When reading actor Brian Cox's memoir "Putting the Rabbit in the Hat," I was disappointed that he didn't mention his work on David Fincher's superlative "Zodiac." Throughout the book, Cox shows no reluctance to burn bridges, and given his ribbing of "Succession" co-star Jeremy Strong's method acting, I was eager to see if he'd have similar words about Fincher's infamous perfectionism. Alas, no such stories exist.
True to its title, the 2007 "Zodiac" film is about the Zodiac killer, the still unidentified murderer who left Northern California quaking with fear as the 1960s closed. The film spans the 1960s to 1980s (with an epilogue in 1991), focusing on the killings and then Robert Graysmith's (Jake Gyllenhaal) investigation years later.
One of the movie's earlier sequences recreates an episode from October 22, 1969. Someone claiming to be the Zodiac said he would dial into Jim Dunbar's Kgo-tv (local to...
True to its title, the 2007 "Zodiac" film is about the Zodiac killer, the still unidentified murderer who left Northern California quaking with fear as the 1960s closed. The film spans the 1960s to 1980s (with an epilogue in 1991), focusing on the killings and then Robert Graysmith's (Jake Gyllenhaal) investigation years later.
One of the movie's earlier sequences recreates an episode from October 22, 1969. Someone claiming to be the Zodiac said he would dial into Jim Dunbar's Kgo-tv (local to...
- 12/31/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
While many longtime fans might be turning their attention toward the newly-announced Picard or the upcoming third season of Discovery, it’s impossible to deny just how important Star Trek: The Original Series was. The iconic ’60s show that kicked off one of the world’s greatest franchises might not have aged as well as its contemporaries, but it’s hard to ignore the influence it’s had on the sci-fi genre as a whole.
Of course, while most of the other shows in the franchise saw lengthy runs – even Enterprise, for its many mistakes, saw four seasons – The Original Series only aired from 1966 to 1969, with less than 80 episodes under its belt. This begs the question: how did one of the world’s most iconic shows end up getting canceled after a mere three seasons?
As ScreenRant notes, when it first debuted, Star Trek: The Original Series was met with middling reviews and ratings.
Of course, while most of the other shows in the franchise saw lengthy runs – even Enterprise, for its many mistakes, saw four seasons – The Original Series only aired from 1966 to 1969, with less than 80 episodes under its belt. This begs the question: how did one of the world’s most iconic shows end up getting canceled after a mere three seasons?
As ScreenRant notes, when it first debuted, Star Trek: The Original Series was met with middling reviews and ratings.
- 5/21/2019
- by Shaan Joshi
- We Got This Covered
Star Trek is probably the most successful science fiction franchise of all time spanning six decades of science fiction storytelling. In this series, I will be looking at the highlights of all the past episodes from each season of all five TV shows that went before leading up to the new series Star Trek: Discovery that will be airing in the fall of 2017.
Star Trek: The Original Series – Season 3
Development
As Season 2 was airing the last few episodes of the season, NBC had decided to not to renew the Star Trek for a third year due to low ratings, but a group of fans decided to start a letter-writing campaign to get the show renewed for a third season. NBC had thousands of letters coming through the post, so much so that they announced they had, finally, renewed the series for a third season.
Many changes were made during the...
Star Trek: The Original Series – Season 3
Development
As Season 2 was airing the last few episodes of the season, NBC had decided to not to renew the Star Trek for a third year due to low ratings, but a group of fans decided to start a letter-writing campaign to get the show renewed for a third season. NBC had thousands of letters coming through the post, so much so that they announced they had, finally, renewed the series for a third season.
Many changes were made during the...
