I grew up reading comic books, so it’s not uncommon for me to think (or just pretend) that something happened to reality and that I am now living in a strange and changed world, or have been pushed into an alternate universe. Today I woke up and read the news and felt just like that. … Continue reading
Some ideas are so weird that they just work. One of them is David Cronenberg retooling Dead Ringers for an HBO series. The film starred Jeremy Irons as a pair of twin gynecologists. Their hobbies included seducing women and passing them from one brother to the other and designing horrifying surgical tools. A TV series … Continue reading
The machines are rising again, and this time on the Fox Network. The broadcast channel has made a pilot commitment to a new series spinning off from the Terminator films. Yup, a Terminator series. Except without a Terminator. The show will be called The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and will take place after the events of … Continue reading
Lost obviously has a large fanbase, filled with fairly loyal people. How do you sell things to these people? One way is to offer odd and unique tie in books – like a novel written by one of the passengers on Oceanic 815. Except that the guy died. Sometime next year the unfinished manuscript by … Continue reading
I like it when two of my favorite things come together, so how psyched am I that Darren Aronofsky, one of my favorite directors, will be directing an episode of Lost, my favorite TV show? Mucho psyched, is what I would say if I was a Mexican. “It was one of those fantastic calls out … Continue reading
I don’t feel bad for having missed the new Battlestar Galactica when it premiered on the SciFi Channel. First off, everything on that network sucks. It’s possibly the biggest wasteland on television, as far as I’m concerned, filled with generally low rent garbage and the occasional old campy TV show or movie. Secondly, the new … Continue reading
In the modern world the word genius is tossed around casually, but there are few actual geniuses out there. It seems like there are bursts of brilliance, but almost never the sustained light of a true genius. So No Direction Home is a double gift, in that it’s from a cinematic genius and it’s about … Continue reading
The third season of Arrested Development is shaping up nicely. By that I mean it’s coming back to TV, which is much more than I ever expected. Now there’s an announcement that a beloved cast member is leaving – but his replacement is pretty amazing. Henry Winkler, who played family lawyer Barry Zuckerkorn, is leaving … Continue reading
I admit, I quit Deadwood. After they killed Wild Bill I felt like the series lost all forward momentum, since I didn’t find the continued use of “cocksucker”and “motherfucker” as novel as the rest of the TV audience, what with me being an Italian from New York. I may have missed out on some stuff, … Continue reading
Fans of ABC’s Lost (Losties, as those fucks at Creation Entertainment call them) are a singularly obsessive lot. These are people who scour episodes a frame at a time for clues, who rigorously research every element of the show from the home port of mysterious pirate ship The Black Rock to tracking down the island’s … Continue reading