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The 1989 buddy cop movie "Tango & Cash" is a weird animal. Lieutenant Ray Tango (Sylvester Stallone) is the star cop of the LAPD's narcotics division on the Westside, while Lieutenant Gabriel Cash (Kurt Russell) is the star officer of the Eastside. People from Los Angeles know that these are vital distinctions. The two haven't ever met, but are both loathed by the criminal underworld, and are set up by drug dealers to take the fall for a drug bust gone wrong. Tango and Cash are pilloried in court, and end up together in a maximum security prison. To clear their names, they'll have to escape and track down the bad guys, including gangster Yves Perret, played by Jack Palance. 

The story is broad and all over the place, and the tone is weirdly slapstick. "Tango & Cash" is as slick as 1980s cop movies come, but its sense of humor is weirdly caustic,...

Jonathan Frakes has not just played William Riker in the Star Trek franchise, but has also been a director on multiple episodes across shows and two films starring The Next Generation cast. This kind of makes him an expert on the inner operations of the show and the movies, giving him a lot of credibility on what actually went wrong with some of the films.

Frakes directed both Star Trek: First Contact and Insurrection, with the former gaining a lot of praise. However, the middling response to the latter led the studio to give the job to Stuart Baird in Star Trek: Nemesis, the final film featuring the Tng cast. Frakes said what he felt went wrong with Nemesis, which only earned a disappointing $67 million at the box office.

Jonathan Frakes revealed the scenes that got cut in Star Trek: Nemesis A still from Star Trek: Nemesis | Credits: Paramount

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If you're not yet a Tubi convert, you likely soon will be. Subscription streamers continue to raise their fees only to present you with ad-riddled media anyway, and that's if the media you're looking for even happens to be on these services. It's sort of ridiculous how many subscriptions I have, and yet it seems as though every time I search for a movie from years ago, I'm confronted with a choice between renting or buying. So, if we're always going to be told to shell out more money for the stuff we want to watch regardless of how many services we already pay for, the most logical response would be to subscribe to one or two streamers that you reliably use and accept that the dreaded "buy or rent" screen will be an inevitable part of your future.

But paid streamers aren't the only option. Enter: Tubi. The free streaming platform,...

A long-forgotten, and underrated, action movie starring Blade’s Wesley Snipes and Hollywood icon Tommy Lee Jones is headed to free streaming. Released back in 1998, the action thriller outing U.S. Marshals is, in fact, a sequel to the 90s Harrison Ford action classic The Fugitive, and finds another wrongly accused man on the run from Jones’ unrelenting Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal, Samuel Gerard. This time, instead of chasing Indiana Jones, Gerard must deal with The Daywalker.

Directed by Stuart Baird and written by John Pogue, U.S. Marshals finds Snipes’ federal fugitive Mark Roberts on the run...and possessing his own particular set of skills. Starring several cast members from The Fugitive alongside Jones, including Joe Pantoliano, Daniel Roebuck, and Tom Wood, as well as Kate Nelligan, Latanya Richardson Jackson, and Robert Downey Jr., U.S. Marshals is headed to free streaming platform Tubi on April 1, and you can...

Back in the early 2000s, it looked like "Star Trek" was pretty much done for. After 9/11, as wars began, audiences weren't really in the mood for a sci-fi franchise about gentleness, peace, and diplomacy. The national mood was reflected in the failure of Stuart Baird's "Star Trek: Nemesis" in 2002, often called one of the worst in the franchise. Then "Star Trek: Enterprise" was canceled in 2005. It wouldn't be until 2009 that "Star Trek" would be revived, in the form of J.J. Abrams' rebooted feature film. 

This time, however, "Star Trek" was faster, simpler, and more violent. Abrams' film was not about peace and diplomacy but trauma and revenge. The reboot set the tone for "Star Trek" for the next decade, ensuring that newer "Trek" projects were all about high-octane action and a little more rough-hewn. 

Such an approach certainly seemed to be an influence on the 2010 video game "Star Trek Online,...

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At the end of Stuart Baird's 2002 flop "Star Trek: Nemesis," the brave android Data (Brent Spiner) sacrifices his life to blow up the Scimitar, a weaponized Romulan ship that was on the brink of destroying the U.S.S. Enterprise. Data always aspired to be more human, and his sacrifice was the ultimate expression of his humanity. It also fulfilled Spiner's desire for Data to be killed off, something he had been asking for since "Star Trek: Insurrection."

Spiner, however, got to have his cake and eat it too. The actor also played B-4, an android prototype built before Data. B-4 was discovered early in "Nemesis," and Data reassembled his long-lost android brother, finding that his brain was a rudimentary version of his own. B-4 was childlike and nonperceptive but showed potential. The film ended with Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart...

