You are on the wrong website if you don’t know who William Shatner is. Whether or not you are a Star Trek fan is irrelevant for you to appreciate Shatner’s impact on pop culture. From his role as Captain James T. Kirk to turns on The Twilight Zone, Tj Hooker, Rescue 911, Boston Legal, and more, Shatner has been a pop culture stalwart since the 1960s. Having written books, released albums, and performed on stage, William Shatner’s legacy hit a pinnacle when he joined Jeff Bezos for a spaceflight a few years ago. From fictional space to real stars, Shatner is a legend.
At 93 years old, William Shatner also knows his time on this planet is coming to an end in the near future. His new documentary, You Can Call Me Bill, mediates his place in the cosmos and what it has meant to have lived almost a century of happiness.
At 93 years old, William Shatner also knows his time on this planet is coming to an end in the near future. His new documentary, You Can Call Me Bill, mediates his place in the cosmos and what it has meant to have lived almost a century of happiness.
- 4/30/2024
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Synopsis: As an intimate portrait of William Shatner’s personal journey across nine decades of a boldly lived and fully realized life, William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill strips away all the masks he has worn during his storied career to reveal the man behind it all.
Review: William Shatner is a legendary actor better known for his iconic performance as Captain James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek television series and films. He holds a unique place in Hollywood history. A fan favorite for over sixty years with a career on stage and screen as a writer and singer, and having traveled to space, Shatner’s legacy has built him a dedicated fanbase worldwide. Having written memoirs and shared his life story in many forms of media, You Can Call Me Bill is a unique documentary that does not follow the conventional format we have come to...
Review: William Shatner is a legendary actor better known for his iconic performance as Captain James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek television series and films. He holds a unique place in Hollywood history. A fan favorite for over sixty years with a career on stage and screen as a writer and singer, and having traveled to space, Shatner’s legacy has built him a dedicated fanbase worldwide. Having written memoirs and shared his life story in many forms of media, You Can Call Me Bill is a unique documentary that does not follow the conventional format we have come to...
- 4/25/2024
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Chris Stapleton stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to showcase his song “It Takes a Woman” on the show’s outdoor stage and took the opportunity to also perform a brand new number about John Stamos. For the late-night show’s “Wing It and Sing It” segment, host Jimmy Kimmel challenged the country musician to improvise a tune on guitar and vocals with cue cards.
Stapleton, who recently performed on Saturday Night Live, offered a more traditional rendition of “It Takes a Woman” alongside his band on the outdoor stage, which...
Stapleton, who recently performed on Saturday Night Live, offered a more traditional rendition of “It Takes a Woman” alongside his band on the outdoor stage, which...
- 4/18/2024
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Incubus will perform their blockbuster 2001 album, Morning View, in full on a newly announced US area tour. The late summer trek will also feature Coheed and Cambria as a special guest.
The 10-city tour kicks off in Detroit on August 23rd, and also includes shows in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Tampa, Austin, Dallas Denver, and San Francisco.
Ahead of the tour’s kick-off, Incubus will release a re-recorded version of Morning View, officially dubbed Morning View Xxiii, on May 10th.
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An artist ticket pre-sale is now ongoing (use Code MVTOUR24), followed by a Live Nation ticket pre-sale on Wednesday, February 7th (use code Energy), and a public on-sale on Friday, February 9th via Ticketmaster.
Once tickets are on sale, fans can look for deals or get access to sold-out shows via StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform,...
The 10-city tour kicks off in Detroit on August 23rd, and also includes shows in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Tampa, Austin, Dallas Denver, and San Francisco.
Ahead of the tour’s kick-off, Incubus will release a re-recorded version of Morning View, officially dubbed Morning View Xxiii, on May 10th.
Get Incubus Tickets Here
An artist ticket pre-sale is now ongoing (use Code MVTOUR24), followed by a Live Nation ticket pre-sale on Wednesday, February 7th (use code Energy), and a public on-sale on Friday, February 9th via Ticketmaster.
Once tickets are on sale, fans can look for deals or get access to sold-out shows via StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform,...
- 2/6/2024
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
Gene Roddenberry's celebrated sci-fi TV series "Star Trek" debuted on September 8, 1966, and recently celebrated its 57th anniversary. Initially, "Trek" wasn't terribly popular, and only managed to make a third season thanks to a coordinated letter-writing campaign (a campaign that Roddenberry was accused of orchestrating and encouraging himself). It wouldn't be until after "Star Trek" was canceled in 1969 that its popularity would significantly begin to grow. Thanks to a sweet infinite syndication deal, "Star Trek" reruns were common, and a cult began to form. By the early 1970s, the first "Trek" conventions began to appear. Naturally, conventions were a great place for the show's stars and creators to congregate and share production stories with a rising tide of obsessives. Fans were able to talk to and get autographs from William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, George Takei, James Doohan, and Grace Lee Whitney, as...
- 9/26/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Tuesday, August 29th, would’ve been Michael Jackson’s 65th birthday, but he probably wouldn’t want you celebrating it. Or at least that’s what his daughter, Paris Jackson, explained in a new video she posted to Instagram defending herself from fans who have harassed her in the past — up to the point of death threats — for not publicly acknowledging the day.
“Today’s my dad’s birthday, and back when he was alive, he used to hate anybody acknowledging his birthday,” Jackson said in the video, posted late Tuesday night. “Wishing him a happy birthday, celebrating it; nothing like that. He actually didn’t want us to even know when his birthday was.”
Continuing, Jackson explained that when she’s tried to not make a big deal out of her father’s birthday, like she believes he would’ve wanted, she’s received undue attacks from folks online.
“Today’s my dad’s birthday, and back when he was alive, he used to hate anybody acknowledging his birthday,” Jackson said in the video, posted late Tuesday night. “Wishing him a happy birthday, celebrating it; nothing like that. He actually didn’t want us to even know when his birthday was.”
Continuing, Jackson explained that when she’s tried to not make a big deal out of her father’s birthday, like she believes he would’ve wanted, she’s received undue attacks from folks online.
- 8/30/2023
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Incubus have pulled a Taylor Swift and re-recorded their album Morning View.
The new version, dubbed Morning View Xxiii, will be released on October 6th through the band’s new label, Virgin Music.
What’s more, Incubus will support the release by performing Morning View in full during a special concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on October 6th. Action Bronson and Paris Jackson will open the show, and tickets are available here.
“We are excited to partner up with Virgin to release Morning View Xxiii, and we can’t wait to perform it live for the fans at The Hollywood Bowl,” Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd said in a statement. “Morning View Xxiii will give our fans a fresh new take on the songs and we look forward to sharing it with everyone when it drops on Oct 6th!”
Incubus are amidst a summer tour of North America with Paris Jackson and Badflower.
The new version, dubbed Morning View Xxiii, will be released on October 6th through the band’s new label, Virgin Music.
What’s more, Incubus will support the release by performing Morning View in full during a special concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on October 6th. Action Bronson and Paris Jackson will open the show, and tickets are available here.
“We are excited to partner up with Virgin to release Morning View Xxiii, and we can’t wait to perform it live for the fans at The Hollywood Bowl,” Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd said in a statement. “Morning View Xxiii will give our fans a fresh new take on the songs and we look forward to sharing it with everyone when it drops on Oct 6th!”
Incubus are amidst a summer tour of North America with Paris Jackson and Badflower.
- 8/3/2023
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Reservation Dogs Season 3, Episode 1, “Bussin’.”] The Reservation Dogs are back as the third and final season of FX’s acclaimed series dropped its first two episodes on Hulu, and with it the start of a fresh chapter for the friends at the center of it all. After traveling to Los Angeles to live out their late friend Daniel’s dream, Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai), Elora (Devery Jacobs), Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis), and Cheese (Lane Factor) begin the season stranded until Aunt Teenie (Tamara Podemski) comes to escort them back home to Oklahoma. Before she arrives though, Bear takes an important step in leaving the negative relationship he has with his father behind, and White Jesus (Brandon Boyd from Incubus) bids them adieu after watching over the group following their harrowing L.A. adventure which included being carjacked and robbed. “Bussin'” saw the friends hit the road and Spirit, William Knifeman (Dallas Goldtooth...
- 8/2/2023
- TV Insider
Writer and creator Sterlin Harjo promised that the Season 3 finale of “Reservation Dogs” would serve as the perfect ending to the FX series on Hulu. It’s a bold claim in a culture that often sees fans ripping finales and their writers apart. But if the first few episodes of Season 3 are any indication, it’s more than likely our beloved Rez Dogs will get as close to perfect as possible.
From the first four episodes of the final season available for review, it’s clear the writers know exactly what the viewers want: Surreal spirits and quirky side characters guiding and challenging the young crew. Storytelling that manages to weave together the silly and absurd with some of the harsh realities Native populations have had to face over generations (the atrocities and aftermath of Indian boarding schools get called out on more than one occasion this season). And of course,...
From the first four episodes of the final season available for review, it’s clear the writers know exactly what the viewers want: Surreal spirits and quirky side characters guiding and challenging the young crew. Storytelling that manages to weave together the silly and absurd with some of the harsh realities Native populations have had to face over generations (the atrocities and aftermath of Indian boarding schools get called out on more than one occasion this season). And of course,...
- 8/1/2023
- by Priscilla Blossom
- The Wrap
Even when he’s not trying to be funny, laughter can be the first response that greets William Shatner. Some may think of him as a caricature. What Alexandre O. Philippe’s thoughtful, searching new documentary “You Can Call Me Bill” reveals, without ever being so blunt as to say as much, is that that laughter reveals more about us than about Shatner. About our inability to comprehend someone quite as complex, as defiantly irreducible, as the man who once was Captain Kirk.
Shatner may be pop culture’s greatest master of pontification, and there is no topic on which he doesn’t have thoughts. He’s expressed them before in the 2001 Peter Jaysen documentary “Mind/Meld”; in the 2011 documentary that he himself directed looking back at the legacy of “Star Trek” in its many different incarnations, “The Captains”; and as seen in Philippe’s new film, via poetry readings...
Shatner may be pop culture’s greatest master of pontification, and there is no topic on which he doesn’t have thoughts. He’s expressed them before in the 2001 Peter Jaysen documentary “Mind/Meld”; in the 2011 documentary that he himself directed looking back at the legacy of “Star Trek” in its many different incarnations, “The Captains”; and as seen in Philippe’s new film, via poetry readings...
- 3/17/2023
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
Is this once-lost film the apex of obscure independent Hollywood filmmaking? Made way outside the limits of the Production Code, it's even better than I hoped it would be. Leslie Stevens' 'backyard movie' is the work of a directorial wunderkind with an inspired crew. Totally original, with three unforgettable performances. Private Property Blu-ray + DVD Cinelicious 1960 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 79 min. / Street Date November 8, 2016 / 34.99 Starring Kate Manx, Corey Allen, Warren Oates Robert Ward, Jerome Cowan, Jules Maitland. Cinematography Ted McCord, Conrad Hall Film Editor Jerry Young Original Music Pete Rugolo Film Technology Alexander Singer Produced by Stanley Colbert Written and Directed by Leslie Stevens
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
I saw Private Property for the first time last night, and came away thinking, 'these are the most believably complex, twisted, adult screen characters I've seen in a long time.' I also felt that I had witnessed some really extraordinary acting,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
I saw Private Property for the first time last night, and came away thinking, 'these are the most believably complex, twisted, adult screen characters I've seen in a long time.' I also felt that I had witnessed some really extraordinary acting,...
- 11/5/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
On this day in 1966 the only horror film shot in a constructed language premiered at the San Francisco Film Festival. Starring William Shatner from the first to last scene the actors in Incubus exclusively speak Esperanto. In Incubus however Producer Leslie Stevens sought to use the language solely for gimmick purposes. Originally aiming to create a featurelength film in the mode of the recently cancelled The Outer Limits TV series Stevens thought the use of Esperanto would give his production a unique twist that would produce buzz.
- 10/26/2013
- Best-Horror-Movies.com
While most sci-fi fans are over the moon about "Star Trek Into Darkness" and the whole J.J. Abrams reboot, you may be surprised to learn that there are still quite a few "Star Trek" traditionalists who decry the new films as a monstrous blasphemy. A self-professed "Star Wars" fan turning "Star Trek" into a shoot first and ask questions later action franchise? No way.
And that got us wondering: Which is actually better, the new "Star Trek" or the old "Star Trek"?
Of course, the two versions of Gene Roddenberry's beloved creation are very different in tone and story, so it's a little like comparing apples to tribbles. But one thing they do share is the same characters. So in order to decide which version of "Star Trek" holds the edge, we've decided to match up the old and new versions, actor against actor, mano-a-mano.
