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Warning: Spoilers Below: Season two for Stranger Things has been out for a week, and by now, everyone has already binged it and began...
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Warner Bros. was behind Black Samson, which came out in 1974, but if you don’t pay attention, you might think it was produced...
A friend once explained the video game The Last of Us to me as “Super Mario World, except the mushrooms bite you.” I...
Shock value is to entertainment what Mike Tyson is to boxing: it’ll clobber you in the opening rounds, but hang in there and...
Warning: Spoilers Below: Season two for Stranger Things has been out for a week, and by now, everyone has already binged it and began...
Oh, look! The fall TV season is well under way! And I’ve been watching, folks. Not as much as usual, but I make sure...
If you’re a fan of 1980s movies, books, TV shows, and comics, odds are good that around this time last year you were bingeing...
It is Halloween and that means horror and what was the movie studio that made gothic horror cool again after the Universal Monsters faded...
With Halloween coming upon us faster than we might like I thought we would continue this with the two “name” TV series of the...
Oh, Halloween. That special time of year when television didn’t have to be corny or silly and have a moral message about family and...
This column is no longer Pilot Error. Why? Because I just signed a book deal with Schiffer publishing to write them a book on...
South Park is turning 20, I am turning 37, and I think the thrill is gone. I don’t think the show has changed, exactly....
Back to more random pilots, and man, are they all over the place. With behind the scenes talent including Sam Raimi, Shane Black, Fred...
So, here we are. It’s been far too long since this column has run, missing most of the spring and the summer. I’m not...
I must confess. I didn’t see Girls Trip until its second weekend in theaters. Yes, I have sinned, and I paid the penance –of...
I didn’t get into Game of Thrones right away, in fact, I tried watching the pilot several times and bailed about ten minutes in...
Doomed man in space, a mad scientist tormentor, sarcastic robot friends, and cheesy movies. I am living the revival life with Mystery Science Theater...
I have to think that there’s a portion of the established fan-base of Twin Peaks that’s turned off by the drastically different reboot currently...
I promised to get back to sci-fi unaired pilots so here is one with a trove of a backstory (the making of, not the...
This week all of the shitcoms are 1987 CBS cast offs. Why 1987 CBS shows? Because I happened to pick these out of my...
Back when I started this column I did a quick overview of some pilots which I would like to revisit in more detail (also...
Praise the geek gods for Greg Berlanti and the Arrowverse, right? Never, ever, in a million years, did I think I’d be watching weekly...
Time for more Shitcoms. Lets start with the 1989 (this is important damn it) “supernatural comedy” Shivers. Why is the 1989 important? Because the...
“In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.” – Dexter Gordon In this day and age of gore porn, where hack ‘em, slash ‘em...
Comedy is subjective… but damn it sometimes shit just isn’t funny. We shall look at some of the most unfunny sitcom pilots ever… shitcoms...
Superheroes Decoded is a two-part documentary about the history of superheroes and comic books. Piggybacking on Brad Meltzer’s Decoded series title, this is in-depth...
What happens when a backdoor pilot is not really a backdoor pilot? I mean when it’s not officially a pilot nor intended as a...
The success of the revamped Archie comics was a phenomena few could have predicted, but was more than welcomed. The much-needed overhaul of the...