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Another run-in with the Klingons. This time our heroes save them from destruction. You know that isn’t going to go over well.

First appearance of a photon torpedo!

I watched this last week and barely remember it. All I remember was that The Flash was some good comic relief and they all fought some giant meteor filled with dinosaurs or something. And Martian Manhunter becomes Groucho Marx for a minute.

I’m not an ogre. When Precious finally breaks down and cries “Nobody love me!” it is heartbreaking. It’s just a shame the rest of the after school special has the subtlety of one of those frying pans Precious’ mother smashes against your head.

Good performances, silly script and some truly bad directing at times (so much slo-mo! and an Italian movie dream sequence? Are you kidding me?)

A terrific blending of myth, funny narration, different styles of animation and Big Broadcast music.

A real charmer and a heckuva yarn. See this movie!!

With all the recent buzz about the forthcoming film The First Avenger: Captian America, I realized something. I really don’t have much firsthand knowledge of Captain America.

He’s popped up in some of the other Marvel books I’ve read, but I’ve never read anything solely about him.

This series is, so they say, going to be very influential on the forthcoming film. I can’t say I’m too enthused.

It’s all just so bland and obvious. I won’t bore you with anything resembling a synopsis. It just doesn’t have any zing. He’s a guy haunted by the past. And his shield is a boomerang. I dunno . . I’ve got Volume 2 here, maybe it’ll all come together.

I can take slow, deliberate movies. Honest, I can.

I love Tarkovsky. I love Gus Van Sant (when he’s doing this sort of thing.) I even loved the other, recent Romanian bureaucratic film The Death of Mr. Lazarescu. Police, Adjective makes The Death of Mr. Lazarescu look like Crank: High Voltage.

Be deliberate to an end – get me in a zone. Don’t just bore the pants off of me. You wanna show me a guy eating soup for five minutes? Fine. But, do it in a way, you know?

The opening scenes with dialogue (few that they were) had some of the that wearyness similar to Lazarescu, but I’ll be honest and say I checked out at the one hour mark. Zzzzzzzzz.

Again, not as much fun as the Wonder Woman, Green Lantern or Batman: Gotham Knight films, this one at least has the benefit of being silly fun.

The Multiverse (Infinite Earths) has got tsuris when Nite Owl – I mean, Owlman – wants to destroy everyone, everything, everywhere just because he can. Fighting and crazy-ass pseudo science ensue. “Superwoman” is a dark skinned beauty who nearly busts out of her outfit, making Wonder Woman look positively flat (pun intended) by comparison.

And the bad guy Superman has a James Gandolfini accent. Awesome.

I gave this an “A-” the first time, but seeing it again it really holds up as something special. It is a relentless exercise in technique – plus it also has great performances. The characters I thought were a little thin the first time actually hold up to further scrutiny.

What’s really so great is that it isn’t just a political Rorschach test – you can also make it be about whatever you want in a purely fictional place as well. Forget the war – what is going on inside Sgt. James’ head? Does he know? Does he care? Is he good? Does he symbolize the best of America, or the unfortunate side effects or our good intentions? Or is this just about making the audience sweat as you snip the green cord.

More at UGO.

I’m not kidding when I say the recent batch of DC Animated features have been absolutely top notch. The best has been Wonder Woman which, I swear, if it was twenty or thirty minutes longer could have gotten a theatrical release. The omnibus collection Batman: Gotham Knight is a genuine work of art and Green Lantern: First Flight is hardcore fun nerdass shit.

This one, however, is a disappointment. It’s a bore – just a collection of fight scenes. If you are a hardcore DC fanatic you may get a kick out of seeing some deep cut characters but, other than, that, it is just standard. Hey, you can’t win them all.

Kerry Douglas Dye is going to pipe up any minute with a plot hole and, yes, he’s kinda right. But, that one little problem aside, this is a damned good movie. It’s a friggin’ movie. It isn’t a novel or miniseries, ya dig? And it is pretty remarkable. References to NAFTA and Superfund aside, it holds up incredibly well.

A big, hairy dud.

Read my more lengthy review here.

Completely moronic yet still highly entertaining. Go figure.

A more complete review can be read here.

It had been a while since I’d last seen this. A good long while. Of course, I watched it so much as a kid I still have much of it committed to memory.

Just imagine if they tried to pull of an ending like this today.

RETURN THE MAP!

I wanted to buy tickets to Muse but I waited too long. Now I can either sit behind the stage or spend a zillion dollars for a reasonable seat.

Instead, I watched this DVD. I feel like maybe this got it out of my system.

Truly one of the most clever, fun and meta things I’ve ever read. The characters and the world are so rich, even though the story is very simple. Top 10 knows how to evoke just enough out of every cop, sci-fi and superhero film you’ve ever seen to zip its story along. You could go over these pages with a microscope and find easter eggs forever.

Good, it’s about time everyone realized they had a really interesting character in Dr. Phlox.

This is also a great episode for fans (intimations of the Prime Directive), this show (makes Archer a real force in canon) and is a damned pickle of a philosophical debate. Do you interrupt the natural evolution of a planet to save some lives?

Kirk would have found a way to do both.

Sometimes ships in space just want to shoot you. That’s all there is to it.

The team works together to build phase cannons and find out what Malcolm likes to eat.

Ah, yes, the Temporal Cold War from the pilot is back to confuse us again.

Not a bad episode, though.