- 7/6/2017
- by James Morrell
- Nerdly
Bernard Herrmann music + weird landscapes = Nirvana. This big-star western tale has an unbreakable story but terrible dialogue and weak characters... yet for fans of adventure filmmaking it's a legend, thanks to a thunderous Bernard Herrmann music score that transforms dozens of uncanny, real Mexican locations into something other-worldly. Garden of Evil Blu-ray Twilight Time Limited Edition 1954 / Color / 2:55 widescreen / 100 min. / Ship Date May 10, 2016 / available through Twilight Time Movies / 29.95 Starring Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark, Hugh Marlowe, Cameron Mitchell, Rita Moreno, Víctor Manuel Mendoza. Cinematography Milton R. Krasner, Jorge Stahl Jr. Art Direction Edward Fitzgerald, Lyle Wheeler Film Editor James B. Clark Original Music Bernard Herrmann Special Effects Ray Kellogg Written by Frank Fenton, Fred Freiberger, William Tunberg Produced by Charles Brackett Directed by Henry Hathaway
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
"The Garden of Evil. If the world was made of gold, I guess men would die for a handful of dirt.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
"The Garden of Evil. If the world was made of gold, I guess men would die for a handful of dirt.
- 5/14/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The Star Trek franchise will be 50 years old this September. It’s one of the most popular and enduring of all TV and film franchises, still going strong nearly 50 years after its debut in 1966. A third film of the rebooted series is in the works. Cinelinx looks at the ever-popular sci-fi property as it warps into its 50th year.
Star Trek, a show that didn’t do very well in the ratings when it first debuted, has become a multi-media monster. It has gone from television to cartoons, novels, comic books, video games and films. Many of the character names have become an iconic part of pop-culture. The real-life space shuttle Enterprise was named in honor of the space vessel from Star Trek. The whole concept of the sci-fi convention was begun by the fan-created ‘Trek’ conventions of the early seventies. Few franchises can claim to have had the impact...
Star Trek, a show that didn’t do very well in the ratings when it first debuted, has become a multi-media monster. It has gone from television to cartoons, novels, comic books, video games and films. Many of the character names have become an iconic part of pop-culture. The real-life space shuttle Enterprise was named in honor of the space vessel from Star Trek. The whole concept of the sci-fi convention was begun by the fan-created ‘Trek’ conventions of the early seventies. Few franchises can claim to have had the impact...
- 1/10/2016
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Rob Young)
- Cinelinx
I'll trade you two RKOs for two Warners', an even swap! This quartet of movie-magic wonderments offer a full course on old-school film effects wizardry at its best. Willis O'Brien passes the baton to disciple Ray Harryhausen, who dazzles us with his own effects magic for the first '50s giant monster epic. And the best monster thriller of the decade is offered at its original widescreen aspect ratio. It's all special enough to merit a mid-week review. Special Effects Collection Blu-ray The Son of Kong, Mighty Joe Young, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Them! Warner Home Video 1933-1954 / B&W / 1:37 Academy - 1:85 widescreen / 335 min. / Street Date October 27, 2015 / 54.96 or 19.98 separately Starring Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack,, Frank Reicher, Victor Wong; Robert Armstrong, Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Frank McHugh; Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Donald Woods, Lee Van Cleef; James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens,...
- 10/23/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
CBS
The Star Trek franchise may be best known for Hugo-Award winning episodes like “The City on the Edge of Forever,” “The Inner Light,” and “The Trouble With Tribbles,” but no television behemoth makes it through more than 700 episodes without producing a few clunkers.
What follows is a list of twenty of those failures, misfires, and disappointments, including episodes from all five live action series. For simplicity’s sake, I’ve left out the movies, and ranked the following twenty installments from “best” to worst.
Without further ado, let’s take a look at the list.
20. Spock’s Brain (Tos)
CBS
“Brain, brain…what is brain?”
Perhaps the most infamous episode of the original series, “Spock’s Brain” is certainly a head-scratcher. Intended to capitalize on Dr. Christiaan Barnard’s recent success at performing the first human heart transplant, the episode has a group of aliens one-upping Dr. Barnard by surgically removing Mr.
The Star Trek franchise may be best known for Hugo-Award winning episodes like “The City on the Edge of Forever,” “The Inner Light,” and “The Trouble With Tribbles,” but no television behemoth makes it through more than 700 episodes without producing a few clunkers.