Let the battle commence.
And that got us wondering: Which is actually better, the new "Star Trek" or the old "Star Trek"?
Of course, the two versions of Gene Roddenberry's beloved creation are very different in tone and story, so it's a little like comparing apples to tribbles. But one thing they do share is the same characters. So in order to decide which version of "Star Trek" holds the edge, we've decided to match up the old and new versions, actor against actor, mano-a-mano.
Let the battle commence.
- 5/16/2013
- by Scott Harris
- NextMovie
The "The Jazz Singer" launched the age of the "talkie" for film in 1927, and ever since then spoken language has been a part of watching movies, no matter how goofy or totally made up it may be. Today, we salute the filmmakers and actors out there who have gone to the next level and brought entirely new rules for speech and grammar to the big screen.
William Shatner gets an honorable shout-out for his work learning Esperanto for "Incubus" in 1966, but our ten favorite fictional film languages of all time get even crazier. They are funny, occasionally creepy and almost always put more pressure on their subtitles, but all of these foreign tongues defined their movies and breathed life into their elaborately imagined cultures.
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10. Martian, "Mars Attacks!" (1996)
The aliens in this Tim Burton cameo-orgy spoke with a vocabulary just slightly bigger than that of the teacher in the "Peanuts" cartoons,...
William Shatner gets an honorable shout-out for his work learning Esperanto for "Incubus" in 1966, but our ten favorite fictional film languages of all time get even crazier. They are funny, occasionally creepy and almost always put more pressure on their subtitles, but all of these foreign tongues defined their movies and breathed life into their elaborately imagined cultures.
[#10-6] [#5-1] [Index]
10. Martian, "Mars Attacks!" (1996)
The aliens in this Tim Burton cameo-orgy spoke with a vocabulary just slightly bigger than that of the teacher in the "Peanuts" cartoons,...
- 9/19/2011
- by IFC
- ifc.com
Tremors? Nightbreed? Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat? 976-evil? Are all on the list this year. And though there were not huge horror wins in sound editing through screenplays, the Technical Awards never cease to bring out the horror veterans. Notably Tim Drnec who contributed to such VHS classics as Alien Seed, Destroyer, and Prison won for his work on “Spydercam 3D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies.” An award also shared with Ben Britten Smith and Matt Davis who both also worked on Constantine.
But among all the winners, the Academy also honored some great loses in 2010. And though they mentioned some of our heroes, Dennis Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), Kevin McCarthy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and Dino de Laurentiis (King Kong), they did not mention Zelda Rubinstein or Corey Haim. But we will in this last section and the others lost to us last year.
So farewell fight fans and remember,...
But among all the winners, the Academy also honored some great loses in 2010. And though they mentioned some of our heroes, Dennis Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), Kevin McCarthy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and Dino de Laurentiis (King Kong), they did not mention Zelda Rubinstein or Corey Haim. But we will in this last section and the others lost to us last year.
So farewell fight fans and remember,...
- 3/13/2011
- by Heather Buckley
- DreadCentral.com
William A. Fraker was a leading cinematographer in films from the late 1960s, photographing such films as Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby and the 1977’s Exorcist II: The Heretic. He earned six Academy Award nominations during his career for his work on Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), the fantasy classic Heaven Can Wait (1978) starring Warren Beatty, Steven Spielberg’s 1941 (1979), WarGames (1983), and Murphy’s Romance (1985).
Fraker was born in Los Angeles on September 29, 1923 and served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during World War II. He studied at the USC School of Cinema and worked as a photographer’s assistant. He began working as a camera operator for television in the early 1960s. He served as a cinematographer for the obscure television production The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre (a.k.a. The Haunted) (1964) for director Joseph Stefano, and for Leslie Steven’s off-beat, Esperanto-language horror film Incubus (1965) starring William Shatner.
Fraker was born in Los Angeles on September 29, 1923 and served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during World War II. He studied at the USC School of Cinema and worked as a photographer’s assistant. He began working as a camera operator for television in the early 1960s. He served as a cinematographer for the obscure television production The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre (a.k.a. The Haunted) (1964) for director Joseph Stefano, and for Leslie Steven’s off-beat, Esperanto-language horror film Incubus (1965) starring William Shatner.
- 6/22/2010
- by Harris Lentz
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
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