Category Archives: Movies & TV

Well a quick visit to the MythTV site led me to Schedules Direct which might be my replacement when the ReplayTV guide eventually goes away (which I know it will, at least it was available long enough to make my … Continue reading →

Once again we see that the superior technology has lost the battle. I agree with all the comments about how the ReplayTV DVR feature set has always been better than TiVO (it took TiVo five years to add Ethernet for … Continue reading →

Thanks to Mangoat for finding an Internet quiz that was actually interesting. Apparently I’m “an extreme sci-fi geek. I’m probably wearing my very own homemade TRON costume right now.” I received 86 credits on The Sci Fi Sounds Quiz How … Continue reading →

To keep the ball rolling here’s an interview with Joel from Starwars.com: Star Wars: Community | A Guy Named Joel: Launching Cinematic Titanic

I just read that Joel Hodgson and the original cast of MST3K are embarking on a new venture called Cinematic Titanic at http://www.cinematictitanic.com/index.html where they will release episodes on DVD and for download. They’ll be riffing on bad movies just … Continue reading →

I ran across RiffTrax from a banner ad on Something Awful of all places. It’s Mike Nelson from MST3K who has recorded MP3 commentaries (lots of them with Kevin Murphy aka Tom Servo and Bill Corbett aka Crow). You buy … Continue reading →

Hal Fishman passed away at age 75 today, just one week after being diagnosed with colon cancer. While I didn’t watch him all that often I always stopped channel surfing if he came on. I knew he was the model … Continue reading →

As if Robot Chicken weren’t funny enough already there’s a 22 minute Star Wars homage up on Super Deluxe. Here’s the RC:SW page with a link to the full video and extra stuff like wallpaper. You can find the video … Continue reading →

I almost forgot, why do American studios have to rip off good Asian material? For instance, we recently saw The Eye in its original Mandarin with subtitles and it was great! Now I hear that someone in the States is … Continue reading →

After reading my previous post some folks might say to me “Yeah, well why don’t you come up with an original movie idea?” Guess what, I can’t! That’s right, I really don’t have a creative bone in my body. I … Continue reading →

For the past several years I’ve been annoyed at how the movie industry constantly takes the easy way out and copies history rather then coming up with something new. Actually my annoyance probably dates back to when the cheesy CG … Continue reading →

Wow, Alec sure has a way with children, just listen to the voicemail he left his 11 year-old daughter here. It sounds more like he’s trying to teach her to fear him rather than respect him. He sounded like an … Continue reading →

Thanks to Darana for finding this interview with Matt Stone and Trey Parker. If you don’t know who they are then you really aren’t on my wavelength at all. http://www.reason.com/news/show/116787.html

Thanks to Mangoat for this link about six special Monty Python programs being developed for PBS to air this year. Pythons on PBS

Good-bye Peter Benchley, we’ll miss you. I’m finally inspired to go read Jaws. Can you believe it’s one of my favorite movies of all time and I still haven’t read the book? CNN.com – ‘Jaws’ author Benchley dead at age … Continue reading →