In the highly enjoyable Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, Spock only knows of Genesis through the biblical reference. Then, he’s shown by Kirk a video about the “Genesis effect”. The video is informative. In the video, scientists describe how they are trying to build a planet out of regenerating a moon. Problems of…

Ghostbusters (2016) is entertaining. Also flat at the beginning, but overall an entertaining film and an amusing comedy. It is a visual effects heaven. Chris Hemsworth is amusing as the “dumb blonde”. The ghostbuster heroines are believable. Ghostbusters is also supernatural fiction, but in spite of it being fiction, is it saying there’s a supernatural world…

Seemingly insignificant tasks can have a way of becoming useful, perhaps even the main thing. Take the reboot of Ghostbusters (2016). Not many would call Abby Yates mission to prove ghosts exist a real occupation. It may be funded research, but the odds of coming up with the goods appears remote. Aren’t ghosts the figment of…

Ghost Busters was a long time ago. Former cast members of the 1984 original have cameos in the 2016 reboot. Bill Murray, Annie Potts, Dan Aykroyd, and Ernie Hudson all appear. So they put in a new cast this year. It works. Does anyone believe in ghosts anymore? Haunted houses, specters, and visions floating through…

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