I shall say some nice things:

• I enjoyed the designs of the dress uniforms and some of the civilian clothes. They pleasantly reminded me of the uniforms from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and that's not something I ever thought I'd have cause to say.
• There was one moment, right near the end when Kirk was in a hospital bed and looking slightly ( Read more... )

Over the weekend, I saw a Thai martial arts movie called "Chocolate", about a young autistic woman who learns martial arts from watching Bruce Lee films and the Muay Thai dojo next door. The next most important thing about it is that there are no wires and no stunt doubles. It's a lot of excellent ass-kicking front-loaded and lightly covered by a ( Read more... )

There is a movie that you all must see. It is called The Fall; it's the most engaging and emotionally affecting movie I've seen in years. It does fascinating things with storytelling and viewpoint. It also, at times, conjures in me more of a feeling of dread (in the Orson Scott Card sense) than I can remember any movie doing before, although I ( Read more... )