Witney Seibold

1 week ago | slashfilm.com | Witney Seibold

In 2024, Steven Spielberg listed his 20 favorite movies of all time for Far Out Magazine, and many of them are indelible classics that one might expect Spielberg to list. "Seven Samurai," "Citizen Kane," "Day For Night," and "2001: A Space Odyssey" are all on the list, of course, although he did also throw in a few curveballs.

1 week ago | slashfilm.com | Witney Seibold

William Shatner's 1989 space epic "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" is still, to this day, cited as one of the worst "Star Trek" movies. The film's hefty $30 million budget likely went mostly to its cast, as its visual effects are severely lacking and the sets look shoddy and cheap.

1 week ago | slashfilm.com | Witney Seibold

In David Carson's 1994 film "Star Trek: Generations," Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) found himself deposited inside a mysterious temporal Nexus, a magical spatial phenomenon that snatches people up and nestles them in a heaven-like pocket dimension. Time has no meaning in the Nexus, meaning people can pretty much spend an eternity inside of it without any time passing in the outside universe.

1 week ago | slashfilm.com | Witney Seibold

The "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Defector" (January 1, 1990) begins with Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) watching Data (Brent Spiner) enacting a scene from William Shakespeare's "Henry V" on the holodeck. For those who missed reading "Henry V" in high school, the story follows the young, recently crowned King Henry as he gears up to invade France.

1 week ago | slashfilm.com | Witney Seibold

It's no secret the theatrical experience have been on the wane for a hot minute. The COVID-19 pandemic, of course, took a heavy toll on movie theaters; per a report by the Cinema Foundation (via The Hollywood Reporter), the number of active screens in the United States shrunk from 41,172 in 2019 to 39,007 in 2022. That number has bounced back slightly in the years since then, though, while worldwide ticket sales have also been slowly increasing.