StarTrek.com is saddened to report the passing of Sci-Fi and Star Trek legend Harlan Ellison. Ellison, who turned 84 just last month, died this morning, June 28, at his home in California, according to his wife, Susan. Ellison wrote countless books, novellas, short stories, scripts, think pieces and more, and he won every imaginable genre writing prize, including multiple Bram Stoker Awards, Hugo Awards, and Writers Guild of America Awards. His most-significant Star Trek contribution was, of course, his teleplay for the TOS episode, “The City on the Edge of Forever.”
I’m a member of MoviePass, though I’m considering dropping them with the poor customer support I’ve been getting and all the hoops they keep popping up (now I have to take pictures of my ticket stubs? yuck!)
She’s obviously not understanding that it was her ACTIVE racism that was the issue, and that it does not relate very well to Gunn’s past highly offensive comments that he’s repeatedly apologized for.
With the launch of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gene Roddenberry somehow managed to recapture lightning in a bottle. This new incarnation of Star Trek was an instant hit, and its popularity inspired four films and three spin-off television series. To commemorate the show’s 25th anniversary, Star Trek: The Next Generation 365 provides a fresh, accessible overview of the entire series, including an authorized guide to all 178 episodes. Featuring rarely seen and now-classic photography and illustrations, this visual celebration of the voyages of Captain Picard, his crew, and the Enterprise-D offers a loving look back at the Emmy and Hugo Award–winning series.
If you’re even remotely interested in the history of how Star Trek: The Next Generation came to be you should at least check out the free preview on the page, but for only $1.20, what do you have to lose?
Directed by Paul Feig. With Linda Cardellini, Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick, Rupert Friend. A SIMPLE FAVOR, directed by Paul Feig, centers around Stephanie (Anna Kendrick), a mommy blogger who seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily’s (Blake Lively) sudden disappearance from their small town.
Action-adventure family drama THE GIFTED, from Marvel, tells the story of a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive. Written by Matt Nix (APB, “Burn Notice”), directed by Bryan Singer (the “X-Men” franchise”) and executive-produced by Nix, Singer, Lauren Shuler Donner (“X-Men: Apocalypse,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “The Wolverine”), Simon Kinberg (“X-Men: Apocalypse,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past”), Jeph Loeb (“Marvel’s Daredevil,” “Marvel’s Jessica Jones”) and Jim Chory (“Marvel’s Daredevil,” “Marvel’s Jessica Jones”), the series stars Stephen Moyer (SHOTS FIRED, “True Blood”) and Amy Acker (“Person of Interest”).
From Emmy Award-winning executive producer and creator Seth MacFarlane (FAMILY GUY, “Ted”) and directed by Jon Favreau (“The Jungle Book,” “Iron Man”), THE ORVILLE is a one-hour science fiction series set 400 years in the future that follows the adventures of the U.S.S. Orville, a mid-level exploratory vessel. Its crew, both human and alien, faces the wonders and dangers of outer space, while also dealing with the familiar, often humorous problems of regular people in a workplace…even though some of those people are from other planets, and the workplace is a faster-than-light spaceship. In the 25th century, Earth is part of the Planetary Union, a far-reaching, advanced and mostly peaceful civilization with a fleet of 3,000 ships. Down on his luck after a bitter divorce, Planetary Union officer ED MERCER (MacFarlane) finally gets his chance to command one of these ships: the U.S.S. Orville. Determined to prove his worth and write a new chapter in his life, Ed finds that task all the more difficult when the First Officer assigned to his ship is his ex-wife, KELLY GRAYSON (Adrianne Palicki, “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” “Friday Night Lights”). As the new commander, Ed assembles a qualified, but eccentric crew, including his best friend, GORDON MALLOY (Scott Grimes, “ER,” “Justified”), who has problems with authority, but is the best helmsman in the fleet; DR. CLAIRE FINN (Penny Johnson Jerald, “24,” “The Larry Sanders Show”), one of the Union’s most accomplished physicians; BORTUS (Peter Macon, “Shameless,” “Bosch”), an alien from a single-sex species; ISAAC (Mark Jackson, “That Royal Today”), an artificial life-form from a machine society that thinks biological life-forms are inferior; navigator JOHN LAMARR (J. Lee, FAMILY GUY, “The Cleveland Show”), whose casual humor cuts through even the most dire situations; ALARA KITAN (Halston Sage, “Neighbors,” “Goosebumps”), a young, inexperienced security officer whose home planet’s high gravity gives her superior physical strength; and YAPHIT, a gelatinous creature voiced by comedian Norm Macdonald (“The Middle,” “Saturday Night Live”). Somehow, Ed and Kelly must put the past behind them and, with the help of the crew, navigate fascinating and sometimes dangerous adventures in outer space, as well as the tumultuous and captivating day-to-day personal relationships with their colleagues.
O’Shea Jackson Jr steals the show once again, as the only likable character in this entire film. It’s a great film with some pretty great firefights and plot developments, but all the characters are written in such a way to be so hateable that I was perfectly fine when people started getting shot in the 3rd act.
Quickly becoming my favorite of the MCU movies (watch out Iron Man 2!), it’s now on Netflix! I mean I own a copy on MoviesAnywhere, but it’s on Netflix too.
A fun movie that feels like it’s a little too late to capture the energy of the original movie that came out nearly 15 years ago. It was a fun but predictable story with fun and interesting superheroes.
This one is all about the sound!Julian Kwasneski started Bay Area Sound in the year 2000 after leaving LucasArts.
Julian and/or Bay Area Sound has worked on sound in nearly all of the Telltale Games projects
, nearly a dozen Star Wars games, Firewatch, and so many more.
Throughout our chat, you’ll hear sounds he made for Star Wars games, ambiences for Firewatch, and some field recordings he did at his brother-in-law’s winery.
Build your own U.S.S. Enterprise with this IncrediBuilds: Star Trek model kit, featuring a full-color book with facts and trivia on one of the most iconic starships in pop culture history.
Get ready to boldly go where no one has gone before with this exciting Star Trek wood model set. The deluxe 32-page hardcover book is packed with information on the U.S.S. Enterprise, from its basic capabilities to its pivotal role in the Star Trek universe. Complete with stunning imagery and behind-the-scenes content, this book and model set is a must have for any Star Trek fan. The wood model is easy to assemble and snaps together to form a dynamic, displayable 3D version of the Enterprise that fans will love.
Here’s the book’s synopsis if you needed reminding:
Gallop around the cosmos and celebrate the legacy of one of the most iconic and beloved sci-fi franchises with Star Trek: The Official Poster Collection.
In 1966, Star Trek dared to boldly go where no man had gone before, launching one of the one of the most beloved and longest-running sci-fi franchises of all time. This official poster collection includes 32 removable posters featuring imagery from the iconic series and movies. Now fans can proudly display images of their favorite characters across the franchise, such as Captain James T. Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Worf, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, and more!
Here’s the book’s synopsis if you needed reminding:
Lieutenant Saru is a Kelpien, a member of a prey species born on a world overrun by monstrous predators…and a being who very intimately understands the nature of fear. Challenged on all sides, he is determined to surpass his origins and succeed as a Starfleet officer aboard the U.S.S. Shenzhou. But when Saru breaks protocol in order to prove himself to his crewmates, what begins as a vital rescue mission to save a vessel in distress soon escalates out of control. Forced into a command role he may not be ready for, Saru is caught between his duty and the conflicting agendas of two antagonistic alien races. To survive, he will need to seek a path of peace against all odds, and risk compromising the very ideals he has sworn to uphold….
Going to spoil this movie, it’s been out for 60 years, so if you haven’t seen it yet and don’t want to be spoiled, stop here.
The “monster” is an atomic powered snail that gets all angsty, gets killed by a sailor, then it’s kids go on a killing rampage in one small town. There’s more than one of them and they never leave that one zip code, so the title of the movie is a completely lie.
If you can get past such a brutal truth, you’ll find this to be a fun creature feature with some fun set pieces.
For a series of 1991 video games, this is one polished collection! The games themselves are simple and not all that great, but the loading “room” for the three games is damn nice.
This is the first time I’ve done an official previews order for comic books, where I went through their entire catelog of bullshit they’re selling and pick out what I’m interested in and give it to the local comic shop (LCS), who adds it all to a spread sheet, then manually go through the Diamond website and orders all the shit. It’s one of the most backwards ass systems that I’ve personally used. There’s talk about a modernized system coming “soon” where you just log into the Previews site and select what you want, then 60 days later it shows up at your LCS, but who knows when and if that system will ever be delivered.
This is an enjoyable movie, just as long as you know next to nothing about the Star Wars universe. If you do, boy howdy are there are some problems going on here that were started as small problems in The Force Awakens and only get worse in this sequel. The problems I had with TLJ:
Way too short of a time period being covered in the movie, it’s only about 72 hours of actual in universe time from the moment Rey meets Luke to the confrontation on the red dust planet.
Now they’re concerned about fuel? Why now? Also, what happened to the rest of the Galactic fleet? Where’s the New Republic?
The entire side adventure with Rose and Finn is dumb dumb dumb and only serves to distract from the main story that’s going on.
Kirk Hamilton is the Editor-At-Large for Kotaku.com, and he’s always been a huge fan of music in games. He studied jazz at the University of Miami, and ended up out in the Bay Area being a saxophonist for a while and teaching music. I’ve always enjoyed talking with Kirk about game music, so I asked him on to talk about what some of his more recent favorites are lately.
Patrons, you’ll have access to a bonus clip of Kirk and I talking about playing Destiny 2, which was a lot newer when we spoke last year.
