While researching my next 9/11 blog post—about the many anomalies of the planes on September 11, 2001—I went through the recovered forum threads for the now-defunct website of Pilots for 9/11 Truth. In doing so, I learned, for the first time, of a 2012 movie about 9/11 that I’d never…| James Perloff
The story so far: Wes Craven’s original A Nightmare On Elm Street craftily blended the techniques and tropes of the slasher movie as developed by Halloween, Friday the 13th, and a tidal wave of imitators, and then added a gleefully surreal twist to proceedings by having the danger reside not in the waking world but … Continue reading Wes Craven’s Nightmares Old and New – Part 2| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh), the one from the mainline universe at least, was a hero of Starfleet; as the captain of the USS Shenzhou, she was an important mentor to Michael Burnham, who over the course of five seasons of Discovery would become the most important woman in the universe. Naturally, such a significant figure … Continue reading Jesus Fucking Christ, What Is Wrong With the Section 31 Movie?| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
It’s been a difficult time for Starfleet, but now that the Enterprise-E has defeated the Borg Queen’s plan to assimilate Earth and the tide has begun to turn in the Dominion War, Picard and his crew have been able to turn their skills to the sort of mixture of diplomacy and research we saw them … Continue reading Star Trek: Insurrection – Or, The Next Generation’s Reheated Leftovers| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: with the withdrawal of Cardassian forces from Bajor, the Federation took over the Cardassian space station known as Terek Nor and renamed it Deep Space 9. As the command crew deal…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The history of the bundle of neopagan movements known as “Wicca” is contentious. Almost as soon as it hit the public consciousness in the 1950s, it splintered, these schisms and off-sho…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
After spending its early seasons going through growing pains under Michael Piller’s watch, in its third season Deep Space Nine was given into the care of Ira Steven Behr, who spent that perio…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: after a strong but truncated first season, Voyager went astray a little in its second season, largely because of an excessive reliance on Kazon plot which just didn’t pan ou…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Years ago at the Battle of Wolf 359, Starfleet was tested to its limit against the Borg, not least because they had successfully abducted and assimilated none other than Jean-Luc Picard. As Locutus…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: after spending its first two seasons under the stewardship of Michael Piller, Deep Space Nine spent its third season shifting gear, new showrunner Ira Steven Behr swiftly making h…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) is a banker gradually sliding towards retirement. His career has been successful, his marriage to his wife Emily (Frances Reid) is polite but not passionate, his sol…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
(Note: all images in this post are in the public domain.) Without even going into the well-known degradations of modern Hollywood, I have written about the past politicization of the Academy Awards—for example, the shunning of It’s a Wonderful Life for “Best Picture” of 1946 in favor of the politicized The Best Years of Our […]| James Perloff
It is the 1st Century BC; the Roman Republic’s slide into dictatorship and Empire is gathering apace, driven not by Julius Caesar (John Gavin), who is as yet a young patrician still making a …| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Welcome to the Summer of Cyberpunk! Over August I’m going to be reviewing a few choice movies from the 1990s boom in cyberpunk-influenced cinema. Sure, Blade Runner in 1982 might have inaugur…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
To what extent can you call Andrei Tarkovsky the Soviet answer to Stanley Kubrick? Both of them did their most acclaimed work from the 1960s to 1980s, both of them created technically polished film…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
OK, first off a bit of housekeeping about Season/Series numbering. The first full Ncuti Gatwa-fronted season of Doctor Who is being marketed as “Season One” (the word I hear is that Dis…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Time for the second half of my look at Stanley Kubrick’s mature output as a director – defined as his output post-Spartacus, when he’d become a big enough deal in Hollywood that h…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy