I’ve never donned a pair of Vulcan ears in my life, and when I hear the word “Klingon,” my first thought is something horrible stuck to the bottom of my shoe.
To me, “Star Trek” pretty much began and ended with Sunday afternoons as a kid spent watching William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy take on tribbles, duplicate Earths and, er, Joan Collins.
It seems that no one loves “All the Boys Love Mandy Lane” enough to give it a theatrical release.
The much discussed, long-delayed slasher flick -- the first for Occupant Films -- was Jonathan Levine’s debut feature, made back in 2006 before he teamed with the company again for “The Wackness, the pot period comedy that became a 2008 Sundance darling.
What I learned this week:
1. There’s a “Star Trek” porn send-up about to beam down to shelves, thanks to Hustler. It stars Sasha Grey, the 21-year-old sensation who has already crossed over to the mainstream by starring in Steven Soderbergh’s “The Girlfriend Experience," also available this week via download. See the trailer, which is safe for work.
My 3-year-old daughter, Ava, has recently joined that select class of homo sapiens who are able to watch an entire movie from start to finish.
Earlier trips to the cinema to see “Wall E,” “Kung Fu Panda” and “Horton Hears a Who!” followed the same pattern -- she sat, glued to the screen, until whatever ice cream/candy/popcorn had been consumed to the last atom and then she was off, scooting around the theater, sharing her carbo-high with other lucky patrons.
1. The trailer for “Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus” has the interwebs (320,000 views in 48 hours) laughing their asses off this week. Almost as good? Star Debbie Gibson’s interview, in which she confirms that she’s still stuck in the 1980s. "I was looking at the video numbers, and the trailer has been watched hundreds of thousands of times. I'm like, 'Oh my God!',” she said to MTV News.
Aren’t trips to the museum supposed to make you smarterer?
If anything, I felt dumber after “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” and perhaps came out knowing less about history than I did going in.
Not that I expected a summer tentpole to be especially brainy, but this made me long for the sharp, incisive intellectualism of, say, “Friday the 13th” or “Confessions of a Shopaholic.”
Will Ferrell is the sort of star who still touches people.
I know because the amiable goofball high-fived me -- and a whole bunch of other aisle-seated audience members -- last night as he exited Sydney’s world premiere of “Land of the Lost."