Growing up, while watching Superman II over and over again on VHS, I couldn’t help but ask myself a few questions. Questions like – where’s Marlon Brando as Jor-El? Why does the music sound so shitty? Why does another actor dub Gene Hackman for like half of his dialogue? Why do Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder look so different from scene to scene? Why is it so tonally uneven? In a pre-internet era, where the drama on movie sets wasn’t chronicled in real-time online, no one really got what the deal was with Superman II. Once the internet became a thing, word of what really went on behind the scenes of Superman II went from being an urban legend to a confirmed fact.

Superman: The Movie was financed by Alexander Salkind and his son Ilya. They were movie moguls who, in the seventies, had produced two highly successful Three Musketeer movies.

Stuart Baird's 2002 film "Star Trek: Nemesis" was one of the franchise's several death knells to come during the early 2000s. "Star Trek: Voyager" came to a close in mid-2001, ending a long-running period of Trek ascendancy. "Star Trek: Enterprise" debuted in late September 2001, and it served as a prequel to the original "Star Trek," set a century before the days of Captain Kirk. It looked different, had a different tone, and aimed to bring Trek to a new generation. Sadly, because of the 9/11 attacks, the world was no longer in the mood for a long-in-the-tooth sci-fi franchise that focused on diplomacy, making peace, and living in harmony. Audiences were now more intent on war, retribution, and violence, and "Star Trek" no longer had a place in the world. 

In 2002, "Star Trek: Nemesis" was released to unenthused audiences and low box office receipts. Made for a budget of $60 million, "Nemesis" only earned $67 million worldwide,...

The fourth and final Star Trek: The Next Generation movie, Star Trek: Nemesis, put a nail in the coffin of what was—at the time—a dying Star Trek franchise. Star Trek: Nemesis saw Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) confront a younger clone of himself, Shinzon (Tom Hardy), who had been created by Romulans to secretly replace Picard. Shinzon had been discarded to the mines of Remus before becoming the new Romulan Praetor to exact his revenge. Star Trek: Nemesis' subplot featured the discovery of B-4 (Brent Spiner), an inferior Soong-type android built before Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner).

In theory, Star Trek: Nemesis' high-stakes cinematic action, with a screenplay and story by Academy Award-nominated John Logan with Brent Spiner, was designed to draw casual moviegoers. Further, Star Trek: Nemesis' themes of identity and duality in its Picard and Data storylines were supposed to create that cerebral Star Trek touch.

Star Trek: Nemesis brought together the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation for their fourth and final big-screen adventure. Directed by Stuart Baird, and written by the Academy Award-nominated John Logan, Star Trek: Nemesis premiered in December 2002. Unfortunately, Star Trek: Nemesis ranks as the lowest-grossing Star Trek movie, and it was a bomb with critics and audiences that resulted in the end of the Star Trek: The Next Generation movie franchise.

Star Trek: Nemesis' plot involves Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) of the USS Enterprise-e meeting his clone, Shinzon (Tom Hardy), who took control of the Romulan Empire and plots to destroy the United Federation of Planets. Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) also meets his malfunctioning android doppelganger, B-4. Star Trek: Nemesis includes cameos by Star Trek: Voyager's Kate Mulgrew as Admiral Kathryn Janeway, Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan, and Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher. Details of the main...

Old action movies are never too far from the top of the charts on free streaming platforms, and Kurt Russells 1996 action-thriller Executive Decision has found new success on Tubi. The by-the-numbers suspense movie, which sees Russell as an intelligence analyst joining forces with Steven Seagals military colonel to take on a group of terrorists who hijack a plane carrying a deadly chemical weapon. The 90s box office hit was not a unanimous success with audiences and critics, but sometimes it really doesnt matter.

Executive Decision featured an incredible all-star cast, with Russell and Seagal being joined by Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Oliver Platt, B.D. Wong, and the impeccable David Suchet, who played hijacker Nagi Hassan. The story is certainly not unique, but the cast proved to me more than capable of making the old tropes work just enough to keep viewers entertained and on the edge of their seat. The...

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When production began on Stuart Baird's "Star Trek: Nemesis," everyone knew it was going to be the final cinematic outing for the cast of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." The film is full of giant, dramatic changes for its characters and features multiple fond farewells. It even opens with the marriage of Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis), a romantic consummation that had been dangling over the franchise since 1987. Riker also, at long last, accepted a captaincy of his own, taking command of the U.S.S. Titan. "Nemesis" was going to dramatize Riker's final mission as first officer of a ship called the Enterprise.

The ending of "Nemesis" was dramatic and tragic. Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) was stranded on board a Romulan vessel and the Enterprise, pummeled in battle, was about to be destroyed. Data...

