If you can forget how awful The Phantom Menace was, come back from the darkness, my child.

Gene Roddenberry’s original series was not a high-budget blockbuster, but its sleek mid-century design and even the cheesy special effects had a charm lacking in this bloated blockbuster.

J.J. Abrams takes the fresh faced new crew of the Enterprise where no Star Trek movie has gone before. ***There’s a plot point discussed in the first parapraph that a couple of people have called foul on; my feeling is that if it’s exposition and happens in the first five minutes of the movie, then talking about it hardly qualifies as a spoiler, but if you want to go in as an utterly blank…

Bright and early this morning the 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards nominations were announced. Like the red-headed stepchild of the Oscars, the Emmys are a chance for Hollywood’s lesser starlets and stars to participate in their own self congratulatory fest. ABC’s campy but fun Desperate Housewives leads this year with 15 nominations. Viewers can look forward to a three way cat-fight between housewives Marcia Cross, Teri Hatcher, and Felicity Huffman for Best Actress in a…