Movie Notes: West Side Story
Synopsis
Tony (Richard Beymer) and Maria (Natalie Wood) are falling in love, unfortunately they are associated with rival New York City street gangs — the Jets and Sharks — that totally hate each other.
Movie Notes: Star Trek: The Motion Picture
That Star Trek: The Motion Picture was a box office success and launched a film franchise is hard to believe in retrospect. The jab “Star Trek: The Motionless Picture” is all too true. There are many reasons: in the late seventies, Paramount was working on Star Trek: Phase Two, a new television series that was prematurely aborted. A one-hour television episode V’Ger story was hurriedly expanded into a feature film after the unexpected success of Star Wars. The rest of the movie’s running time is filled with a large, nebulous cloud of pointlessness.