STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK – Your ship self-destruct password is 000DESTRUCT0, Kirk? Someone in Star Fleet needs to go over password security with you. The end of Search For Spock is fantastic… Spock really lets go with the emotion when he remembers Kirk’s first name. Well, for Spock. LETHAL WEAPON 3 – [...]
Read more →THE CHILDREN – This little family get together includes talk of viruses, traditional Chinese medicine, and home schooling. The hippies talk about “building kids immunity in a natural way instead of all those nasty jabs”. I’m not sure if the film is using this as a convenient plot point from contemporary headlines, or if they’re [...]
Read more →GHOSTBUSTERS – Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria! Sure, the film is seriously dated with its effects and style, but it’s a classic sci-fi action film. At least these ghost hunters have a real foe, unlike their modern day TV wannabes. Ray, when someone asks you if you’re a god, you say “YES”!
Read more →INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK – I haven’t seen the fourth film in this series of films yet, but if I understand correctly, at the heart of many complaints is that the film relies on aliens to explain everything away without much thought to story or logic. If time permits, I’ll [...]
Read more →REVENGE OF THE NERDS (Netflix) – How a house full of socially awkward losers win friends, influence people, and take over an entire university by secretly photographing and distributing pictures of a nude cheerleader. Further cementing the group’s new found power, Lewis wins that same cheerleader’s love through “surprise sex”… It’s unsettling how films that [...]
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