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05.14.06 by HTQ4 @ 4:46 am  Film: Produced by Lorne Michaels Features:
Released by: NBC Home Entertainment My Advice: Own it if you are a fan. Categorized as: Reviews and TV
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05.11.06 by Widge @ 4:16 pm
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05.10.06 by Widge @ 5:45 am It's actually pretty terrifying how well this works: the theme to Direct link for the feedreaders. Found via Mark Evanier. Watch for his name. Update: Mr. Lowe's Water Boy mentions I should put the crack pipe away, because it's obviously Falcon Crest and not Knots Landing. I was thinking of post-Crisis, when all the 80s soaps combined into one. My bad. Categorized as: TV
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04.25.06 by Widge @ 4:58 pm I know "The Big Win," an animated short for The National Lottery in the UK, is supposed to be sweet and hopeful and optimistic and happy and stuff. But I can't help but wonder... ...as those smiles spread like the virus I believe they are...am I the only reminded...of Starro? Categorized as: TV
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03.25.06 by HTQ4 @ 7:34 am   Film: Series Created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels Features:
Released by: Fox Home Entertainment My Advice: Rent it. The devastating news at the end of Season Two was that Hank had to start selling propane at the Megalo Mart, then there was a huge propane explosion killing nearly everyone and burning Luanne's hair off. Because of the explosion, Hank develops a fear of Propane and can't take his old job back. In fact, he can't even grill out on his own propane grill. It's all downhill from there: Peggy takes a job as a substitute teacher and gets in trouble for spanking some children, Hank and Bobby get a chance to visit the Dallas Cowboys training camp and they get hell bent on convincing the team to move their camp from Witchita Falls to Arlen, and Hank and Peggy decide to go skydiving to prove that there are not getting old as their 20th anniversary draws nigh. Categorized as: Reviews and TV
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03.13.06 by Widge @ 8:13 pm Just the other day I saw mention of the fact that there are still people out there who have not seen the horrid wretched thing that is The Star Wars Holiday Special. Basically, Chewbacca has to go back to his home planet to celebrate Life Day with his family: Malla, Itchy and Lumpy. And Bea Arthur and Art Carney show up, along with Jefferson Starship as holograms. And then you wake up ninety minutes later in a puddle of your own drool, your mind having blue-screened to avoid a catastrophic failure. Watching this is basically the fanboy equivalent of what Case in Neuromancer had done to him by his former bosses. Categorized as: TV
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03.09.06 by HTQ4 @ 2:53 am  Film: Created by Lee David Zlotoff Features:
Released by: Paramount Home Video My Advice: Wait for the other seasons and then rent them instead... Angus MacGyver (Anderson) is a specialist in pretty much everything. He's an absolute genius who is good at getting out of sticky situations with only only his wits and whatever he happens to have with him at the moment. Oh yeah, he's the guy who doesn't need a gun to take care of business, either. Just some chewing gum. And maybe a bit of twine. And a twist-tie. And... Categorized as: Reviews and TV
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02.13.06 by Dindrane @ 4:02 pm  Film: Written by Ron Sproat, Malcolm Marmorstein, Art Wallace, et al. Features:
Released by: MPI My Advice: Get it if you like Gothic horror, vampires, or creepy soap operas Categorized as: Reviews and TV
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01.19.06 by Doc @ 9:56 am  Film: Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and Jeri Taylor, based on Gene Roddenberry's universe Features:
Released by Paramount My Advice: Let it die with whatever dignity it had left. Categorized as: Reviews and TV
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01.13.06 by Doc @ 1:05 am  Film: Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and Jeri Taylor, based on Gene Roddenberry's universe Features:
Released by Paramount My Advice: Pass. The geriatric Star Trek franchise creaked along in 2000 with this fifth season in the Voyager series, boldly going where Lost in Space had gone before. Despite a few bright spots in choice episodes, the characters were still mostly unlikeable and the writing strove desperately to rise above the creative constraints of the show's premise and established continuity. The biggest problem here is a heavy over-reliance on the Borg as a constant source of dramatic tension, setting them up as the big scary problem to overcome in nearly a fifth of the season's episodes. There's also just a little too much time-travel weirdness thrown around to give the writers excuses to escape the conceits of the show. Categorized as: Reviews and TV
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