Some gritty action films from the 1990s are worth revisiting as many of them have slowly begun to slip from the minds of the general public in recent years. The '90s introduced some of the most influential action films, like Total Recall, Heat, and The Matrix. Such films have taken over pop culture discussions, leaving gritty action films like Crimson Tide and New Jack City to take the back seat.

Gritty action films from the decade show a darker side to criminal activity, such as drug trading and arson. Some films like Desperado have a comedic approach to the dark material, while films like New Jack City aim to incorporate social commentary into their narrative. Though they were moderate successes at the time of their release and weren't torn apart by critics, certain '90s action films aren't as heavily discussed and merit a rewatch.

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When I watched Star Trek: Nemesis n 2002, I really had no idea I was witnessing the birth of a star in Tom Hardy. Directed by Stuart Baird from a screenplay by John Logan, Star Trek: Nemesis was the final movie starring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The lowest grossing of Star Trek's 13 theatrical feature films, Star Trek: Nemesis was also a bomb with critics and audiences, although the blame for its failure doesn't fall on the shoulders of Tom Hardy, who played the main villain, Shinzon.

Shinzon was the malevolent clone of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in Star Trek: Nemesis. Seeking revenge on the Romulans who created and enslaved him, and on the United Federation of Planets, Shinzon mounts a convoluted plot to install himself as the Romulan Praetor before attacking the Federation. But Shinzon has special enmity for Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise-e.

Captain Picard's Enterprise faced 4 evil villains in Star Trek: The Next Generation's movies,. Tng's movie villains were mostly attempts to recapture the menace of Khan in Star Trek II. Soran, the Borg Queen, Ru'afo, and Shinzon are all major leage Star Trek movie villains, but here's who is best.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) faced four major league villains in Star Trek: The Next Generation's movies, and here they are ranked worst to best. Starting with 1994's Star Trek Generations, directed by David Carson, the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation took over the Star Trek movie franchise. Three more films followed; 1996's Star Trek: First Contact and 1998's Star Trek: Insurrection, directed by Jonathan Frakes, and 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis, directed by Stuart Baird.

Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban), the eponymous villain of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, looms over the cinematic adversaries Captain...

Stuart Baird's 2002 film "Star Trek: Nemesis" came at a very strange time in the franchise's history. "Star Trek" had spent the 1990s striding triumphantly across the landscape, producing multiple hit shows, one right after the other. There was a time when "Star Trek: The Next Generation" overlapped with "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," and then when "Deep Space Nine" and "Star Trek: Voyager" ran concurrently. "Voyager" even helped Paramount launch its own TV network, the Upn, in 1995. 

By 2001, though, the bloom was off the rose a bit. The series began to tire out. "Voyager" came to an end, and audiences were looking forward to a prequel series called "Enterprise." Before the show could debut, however, the world was shaken by the events of September 11, 2001. Pop rhetoric immediately turned to mourning, and then just as quickly to combat-based retribution. The gentle diplomacy of "Star Trek" instantly became dated.  Then, when...

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All 13 Star Trek movies are streaming free on Pluto TV for a limited time. Star Trek officially became a movie franchise in 1979 with the premiere of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Five more movies starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and the cast of Star Trek: The Original Series followed until 1991. Patrick Stewart and the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation then took over the franchise for the next four films from 1994-2002. Director and producer J.J. Abrams then took over with three rebooted Star Trek movies from 2009-2016.

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Tom Hardy portrayed Shinzon, the evil clone of Captain Picard in Star Trek: Nemesis, and also played a young Picard in a controversial photo. Star Trek: Nemesis marked the end of the Next Generation movie franchise with infamous moments like Data's death and the questionable young Picard photo. The bald young Picard in the photo was a retcon in Nemesis, causing controversy among fans and contradicting established Picard backstory.

Star Trek: Nemesis introduced Tom Hardy as Shinzon, the evil clone of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), but Hardy also played a young Picard in a photo that instantly became problematic. Directed by Stuart Baird from a story by John Logan, Rick Berman, and Brent Spiner, Star Trek: Nemesis became the death knell for the Star Trek: The Next Generation movie franchise. Aspects of Star Trek: Nemesis have proven infamous, like the death of Commander Data (Brent Spiner), and a...

Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek franchise has expanded into a successful universe of its own, featuring several movies and TV series of its own. Aside from Jean-Luc Picard, or Mr. Spock, Brent Spiner’s Data was another character that became a fan-favorite figure showcased in the sci-fi franchise. However, there is one black sheep in the expansive series that has been a box office bomb.

