The Dead Rising Double Feature

I’m always dubious about movies made from videogames. Make that a zombie videogame, and it redoubles my doubt. Zombies have become a cultural metaphor made to represent so many disparate things that their significance has been diluted by over-saturation via distinct media: movies, videogames, books, even music (the Cranberries, Nightcore, The Misfits, Blue Oyster Cult). […]

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Reading Sanctum #10

The Ashes of Eden is a novel told by William Shatner, but ghost written by the husband and wife writing team of Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. Having read much of their work independent of Shatner, I like them as a team. They have captured perfectly Captain Kirk/Shatner’s voice. So, although William Shatner is given sole […]

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STAR TREK First Frontier

The Stars Are Not That Far STAR TREK FIRST FRONTIER STAR TREK FIRST FRONTIER (2020) is an American Star Trek fan film directed by Kenneth Smith and written by Keith Brooks, Chad Dowdy, Kenneth Smith, and Harold Stafford. It stars Robert Pralgo, Tara Ochs, Brianna Ferris, and Barry Corbin. It tells the story of the […]

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My Newest Reason to Love Netflix

I LOVE Netflix. I come from a generation where we had to wait for Star Trek marathons to watch episodes of the series back to back. But even then, you only got to see the most popular episodes. To watch Spock’s Brain (one of the worst, universally despised episodes) you had to wade through 3 […]

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