Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Michael Green
At 30, Star Trek Generations captured a crucial moment in the sci-fi franchise Original
Table of Contents Star Trek Generations was released in November 1994 at a moment of peak popularity for the franchise. Star Trek: The Next Generation had aired its series finale six months earlier while still a huge ratings success, and it could easily have kept going for more seasons. But with Deep Space Nine recently launched and Voyager in the offing, the collective wisdom deemed that it was time for The Next Generation to beam to the big screen after 178 episodes.
Carry-On Reviews
October 2024 Movie Preview Keith Kimbell October will bring an assortment of horror movies, this year's buzzy Cannes winner, sequels to Joker and Venom, and much more. Get details on these are more notable films arriving over the next month.
This 2014 Brad Pitt movie spotlights an aspect of war rarely depicted on the big screen Original
Fury opened in 2014, a decade and a half after the late-1990s WWII renaissance of Saving Private Ryan and HBO’s Band of Brothers — which themselves came well after the 1960s heyday of WWII movies. That American movies released in that same time period, like American Sniper (the highest-grossing film of that year), Zero Dark Thirty, and Lone Survivor, were grappling with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, made it feel even more old-fashioned.
Forget Khan! This Star Trek movie is perhaps the most important one in the franchise's history Original
Among the Star Trek faithful, and even casual movie fans, it’s well known that the even-numbered Star Trek movies — II, IV, VI, and VII (First Contact) — are the “good” ones, the one exception being X, Nemesis, which (some would say, mercifully) ended big screen Trek until JJ Abrams’ 2009 “Kelvin” timeline reboot. But there’s another exception among the odd-numbered “bad” Trek films that’s a bit underrated, and that’s Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
What Was the Point of Alien: Covenant?
The success of Alien: Romulus has infused new life into the venerable Alien franchise on the 45th anniversary of its creation. That’s a rare feat for any IP, made all the more impressive by its comparatively small pop culture footprint.
Rebel Ridge is Netflix's latest streaming hit. But is it as good as critics say it is? Original
After a crackling start, Jeremy Saulnier’s Rebel Ridge, Netflix’s latest original hit, falters. Its director doesn’t seem sure what kind of movie it should be, or how realistically it should present the consequences of unjust policing. This uncertainty compromises its effectiveness both as an entertainment and as a work of social consciousness. The movie stars Aaron Pierre as Terry Richmond, a former nonlethal combat trainer for the U.S. Marine Corps.
Forget Die Hard; this 1980s action film is the most underrated Christmas movie ever Original
Warning: This article discusses suicide. The campaign to canonize Die Hard as a Christmas movie has been in full swing for year now, with adherents advocating for the movie’s holiday bona fides with almost religious zealotry. But while some have made compelling arguments – even the movie’s distributor, 20th Century Fox, called it the “greatest Christmas story ever told” – it’s not hard to see why others, including star Bruce Willis, consider it a shaky claim. Yes, it’s set during Christmastime.
The Best New Shows on Netflix in November 2023
Now that the season of horror has ended, we can put all the scary stuff behind us and look forward to the bright and cheery times ahead. Although Netflix has started rolling out holiday-centric content, there’s a lot more joining the streamer's library this November. For starters, this month we have a bunch of new, highly anticipated releases, including new seasons of some long-running hit series and some brand-new shows that fans have been eagerly waiting for.
This underrated 2016 action comedy is just as good as Chinatown. Here's why you should watch it Original
Shane Black’s The Nice Guys, starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe, is a comedic homage to classic LA films like Chinatown, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and L.A. Confidential in which down-and-out detectives uncover far-reaching Machiavellian conspiracies that have dire implications for the future of society.
The 10 best Tom Cruise movies of all time, ranked
Even as the age of the movie star has given way to the age of the IP franchise (Marvel, Star Wars, et. al), Tom Cruise has maintained his global status as a cinema icon. Even despite the public dubbing he’s taken over various personal issues throughout the years, Cruise remains on the Hollywood A-list into his fifth decade of acting. How does he do it? The simplest explanation is that he makes quality movies, both as a star and producer of his own films, as well as a savvy chooser of directors.
The 10 best movies and TV shows to watch on July 4th
Every year, there are a few things that remain consistent about July 4th celebrations: there will be fireworks, there will be beer, and there will be some form of cooked animal flesh ripe for consumption. It’s the American way. Yet the Fourth of July also involves watching movies and TV shows that celebrate the American spirit and identity in a variety of ways.
5 underrated Oscar-winning movies you should check out Original
The Oscars are the pinnacle of achievement and recognition in Hollywood. In almost two dozen categories, various crafts guilds, like art directors, makeup stylists, writers, directors, and actors, vote for excellence in their profession. Millions of people tune in every February or March to watch such pomp and circumstance take place. As a result, audiences typically have watched, or at least know of, the movies that have won Oscars.
A Disturbance in the Force trailer tackles Star Wars Holiday Special
In 1978, CBS aired the Star Wars Holiday Special, a two-hour spin-off film 18 months after the success of A New Hope. The special never aired again. A new documentary, A Disturbance in the Force, attempts to figure out what went wrong with the most reviled Star Wars adventure in franchise history.
5 TV shows to watch if you liked Poker Face
Peacock’s Poker Face begins like an intense drama but quickly morphs into a garden variety police procedural with a twist. Natasha Lyonne’s character Charlie, while on the run, finds herself at the center of murder after murder in every town she visits. She investigates, solves, and brings down murderers of all kinds, from a Texas barbecue restaurant owner to a has-been rock musician, a race car driver, and a Bonnie & Clyde-like duo living in a retirement home.
Watch this exclusive clip from Syfy's The Ark episode 5
The drama on Syfy’s The Ark is heating up as the remaining members of Ark One fight to stay on course and complete their mission, as is evident in an exclusive clip from the upcoming fifth episode titled One Step Forward, Two Steps Back. In the clip, Lt. Spencer Lane (The Outpost’s Reece Ritchie) confronts Lt. Sharon Garnet (Maid’s Christie Burke) over the shocking revelation that she is a clone.
Relational Continuity, Physician Payment, and Team-Based Primary Care in the Canadian Health Care System
Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on American Board of Family Medicine. NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address. Your Email * Your Name * Send To * Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
The best moments in the Star Wars franchise, ranked
Digital Trends offers a full menu of most powerful Star Wars lists: most powerful villains, most powerful heroes, even coolest TIE Fighters (OK, the last one is not strictly most powerful, but I wrote it and it’s really funny.). These lists are great fun, but what we most care about in our Star Wars movies is story and emotion. We all cherish the times we thrilled, chilled, and gasped through the saga’s epic sacrifices, tragic losses, and shocking revelations.
Who is the best James Bond?
A favorite pastime of a certain subset of cinephiles is to theorize, speculate, and even wager on who will become the next James Bond. Seriously, it’s right there in the sports books next to the horse races and the billion-to-one bet that the Sacramento Kings will ever make the playoffs again. But what is it, precisely, that has so many of us so invested?
10 Best James Bond movies ever, ranked
As the years wear on and the new entries stack up, fans continue to partake in the regular ranking of the 007 oeuvre, taking sides in the forever argument of which is the best James Bond movie of all time. Some enthusiasts would never hear of anything other than a title featuring the the OG Bond, Sean Connery, while others cite the more sophisticated modern installments led by Daniel Craig, who just recently retired from the role in last year’s excellent No Time to Die.
The legacy of New Black Cinema
1992 was a peak year for the New Black Cinema, a (mostly) independent film movement that stretched from the late-1980s until the mid-1990s and revolutionized the way that African Americans were represented on-screen. Important films of the movement like Malcolm X, ‘Mo Money, Juice, Deep Cover, Mississippi Masala, Daughters of the Dust, One False Move, and South Central all came out in 1992.
Before Putin, 1980s movies terrorized us with nuclear war
Decades have elapsed since Americans trembled at the prospect of nuclear war, which once hung over our heads like a sword of Damocles. But with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion and attempted conquest of Ukraine, and the attendant nuclear saber-rattling, we’ve all been reminded that, oh yeah, the world could still blow itself up many times over! Though the possibility never disappeared, we forgot about it, or more accurately, preferred not to think about it in the post-Cold War world.
After Dahmer: Best serial killer movies and TV shows
Americans seem to fear and love serial killers in equal measure. How else to explain us huddling, stricken, around a neverending deluge of movies, shows, novels, podcasts, true crime non-fiction, and even video games that constantly puts these (mostly) men and their bloody deeds front and center? Our latest national obsession is the Netflix miniseries, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, which has already become one of its biggest hits.
Robocop at 35: why the action movie still holds up today
Robocop begins with a lovely establishing shot of futuristic “Old Detroit” at twilight. The camera soars across a body of water (presumably the Detroit River) and pushes in towards the city. The buildings are clean-lined and elegant. The sky is a deep cerulean. This place seems pretty nice, we think.
Can a Community movie still be relevant and funny in 2022?
Community, Dan Harmon’s cult classic sitcom about seven students who bond in a college study group, is never far from the hearts and minds of either its fans or its creators. That the tumultuous production would somehow survive for six seasons and a movie was teased as early as season 2 and became a rallying cry for the show’s devoted viewers, whom Harmon has credited for keeping the show going after NBC fired him following season 3 (he eventually returned).
With the upcoming Andor, does Rogue One still hold up?