The crew of the USS Enterprise-e in Star Trek: Nemesis. Credits: Paramount Pictures

The film is none other than the 2002 film, Star Trek: Nemesis. The project was a massive disappointment, as it barely managed to meet the break-even point of the film, and ranked as the lowest-grossing film among the four movies.

The project was so disappointing that almost every Trekkie despises it from the bottom of their hearts. Moreover, even Tom Hardy and Sir Patrick Stewart could not save it from doom.

Brent Spiner...

The Star Trek franchise has seen a topsy-turvy journey over the years with The Next Generation TV show of the late 80s being the peak era of the franchise. The story of that era with Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard in the lead continued with four films in the 90s and early 2000s. The Next Generation storyline concluded with 2002’s Star Trek: Nemesis.

The crew of USS Enterprise-e in Star Trek: Nemesis | Paramount Pictures

The film unfortunately received negative reviews as it did not have the vibe and energy of a Star Trek film. Jonathan Frakes who played fan-favorite character William Riker in the Star Trek franchise opened up about why the film failed to resonate with audiences, while also criticizing director Stuart Baird for his arrogant nature.

Jonathan Frakes Does Not Like How Stuart Baird Handled The Production of Star Trek: Nemesis

Star Trek: Nemesis is one entry in...

The Omen has key ties to Star Trek in front of the camera and behind the scenes. Gregory Peck's role in The Omen connects to Star Trek through his grandson Ethan Peck portraying Lt. Spock in Strange New Worlds. David Warner's performance in The Omen ties him to three memorable Star Trek characters, while Stuart Baird and Jerryt Goldsmith also worked on Star Trek.

Star Trek has 4 deep connections to The Omen. Directed by Richard Donner, the original Omen movie was released in 1976. It was a box office smash, grossing over $60 million in North America. The Omen's success spawned a franchise, with three sequels into the 1990s charting the life of Damien Thorn, the Antichrist. A 2006 remake of The Omen followed, and the franchise has been revitalized by the 2024 prequel, The First Omen, which builds to the events of The Omen (1976). However, Star Trek is part of The Omen's roots.

Like many children of the 80s, I have a soft spot for the 1985 adventure epic Ladyhawke. It’s directed by the great Richard Donner, with it coming just before The Goonies and Lethal Weapon, but after his time with the Superman franchise. Lavishly produced, it wasn’t a hit in 1985 despite having a top-notch cast that included the late Rutger Hauer (in a rare heroic role), Michelle Pfeiffer, and Matthew Broderick. While some might say the latter was rather improbably cast as an Italian thief in the Middle Ages, that’s not actually the weirdest thing about the movie.

Donner has a reputation for always choosing superb composers for his films. Just think about how iconic Michael Kamen and Eric Clapton’s work is for Lethal Weapon, John Williams’s Superman theme, Jerry Goldsmith’s work on The Omen, and Dave Grusin’s score for The Goonies. Yet, one score...

Star Trek: Nemesis had too much focus on the villain, Shinzon, and not enough on the chemistry between the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation says Jonathan Frakes. The film's story was centered around Shinzon's obsession, and the front end of the movie, which featured a charming wedding scene, was heavily cut. Despite its failure, Star Trek: Nemesis is now rendered irrelevant by the events and character developments in Star Trek: Picard season 3.

Jonathan Frakes has a clear-eyed take on the many mistakes made by Star Trek: Nemesis, the final film starring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Frakes, who directed the hit Star Trek: First Contact and its follow-up, Star Trek: Insurrection, didn't helm Nemesis. Instead, Paramount brought in Stuart Baird, a Star Trek neophyte, to direct Nemesis, which was written by Academy Award-nominee John Logan from a story by Logan and Brent Spiner. Despite the...

In Stuart Baird's 2002 film "Star Trek: Nemesis," Tom Hardy plays Shinzon, a human clone of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), grown in a lab by the dastardly spies in the Romulan Empire. When their clone plot didn't quite turn out the way that they wanted, the Romulans disavowed Shinzon's existence and sent him as a young boy to be enslaved in a Reman mine. The Remans were a cousin species of the Romulans that had been enslaved for many generations. Shinzon would grow up among the goblin-looking Remans, sharing their plight. Perhaps possessed of Picard's knack for leadership, Shizon would eventually lead a Reman uprising against the Romulans. "Nemesis" was the first time Trekkies ever caught a glimpse of the Remans. Shinzon's massive warship, the Scimitar, would be staffed entirely by Reman officers.

Most notably, Shinzon's unnamed right-hand man, a Reman Voiceroy, would be played by Ron Perlman, an...

From 1994 to 2002, four feature films were made based on "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Generally speaking, none of the four films was terribly well-received. Stuart Baird's 2002 film "Star Trek: Nemesis" currently holds a 38% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, while David Carson's 1994 film "Star Trek: Generations" stands with a 48% approval rating. Jonathan Frakes' 1998 film "Star Trek: Insurrection" fares slightly better with a 55% approval rating, while the same director's 1996 film "Star Trek: First Contact" is far and away the champion, with a 93% approval rating. Rotten Tomatoes, of course, is not meant to be a gauge of factual, unassailable quality, but those numbers do pretty accurately reflect a generally accepted popular opinion among Trekkies. 

"First Contact" stands out as the best for numerous reasons. For one, it was a film about the Borg, a soulless species of destructive cyborgs that had long been a favorite villain on "Next Generation." It was...

Star Trek: Insurrection was a disappointing entry for the Next Generation crew – both creatively and at the box office. It made $117 million worldwide, which was only about $30 million less than Star Trek: First Contact, but the budget was pretty hefty, thanks mainly to salaries, with the film costing $70 million, making it the most expensive Trek movie to date. While the studio likely eeked out a profit once it hit home video, the margins were slim. Thus, Paramount, which still hoped the franchise could bounce back in another movie, opted to shake things up for the ambitious Star Trek Nemesis. Yet, all the pricey talent they went after, at the sacrifice of some of Tng’s key creative players, could save the movie from being an all-out disaster that ended the Next Generation crew’s adventures on the big screen for good.

Jump back to 1998. Star Trek: Insurrection wasn’t a hit,...

I have vivid memories of seeing "Star Trek: Nemesis" on December 13, 2002 (the film's opening day) and learning what true pop culture disappointment felt like. "Star Trek" had been a part of my life and my home for as long as I could remember. Even lesser "Star Trek" was still "Star Trek." But "Nemesis" was different. It was bad in unique ways. It was bad in ways that didn't feel like "Star Trek." My life as a movie and TV fan, as a "Star Trek" fan, hinges on that day. The day I learned that the things I loved could actively hurt me. There are worse films out there, yes, but few carry the profound stench of disappointment quite like this one, a film that took one of the greatest casts of characters in science fiction history and gave them a conclusion so half-assed that it felt like a personal insult.

The movies starring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation are notorious for their wildly varying quality, with plenty of highs and lows for Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and friends. The Star Trek: The Original Series movie franchise wrapped up successfully with 1991's Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. By 1994, Paramount was ready to pass the cinematic torch to the highly popular cast of Tng.

After enduring a bitter backlash among longtime fans and behind-the-scenes production chaos in its early days, Star Trek: The Next Generation became a cultural behemoth by its fourth season, by many metrics a more successful series than Star Trek: The Original Series. Tng generated massive revenue for Paramount through its unique first-run syndication distribution format, and adorned everything from lunch boxes to a massive array of action figures. Paramount assumed the Tng cast would go on to even greater heights in their own film franchise,...

Stuart Baird's "Star Trek: Nemesis" was, it seemed, the end of the road for "Star Trek: The Next Generation." The crew of the Enterprise-d left the airwaves in 1994, leaving the franchise in the hands of high-quality but less-popular "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." The series moved to the big screen with "Star Trek: Generations," a film that many Trekkies appreciated at the time, but which has been reassessed as being generally disappointing. It was followed by the relatively well-received "Star Trek: First Contact" in 1996, a film that dumbed down a lot of Trek ideas and presented them as action shlock, as well as "Star Trek: Insurrection" in 1998, a pretty cheap, poorly written movie that remains at the top of no one's lists. 

Already tired, the NextGen film franchise staggered into theaters in 2002 with "Nemesis," the final chapter for the character. In it, Troi (Marina Sirtis) and Riker (Jonathan Frakes...

It must be intimidating for any actor to enter the fold of "Star Trek." In addition to the risk of being pigeonholed (Brent Spiner has spoken at length about that phenomenon), there is a lot to know beforehand. Given the franchise's vast history, and the hundreds of hours of drama it has already produced, it seems that some homework might be required just to have some context of whatever scene you might be acting in.

The former aspect was a bugaboo for Ed Speleers, the actor cast as Jack Crusher in the third season of "Star Trek: Picard." Jack Crusher wasn't some mere ensign written to sit at a starship's helm and read lines about diverting power from life support to the shields or whatever. Jack Crusher was the son of Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) and Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), two of the main characters of "Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Who doesn't love second chances? Over in "Star Wars" land, both Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen were given the chance to redeem themselves in the "Obi-Wan Kenobi" series after their first go-around in the prequel trilogy ended up in rather divisive waters. The "Star Trek" equivalent, meanwhile, meant retrofitting a perfect send-off for the cast and crew of "The Next Generation" with the final season of "Star Trek: Picard" ... one that could wash away the bad taste of the misbegotten film "Star Trek: Nemesis" straight out of our collective mouths. Now, that fanciful idea is becoming closer to a reality with the news that the final two episodes of the series will receive the big-screen IMAX treatment.

