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When a television show is set in a hypothetical future, there is a large amount of creative interpretation that can go into the production...
Last year, T.J. and I prepared to start blogging about Saved by the Bell, that most august of ’90s preteen programs. Sadly, the project...
Of all fictional characters in film and literature, perhaps the one that has endured the longest is that of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed supersleuth,...
I used to think that Pitbull didn’t know how to rap. I didn’t really start listening to Pitbull until the release of his 2011...
William Cameron Menzies was the movies’ first production designer. Although there had been art directors and set designers working on films since its earliest...
The Band: Chumbawamba The Hit: Tubthumping It’s not uncommon for a “one-hit wonder” artist to get their only hit by covering another artist’s song....
The year was 1958. William Dozier, chief of CBS West Coast programming, watched as television’s boy wonder, Rod Serling, paced around Dozier’s office, acting...
I finally had a chance to see Paramount’s restoration of the studio’s 1927 silent classic, WINGS, on DVD – which is most famous today...
Katy Perry is an important figure in popular music. I’m sorry, but it’s true. It seemed for a while like she might fade into...
In the annals of classic screen comedy, there are perhaps no more hotly debated yet enduring comedians than the Three Stooges. A vaudeville, and...
Early this year, the cruise ship Costa Concordia grounded on a reef and partially sank, with the tragic loss of 32 people. Almost immediately,...
“I was taken aback, Batman was simply not my ken. I have always been associated with loftier projects.” – William Dozier On a cross-country...
Jaleel White, aka the artist formerly known as Steven Q. Urkel, is on the latest season of Dancing With The Stars. I admit, I...
It seems that one can hardly open the paper or turn on the internet these days in order to see some article on how...
When naming the great screen comedians of the Golden Age of Hollywood, two names that are all too frequently absent are those of Bert...
When a television show is popular, profitable, a star-maker and iconographic, the best thing to do is let it runs its course and subsequently...
With the news of the big-screen showing of Abel Gance’s 1927 silent masterpiece Napoleon at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival coming up, I...
100 years ago, a certain famed ocean liner struck an iceberg, and sank into the North Atlantic. Most of you know the story… or...
Today, the idea of multiple directors working on a film is almost unheard of. Since the rise of the “auteur theory” in the 1960s,...
Before Charlie Chaplin, before Buster Keaton and before Harold Lloyd, there was Max Linder. Chaplin called him his “professor”, and Linder’s comedies contain sequences...
The Munsters is my latest Netflix-streaming obsession, to watch all 68 episodes from beginning to end. Besides getting a plumb education in old-school broad...
The new FOX Television series Alcatraz, from Bad Robot, the same company that brought us the very popular Lost, is a bizarre crime procedural...
Come haste ye to bold Thorold’s hall, And crowd his kitchen wide; For there he saith, both free and thrall Shall sport this good...
Ahhh…. The Christmas/Holiday/Soltice Season. A season of warmth and gentleness in the midst of an otherwise cold and dreary winter. A time to celebrate...