Thursday, December 28, 2006

Which Scrooge is the Best?

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I know that Christmas is over but I'm doing this one anyway. I spent Christmas Day watching the George C. Scott version of a Christmas C...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006

My New Sansa

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Instead of talking about media, I'm going to review a media player. I got a Sansa media player for my birthday last week. This is not my...
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Monday, December 25, 2006

Fantastic Four II

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I saw the trailer for the new Fantastic Four movie, Fantastic Four, the Rise of the Silver Surfer. It was really good. I was smiling all thr...
Monday, December 18, 2006

LoTR Extended vs Theatrical Releases

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THe cable channel TNT has been showing the Lord of the Rings the last two weekends. As it happens, I've been watching the extended versi...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

The Not-So Funny Pages

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The comic section is going be a bit less comic next year. Fox Trot is cutting back to Sunday-only and For Better or Worse is rumored to be e...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006

CGI - Is the Free Ride Over?

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There is an AP story going around that CGI movies are no longer as popular as they were (Sorry - no link, I read it in dead tree format.). I...
Sunday, November 19, 2006

Happy Feet

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From the ads, you would think that the new CGI movie Happy Feet was nothing but dancing penguins. The reviews give the impression that it i...
Friday, November 10, 2006

Lost by the Network

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After tonight, Lost will vanish from ABC for three months, appearing in February and running for an uninterrupted 17 weeks. If you add toget...
Thursday, November 09, 2006

Who Conned Who?

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The finale to the mini-season of Lost wasn't what we could have hoped for. Nothing was resolved and most of it concentrated on the love-...
Friday, November 03, 2006

Goodbye Mr. Eko

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The monster in the forest has been in Lost since the pilot but we don't know much about it. When we first saw it, it killed the last sur...
Thursday, October 26, 2006

Can a Comic Book be Good?

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Wired's resident "Luddite" is bent out of shape because a graphic novel, American Born Chinese, (which he prefers to call a ...
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Lost-blogging Season 3

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We are two episodes into the new season. We've learned some things about the "Others". There are still lots of questions. A bi...
Friday, October 06, 2006

A Memorable Mermaid

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Disney has released the Little Mermaid on DVD. Looking back at its theatrical release, this movie represented two milestones for Disney. Whe...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Fly Boys

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When I was in my late teens, I was interested in WWI air combat. I read several biographies of fliers and I could recognize most planes. Giv...
Friday, September 22, 2006

The New Trek

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Paramont announced that they are going to upgrade the original Star Trek. All shots of models will be replaced with CGI. Scenes set on other...
Friday, September 15, 2006

George Reeves

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With last week's release of Hollywoodland, there has been some attention on the career of George Reeves. The story says that he killed h...
Tuesday, September 12, 2006

60s TV

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Lara Parker from the 1960s soap opera, Dark Shadows, was in town a couple of weeks ago and I got to see her. During a Q&A session she wa...
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...