In a joint announcement by Paramount+ and CBS Studios (via Variety), word has come down that fans will be able to flock to theaters next week to catch the last two episodes of...

From the start of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in 1987 until the end of Stuart Baird's 2002 film "Star Trek: Nemesis," the franchise skipped merrily along a single, linear timeline. If a decade passed in the real world, a decade also passed in "Star Trek." The NextGen era was so well-constructed, and so beloved by Trekkies, that showrunners felt no need to deviate. It wouldn't be until the late 2001 launch of "Star Trek: Enterprise" that the formula would be shaken up, with a show that took place a century prior to the events of the original 1966 series. 

That series ended after only four seasons, however, and it would take "Star Trek" a few action films and 13 years before it got back to TV. Since the launch of CBS All Access, a.k.a. Paramount+ in 2017, the franchise has sprawled in every direction chronologically. "Star Trek: Discovery" was set just a...

At long last, all four Star Trek: The Next Generation movies will be making the leap to 4K. After several months of rumours, Paramount Pictures officially announced that Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek: Nemesis will be released for the first time ever on 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Vision and Hdr-10 on April 4th, just in time for First Contact Day.

All four Star Trek: The Next Generation movies will be available in a boxset presented in an illustrated slipcase that will include each movie on 4K Ultra HD, as well as a fully remastered Blu-ray. You can check out the cover art for the upcoming release below.

The four movies will also be available individually, with each film including all legacy bonus content as well as access to a Digital copy. You can find a list of that bonus content, as...

The failure of Star Trek: Nemesis abruptly ended the Star Trek: The Next Generation movie franchise, but there were plans for a fifth and final film featuring Picard's Enterprise before Nemesis flopped. The overall Star Trek franchise was not in good shape at the turn of the century. Star Trek Voyager limped to the finish line of a seven season run in 2001, a show that was out of gas creatively and endured middling ratings in its final years. Star Trek: Enterprise would debut later that year, a prequel series that never found its footing or its audience and was unceremoniously canceled after its fourth season.

Star Trek: The Next Generation had been the most popular iteration of the franchise ever on television, but even the Tng crew were beginning to wear out their welcome. Star Trek: Insurrection hit movie screens in 1998, coming up short of the box office and critical...

The well-known Star Trek movie 'curse' that the even-numbered films are good and the odd-numbered ones are bad was changed by Star Trek: Nemesis and by J.J. Abrams' movie trilogy. Star Trek: The Motion Picture kicked off the film franchise in 1979, and there have been 13 Star Trek movies overall, with the most recent being 2016's Star Trek Beyond. As the Star Trek movie series progressed, audiences noticed the unusual trend that every other Star Trek movie was better than the one that preceded it - until Star Trek: Nemesis came along.

The first nine Star Trek films hold up to the 'curse' that the even-numbered movies are better than the odd-numbered ones. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan kicked off the trend by being a better film than Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and this continued throughout the 1980s and 1990s as the even-numbered films like Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,...

Closing the book on a long-running iteration of a franchise is hard. You have to make sure to create a story that's not only compelling but gives the characters a worthy sendoff. Sometimes the work pays off, and you get Avengers: Endgame and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Other times... you get Star Trek: Nemesis. Directed by Stuart Baird, the film was meant to close the book on the story of Star Trek: The Next Generation, but 20 years later, it's a glaring example of how not to end a franchise.

John Leguizamo is back on the big screen with The Menu and he recently opened up about who he based his character on.

Leguizamo plays the character of Georgie Diaz, an action star past his prime. To get into the mindset of the fictional character, the Encanto voice actor got inspiration from Steven Seagal.

“I’ve met lots of these stars like that, maybe before they were washed up,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “I mean, now they’re washed up. I kind of based mine on Steven Seagal. I had a bad run-in with him. We did a movie together. It was Executive Decision. He’s kind of a horrible human.”

Executive Decision is a 1996 film directed by Stuart Baird that starred Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, Leguizamo and Seagal, among others. The film has a 63 Rotten Tomatoes score and earned Seagal a Razzie Award in the Worst Supporting Actor category...

It's the 10th anniversary of the best post-2000 Bond movie. Sam Mendes' 2012 spy film "Skyfall" is the twenty-third in the long-running series of James Bond movies, an atmospheric masterwork that features Daniel Craig's third performance as the fictional MI6 agent.

