A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

On August 9, Warner Home Video will release the Blu-ray (BD) and DVD edition of “11.22.63,” Hulu’s eight-part miniseries based on Stephen King’s 2011 best-selling time travel novel “ 11/22/63. ” Warner Home Video Co-executive produced by King and J.J. Abrams (“Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “Lost”), the highly-anticipated adaptation of the award-winning book follows the odyssey of Jake Epping (James Franco) as he travels back to the early 1960s to prevent President John F. Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963. The limited-run series originally aired on Hulu’s subscription service between February 15 and April 4, and consists of eight episodes: ·         The Rabbit Hole ·         The Kill Floor ·         Other Voices, Other Rooms ·         The Eyes of Texas ·         The Truth ·         Happy Birthday, Lee Harvey Oswald ·         Soldier Boy ·         The Day in Question According to the “11.22.63” product page on Amazon, Warne

(C) 2016 Buena Vista Home Entertainment/Lucasfilm Ltd. Star Star Star Star Star On April 5, Buena Vista Home Entertainment released the much-anticipated Blu-ray/DVD set of director J.J. Abrams’ blockbuster hit “ Star Wars:The Force Awakens. ” The first installment of the long awaited Sequel Trilogy and seventh live-action film in the “ Star Wars ” saga, “The Force Awakens” was last year’s biggest box office hit. Now, the Force seems to be with the Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm, as “The Force Awakens” is the best-selling Blu-ray/DVD combo set on  Amazon.com  and other sellers. “Visionary director J.J. Abrams brings to life the motion picture event of a generation. As Kylo Ren and the sinister First Order rise from the ashes of the Empire, Luke Skywalker is missing when the galaxy needs him most. It's up to Rey, a desert scavenger, and Finn, a defecting stormtrooper, to join forces with Han Solo and Chewbacca in a desperate search fo

When director J.J. Abrams and his collaborators Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, and Roberto Orci decided to set 2009's  Star Trek  in an alternate timeline apart from  The Original Series  and its spinoffs, they did it to achieve creative freedom. Abrams and his creative team knew that simply inserting a young cast into the established Trek universe would not work.  Star Trek's  lore is nearly a half-century old, and the franchise's loyal fans wouldn't have accepted a reboot that attempted to inject the new cast into the 1966-69 William Shatner-Leonard Nimoy-DeForest Kelley troika's adventures. The effect, I think, would have been too jarring. Star Trek 's time travel-created alternate timeline thus gave Abrams & Co. the necessary flexibility to reinvigorate Gene Roddenberry's old series. As Abrams pointed out in an interview:  "The idea, now that we are in an independent timeline, allows us to use any of the ingredients from the past -