No Flipping! The Larry Sanders Show on DVD
One of the first full-season-of-a-TV-show DVD sets that I ever purchased was Season 1 of The Larry Sanders Show, released back in 2003. After having risen to prominence as a stand-up comedian in the 1970’s & 80’s, Garry Shandling became a fixture of late-night television a
My Farewell to Heroes
I suppose I have high standards for the TV shows that I watch. Is that a bad thing? I don’t watch TV casually. I don’t sit down and flip around to find something that looks interesting. There are a bunch of shows that I watch, and I watch them religiously — e
The Redemption of 24?
When the new TV-movie 24: Redemption begins, television super-hero Jack Bauer is in Africa, helping out at a school for orphans and trying to avoid a subpoena that would summon him back to the States. However, this being 24, it isn’t long before a perfect storm of evil warlord
Spend a Threevening with Kevin Smith & Robot Chicken!
I’ve seen some very funny movies in the theatres lately, but let me tell you about the two best pieces of entertainment that I’ve seen this week: Sold Out: A Threevening With Kevin Smith — Back in 2002, film-maker Kevin Smith (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, etc…
“I fought with your father in the Clone Wars”
After much debate, I decided to skip the animated Star Wars Clone Wars movie that was released to theaters in late August. It is almost unimaginable to me that I wouldn’t rush out to see a new Star Wars ANYTHING on the big screen. But as I read bad review after bad review, c
On the Fringe
I love sci-fi. Movies, TV shows, novels, comics, whatever. If its sci-fi, I’m interested. I’m also a big fan of J.J. Abrams. Not of everything he’s done, mind you. (I certainly was never interested in Felicity, and despite sampling episodes during each of the
The Chronicles Continue
Since I decided to write an in-depth dissertation on Season 1 of Terminator: The Sarah Chronicles a couple of weeks ago (back on August 29th), it seems like I also should weigh in on the season premiere that aired this past Monday. Over-all, it was a lot of fun — although since
The DVDs are Out There
I love movies, and I love watching movies on DVD in the comfort of my own home. Here are some of the great DVDs I’ve watched recently: Heist and State and Main — I’m in the midst of a sort of David Mamet retrospective, tearing through a number of his earlier works,
Familiar Faces
Its always fun to be watching an old episode of a favorite TV show and spot a great guest star actor you’d never realized was there before. This happened twice to me recently. I was watching an old episode from the first season of The X-Files called “Shapes.”
Chronicling the Chronicles: Season 1 of The Sarah Connor Chronicles Reviewed
Most of the sci-fi franchises that I grew up loving haven’t been doing too hot this past decade. The lame AvP movies. The disappointing Star Wars prequels. And there hasn’t been any truly great Star Trek around since Deep Space Nine (by far the best series of the fra