"Skyfall" sees Bond re-entering into MI6 service after his assumed shooting death and taking on a mission which sends him to the brave new world of Shanghai in pursuit of a mercenary known as Patrice (Ola Rapace), the man for whom the bullet that wounded Bond was intended for. Bond is tasked by his MI6 superior M (Judi Dench) to find Patrice, the sensitive hard drive he holds, and information about his mysterious employer. The ensuing confrontation is gorgeously lit and impeccably shot under the supreme lens of cinematographer Roger Deakins; the two men fight in silhouette, backlit by LED panels of bright, glowing jellyfish, and few words are...

Trekkies from the 1990s were spoiled, perhaps even more spoiled than in 2022. "Star Trek: The Next Generation" debuted in 1987, and was so successful, it ran for seven seasons. During its run, the show spun off twice into "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993 - 1999) and "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995 - 2001) and by 2002, there were four NextGen feature films. In addition to all the shows and movies, the Creation Entertainment Grand Slam conventions -- the biggest "Trek" cons yet -- began in Pasadena, CA in 1993. In 1998, Star Trek: The Experience opened at the Las Vegas Hilton, and Trekkies could visit Quark's Bar and experience "Borg Invasion 4-d." Trek hasn't reached this level of pop saturation since.

Although it's coming close with the recent era of Paramount+ shows. There are currently five new Trek shows running concurrently (it seems "Short Treks" may be at an end), with news of more shows and movies on the way.

Over four decades before the current wave of superhero blockbusters, Richard Donner's "Superman" made audiences believe a man could fly in a way no other movie had before. At the time of its release, "Superman" was the most expensive film ever made. With a runtime pushing two and a half hours, the movie took its time telling the origin story of the Last Son of Krypton and his time in Smallville before his arrival as bumbling newspaper reporter Clark Kent on the streets of Metropolis. Among other things, "Superman" managed to parlay the spot-on casting of Christopher Reeve and an Oscar-nominated John Williams score into critical and commercial success, paving the way for your all your favorite DC and Marvel movies in the new millennium.

The film was not without its share of production problems, however. Tensions between Donner and executive producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind spilled over into his departure from "Superman II,...

No one saw this coming: U.S. Marshals, the 1998 sequel/spinoff of 1993’s The Fugitive, skyrocketed on Netflix’s movie chart in 2022. It’s a strange development considering the movie’s age and how, frankly, irrelevant it’s been since it hit theaters. Yet its return to some form of cultural awareness—that is perhaps higher than when it came out two decades ago—is curious. How did this happen?

The most likely needle mover here is likely Robert Downey Jr., who plays a supporting role as hot-shot secret agent John Royce, who joins U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard and the old team on a manhunt centered on a highly-skilled escaped prisoner named Sheridan (Wesley Snipes). Sheridan’s been accused of murdering two of Royce’s fellow secret agents.

The ensuing pursuit thriller is a bit of a flop in many ways, but let’s keep the focus on Downey for a moment.

Very few movies have disappointed me as much as "Star Trek: Nemesis". What should have been a fitting farewell to the cast of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was instead marred by a retcon involving Picard's half-Romulan clone (played by a then-unknown Tom Hardy), competition from "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" at the box office, and director Stuart Baird currying ill will with the cast by not watching prior "Next Generation" episodes. It wasn't until J.J. Abrams took hold of the reins in 2009...

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"Star Trek: Nemesis" is a strange film, even by "Star Trek" standards. For starters, there's the plot that centers on a half-Romulan clone of Jean-Luc Picard (played by Tom Hardy in his big break — true story!) There's also the earlier version of Data named B-4, and I don't even want to get into the scene between Deanna Troi and the monstrous Reman Viceroy. Suffice it to say, it's a low point in both Marina Sirtis and Ron Perlman's careers.

The disdain with "Nemesis" has been expressed by nearly everyone involved — Sirtis referred to director Stuart Baird as an "idiot," and Jonathan Frakes said he could have...

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No actor has ever received an Oscar nomination for a James Bond film — not classic Bond actors Sean Connery and Roger Moore nor recent heavy-hitters like Javier Bardem and Judi, two former winners who arguably came closest in 2013 for “Skyfall.” In fact, for decades, the Bond franchise was hardly an awards magnet at all. After 1981’s “For Your Eyes Only” scored a nomination in the Best Original Song category, no James Bond film received a nomination until 2012’s “Skyfall.”

That film, the first Bond blockbuster to break $1 billion worldwide, landed five nominations and two wins — for Best Original Song and Best Sound Editing. But it had the potential for even more, including perhaps a Best Picture nomination. After all, “Skyfall” was a nominee at the Producers Guild Awards in 2013 while Bardem, who played the flamboyant villain, was a Screen Actors Guild Awards nominee as well.

“Spectre,” the “Skyfall” follow-up, added...

Liev Schreiber leads cast of Matilda De Angelis, Danny Huston, Josh Hutcherson, Laura Morante.

Production has wrapped in Venice and the Veneto region in Italy on Tribune Pictures and The Exchange’s adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s final novel Across The River And Into The Trees starring Liev Schreiber.

The Exchange handles international sales at the virtual EFM and UTA Independent Film Group represents US rights.

Oscar-nominated Stuart Baird will edit the film with Kate Baird, with whom he worked on Skyfall.

Paula Ortiz directs from Peter Flannery’s adapted screenplay about a damaged American Army colonel seeking peace after the Second World War.

Back in 2006, Daniel Craig starred in his first movie as James Bond, Casino Royale. The film provided a sorely needed new direction to the spy franchise, doing away with CGI and elaborate gadgets, and replacing them with gritty realism, and in-your-face action. In an interview with Polygon, the director of the movie, Martin Campbell, revealed that the most difficult part of making Casino Royale was not filming the high-octane action scenes, but rather figuring out a way to include the card-playing scenes in an entertaining manner.

"There was a lot of [card] playing in it. It was the thing I sweated on more than anything else. [According to the movie's editor Stuart Baird] It was difficult to think how you keep the audience engaged in those card games. Everybody was terribly worried that people would be bored with it."

Their concern was understandable. Despite its reputation for being one of the best action movies of the past two decades,...

GLAAD Award-winning comic book writer Greg Rucka has a new Netflix movie on the way in July. The Wonder Woman scribe has adapted his own series, The Old Guard, for Skydance and the streaming service, and Gina Prince-Blythewood (Marvel‘s Cloak & Dagger) has directed the project.

Teased by the tagline “forever is harder than it looks”, The Old Guard follows a group of soldiers who are led by Charlize Theron‘s Andy. The pack are immortal mercenaries who have seen a lot of shit over the centuries, and now they’re pretty bored with life in general. Things start to get interesting again when they discover that a new immortal is serving in the Us Marines, but when their undying existence is captured on camera by a murky organization, events start to spiral out of control.

Theron stars alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor, Marwan Kenzari, Kiki Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Luca Marinelli,...

For 18 long years, Star Trek: Nemesis was the last we saw of the beloved Next Generation crew. And, to put it bluntly, it sucked. The movie totally wastes a young Tom Hardy, has a nonsensical plot and there’s a ridiculous dune buggy chase sequence. Thank god Star Trek: Picard came along to give the Tng crew a proper swansong.

Nemesis director Stuart Baird has come under specific criticism for his behavior on set. At one point, he proudly told the cast that he’d never watched an episode of The Next Generation, acting as if the job was beneath him. To rub salt into the wound, Baird also made no effort to pretend that he knew who the cast were, repeatedly calling LeVar Burton, Laverne Burton.

But it could have all been so different. Star Trek: First Contact and Insurrection were directed by Commander Riker himself, Jonathan Frakes. Those...

Star Trek: Nemesis is an awful movie and a horrible sendoff for The Next Generation‘s characters. It squanders a young Tom Hardy, has a nonsensical plot and generally feels like something that was cobbled together with little care and attention.

Since its 2002 release, the cast has since gone on to criticize Nemesis‘ director, Stuart Baird. He made no friends on set by proudly claiming he’d never watched an episode of The Next Generation and had no idea who the majority of the actors were. Fortunately, we have Star Trek: Picard coming very soon, which promises to give the Next Generation crew the send-off they deserve.

Now, in an interview with Variety, Patrick Stewart has delivered his verdict on the film, comparing his send-off as Professor X in Logan with Picard’s then final adventure in Nemesis.

“Hugh and I were so thrilled when the last thing we did for ‘X-Men’ was ‘Logan,...

Earlier this summer, Scream Factory answered the devilish prayers of horror fans by announcing The Omen Blu-ray collection deluxe edition that includes all five Omen films, and now they've revealed the full list of special features for the box set ahead of its release this October.

Featuring five discs and every Omen movie in the satanic franchise—The Omen, Damien: Omen II, Omen III: The Final Conflict, Omen IV: The Awakening, and the 2006 remake—The Omen Blu-ray collection deluxe edition is slated for an October 15th release, and we have the official press release with full release details:

Press Release: Get ready to jump start your ultimate horror binge just in time for Halloween! On October 15, 2019, Scream Factory™ is proud to present The Omen Collection Deluxe Edition, featuring all four original films as well as the 2006 remake that kept movie audiences glued to the screen with white-knuckled terror. Packed with hours of chilling special features,...