Skip to content

Showbits

News, reviews & commentary on sci-fi & fantasy movies & shows

Menu
  • About
  • Contact
  • Subscribe
  • Categories
    • Films
      • Reviews
      • Trailers
    • Star Trek
    • Television
    • Humor
    • Celebrities
      • Fade to Black
    • Potpourri
    • Star Wars
Menu

Category: Films

General discussion and ruminations about the movies. Includes the contents of the reviews and trailers categories.

Tis the Season

Posted on Dec 18, 2006Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

I was at a Martina McBride concert last night, shortly after being in the closing performance of A Charles Dickens Christmas. Take this as you will, but my favorite part of the concert was intended only to distract us from the scene change, when they showed a video montage of my favorite holiday films: Rudolph…

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
Continue reading

Hufflepuff, The Missing Pokémon

Posted on Dec 14, 2006Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

Previously available only in theaters and on YouTube, the trailer for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is now on Apple's trailers Web site. I've commented to several people, "I hope the film is better than the book." Knowing Potheads to be almost as fanatical as Trekkers, I half-expected this sincere comment to…

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
Continue reading

But Superman Can See Through Tin

Posted on Dec 13, 2006Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

Released late last month was The Superman Ultimate Collector's Edition, containing 14 discs that detail every microsecond of the Man of Steel's existence, from his appearance in Action Comics #1 in 1938 to his silver screen revival in 2006 (which I don't understand how some people thought was a remake – duh). Clearly not thinking,…

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
Continue reading
  • Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34

Categories

  • Films (143)
  • Reviews (86)
  • Television (84)
  • Humor (52)
  • Trailers (48)

Tags

  • holiday (33)
  • TNG (29)
  • summer shorts (27)
  • Christmas (25)
  • parody (25)

Year

  • 2022 (1)
  • 2021 (16)
  • 2020 (3)
  • 2019 (3)
  • 2018 (1)

Recent Posts

  • Ted Lasso and the Missing Christmas Mustache
  • A Pandemic Year of Moviegoing & Star Trek
  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage to Alameda
  • Take care of yourself for Christmas 2020
  • Televisions shows for the pandemic
  • WordPress: The Final Frontier
  • Picard Will Make It So
  • Remembering Carroll Spinney
  • Reuniting The Next Generation's cast
  • A Christmas aboard the Enterprise NX-01

Recent Comments

  • peterw on WordPress: The Final Frontier
  • peterw on A Star Trek Christmas with family
  • Ken Gagne on Rogue One is a one-hit wonder

Archives

News

  • CNN.com
  • ComingSoon.net
  • Dead or Alive?
  • STARTREK.COM
  • Superman News
  • TheForce.Net
  • Trek Nation

Resources

  • American Film Institute
  • Apple Trailers
  • Box Office Prophets
  • DVD Price Search
  • IMDb
  • Movie Mistakes
  • MPAA
  • Oracle of Bacon
  • RiffTrax
  • Rotten Tomatoes
  • TV Shows on DVD

Theater & Acting

  • Boston Casting
  • C.P. Casting
  • LDI Casting
  • NE Theater 411
© 2023 Showbits | Powered by Minimalist Blog WordPress Theme