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The Enterprise-D Crew embarks on a new five-part adventure in this fantastic hardback book brought to you by the Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection!Published one year after IDW’s STAR TREK: TNG: The Space Between, the creators of Klingons: Blood Will Tell deliver brand new TNG missions.Follo I didn’t enjoy this story as much as I had hoped I would, the four separate storylines that all culminated in a transdimensional rift alien confrontation just felt weird when I looked at the details too closely. From the Tardis holodeck to the seemingly unrelated assassinations, how did these all end up being planned by a Romulan that knew he might need...
The Greatest Beer Run Ever: Directed by Peter Farrelly. With Zac Efron, Russell Crowe, Jake Picking, Kyle Allen. A man’s story of leaving New York in 1967 to bring beer to his childhood buddies in the Army while they are fighting in Vietnam. We all knew that this film was going to end up being a navel gazing look into America’s involvement in Vietnam, right? That’s exactly what it is, but I’m happy to report that even though ‘War is Bad’ this is still a good movie that seems to be loosely based on a true story. He does seem...
The Menu: Directed by Mark Mylod. With Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau. A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises. Oh it’s a mockery of the stuck up foodies and food bros that inhabit nearly every restaurant you’ve ever been to that’s required a dress code of some sort. Anya Tyalor-Joy is fantastic as always, with Nicholas Hoult and Ralph Fiennes doing a fantastic job as brining her character to the forefront of the film. I actually watched The...
Elektra Luxx: Directed by Sebastian Gutierrez. With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Carla Gugino, Ermahn Ospina, Jake Hames. Life for porn actress Elektra Luxx gets turned upside down when she finds out she’s pregnant. Picks right up where the previous film ended and continues to be an engaging and entertaining cast of interesting people doing interesting things. Buy On Amazon!
Women in Trouble: Directed by Sebastian Gutierrez. With Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki, Dan Mailley, Connie Britton. A serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly desperate women: a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender, a pair of call girls, an actress, a masseuse. All of them with one crucial thing in common. Trouble. I knew what I was in for, but I wasn’t expecting Adrianne Palicki to openly say “I really want to eat your pussy.” while playing a porn star who has issues with cars backing into her and some PTSD from a self...
The Final Countdown: Directed by Don Taylor. With Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino. A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. This has been on my watch list since it came out in 1980, but I never got around to watching it for various reasons (or maybe I did and I’ve just forgotten?), but watching it now, I realize that it’s just a tease of a better film, but set to some exceptionally patriotic backdrops of a 1980’s aircraft carrier and some pretty...
Rat Race: Directed by Jerry Zucker. With Breckin Meyer, Jenica Bergere, Cuba Gooding Jr., Carrie Diamond. A Las Vegas casino magnate, determined to find a new avenue for wagering, sets up a race for money. This was free on one of the 70 streaming services I have on my roku and I just can’t remember which one it was. I only put it on because I had fond memories of how wacky it was, and truly, it’s a wacky movie about people in a race to get some dollars, all while the obscenely rich bet on various aspects of their...
Dear Dead Delilah: Directed by John Farris. With Agnes Moorehead, Will Geer, Michael Ansara, Dennis Patrick. A sickly matriarch of a dysfunctional family living in an old Southern mansion teases her siblings about finding a long lost treasure hidden in the premises, little did she know that there is someone ready to kill to get their hands on it. It’s a low budget slasher with a nice story element to it, I appreciated the minor twist towards the end, which really subverted my expectations from the genre. Buy On Amazon!
Tulsa King: Created by Taylor Sheridan. With Sylvester Stallone, Andrea Savage, Martin Starr, Jay Will. Following his release from prison, Mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi is exiled to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he builds a new criminal empire with a group of unlikely characters. All the big movie stars are moving from the silver screen to the boob tube and Sly’s move has been one of the better ones. It’s essentially a wise guy fish out of water type of story, just that this wise guy isn’t really all that fishy at all and is actually pretty smart about the...
Delve deeper into the world of Star Trek with special one-shot stories focusing on the memorable alien species! At no point in any of the solicitations for this book did they mention it was a reprint of three books: Star Trek: Klingons Star Trek: Trill Star Trek: Ferengi All three of these are great stories that I haven’t read before, but I think I would have preferred reading them in floppy form instead of a omnibus collection. None of the stories are related to each other in any way, with different writers, story styles, art styles, or even story purpose....
