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The Human Frontier: Sixty Years of Star Trek and the Art of Looking Inward
When the U.S.S. Enterprise first flickered across cathode-ray television sets in the US on September 8, 1966, I was only a year old. I had to wait until the BBC showed the series in the early 1970s, and I was hooked. I recall it started at 7.20pm and finished at 8.10pm. My bedtime was 8pm. You can imagine the pleadings of a young child who wanted to stay up to see the last ten minutes and to find out if Captain Kirk, Mr Spock, Dr. McCoy and the USS Enterprise would survive th

Denise Breen
57 minutes ago10 min read


No More Merry Men: Hugh Jackman Is Superb in the Gritty, Haunting The Death of Robin Hood
Rating: ★★★★☆ Director: Michael Sarnoski Starring: Hugh Jackman, Jodie Comer, Bill Skarsgård, Murray Bartlett Running Time: 122 minutes Let’s be honest: we’ve seen the Robin Hood story done to death. We all know the drill—green tights, cheeky grins, splitting arrows in two, and robbing the rich to give to the poor. It’s been done every which way, from Errol Flynn right down to Disney’s whistling fox. So when you hear someone’s making another one, the natural reaction is an ey

Denise Breen
1 day ago3 min read


'The Dog Stars': Ridley Scott’s apocalyptic journey cruises on craft, but runs low on fuel
Rating: ★★☆☆ ☆(2 out of 5 stars) Directed by: Ridley Scott Starring: Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin, Margaret Qualley, Allison Janney, Guy Pearce Runtime: 118 minutes There is a moment early in The Dog Stars, Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Peter Heller’s 2012 novel, where a vintage 1956 Cessna 182 banks cleanly over the ragged, desaturated spine of the Colorado wilderness. Captured with sweeping poise, the shot carries the effortless, widescreen authority that has defined Scott’s ci

Denise Breen
Aug 304 min read
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