Monday, August 28, 2006

Snakes IV

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Before it premiered, I predicted that Snakes on a Plane would be number eight in its second week. AP has it at six. Yahoo has it at nine. I...

Sequels and Trillogies

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A friend recently saw Pirates II and complained that, since it was continued to the next movie, it was nothing more than a trailer for Pirat...
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Monday, August 21, 2006

Snakes III

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Snakes on a Plane either opened to a weak first place or a close second place, depending on how you count the 10:00 pm Thursday showing. Eit...
Friday, August 18, 2006

Snakes II

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The first reviews are in. This reviewer thinks that Snakes surpasses the hype. He compares it to Rocky Horror (which is probably the defini...

Snakes on a Plane - the prediction

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I'm going to make a prediction about Snakes on a Plane - the movie will suck. Why do I think so? It is being released in mid-August. Tr...
Friday, August 04, 2006

Being a Superhero

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*Spoiler alert* I got a real kick out of the second episode of Stan Lee's Who Wants to be a Superhero?. After two episodes the format ha...
Thursday, July 27, 2006

Sci-Fi Channel Scores

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The Sci-Fi Channel has premiered a couple of new shows. One, Eureka, is a good-natured drama about a sheriff who is keeping order in a commu...
Tuesday, July 11, 2006

A Bad Time for Dogs

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The current top two movies seem to have it in for dogs. In the number 1 movie, Pirates, the dog with the keys seems sure to be eaten by cann...
Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Superman Returns

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All told, I don't think that Superman Returns was a very good movie. I enjoyed Superman, the Motion Picture and Superman II much better....
Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Remembering the X-Men

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The X-Men was the first Marvel comic I read - specifically, X-Men #3 in 1964. I was instantly hooked. The comic appealed to me on many level...
Tuesday, May 30, 2006

X-Men: the Last Stand

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X-Men: the Last Stand blew the Da Vinci Code which is as it should be. Regardless of freedom of speech, it is still rude to make a block...
Thursday, May 18, 2006

Nearing the End

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With only one two-hour episode left on Lost what did we learn last night? Much of it was a confirmation of what we had already guessed. The ...
Thursday, May 11, 2006

Locke and Eko Switch Places

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If you aren't up to date on Lost then you are going to see some spoilers. Last week's episode - when a friend with a gun says "...
Monday, May 08, 2006

Judging Reality

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After my post last week on Texas Ranch House I found this article. It contains a transcript of a call-in show with the show's producer...
Thursday, May 04, 2006

Reflections of Reality

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I've been watching PBS's new reality show, Texas Ranch House. This is the newest in a series of "House" shows. The first, ...
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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,...