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
Wil Wheaton's autographed headshot

Reuniting The Next Generation's cast

Posted on Sep 28, 2019Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

I'd collected the autograph of every cast member from Star Trek: The Next Generation — except Wil Wheaton. Once I did, would I reunite him with his crew?

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
Enterprise Rock

A Christmas aboard the Enterprise NX-01

Posted on Dec 24, 2018Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

This Christmas Eve, John C. Worsley's 'Enterprise Rock' music video has me remembering the NX-01 and watching Star Trek with my dad.

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
Star Trek Into Darkness opening night

A Star Trek Christmas with family

Posted on Dec 24, 2017Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

I'm spending my Christmas Eve with family and Star Trek — a union made possible in the memory of my dad.

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
Star Wars Rogue One

Rogue One is a one-hit wonder

Posted on Dec 24, 2016Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

This holiday season marks several milestones, including the first standalone Star Wars movie. Rogue One debuted this month and is set immediately before the events of 1977's Episode IV: A New Hope, answering several of the questions raised by that movie. In many ways, Rogue One defies what we've come to expect from a Star…

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

The Wishgranter

Posted on Sep 10, 2016Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

Echo Wu's The Wishgranter is a short film about a wishing fountain where wishes really do come true.

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
Star Trek TOS unboxing

Unboxing Star Trek: The Original Series

Posted on Sep 8, 2016Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the debut of Star Trek, when "The Man Trap", premiered. CBS and Paramount are celebrating the occasion with the release of Star Trek — 50th Anniversary TV and Movie Collection, a set that includes all of the original crew's television, cinematic, and animated adventures, including the first time The…

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
I'm quite grumpy without at least eight hours of regeneration.

Star Trek at Seattle's EMP Museum

Posted on Sep 8, 2016Jan 6, 2023 by Ken Gagne

A visit to the Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds exhibit at the Experience Music Project Museum in Seattle, Washington, for the show's 50th anniversary

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
Family photo at Star Trek Beyond premiere

Star Trek Beyond review podcast

Posted on Aug 26, 2016Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

Star Trek Beyond was a fitting third film in the rebooted franchise. I saw the movie with my mom then reviewed it on the Polygamer podcast with Sabriel Mastin.

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
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • …
  • 64
  • Next

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