A TMC tidbit.
Fred Savage of TV's The Wonder Years and Beau Bridges will work together in The Wizard.
The movie centers on the kidnapping of a kid by his older brother and their escapades en route to a video tournament.
Here's a preview of a movie playing in theaters now.
From a relaxing vacation on Earth.
Greetings, Captain.
I do not think you realize the gravity of your situation.
Whoa!
To the most perilous reaches of space.
Only one crew dare travel where no man has ever gone before.
We'll need all the power you can muster, mister.
On a desolate planet, a renegade Vulcan seeks ultimate knowledge.
To find it, we'll need a starship.
And he will stop at nothing...
to get it.
I dreamt that a madman had taken over the Enterprise.
You look like you've just seen a ghost.
Perhaps I have, Captain.
Our destination is the planet Shakari, eaten at the center of the galaxy.
The center of the galaxy can't be reached.
If you ask me, and you haven't, I think this is a terrible idea.
We're bound to bump into the Klingons.
We're on course.
To Kirk, he's a fanatic to be fought.
You know we'll never make it through the Great Barrier.
I say the danger is an illusion.
To the crew, he's a mystic to be followed.
Cyborg has simply put us in touch with feelings that we've always been.
I have to get back to the transporter.
To Spock, he's the past he must confront.
Shoot him!
You know I'm right.
Spock, my only concern is getting the ship back.
And you're either with me or you're not.
Put him in the brig with Captain Kirk.
I'm a prisoner on my own ship.
What do you stand around for?
Do you not know a jailbreak when you see one?
Mr. Scott, you're amazing.
There's nothing amazing about it.
I know this ship like the back of my hand.
The emergency channel open.
The hostile force has taken control of our vessel.
Put us on a direct course with the Great Barrier.
Understood, Enterprise.
We are dispatching a rescue ship immediately.
Then...
Bird of prey bearing 105, mark 2.
Let me do something.
Mr. Solo, full ahead.
Transfer power to warp drive.
Warp speed, now.
The greatest Enterprise of all is adventure.
Star Trek V, The Final Frontier.
Oh, hi.
I'm Ian Scholes, social critic.
Here once again to talk about the movies and what they mean to me.
You know, if you read the supermarket tabloids every week,
and don't tell me you don't, you'll know that the big problems
facing America today are in no particular order.
The return of Elvis, UFOs, alien babies, and of course, Elvis babies.
But I think I found a new threat.
Movies. Check it out.
This is the Castro Theater in San Francisco.
There was a time in America when each movie theater was unique.
A sumptuous palace is larger than life as the movies it displayed.
But today, movie theaters have gone from this to this.
Movies all over the place.
Four movies under one roof.
All of them with Tom Cruise, which show up a year later at your local video store.
This is more than a multiplex.
This is a kiloplex.
Thousands of titles.
And if you don't have a VCR, you still have the movie channel.
If you don't have the movie channel, you still have basic cable.
If you don't have basic cable, you still have the networks, and all of them show movies.
They even show movies on airplanes.
There are so many movies, you need books to help you watch them.
Three different books to tell you every kind of movie on television
and whether they're any good or not.
Guides to horror movies.
Guides to film war. Every kind of movie.
Behind the scenes looks at movies.
Screenplays.
Novelizations, which are to real novels,
what colorization is to black and white.
And magazines.
Premier.
American film.
Magazines devoted to movies.
And every mainstream magazine employs a reviewer to tell you what to see and what not to see.
Yeah.
A movie used to be a special event.
Now movies breed like rabbits.
Or termites.
Burrowing into the sturdy wood of our delicate social fabric.
And speaking of fabric.
Let's do my laundry.
I'll give you final proof, if you need it,
of this dire threat to our entertainment value system.
That's right.
Movies and the laundromat.
So far Star Wash in San Francisco is the first to implement this novelty,
but it could be an alarming trend.
No more will we watch the spin cycle with childlike rapture.
No, we'll ignore our laundry.
Watch the movie instead.
And where will it end?
Movies on wristwatches?
Movies in restaurants?
Little tiny movies in automatic teller machines?
Think about it. And think about this.
An alien baby bearing a remarkable resemblance to Elvis Presley
has been discovered in a small village in Tibet.
Is there a connection between Elvis babies and
movies spreading across the globe like jello on a hot sidewalk?
I don't know.
I gotta go.
Anybody have eight dollars worth of quarters I can borrow?
I've likened the jobs of directing and producing as the difference
between coaching and being the quarterback.
And there's a joy in both and they're two different jobs.
And, you know, I was a quarterback for a while and I was coach for a while.
And I can go back and be a quarterback if the situation seems right.
I'm looking for, you know, I want to do the right,
it takes the right kind of project to sort of get me interested in doing it again.
Because I get a little bit involved, you know, on these projects here and there.
I get a chance to get behind the camera a few times.
It started with a phone call.
Hi, I know you're there.
From a lover she had never met.
Someone was here asking about you.
I think you want to talk to me. You'd like to, wouldn't you?
This is dangerous, stop.
Patricia Charbonneau stars in Call Me.
Playing tonight on the Movie Channel.
The Movie Channel makes it easy to shift your VCR into maximum overdrive.
Because now you can record movies every night with no promotional interruptions on VCR overnight.
Friday, tape the Joe Bob Briggs all-night drive-in starting with
She's 19 and Ready at 12.45 a.m. 11.45 p.m. Central
followed by Surf Nazis Must Die and Captain Midnight.
It's the easiest way ever to feed your machine a nightly dose of movies.
VCR overnight.
Tape while you sleep. Watch when you want.