Rogue One, about a band of fledgling Rebels who attempt to steal the Death Star plans, holds the distinction of achieving something no Star Wars film had since A New Hope: it became a surprise hit. Well, OK, not exactly. As only the second Star Wars feature film to hit theaters since 2005, everybody knew it would make money no matter what. But there were lots of questions and some pessimistic predictions.
Is The Last Jedi's Rian Johnson a part of Star Wars' future?
As the fifth anniversary of the divisive Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi approaches (it hit theaters on December 15, 2017), the spotlight is once again on its director, Rian Johnson — partially because he has another big sequel coming out, this time to his 2019 hit murder mystery, Knives Out, the first of an original franchise he’s developed. And partially because of the ever-growing appreciation for The Last Jedi as both a Star Wars film and a bold cinematic experience in its own right.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy helped us get through 9/11
When tentative news began to leak, pre-Y2K, that Kiwi director Peter Jackson was making a live-action Lord of the Rings trilogy, legions of longtime LOTR fans (including me — at age 8, The Hobbit was the first novel I finished) were excited, but our enthusiasm was tempered. For one thing, the casting seemed hard to envision (Sean Astin … the kid from The Goonies?
Better Call Saul was a profound meditation on time
Note: This article contains spoilers for season six and the final episode. Better Call Saul could be a hard show to fathom. What, exactly, was it about?
A League of Their Own is the ultimate early 90's document
Not surprisingly, Amazon’s new A League of Their Own series, based on Penny Marshall’s beloved 1992 movie about the WWII-era All American Girls Baseball League, goes further than the 30-year-old film in progressively engaging issues of gender, race, and sexual orientation.
By destroying old tropes, Prey turns a corner for Native Americans in film
Prey is the most recent entry in the inexplicably long-running Predator franchise about an alien who comes to Earth to hunt humans — inexplicable because, aside from the well-received first entry starring Arnold Schwarzenegger way back in 1987, the series has been neither a critical darling nor a box-office juggernaut. Nevertheless, six Predator films have been made before Prey, including two Alien vs. Predator crossover movies (about which the less said, the better).
Why Solo is the best modern Star Wars movie
For no good reason at all — and certainly not one related to its content — Solo: A Star Wars Story has become the bastard child of Disney’s Star Wars family, a scapegoat for all the rushed and bad choices made by Disney and Lucasfilm honcho Kathleen Kennedy during the first phase of the Disney Star Wars era (the era that included the sequel trilogy, Rogue One, and Solo).
Beyond Bullet Train: cool movies set on trains Original
Cinema has a long history of popular movies set aboard choo-choos. Given this, it’s no surprise that Bullet Train –about assassins and thieves pursuing a McGuffin on a train headed from Tokyo to Kyoto — did brisk business during its first weekend in theaters, despite lukewarm reviews. Brad Pitt in the lead role surely didn’t hurt the box office either. Perhaps audiences are drawn to these films because trains are inherently cinematic.
From Tyler Durden to Cliff Booth: Brad Pitt's coolest roles Original
If Brad Pitt hadn’t been so judicious in choosing roles, it’s likely he wouldn’t have stayed on top of the movie star game for the last 30 years, a sustained run of success that few have rivaled in the post-movie star age.
The Orville is Star Trek: TNG's true spiritual successor
Seth MacFarlane’s sci-fi small screen epic, The Orville — now streaming its third season on Hulu as The Orville: New Horizons — is one of the strangest experiments on television. It’s a virtual copy of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a loving homage to that series, and a strong show in its own right. It shouldn’t work, but not only does it work, but it has also become more intricate and compelling over time (one of many things it has in common with TNG).
Comic-Con | News, Announcements, Trailers, and More | Digital Trends
About After a two-year COVID-induced slumber, San Diego Comic-Con is back! The world’s great pop culture celebration is once again inviting all geeks, nerds, dorks, stars, and suits to San Diego, where every major Hollywood studio and comic book publisher will unveil their latest offerings.
The best San Diego Comic-Con movie trailer debuts ever Original
Perhaps no single event on the annual calendar is more closely associated with trailer drops than San Diego Comic-Con. As it has become more and more prominent, Comic-Con has become known for teases for all things adjacent to nerd culture, including fantasy films, sci-fi TV shows, and even the occasional video game. Now it’s true that, in the end, trailers are often just pieces of marketing.
Ryan Gosling's 5 most badass roles
In The Gray Man, Netflix’s big summer action movie event directed by Joe and Anthony Russo (Cherry, Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame), Ryan Gosling plays a shadowy CIA agent who (according to Netflix), “uncovers damning agency secrets” and is “hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who’s put a bounty on his head.” Gosling is new to such roles, so perhaps he can be forgiven if he wasn’t aware that this is the plot of basically every international spy thriller ever made,...
How Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade saved my life
The late 1980s and pre-Jurassic Park early 1990s were not an entirely successful era for Steven Spielberg. Empire of the Sun (1987) was futile Oscar bait, while Always (1989) and Hook (1991) failed to charm audiences the way his earlier fantasies had. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, on the other hand, released 33 years ago on Memorial Day weekend, was a huge success, the second highest-grossing picture of the year after the phenomenon that was Tim Burton’s Batman.
A brief history of San Diego Comic-Con Original
“Nerds of the world unite!” These words thundered from the lips of the creators of San Diego Comic-Con more than half a century ago as they summoned their kindred spirits from across the land. The call went out to every sci-fi and fantasy lover — every comic book, dime novel, and movie-obsessed fan and collector — to begin a pilgrimage. “Our time is here,” they cried. “And the world shall tremble before what we build!” Well, OK, maybe not exactly.
Is the fan-made Obi-Wan Kenobi movie better than the series?
Obi-Wan Kenobi launched this spring in a flurry of excitement that included breathless articles suddenly proclaiming the merits of the prequels. Fans not only hoped to see Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader again — the protagonists turned adversaries of Star Wars Episodes I-III — but they were also psyched to see them played by the original actors, Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen. As such, many were thrilled when the show debuted.
Should the Dark Knight rise again in a fourth movie? Original
Holy headlines, Batman! Have you heard the Bat-news? Christian Bale has said he would play Batman/Bruce Wayne once again for Christopher Nolan should the auteur behind the massively successful Dark Knight trilogy be interested in making a fourth film.
2017 was the best year for sci-fi sequels
Good sequels are rare. It’s never easy to recreate the original brew that alchemized into a great movie. For a given year to produce even two great sequels is exceptional, which is why 2017 was annus mirabilis for these follow-ups. 2017 produced five sequels in the same genre — sci-fi action — that were all as good or better than anything else in their respective franchises.
The 10 best movies and TV shows to watch on July 4th
Every year, there are a few things that remain consistent about July 4th celebrations: there will be fireworks, there will be beer, and there will be some form of cooked animal flesh ripe for consumption. It’s the American way. Yet the Fourth of July also involves watching movies and TV shows that celebrate the American spirit and identity in a variety of ways.
5 movies and TV shows like Only Murders in the Building
Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building returns for season 2, featuring one of TV’s most unlikely detective team-ups. Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez play Charles, Oliver, and Mabel, the residents of a ritzy Manhattan apartment house who attempt to solve a murder in the building while chronicling their adventures in a podcast. One of the reasons why Only Murders became such an instant hit was because it was the perfect pandemic entertainment.
Why Kristen Stewart is a queer icon Original
As Pride Month continues, we celebrate Kristen Stewart, an important contemporary icon whose career — while certainly not just beginning after two decades in the movies — is still well on the rise at 32.
Best movies to watch on an airplane Original
It’s common knowledge that flying, especially post-pandemic, has become an ever more rewarding, pleasurable, and luxurious experience, with service, prices, and amenities reaching the pinnacle of…sorry, I can’t finish this sentence, not even as a joke. Flying is terrible and it’s gotten worse, with one horror story after another making us want to hunker down in our mini-prisons (sometimes referred to as “airplane seats”) and drown ourselves in cheap gin at $14 a pop.
Are the Star Wars prequels actually good? Original
Ten years ago, great jubilation arose among the Star Wars faithful when Disney acquired Lucasfilm and subsequently announced Star Wars sequels featuring the original trilogy characters. Finally, we could move past the sins of the prequel trilogy — Episodes I, II, and III, all written and directed by George Lucas — with “real” Star Wars movies that would eclipse our blighted memories of Lucas’ miscalculations.
The original Jurassic Park was never a good movie. Original
Jurassic World Dominion opened to big box office this past weekend, along with some of the worst reviews of the six-movie franchise — a 30% score on Rotten Tomatoes — which is saying something, given that most of the entries in this series have been panned by critics.
Best David Cronenberg movies, ranked by Rotten Tomatoes Original
If you’re Canadian auteur David Cronenberg, purveyor of oozy body horror, psycho-sexual titillation, and all manner of other subversive content, it’s hard to imagine better pre-release hype around your new film than numerous reports of nauseated audiences fleeing screenings. Of course, this was the Cannes Film Festival, where people enjoy walking out of movies for virtually any provocation.
The 10 coolest Star Wars TIE fighters, ranked Original
Star Wars may continue to divide fans on a number of fronts, but if everybody agrees on one thing, it’s that the ships and vehicles remain awesome, even the new ones. For example, The Mandalorian introduced the instant classic “Razor Crest,” which was the equivalent of an Airstream RV for Mando and ‘lil Grogu to tour the galaxy’s hot spots.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Michael
Contact Michael, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack