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Sunday, January 13, 2008
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, and Summer Glau in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a new fox series based on the Terminator franchise. The premier airs tonight at 8:pm EST. The premise of the series seems to be Sarah Connor’s continuing struggle to protect her son John...
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Monday, February 18, 2008
Knight Rider reboot falls flat
Justin Bruening and Deanna Russo star in Knight Rider , a reboot of the popular 1980's series which starred David Hasselhoff. NBC's entertainment executives must think that re-envisioning old programs is the cats ass. Unfortunately, We're all tired of half-heated reboots....
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Battlestar Galactica: the final season
The final season of Battlestar Galactica has begun. I'm disappointed that this will be the end of one of my all time favorite television series, but I’m exited to see how it all plays out. It's good to have Katee Sackhoff return as Starbuck (even if she is eventually revealed...
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Saturday, October 03, 2009
Stargate: A Universe beyond SG1 and Atlantis
The SyFy Network premiered the newest spin-off of the beleaguered Stargate franchise this weekend, with the new series Stargate Universe . SGU is darker and grittier than the previous Stargate properties. All of which were campy and suffered from cliche after obvious cliche.
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Thursday, March 04, 2010
The Time Traveler's wife: a complicated relationship
The Time Traveler's Wife stars Eric Bana as the chronologically displaced Henry Detamble and Rachel McAdams as His wife Claire.
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
True Blood returns to HBO for third season
With the recent or impending demise of some fan favorite television programs, its re-assuring to know that one series will be returning this summer.
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Sunday, June 06, 2010
Splice is a genetically engineered morality story
Two young rebellious scientists are told by their employers to halt groundbreaking work that has seen them produce new creatures with medical benefits by splicing together multiple organisms' DNA. They decide to secretly continue their work, but this time splicing in human DNA....
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
SyFy network pulls plug, cancels Caprica.
The Battlestar Galactica prequel series”caprica” has officially been canceled by SyFy networks. The series set in the capital city of the colonial planet Caprica follows the troubled path of two families (the Graystones and the Adamas) and the creation of the first cylons.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Zero History by William Gibson
Zero History follows Hollis Henry, former lead singer of the 1990′s band “The Curfew”, who now works as a freelance journalist. Hired by eccentric Hubertus Bigend, Henry discovers the origin of a secret brand. Zero History marks the second time that Hollis Henry has found...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
Did anybody see TRON: Legacy in theaters?
I managed to get to the theater opening weekend. That is an achievement considering how much I loathe crowds. The kids next to me were incredibly annoying. The teenage girl continuously checked for messaged on her incredibly bright phone while the younger boy kept kicking me....
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Saturday, December 25, 2010
Battle Los Angeles: Aaron Eckhart fights aliens now
Battle Los Angeles is an 2011 alien invasion movie starring Aaron Eckhart. Hey, does Will Smith know people keep making new Independence day films without him?
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Sunday, January 09, 2011
NBC's The Cape May be the worst show ever made
Note: This post was lost in May of 2016 and only the excerpt could be recovered from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine . I’m not sure NBC has a firm grasp on the concept of a successful television series. You know that whole bit about ratings and ad revenue? Yeah, that’s the...
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Saturday, February 12, 2011
Remember NBC's short lived Journeyman series?
Remember the television series Journeyman ? it aired briefly on NBC during the 2007/2008 WGA writers’ strike. The series featured Kevin McKidd as an unwitting time traveler. Journeyman wasn't very original Journeyman was actually pretty interesting considering that it only...
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
Jodie Foster in Contact, searching for alien signals
On the weekends I like to watch movies. Sometimes I catch up on recent films I missed in theaters. Other times I revisit older films that I haven’t seen in a while. This weekend I opted for the latter when I noticed the 1997 film “Contact” was available on-demand.
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Monday, May 09, 2011
Gauntlet: The Final Episode Of Stargate Universe
I can hardly believe SGU is ending. Gauntlet is the final episode chronicling the journey aboard the ancient starship known as ‘Destiny’ by the survivors of Icarus base. I remember the beginning of the series when Eli Wallace was recruited to solve the “9th chevron” problem...
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Saturday, May 14, 2011
Red Faction Origins, A SyFy original Movie
Now that Stargate Universe is over and there aren’t many other science fiction programs to watch, maybe I’ll actually have to watch some of those SyFy Channel original movies. The latest, titled “Red Faction: Origins” actually looks interesting. The movie is a tie-in to the...
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