Star Trek: Picard (2020-2023) Review
Star Trek: Picard rates 1 for its first two seasons and at most a 5 for its third. Awful from front to back. The first two have nothing in them worth defending, and the third, which almost everybody else rates…
Patrick Stewart spent decades with the Royal Shakespeare Company before Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the casting of a bald English classical actor as a starship captain was widely considered a mistake at the time.
Picard became the definitive version of the role, and the four subsequent films plus a later series extended it across thirty-five years.
Professor X across the X-Men films gave him a second franchise, and Logan gave him the best of both, playing the character in physical and mental collapse.
He has continued to work in Shakespeare throughout, played Macbeth and Prospero on stage, and is unexpectedly funny in American Dad and Ted.
Brent SpinerStar Trek: Picard rates 1 for its first two seasons and at most a 5 for its third. Awful from front to back. The first two have nothing in them worth defending, and the third, which almost everybody else rates…
Brent SpinerStar Trek: The Next Generation rates 6 to 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A hundred and seventy-six episodes with a ceiling higher than almost any television of its era and a floor that includes the most embarrassing…
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Ciaran HindsNicholas Clay plays Lancelot. What makes the film unusual is that Boorman shoots the legend as the legend instead of as a historical drama.
Brian BlessedThe production budget was approximately three hundred thousand pounds, which was modest even by 1976 BBC standards. Herbert Wise directed all twelve episodes.
Anna PaquinBryan Singer's foundation of modern superhero cinema. Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman's debut.
Benedict CumberbatchSam Raimi brought specific horror-genre filmmaking sensibility to the production. Stephen Strange has been navigating the consequences of the multiverse opening that the Spider-Man: No Way Home spells produced.
Alice KrigeFirst Contact is the best Star Trek film after Wrath of Khan, and that's a significant statement given how many entries the franchise has produced. What separates it from the rest is a structural decision that most franchise filmmaking refuses…
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