Author: tiki god

Star Trek: First Contact: Directed by Jonathan Frakes. With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton. The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth’s first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed. I thought ‘Generations’ looked great in 4k, but holy moly ‘First Contact’ is absolutely gorgeous, with every single one of the space scenes looking better than nearly anything that Trek has put out since 1996. The soundtrack is still amazing and imho is the best soundtrack of the...

Star Trek: Generations: Directed by David Carson. With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton. With the help of long presumed dead Captain Kirk, Captain Picard must stop a deranged scientist willing to murder on a planetary scale in order to enter a space matrix. Finally in 4k and it’s worth every penny that I paid for the four movie set, especially with what’s going on with the Picard TV series this last week. This has always been a fun movie to watch, as it’s the last one with any TOS characters and the first one with any of...

Cocaine Bear: Directed by Elizabeth Banks. With Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Ray Liotta. An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine. “Based on the idea of a concept of a true story that someone overheard at a bar” is more true than “inspired by true events”. Sure, there was a bag of cocaine that a bear got into, but that bear was dead before anyone found it. “Cocaine Bear” is exactly the film you would expect it...

Dr. Strange: Directed by Philip DeGuere Jr.. With Peter Hooten, Clyde Kusatsu, Jessica Walter, Anne-Marie Martin. A psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past. It’s a made for TV that I believe was intended to be the pilot to a TV show, but it never got picked up. For the time it was released, this is a pretty solid fantasy story with all sorts of familiar elements that i’m sure modern audiences would recognize but not especially appreciate too much due to the budget and filming style. It’s...