ChrisPine-related stories
Posted Jul 24th 2009 9:29AM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Celebrities, Reality-Free, Comic-Con
A Thursday panel at Comic-Con International announced a new animated project about space that packs a stellar voice cast.
TV stars like William Shatner, Brent Spiner and Mark Hamill will join movie big shots like Chris Pine, Samuel L. Jackson and James Earl Jones in
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey.
Producer -- Dr. Larry "Doc" Kloor (scientist science fiction writer and the only human in history to earn two doctorates simultaneously) -- led the panel with special guests Bob Picardo, Doug Jones and a call-in by Pine.
According to Kloor, Pine plays Dave -- "a photon who lives in Sun City, at the core of the Sun. He's forced from the Sun and drawn into an epic battle between The Core (Shatner -- right) and The Void -- the embodiment of nothingness (Hamill)."
Continue reading TV, movie stars lend voices to Quantum Quest - Comic-Con Report
Posted May 12th 2009 7:00PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series
Over at ComicMix, Alan Kistler has
written annotations for the new Star Trek movie and how well it fits into the overall continuity of the show. It's a pretty impressive list and does prove that despite the blatant contradiction of the show's history as a result of time travel, they were actually pretty good with getting the details of the characters correct.
Spoilers follow this paragraph. You have been warned.
Continue reading Everything you didn't want to know about the Star Trek movie
Posted May 10th 2009 3:32PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Saturday Night Live, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S34E22) Justin Timberlake returned for his third turn as host and it was tough not to keep expectations pretty high. I mean, if an vengeful warlock were to suddenly put a crippling curse on his music career (like they do), Timberlake could definitely fall back on being a professional
SNL host. Yes, this would become a real profession, just for him.
As usual, some sketches fell a bit flat, but Timberlake's over-confident, hammy swagger made things a little more interesting. This particular episode also gave us another legendary musical Digital Short with Timberlake and Andy Samberg and a couple of all-around MILFs. It's tough to top a surprise appearance by Leonard effin' Nimoy, but "Motherlover" was certainly the highlight of the evening. Here are some other notable video moments!
Continue reading Saturday Night Live: Justin Timberlake/Ciara
Posted May 8th 2009 10:02AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on the Bigscreen, Reality-Free
I'm not the kind of person who normally resorts to pumping something full of hype, but if you are reading this and haven't seen the new big-screen adaptation of
Star Trek, you need to be tied to something heavy so that "certain" people can know your whereabouts at all times.
J.J. Abrams' new vision of TV's original
Star Trek has everything you expect from a summer movie flick that costs $150 million to make and $8.25 a ticket: laughs, big explosions, smokin' hot alien babes who spend the majority of their screen time in skimpy underwear.
Continue reading New Star Trek kicks the ass of every other Star Trek
Posted Oct 16th 2008 10:52AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series
Some images are up at EW.com
for the new Star Trek movie starring Chris Pine as Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock. There are also some interviews in the along with an article pushing the revamp of the franchise.
It was a mistake pushing the release of the movie from Christmas Day 2008 to May 2009. This sort of movie would do much better in a December release. Now
Star Trek will simply be another movie among all the other summer tentpoles.
In the article, J.J. Abrams describes himself more of a
Star Wars fan than a
Star Trek fan and that may be reflected in the movie. I'm ambivalent about that idea. On one hand,
Star Trek always seemed more a thinking person's franchise whereas Star Wars was always about fights, chases and space explosions. On the other hand, fights, chases and explosions seem to be more popular in sci-fi movies than cogitative fiction.
Star Trek: Enterprise didn't work so well as a prequel. Let's see if this movie does better.
Posted Jun 10th 2008 1:06PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Boston Legal, Celebrities, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series
To many people, William Shatner is a beloved TV icon. To others, he's a shameless self-promoter, a commercial pitchman for everything from margarine to hotel rooms. Few feel neutral about Shatner, so this story may come as something of a surprise. William Shatner rarely watches himself on TV and film. Like a lot of actors, when he works, he's in the moment and doesn't go back and study what he did and why. It's been working for him. As Denny Crane on
Boston Legal, he's won two Emmys in the last three years.
Continue reading William Shatner says Captain Kirk was a good hero
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