Star Trek Beyond

Justin Lin takes the director’s chair from J.J. Abrams to deliver Star Trek Beyond; the third in the alternate reality reboot of Star Trek. Three years ago I walked out of the midnight screening of Star Trek Into Darkness as an angry man. Nobody should be as angry as I was at 2am and I…

Kneel Before Pod – Star Trek Into Darkness

After our discussion of Star Trek (2009) it only made sense to talk about Star Trek Into Darkness. Natalie, Angus, Sandy and myself (Craig) got back together to discuss the divisive sequel and come to some form of consensus on what works and doesn’t work about it. This is the second podcast so all feedback…

Kneel Before Pod – Star Trek (2009)

Kneel Before Blog is branching out into the Podcast world and what better way to begin than talking about the J.J. Abrams Star Trek movies. On the panel for this particular discussion were me (Craig), Angus, Natalie and Sandy who all had differing opinions on this entry into the Star Trek franchise. The discussion went…

The Finest Hours

Craig Gillespie’s The Finest Hours is the fictionalised account of a true life tale involving the Coast Guard’s daring rescue of the crew of a doomed oil tanker in 1952. I’m not overly familiar with this story but that doesn’t really matter for the purposes of this film as it should hold together in how…

On the Silver Screen – Into the Woods

Rob Marshall’s Into the Woods adapts the famous stage musical of the same name and throws it onto the big screen for all to see. The basic story is that a Witch (Meryl Streep) enlists a Baker (James Corden) and his wife (Emily Blunt) to bring her magical items from various fairy tales in order…