I have a strange relationship with Star Trek. I never watched the shows growing up, as they struck me as silly and boring. I did see the first four features in the theater when they came out, especially enjoying Star Trek IV: The One With The Whales. Then I wound up art directing Paramount's official Star Trek site for four… read more!

I'm trying to think of what was so great about J.J. Abrams' 2009 Star Trek reboot. Its newness, I suppose. New faces in the cast, some of them perfectly aping the old ones (in particular Zachary Quinto as Spock and Karl Urban as McCoy), new set design, new energy. And it was nice to see a Star Trek movie that… read more!

Like many little boys, I worshipped Star Wars when it first came out. In that pre-VHS era, the movie played at our local blockbuster palace (San Jose's late lamented Century 22) for over a year, allowing me to catch it at least ten times on the big screen – and that was even before the re-releases. (This was nothing; several classmates boasted of… read more!

The opening crawl for this, the final act in the world's longest space opera, begins with a declaration worthy of the National Enquirer: "The dead speak!" It's a reference to the film's unlikely return of Emperor Palpatine, the Big Bad in half of the first eight Star Wars installments. That he survived after being hurled into the core of the… read more!

It's the summer of 1979, and a group of aspiring filmmakers just out of middle school are shooting a zombie movie around their home of Lillian, Ohio when they witness a horrific train crash. They soon discover that the crash was intentionally caused by their old science teacher, that the incident involved an Air Force train carrying dangerous cargo, and… read more!