Captain’s Log #12: The Star Trek machine keeps turning, even as TNG comes to a close
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
Let’s talk about the end of The Next Generation because I’ve got some thoughts!
Ten years after it nearly ruined the studio, RISE OF THE GUARDIANS is still one of the best DreamWorks films
by Emily Maesar, Associate TV Editor
Let’s talk about Rise of the Guardians because this film turned ten this year and there isn’t a week that goes by in the winter season that I don’t think about it.
Captain’s Log #11: The holodeck, Data, and the expanse of Q
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
There’s no real way to talk about Star Trek, as a franchise, without talking about technology.
MovieJawn Sound and Vision Poll: Emily Maesar’s Ballot
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
Welcome to MovieJawn’s first ever Sound & Vision Poll, where our writers share why they love their 10 favorite movies of all time!
In its final two episodes of the season, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE forges its own way forward within Anne Rice’s world
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
It’s been a week since I watched the finale, as we’re talking, and I sometimes will stop whatever I’m doing to just hoot and holler about the way that Rolin Jones and company finished out the season.
The ever-falling dominoes of the last Hollywood strike: the 2007-2008 Writers’ Strike 15 years later
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
The Writers’ Strike of 2007-2008 forever changed the landscape of “the industry,” such as it was—particularly in the realm of television.
Episodes 4 and 5 of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE bring us Claudia, Louis’s editorializing, and Lestat’s rage
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
Claudia’s introduction is a magical, madness shared by us all.
Captain’s Log #10: “He must be hungry,” Star Trek and the limits of utopian storytelling
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
The major themes I want to talk about from season five, though, are the limits of medicine, the idea of gender and sexuality, and the willingness to commit war crimes and genocide—all in the progressive, utopian 24th century
The third episode of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE takes us through the odyssey of recollection
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
Boy, howdy, have the Interview with the Vampire video comparisons to both the book and the 1994 movie absolutely god tier.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE stuns with a brilliant second episode
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
It’s also important that Interview with a Vampire is unapologetically queer, not afraid to say the specific labels, and that it’s already been renewed for a second season.
We’ve all been given a Dark Gift in the new INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE series
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
An interview with the Associate Editor.
Captain’s Log, Entry 9: Fear in the name of righteousness, the eternal truth of STAR TREK
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
As the series finished out 1990 and started in on 1991, there shouldn’t have been any doubt that The Next Generation was going to be immortal.
Alfred Hitchcock has entered the chat in DO REVENGE
by Emily Maesar, Staff Writer
Other than the Hitchcock of it all, though, Do Revenge pays great homage to the teen films of Millennials.
Captain’s Log, Entry 8: We wish to improve ourselves—the triumphs and failings of changing creatively
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
Resistance is futile.
Chris Pine turns 42 and continues to be the best Chris
by Megan Bailey, Staff Writer & Emily Maesar, Staff Writer
It’s Chris Pine’s birthday. His 42nd birthday. His Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy “answer to the universe” birthday.
Movie: The Series - WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
Growing up, Wet Hot was one of those older sibling films—the kind that basically live in your head rent free, that get quoted all the time, and that you might not really understand until you’re older and watch it with different eyes.
Disc Dispatch: THE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE tells a piece of queer history in a stunning new blu-ray transfer
by Emily Maesar, Staff Writer
“A halo doesn’t have to fall very far to become a noose.”
Captain’s Log, Entry 7: Your help is not required (except when it is)
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
Thirteen days after the United States 1988 election, the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation aired
NOT OKAY looks at what happens when you traumatize yourself
by Emily Maesar, Staff Writer
Not Okay is having a conversation about the trauma of being online, of being perceived so much that it starts to wear you down until you feel like lying is the only way to be something.
Captain’s Log, Entry 6: The USS Enterprise flies again
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
And just like that, we’re watching Star Trek again.