Kirk is great – I’m glad he loves game music so much
PLAYLIST:
“Riding (Day)” from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildby Manaka Kataoka and Yasuaki Iwata
“Blood of Villain” from Persona 5 by Shoji Meguro
“Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There” from Persona 5 by Shoji Meguro
“Alleycat” from Persona 5 by Shoji Meguro
“Introduction” from Cuphead by Kristofer Maddigan
“Carnival Kerfuffle” from Cuphead by Kristofer Maddigan
“March” from Inside by Martin Stig Andersen
“Shockwave” from Inside by Martin Stig Andersen
“Submarine” from Inside by Martin Stig Andersen
“Online Lobby (Ika Jamaica 2)” from Splatoon 2 by Toru Minegishi and Shiho Fujii
“Inkoming! Testfire Version” from Splatoon 2 by Toru Minegishi and Shiho Fujii
“Ebb & Flow (Off the Hook) Splatfest Battle Theme” from Splatoon 2 by Toru Minegishi and Shiho Fujii
“Once Upon a Time” from Undertale by Toby Fox
“Here We Are” from Undertale by Toby Fox
“Memory” from Undertale by Toby Fox
“Fallen Down” from Undertale by Toby Fox
“Main Theme” from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildby Manaka Kataoka and Yasuaki Iwata
“Guardian Battle” from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild by Manaka Kataoka and Yasuaki Iwata
“Riding (Day)” from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildby Manaka Kataoka and Yasuaki Iwata
“Riding (Night)” from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildby Manaka Kataoka and Yasuaki Iwata
“Kakariko Village (Day)” from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild by Manaka Kataoka and Yasuaki Iwata
“Rivers in the Desert” from Persona 5 by Shoji Meguro
“Gamer Press Theme” by Samuel Keenan
A dark dark comedy about fortune, fame, social media, and how people try to capture all three buy leveraging what little they have. It gets pretty dark at the end, but it was an enjoyable journey.
Utterly enjoyable blaxploitation film starring Pam Grier, it went places I didn’t think it would and she ended up being much more of a hero character than I initially thought.
Found a UV code for like $3, so hell yeah, godzilla got watched. I wasn’t posting about watched movies when this came out in 2014, but I remember feeling like they wasted Brian Cranston’s great acting potential by doing what they done did do to him here, but now that we’ve had a longer time from how excellent Breaking Bad was, I think it was a good decision to not make him the primary focus of the film. There were also a few complaints back in ’14 about how the film didn’t immediately focus on the giant monsters, but that’s another decision that definitely worked out for the better.
It’s been over 3 years since we saw Godzilla, here’s hoping the upcoming quasi sequel will hold up to this first one, I really enjoyed it!
This is the same exact movie by the same director of Aurora, it’s not the first time I’ve seen a movie remade with a larger budget, but it’s weird there was only a year between the two releases. This is a great movie with well traveled story points, it moves incredibly slowly and the budget seems haphazardly spent on just John Cusack and the last 10 minutes of special effects. By all means, do not spend too much to watch this, but it was a fun low budget ride that I suggest you take if you’re like me and are a fan of Singularity stories.
Directed by Paul Feig. With Linda Cardellini, Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick, Rupert Friend. A SIMPLE FAVOR, directed by Paul Feig, centers around Stephanie (Anna Kendrick), a mommy blogger who seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily’s (Blake Lively) sudden disappearance from their small town.
In 1993, a teenage girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center by her conservative guardians.
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From Emmy Award-winning executive producer and creator Seth MacFarlane (FAMILY GUY, “Ted”) and directed by Jon Favreau (“The Jungle Book,” “Iron Man”), THE ORVILLE is a one-hour science fiction series set 400 years in the future that follows the adventures of the U.S.S. Orville, a mid-level exploratory vessel. Its crew, both human and alien, faces the wonders and dangers of outer space, while also dealing with the familiar, often humorous problems of regular people in a workplace…even though some of those people are from other planets, and the workplace is a faster-than-light spaceship. In the 25th century, Earth is part of the Planetary Union, a far-reaching, advanced and mostly peaceful civilization with a fleet of 3,000 ships. Down on his luck after a bitter divorce, Planetary Union officer ED MERCER (MacFarlane) finally gets his chance to command one of these ships: the U.S.S. Orville. Determined to prove his worth and write a new chapter in his life, Ed finds that task all the more difficult when the First Officer assigned to his ship is his ex-wife, KELLY GRAYSON (Adrianne Palicki, “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” “Friday Night Lights”). As the new commander, Ed assembles a qualified, but eccentric crew, including his best friend, GORDON MALLOY (Scott Grimes, “ER,” “Justified”), who has problems with authority, but is the best helmsman in the fleet; DR. CLAIRE FINN (Penny Johnson Jerald, “24,” “The Larry Sanders Show”), one of the Union’s most accomplished physicians; BORTUS (Peter Macon, “Shameless,” “Bosch”), an alien from a single-sex species; ISAAC (Mark Jackson, “That Royal Today”), an artificial life-form from a machine society that thinks biological life-forms are inferior; navigator JOHN LAMARR (J. Lee, FAMILY GUY, “The Cleveland Show”), whose casual humor cuts through even the most dire situations; ALARA KITAN (Halston Sage, “Neighbors,” “Goosebumps”), a young, inexperienced security officer whose home planet’s high gravity gives her superior physical strength; and YAPHIT, a gelatinous creature voiced by comedian Norm Macdonald (“The Middle,” “Saturday Night Live”). Somehow, Ed and Kelly must put the past behind them and, with the help of the crew, navigate fascinating and sometimes dangerous adventures in outer space, as well as the tumultuous and captivating day-to-day personal relationships with their colleagues.
