February 26th, 2004 at 2:31 pm (Trek Talk)
The Next Generation cast from the third season
Good news for Star Trek fans. After a short hiatus and due to popular demand the Trek Talk Star Trek TNG reviews are back on the Film Roar menu. The reviews start again today with a review of the season 3 episode The Price and will continue to get updated in the upcoming weeks with many more reviews from the third and later seasons.
February 26th, 2004 at 11:16 am (Trek Talk)
The Price is an episode that is evocative of the later seasons of Next Generation where the Federation is not the all-powerful entity in charge and not everything goes their way. We get to see the effects of a not-as powerful civilization, the Barzan, having to manage negotiations with the Federation and other alliances as they leverage their natural resources to secure their place in the galaxy. The episode also shows the Ferengi in their new role as formidable business opponents and establishes the importance of wormholes for inter-stellar travel, both show concepts that will become important in the next Star Trek series, Deep Space 9. Matt McCoy does a great job as Devinoni Ral proving that Betazoids need not be annoying.
February 25th, 2004 at 2:23 pm (2 - Just OK)
One of the challenges I encountered from watching The Saddest Music in the World (2003) was wonering ‘how am I going to describe this to people’. Try as I may I could not come up with a coherent description that would begin to do the film justice. Fortunately for me someone more eloquent than me wrote an excellent synopsis at www.rottentomatoes.com though the description does not relate (is there a way to relate?) the surrealistic look of the movie. The greatest challenge though was maintaining some semblance of willing suspension of disbelief as one outrageous premise was laid atop another. If you can sit through the rather uninteresting melodrama you will be rewarded with a rich aesthetic and a unique movie. Truly unlike any movie I have seen before.
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February 19th, 2004 at 9:42 am (1 - Pretty bad)
After watching Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) from a library borrowed DVD I am so glad I did not waste any money to see it in a theater. I came to the movie without any high hopes but what I got was definitely worse than what I expected. The crap story the movie spoon fed us is an insult to the well-written B movie original and the special effects extravaganza sequel. The jokes are recycled from the first two movies and not at all funny, even the effects are anything but special. To anyone curious enough to want to see this movie I suggest you save both your money and your time and go watch either of the two over instead, you will be glad you did.
February 17th, 2004 at 10:01 am (1 - Pretty bad)
After a recent re-watching of the very enjoyable Christopher Guest mockumentary Best in Show (2000) I realized that while I know the name I could not place actress Parker Posey in any other movies. A quick search on the IMDB showed that I had only seen one other movie with her, The House of Yes (1997) in a tough role that she totally nailed. I thought it was serendipity then when I cam across a DVD of Party Girl (1995) at my local library and brought the copy home eager to see what else Posey was capable of. Now, I think Posey was probably doing the best with what she was given, but unfortunately that was not much. In Party Girl Posey plays Mary, a young New York free spirit trying to find her place in the world. The resulting character is an unlikable drunkard who goes from one bad situation to another never really growing or dong anything very interesting. Posey never manages to infuse her character with the charisma to make us care about what happens to her making the movie a rather pointless and confused mess. I think the movie was supposed to be a comedy but it unfortunately is not funny. I do hope Posey has better works in her repertoire because Party Girl is a flick to be avoided.
February 16th, 2004 at 9:34 am (Movie News)
Well it’s official, WB has cancelled Angel in it’s fifth season. Series creator Joss Whedon has been given notice that the remaining eight episodes of the show will be the last produced so any story arcs he wants to wrap up need to be taken care of now. In a reaction to the news Whedon posted at The Bronze that his heart is breaking and urged fans to mount a campaign to keep the show on the air either on the WB, UPN or any other network that will take it.
I just started watching season 2 of the show and so far it has failed to really engage me. If my experience with Buffy is any indication though once I watch another season I will probably be most upset that the series has been cut short.
In related news while looking for an IMDB link to Whedon I noticed the database lists Firefly (2004) as being in pre-production. I do not know what form the movie will take (Theatrical? Made for TV? Miniseries?) but it does seem to be a continuation of the very short lived TV show Firefly (2002).
February 13th, 2004 at 11:38 am (TV News)
Good news for all who enjoyed the recent revival of Battlestar Galactica (2003). It is now official that the show has been picked up by the SciFi channel. Here is what SciFi has to say in their release:
SCI FI Channel has greenlit production on the Battlestar Galactica franchise as a new original weekly series. Based on the top-rated December miniseries event of the same name, the one-hour drama is slated to begin production on 13 episodes in Vancouver next month.
All principal cast from the mini will reprise their roles for the series, including Edward James Olmos (Commander Adama), Mary McDonnell (President Laura Roslin), Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck) and Tricia Helfer (Number Six), among others.