Sunday, April 30, 2006

Civil War

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Marvel's summer cross-over event is Civil War . The premise is that the government decided to force superheros to reveal their identitie...
Monday, April 24, 2006

Graphic Novels

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TCS Daily has an article about graphic novels. Among other things, it points out how much comic book readership has fallen. In 1945, half t...
Thursday, April 20, 2006

Dr Who

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Britain started seeing new episodes of Dr. Who last year but, typically, it took until last month before they showed up in the US on the Sci...
Friday, April 14, 2006

Healing and the Hatch - more Lost blogging

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We just finished a low-key but important character arc for John Locke. During the first season and half the second season, Locke was normall...
Thursday, April 06, 2006

Kong

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Writing in Slate, Stephen Metcalf offers some reasons why the new King Kong bombed. Cooper's original isn't simply racist. In fact,...
Sunday, April 02, 2006

Ice Age 2

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Ice Gae 2: The Meltdown was the #1 movie for the weekend taking in over $70 million. It was the best March opening ever and nearly double wh...
Thursday, March 30, 2006

"Lost" Connections

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Everything on Lost seems to be connected. In last night's episode, we see Locke inspecting a house for Sayid's missing girlfriend. W...
Monday, March 27, 2006

New Costumes

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Recently Spider-Man got a new costume. He is now a part of the Avengers and is living in their tower along with his wife and Aunt May. Tony ...
Thursday, March 16, 2006

Lost and B5

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Lost is beginning to remind me of Babylon 5 , and not in a good way. There are several comparisons I could make - both have intelligent scri...
Monday, March 06, 2006

Oscar Aftermath

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The Oscars have been presented. There was only one surprise in the entire ceremony - Crash beat Brokeback (two surprises if you count Jon St...
Friday, March 03, 2006

Oscars - Who will win? Who cares?

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Brokeback is going to win best picture and best director. Everyone knows it? So why are there rumors that Crash will win? It's partly b...
Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Darren McGavin

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The actor Darren McGavin died over the weekend. Most news services listed a quick biography for him but they left out some important accom...
Thursday, February 23, 2006

Creating a Classic

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The first time I read Lord of the Rings I was struck by how the tone changed when they reached Rivendel. Tolkien's son published all of...
Sunday, February 19, 2006

Lost Agenda?

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Is Lost pushing an agenda? It never occurred to me until a few weeks ago when the local TV writer complained about the baptism episode pushi...
Tuesday, February 14, 2006

LoTR to Kevin Bacon

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There is a theory that if you take everyone you know and everyone they know, etc. then by the sixth iteration you have included everyone in ...
Monday, February 13, 2006

Oscars

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It's been a long time since I posted to this blog. Time to get things rolling again. Back in November I said that the best picture Oscar...
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...