Star Trek

William Shatner Flips Off Conan, Can't Do Vulcan Salute (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 07.19.2009 | Entertainment


William Shatner sat down with Conan on "The Tonight Show," and ended up flipping off the host on Wednesday night. After a few oddball stories about...

Be an Ex-President Without Being President First!

Dave Astor | Posted 07.18.2009 | Comedy


Dave Astor

There's the Star Trek solution of changing the time-space continuum, but I'm hesitant to recommend that because of the damage it might do to the Obamas' new White House vegetable garden.

Star Trek: J.J. Abrams Is a Neuroscientist

Charles Warner | Posted 07.17.2009 | Entertainment


Charles Warner

The risk-taking, emotional, intuitive Kirk and the logical, rational, conservative Spock need each other. They are two integral parts of a complex, effective decision-making system.

Hangover, Up Keep Their Top Slots While Imagine That Flops...

Scott Mendelson | Posted 07.15.2009 | Entertainment


Scott Mendelson

The Hangover -- one of the unlikeliest films to open at number one this summer -- is now arguably the least predictable contender to hold onto the top spot for two weekends running.

Whoops...The Hangover Is Actually Number 01 This Weekend

Scott Mendelson | Posted 07.09.2009 | Entertainment


Scott Mendelson

You have an R-rated comedy starring a cast of unknowns and moderately recognizable faces that just opened bigger than all but one Adam Sandler comedy and all but one Will Ferrell vehicle.

Jason Linkins

Drudge Concerned Over Suspicious Mustache (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media


Seems like it was only yesterday that I, along with the rest of the world, were setting our hair on fire in panic at the news on the Drudge Report tha...

Abraham Lincoln's Vegetarian Address

Dave Astor | Posted 07.05.2009 | Comedy


Dave Astor

"Four score and seven meals ago my conscience brought forth to the anti-rebel north a new diet conceived in kindness and dedicated to the proposition that all animals are created equal.

The Insanity of Ayn Rand: The Fountain-Brain-Dead.

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 07.05.2009 | Entertainment


Tallulah Morehead

This movie is pro-selfishness and egoism (which is just egotism misspelled), and anti-altruism. It preaches, at length and in a superior tone, that Altruism is Bad. And it means it.

Terminating the Darkness: Hope Floats, but Anxiety Abides

William Bradley | Posted 07.01.2009 | Entertainment


William Bradley

Is the era of the dark comic book movie fable coming to an end? Or is it more a matter of a spate of seemingly underperforming dark would-be blockbusters?

Looking Back at the Original Star Trek Motion Pictures

Bryan Young | Posted 06.28.2009 | Entertainment


Bryan Young

The thing Star Trek does better than most anything is enable you hold a mirror up to our culture and show its deepest -- oftentimes hidden -- flaws

Star Trek

Ken Levine | Posted 06.26.2009 | Entertainment


Ken Levine

Star Trek -- I give it 5 stars, 2 galaxies, and 1 1/2 novas.

Give Reboots the Boot

Marshall Fine | Posted 06.26.2009 | Entertainment


Marshall Fine

As much as I enjoyed Star Trek, it was a guilty pleasure. Here was yet another movie that was devoted to selling us something we already had.

Night at the Museum 2 defeats Terminator Salvation - Huff Post Friday box office rundown

Scott Mendelson | Posted 06.23.2009 | Entertainment


Scott Mendelson

The sequel to the insanely leggy 2006 family favorite took in $15.3 million, while Terminator Salvation took in $14.8 million on its second day of release.

Thoughts on the IMAX/Not-IMAX Debate as Night at the Museum 2 Replaces Star Trek in the Nation's IMAX Screens

Scott Mendelson | Posted 06.21.2009 | Entertainment


Scott Mendelson

About that ridiculous ongoing debate about the new digital IMAX screens popping up in retrofitted conventional movie theaters, here's the thing: IMAX is not just about screen size.

Still in Love with Spock After All These Years

Holly Robinson | Posted 06.19.2009 | Entertainment


Holly Robinson

I thought my lust for sexy Vulcans was gone for good but the new Star Trek brought my first love back to me.

Angels & Demons Barely Edges Out Star Trek: HuffPost Weekend Box Office in Review (05/10/09)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 06.19.2009 | Entertainment


Scott Mendelson

The shocking news is that while Angels & Demons did a solid $46 million over the weekend, it actually came in second place to Star Trek on Saturday and Sunday.

To Paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, People Get the Trek They Deserve

Julian Yap | Posted 06.19.2009 | Entertainment


Julian Yap

If this younger, more diverse, hopeful, humorous, and ultimately optimistic Star Trek is a reflection of our times, then perhaps things are looking up.

'Star Trek' Screens In Space

AP | Posted 06.18.2009 | Entertainment


LOS ANGELES — "Star Trek" has been beamed aboard the International Space Station. Paramount Pictures said they transferred director J.J. Abrams...

Outrage: Outing Politicians Cinematically, Joking About 9/11, and Torture in Star Trek

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics


Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

what about the Wanda Sykes roast? Was she out of bounds? Can a joke about 9/11 be funny, even if it's tasteless?

To Boldly Go...Backwards

Jennifer Weiner | Posted 06.12.2009 | Entertainment


Jennifer Weiner

I didn't have a problem until about midway through Star Trek, at which point I realized that every single lady on screen was either a mother, a ho, or an intergalactic hood ornament.

Star Trek's Gender Problem

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 06.12.2009 | Entertainment


Melissa Silverstein

Star Trek has lots of inter-planetary diversity, including Kirk's relationship with an all green woman, yet it still can't get over the gender stereotypes.

Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About Star Trek

Paul Snyder | Posted 06.11.2009 | Entertainment


Paul Snyder

Kirk and Spock do a lot of punching, for Kirk and Spock. This is Star Trek with the Beastie Boys in it. People get naked.

A Mindless Meld of "Star Trek" and the New Unemployment Rate

Dave Astor | Posted 06.11.2009 | Comedy


Dave Astor

The U.S. Labor Department announced Friday that 539,000 people lost their jobs last month -- a dreadful total, but not as high as the 600,000-plus axed in March. Here are three reasons why the unemployment increase got slightly less awful...

"Star Trek" Reminds Me Why I Liked Winona Ryder

Mark Blankenship | Posted 06.10.2009 | Entertainment


Mark Blankenship

I haven't seen a Winona Ryder film in an actual movie theater since The Crucible was released in 1996. I had forgotten she could exist in those dimensions.

SNL: Star Trek Stars On Weekend Update: A Plea To Trekkies (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 06.10.2009 | Entertainment


"Star Trek" stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Quinto's Spock predecessor Leonard Nimoy surprised fans when they showed up on "Saturday Night Live's...