What follows is a list of twenty of those failures, misfires, and disappointments, including episodes from all five live action series. For simplicity’s sake, I’ve left out the movies, and ranked the following twenty installments from “best” to worst.
Without further ado, let’s take a look at the list.
20. Spock’s Brain (Tos)
CBS
“Brain, brain…what is brain?”
Perhaps the most infamous episode of the original series, “Spock’s Brain” is certainly a head-scratcher. Intended to capitalize on Dr. Christiaan Barnard’s recent success at performing the first human heart transplant, the episode has a group of aliens one-upping Dr. Barnard by surgically removing Mr.
- 1/26/2014
- by Michael Kmet
- Obsessed with Film
Alexander and Ilya Salkind had sold Superman to the Golan-Globus Group/Cannon but wisely retained the rest of the family including Superboy. Thanks to Star Trek: The Next Generation pioneering first run syndication in 1987, the Salkinds realized the Teen of Steel would be perfect. Looking to produce this on the cheap, they set up shop in Florida, hired science fiction hack Fred Freiberger to produce and hired a slate of newcomers to fill the iconic roles of Clark Kent, Ma and Pa Kent, Lana Lang, Lex Luthor, et. al. The series debuted in 1988 with 25 episodes and was pretty laughable stuff. Freiberger was past his sell-by date and the Salkinds didn’t know how to handle the half-hour drama format.
Still, the ratings from the 95% of the country the series reached were strong enough to keep them going. However, changes needed to be made. Freiberger was shoved out and Salkind favorite...
Still, the ratings from the 95% of the country the series reached were strong enough to keep them going. However, changes needed to be made. Freiberger was shoved out and Salkind favorite...
- 5/17/2013
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
With his remake of "V" for ABC a valiant effort to try and recapture the magic of classic science-fiction television, television and game producer Jace Hall is trying again. This time with "Space: 1999." Based on the classic 1970s series from Gerry Anderson and then wife Sylvia Anderson, "Space: 1999" centers around a tragic event on Sept. 13, 1999, which pushes the moon out of orbit, turning it into a spacecraft, so to speak, that allows the inhabitants of the moon base there to explore. The original series starred Martin Landau and Barbara Bain from "Mission: Impossible," and had a host of well-known writers including Terrance Dicks (a script editor with classic "Doctor Who") and the late Fred Freiberger, who was in charge of the original "Star Trek's" final season. When the series ...
- 2/13/2012
- GeekNation.com
Star Trek: The Original Series 365
By Paula M. Block with Terry J. Erdmann
744 Pages, Abrams, $29.95
Just in time for the television icon’s 44th birthday and your Christmas list, Abrams adds to their delightful 365 library with Star Trek the Original Series. Let me state upfront that co-authors Paula Block and Terry Erdmann are friends and colleagues of mine but I cannot imagine any duo better suited to select the images and write the accompanying text for this volume.
Every episode and the original pilot are covered in this book with a nice design element with the page numbers colored to denote each season. The paper stock allows for strong color photography reproduction and even if you’ve seen many of these pictures before, you have not seen them this sharp.
Star Trek may be the most exhaustively covered prime time television series in history so the question immediately becomes, do I need this book?...
By Paula M. Block with Terry J. Erdmann
744 Pages, Abrams, $29.95
Just in time for the television icon’s 44th birthday and your Christmas list, Abrams adds to their delightful 365 library with Star Trek the Original Series. Let me state upfront that co-authors Paula Block and Terry Erdmann are friends and colleagues of mine but I cannot imagine any duo better suited to select the images and write the accompanying text for this volume.
Every episode and the original pilot are covered in this book with a nice design element with the page numbers colored to denote each season. The paper stock allows for strong color photography reproduction and even if you’ve seen many of these pictures before, you have not seen them this sharp.
Star Trek may be the most exhaustively covered prime time television series in history so the question immediately becomes, do I need this book?...
- 9/11/2010
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
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