Wednesday, January 25, 2006

The Golden Age of Sydication

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WB and UPN are merging which will probably leave a lot of stations without programming. This may create a new market for syndication. It...
Monday, January 23, 2006

The New World

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John Smith spends most of The New World wondering around with his mouth open as if he is trying to figure out what just happened. After seei...
Friday, January 20, 2006

Countdown to 1980

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A couple of interesting things on That 70s Show . One is that they are back in 1979. The credits have always included a license plate with a...
Friday, January 13, 2006

Eko & Charlie

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A little Lost-blogging. This week's episode was a masterful example of misdirection, almost as good as the first Locke episode. It appea...
Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Spider-Man's Worst Moments

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Spider-Man has had a long and generally good run but there have been some points that should be dropped into a black hole. Here are a some o...
Friday, January 06, 2006

Bad Year for Gene Wilder

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Gene Wilder is mainly known for three movies - The Producers, Young Frankenstein, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (plus two movies...
Sunday, January 01, 2006

Kong vs Kong

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How does the new Kong stack up against the original? Peter Jackson make a lot of choices when He made his remake. Some worked, some are ques...
Tuesday, December 20, 2005

What Happened to the Boxoffice?

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Every week we see another story about how box office attendance is down from last year. No one seems to have a clue why. I do and it's r...
Thursday, December 15, 2005

Kong (the original)

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Wednesday night they showed both the Original King Kong and the 1970s re-make. I watched the original (surprise). This was the full-uncut ve...
Monday, December 12, 2005

Winter Alligators

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My wife was looking up the lyrics for Winter Wonderland and noticed this verse: In the meadow we can build a snowman and pr...
Tuesday, December 06, 2005

A Charlie Brown Christmas

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USAToday has a frontpage story on a Charlie Brown Christmas and how it almost didn't air. Looking back 40 years it is difficult to reme...
Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Too Old?

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During his talk last weekend, Steve Englehart antioned several times how difficult it is for him to get work as a comic writer. I have heard...
Monday, November 28, 2005

How to Run a Comic Book Company

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I was at a question and answer session with Steve Englehart over the weekend. He was one of the new generation of writers who entered the fi...
Wednesday, November 23, 2005

My Brain Hurts

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Last night Bravo was showing a repeat of Happy Days Reunion. Think about this for a moment. In 2005, I was watching a show produced in the 1...
Wednesday, November 16, 2005

The Last Lost

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"What, is Shannon going to get hit by lightning?" I asked my wife this about 57 minutes into last week's Lost. About a minute ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Best Picture (Animated)

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Ok, the year isn't even over yet but I'm going to go out on a limb and make some predictions for best animated picture. As far as I ...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Beyond Death

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The current issue of Action Comics (staring Superman) features a guest appearance by the Spectre. It is a combination Halloween issue and tr...
Sunday, October 30, 2005

Zorro

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The Legend of Zorro is fairly good as an action film and as a sequel, but it has some problems. Some are in the plot, some are with major an...
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Friday, October 28, 2005

The Sad Life of a Trek Character

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George Takei admitted that he is gay. While this does not mean that Sulu is gay (after all, Spock is Vulcan, not Jewish) it did make me thin...
Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Vampires and God

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I was thinking of writing something about vampires for Halloween then I came upon this article. It seems that Anne Rice has found God and w...