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I quote:
ABC’s “V” premieres Nov. 3 and will air for four weeks during sweeps, then go on hiatus until early 2010.
There’s another trailer posted there, too.

Just now watching the season finale of Psych. I’m not sure why it works. It has to be one of the stupidest shows on TV — yet, it’s hilarious. Love the stupid storylines, love the stupid characters, love the stupid writing. If you’ve never seen it, either catch old episodes on Hulu, or watch when […]

I got up and cruised through the guide to see what was on. I found this flick called Open Water 2: Adrift and tuned in, about ten minutes into the movie. There’s, oh, I don’t know, maybe three girls and four guys in the water, right next to a yacht, screaming for help.
This, of course, […]

Have I ever mentioned that I love Kirstie Alley? I think she’s a great acrtress, especially when she does comedy. Yes, I know she’s a big time Scientologist, but I really don’t care. Anyway, she’s had enough with the Hollyweirdness, and draws both revolvers on Roman Polanski.

Deception is playing on Cinemax this month. I watched it once, and just saw the last 45 minutes of it again. The three leads (Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman, and Michelle Williams) turn in first-rate performances, and it’s beautifully filmed. There is one huge problem, however.
The script.
It is, perhaps, the most predictable movie I’ve seen in […]

A great commercial.

Not only is Clint Walker still alive, but he got married in 1997.

I won’t say I hated it, but I was disappointed. First, there was all of that pointless for-glitz-only technology (like CSI: Miami), and speaking of, Linda Hunt needs to go. Second, this is a Bellisario show? Where’s the military? Where’s the forensics?
Eh. It needs major changes.

Ace likes Psych too.
Watching this in an hour, my favorite show on TV. The show seems like it was written, while drunk, in an hour. It’s slapdash, the mysteries are only occasionally clever, half the show is just the main character behaving like an utter jackass, but for some reason it works.
If you haven’t seen […]

In the summer when network TV is on hiatus, cable channels run summer shows. I watched Burn Notice, but espionage ties as my least favorite forensic show type. Whatshisname is stiff and wooden and not very interesting, and by far the best thing about the show is Sharon Gless. She’s brilliant. The writing isn’t bad […]

Patrick Swayze passed away.
Actor Patrick Swayze died of pancreatic cancer on September 14, 2009 at the age of 57. Best known for his roles in Dirty Dancing and Ghost, Swayze had been diagnosed with a Stage IV case of the disease in January 2008, but continued to shoot episodes of his A&E series The Beast […]

I haven’t laughed this hard in years. John Scalzi reams Star Trek “science” a new one.
UPDATE: Where’s PETA?

The (now, used to be SciFi) SyFy Channel will be broadcasting Lost from the first season, beginning with the pilot tonight (Thursday, technically) at 1:00 am (you may want to set your DVR to record five minutes or so after).

So we’ve been watching Torchwood: Children of Earth. I wasn’t quite sure what it would be like, given that it’s a Dr. Who spin-off (and I hate that show). Torchwood is called “Dr. Who for adults,” though, and it doesn’t have the campy stupidity.
It’s a five-part mini-series, however, and in part three, which we watched […]

It started out cliché. FBI v. cops, but deep undercover cops. It got a lot better, though, starting when Carter (we’ll get to him) recruited the new cop, who turned out to be “under cover,” since he’d dug up her juvie record nobody on the force knew about. That was intriguing. The story picked up, […]

One of the stars of Harper’s Island (character Trish), Katie Cassidy, is the daughter of David Cassidy and granddaughter of Shirley Jones.
The show is over now. Okay, so since about the fourth episode, I’ve been saying that Jimmy was the other killer, just because he was the only island character (it pretty much had to […]

So on TV just now was an ad for EcoCanteen. For just $9.95 plus shipping and handling you can have a bottle for your water! Plastic fills landfills!
The ad is geared for the eco-morons who can’t figure out that they can refill a plastic bottle. I can’t help but recall several scenes from the recent […]

And it’s a nature documentary. Dolphins: The Dark Side is great stuff, and these people on the documentary seem to be genuinely distressed.
Rape, murder, you name it, they do it.

I’d suggest Bon Cop Bad Cop, a Quebeckwah movie, playing on Starz this month. It’s billed as a comedy, proving that furriners have weird senses of humor.

For summer TV, that is. Burn Notice. It’s better than the ads made it look. And Tricia Helfer is the bad-ass.

Back in 1993, Brøderbund Software released Myst. Myst was at the time a unique game. You found yourself alone on a mysterious island, with no information. As you explored and uncovered bits of information, you gradually discovered that there was a back story, and learned what the island, and therefore the game, was all about. […]

Whoa! CBS canceled Without a Trace ? The other cancellations are here — I’ve never heard of most of the shows. They shouldn’t have listed Harper’s Island, though. That’s a one-season show, and less than stellar.
It’s a murder mystery on an island. Each week, at least one character gets killed. The problem is that there […]

I refused to watch the reboot of BSG, because the original was such a stinker. I was wrong, and I won’t make that same mistake again. Another reboot of a cheesy 80s Sci-Fi series is coming to ABC next season: V. From the official ABC series page:
Today, the world woke up to find spaceships over […]

to be worse than Apocalypto, but yes, it is, much, much worse. 10,000 B.C., that is. Obviously, I figured it was going to suck, since I didn’t go see it at the theater, but I really didn’t know a movie could suck this bad.
This commenter at IMDB sums it up just about perfectly.
The film starts […]

Just got back from Star Trek, and with one exception, all of the things that made it lousy Sci-Fi are absent from the movie. The one thing that is present is multiple timelines coexisting in close geographical proximity, but I expected that because it is a J.J. Abrams flick (if you watch Lost, you know […]

The final episode of Lost, of course. Shapiro has an interesting theory, and although I think most Lost theories are bunk, he does hit on some intriguing ideas. Certainly, the writers in the finale turned the whole show on its head, making it a conflict between Jacob and Esau (seems the most logical name choice […]

Kyle Smith’s review of the Star Trek reboot:
[Spock’s] mother is played by Winona Ryder
If that doesn’t make you feel ancient, nothing will.

Everything about the 70s was embarrassing, but surely the most embarrassing thing was the Village People — yet there’s a movie about the “making” of the Village People. It just goes to show what happens when people are too drug addled to have a sense of shame.
It stars Bruce Jenner, more evidence of that drugged […]

To Last Legion. What, never heard of it? Well, there’s a reason for that, and I hate to take issue with the idiot user commenters at IMDB, but “adventure without sex and gore” is not a recommendation. What is it, exactly, about history that makes screenwriters ignore it? It is because they’re uneducated idiots? Is […]

PeggyU wants to know the name of the killer dolphin-brained elevator movie. The name of this tour de force is The Shaft. I can’t find it on IMDB, which should tell you something.
While looking for it, I found this rather bizarre post, which starts with:
The Sci-Fi channel is my favorite channel. I don’t watch often, […]

The week before last, Sayid shot “young Ben” on the main island. Recall that “old Ben” is on the other island (Kate whacked him in the head with the oar). My theory was that “young Ben” had to die if “old Ben” was to set foot on the island to avoid a Grandfather Paradox.
We’re watching […]

We just saw a movie about an elevator with a dolphin brain that ate people (the elevator).
No, I’m not making this up. I couldn’t make it up if I tried. And of course, it was on the Sci-Fi Channel.
An elevator. With a dolphin brain. Seriously. What drugs are these people on?

Of the 200-some channels I get and actually watch from time to time, I have to say the History Channel is the worst. It’s always been bad. It started off as the Hitler Channel (not the official name, but WW2 documentaries were all they aired), but has turned into the Miscellaneous Channel, which only offers […]

I don’t know if you’ve seen this yet, but this is somewhat disturbing.

JAG re-runs airing on USA (caps lock).

Spurred by an article I saw last week saying that Pioneer had stopped making all Laser Disc players. Well, that, and because a friend said, “There’s this amazing production of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex with Jessye Norman singing Jocasta, but it’s not available in any medium,” to which I said, “We have that on LD,” so […]

When the reboot of Battlestar Galactica began, I had no interest in seeing it. The original was godawful (my theory about why it has a following is that they are the people who were kids when the original was on), so why bother. I only started watching it during the summer after the first season, […]

Fifth String links to this unconvincing attempt to, well, here:
I’d like to talk to you about a man whom I’ve dubbed “Headset Vince”. He’s the guy from the ShamWow commercials. He wears a headset for reasons no one other than Vince can understand… maybe he’s expecting a phone call? From his agent offering him a […]

It’s screwed me again. It was supposed to record the Pens - Sharks game last night. So I get up this morning, turn on the NHL channel, and find out that against all odds, the Pens beat the Sharks — the top team in the NHL — last night. I wonder how the hell that’s […]

Feels like it, anyway. It’s 8 degrees today!
Speaking of magnificent, I just got done watching Branagh’s Hamlet. It’s proof that you can make a Shakespeare movie and respect the Bard. Branagh cut nearly nothing, so it’s four hours long, but it’s awe inspiring. Everything about it is exquisite.
The remarkable thing is that after watching this […]