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6 days ago | 
slashfilm.com | Jeremy Smith
When Gene Roddenberry created "Star Trek" in the 1960s, he savvily pitched it as "'Wagon Train' to the stars." Television Westerns like "Gunsmoke," "Bonanza," and "Rawhide" were all the rage at the time, so it was a masterstroke of broadcast salesmanship to suggest that a show about space exploration center on humankind pursuing its intergalactic manifest destiny. All of humankind.
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1 week ago | 
slashfilm.com | Jeremy Smith
Film history is sadly rife with instances of lost movies. These are films that, either through accident or indifference, have seemingly vanished from existence.
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1 week ago | 
slashfilm.com | Jeremy Smith
Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" (which /Film's Chris Evangelista deemed a "big, beautiful mess" in his review) was alternately the most fascinating and frustrating film of 2024.
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1 week ago | 
slashfilm.com | Jeremy Smith
When "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" premiered in syndication on January 3, 1993, it generated a good deal of nervousness, if not outright skepticism, from the franchise's finicky fanbase. That Trekkies would make the new series earn their respect was expected to a degree.
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1 week ago | 
slashfilm.com | Jeremy Smith
You could make a case that Stephen Norrington's "Blade" was ground zero for the Marvel Cinematic Universe's unprecedented blockbuster run. Though it hit theaters in 1998, 11 years before the release of "Iron Man," if you grew up reading comic books, you could sense a kindred charge from your fellow moviegoers the second Snipes got on with his vampire-killing business.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Jeremy Smith
One Of The Worst Superhero Movies Ever Is Tubi's Latest ObsessionYou could make a case that Stephen Norrington's "Blade" was ground zero for the Marvel Cinematic Universe's unprecedented blockbuster run. Though it …
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1 week ago | 
slashfilm.com | Jeremy Smith
Ryan Coogler's sublime blues-and-bloodsuckers epic "Sinners" is the best, buzziest movie of 2025 thus far. The tale of identical twins (Michael B. Jordan in dual roles) who return home to Clarksdale, Mississippi, to open a juke joint with a whole lot of cash they acquired via questionable means up North in Chicago, only to find their new establishment besieged by vampires, is exhilarating and terrifying in equal measure.
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1 week ago | 
slashfilm.com | Jeremy Smith
Ever since Ransom E. Olds founded Oldsmobile in 1901, Americans have been wild about cars. With roads stretching every which way throughout the United States, cars gradually became the country's preferred mode of transportation — especially after the development of the freeway system (which, as you might've learned from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," halted the growth of mass transit).
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1 week ago | 
slashfilm.com | Jeremy Smith
It's safe to say that when Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady created "The Big Bang Theory," they did not foresee the series becoming a 12-season juggernaut of a sitcom that, 18 years after its premiere, is still chugging on its second spinoff — one that features characters who were rarely, if ever, seen in the original series.
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1 week ago | 
slashfilm.com | Jeremy Smith
When moviegoers fall madly in love with a film, at a certain point it's not enough just to watch it over and over again. They need to devour every morsel of trivia and every behind-the-scenes anecdote. They dive deep into the origins of the production, and speculate as to how the film might've played if different actors had been cast or a different director had been hired.
