in the same way.” For reasons I’ve never been able to suss out, Star Trek: The Next Generation spends one of its very last episodes doing a sequel to the ridiculous first-season episode…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Firstborn”
“I don’t want to be a warrior!” And now that we’ve concluded things with Wesley Crusher, we move along to Alexander Rozhenko, Son of Worf, Nephew of Kurn, problematic “puppy” addition to a long-running series, who has all but disappeared…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Journey’s End”
“I think that’s the first time anyone’s used that particular word to describe me.” With the end barreling towards us, Star Trek: The Next Generation takes the time to tie off three of its recurring characters: Wesley, Alexander, and Ensign…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Genesis”
“He transformed into a spider and now he has a disease named after him.” In the “so bad it’s good” files, few delight me more than “Genesis,” which isn’t just a bizarre attempt to do body horror on the USS…