As Scorpius in Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars said: “John Chricton is alive.” And he happened to land in a different show. Having watched all three parts of the Season 9′s opening episode, I can say with some certainty that it really is difficult for some actors to grow past roles that we have known them… Continue reading this entry
Just when we all think that things couldn’t get any worse, they do. Great episode tongiht, BTW.
It started with House, and TNT’s new show that features a less-than-perfect, fallen, but skilled and professional, heroine is what I would call a respectable rip of the “accidental, misanthropic hero” character archetype. In The Closer, Kyra Sedgwick plays Brenda Johnson, a CIA-trained interrogator who moved from Atlanta to Los Angeles. She’s professional, she can… Continue reading this entry
Yup, I’m dissin’ on Star Wars tonight, and I have spoilers. Lots and lots of spoilers, fury be damned. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it possibly could be, but it comes close. Dean Esmay has a good point: No, their biggest failure by far is that these new films present no new mysteries.… Continue reading this entry
I just discovered that the storyline for something I’ve been writing has already been done in a Star Trek: Original Series episode. I have the tough choice of stopping all work now or making a self parody with a short dialogue between characters, like so: “Hey, isn’t this similar to a Star Trek episode?” the… Continue reading this entry
From the NYT, signs the TV-to-DVD business is wisening up: Serious fans of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” will find nothing new on an upcoming DVD release of the show’s first two episodes from 1997. Priced at just $9.98, this TV starter set is being released tomorrow as a marketing gambit by 20th Century Fox Home… Continue reading this entry
So the sister rented The Village: the M. Night Shyamalan film produced by M. Night Shyamalan, and created by… well we all know. This, dear friends, is the ultimate self-parodic M. Night Shyamalan film, just as Miss Congeniality was the ultimate self-parodic Sandra Bullock movie. Spoiler? No need, but here’s what I IMed my friend:… Continue reading this entry
Listening to Dusty Springfield’s You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me brings about mental images of Hugo Weaving in drag. Whodathunkit? Why oh why this association exists, I do not know.
I’m playing along with Zombyboy’s game, but I am not adhering to the rules of having to list only the best, I will list what I want to talk about, the ones that have made an impact either positively or otherwise. Today we talk about Films of 2004. Ones I have not seen (either in… Continue reading this entry
Cultural commentators who warn against the most inocuous messages of “deviant” behavior in pop culture need to remember that parents themselves are not idiots and have the wealth of their experience to guide them. Reading too deeply into things can bring about the wildest of conclusions; the warning against which can be more harmful than… Continue reading this entry
My admiration of beauty notwithstanding, I’d like to come out and confess that the reason I find the Dahm Triplets’ participation in Renovate My Family so engaging is that I still have this deep-rooted, almost chauvinistic and definitely irrational expectation that women so pretty cannot do the kind of housework needed in such projects. Then… Continue reading this entry
What a way to end a series. Yeah, awesome dren all right.
Dean Esmay: Michael Moore’s film “Fahrenheit 9/11″ is now used as a recruitment film by terrorist networks. Mr. Moore is aware of this fact and has done nothing to even protest it, let alone try to stop it. His film has also created a serious morale problem for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, particularly… Continue reading this entry
His long days of suffering are over.
Chris Short, blogging at Jeff Quinton’s, throws some cold water on some irrationality from Michelle Malkin and a few other moral conservatarians: So why do Michelle, Nykola, and Cobb all have issues with this new computer animated film? The soundtrack features rappers (Ludacris and D12). Ludacris and Bill O’Reilly have had a tiff of sorts… Continue reading this entry
I don’t think I’ve admitted to being a big fan of Stargate SG-1 and an even bigger fan of Stargate Atlantis, so I might as well. I’ve liked the two series for a number of reasons that, at 340a and with three shots of Skol and five beers in me would be too boring to… Continue reading this entry
The Kerry sisters were booed by the audience at the MTV Video Music Awards, where they asked those present to vote for their father, John Kerry. I have only two possible explanations for such a reception. First, maybe the audience, collectively was so dumb as to think they are the Bush twins, despite any announcements… Continue reading this entry
The woman who taught America’s cooks how to become chefs has ascended to the great kitchen in the sky. For the record: no TV chef since Julia Child will ever measure up to Julia Child. Not Martha Stewart, not Rachel Ray, not Alton Brown, and definitely not Bobby Flay and Emeril Lagasse. Do you hear… Continue reading this entry
I did not say a thing about which blogger is coming out on Dennis Miller. I did not say a thing. I just went to my listings. And decided to share. UPDATE: I’m switching to damage control mode and erased the names of tonight’s panelists. You know where to look. See for yourselves.
Boi From Troy has some interesting poll results on just how many minds among those who watched Fahrenheit 9/11 were swayed by the fat man’s apparently not-so-wily ways. Note well the “before the movie” and “after the movie questions” in what he quotes.