It's easy to be guilty by association. I know that because one time when I was like 8 years old on the mean streets of Johnsonburg, Pa., a bunch of my friends thought it would be great to start throwing rocks. So they did, and they ended up hitting someone's mom, who obviously got angry and called o ...
Read MoreACT I Recently Brian K. Vaughan?s acclaimed comic book series ?Y: The Last Man? came to an end with Issue 60. No, it wasn?t canceled. It just ended. Vaughan decided it was time to finish the story. Now New Line Cinema is developing a film with screenwriter Carl Ellsworth (?Disturbia?), director D. J ...
Read MoreI was talking to my counterpart there in your universe, who I like to call the "Mirror Michael Hinman," about how "Jericho" ended its run Tuesday night. He says the show ended way too soon, and it was something he looked forward to watching each week. Well, in our alternate world here, "Jericho" has ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the "Patriots and Tyrants" episode of the CBS series, "Jericho." Since it had to end, I am glad "Jericho" was able to go out in grand style. I can?t imagine anyone can find fault with this episode. Even though a ton of major events took place, this episode, ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the "Keep The Change" episode of the Fox series, "New Amsterdam." "My name is John Amsterdam, and I'm an alcoholic.""Hello, John." I'm all for socially relevant stories (I'm a Star Trek fan, after all), but the Alcoholics Anonymous theme in "Keep The Change ...
Read MoreMarch elicits images of lions, lambs, bunnies, chicks, and brightly colored eggs in baskets. The tradition of giving out decorated eggs hails back to ?pagan? practices from thousands of years ago that celebrate spring and new life. The tradition in science-fiction, however, indicates that eggs are u ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "Fragments," the twelfth episode of the second season of BBC?s "Torchwood." You can?t get a more dramatic opening than this: the team tracks down a series of explosive devices with only seconds left to go ... and each one detonates right in their faces forci ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "Traveler," the fourteenth episode of the seventh season of The CW?s "Smallville." It?s girl power to the rescue as Lana, Chloe and Kara of Krypton all team up to save Clark from the clutches of an elusive billionaire. After a mid-season lull, ?Smallville?s? ...
Read MoreThis week we see the end of "Jericho" (again). We were treated to a good season of almost non-stop action. The story moved along at a break-neck pace, and one has to wonder if the series was better because of the short season. In the United Kingdom, the standard for television has been short seasons ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the "Separated" episode of "The House Between." "There are infinite Arlos." ? Bill "Jesus, my worst nightmare." ? Travis This second episode starts right up where we left off, with Arlo being "lost" and the others trying to figure out a way to get him back. ...
Read MoreI know I reported on this a month ago, but I really was hoping to be wrong on this one. While Christians observe Good Friday and get ready for the upcoming Easter holiday, "Jericho" fans had something to mourn: CBS canceled their favorite show, for a second time. Cancellation is a hard pill to swall ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "Meet Kevin Johnson," an episode of the ABC series, "Lost." They should have titled this episode "Dead Cast Walking" as several of the characters were either destined to die by the end of the hour, already dead, or trying to die. As far as revelations, I h ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "Adrift," the eleventh episode of the second season of BBC?s "Torchwood." What makes ?Torchwood?s? wild and outrageous adventures so powerful is that there is always a face to the victim. In this case, a worried mother (Ruth Jones) missing her son with no cl ...
Read MoreSince Saturday, I've been almost bed-ridden with a nasty bout of bronchitis just two weeks after finally recovering from one of the worst flus I've ever had. I actually felt well enough to put in a half-day at the real job Thursday, and before that was editing Dan Compora's SciFi 101 column wonderin ...
Read MoreDeadly viruses and plagues have been spreading across the airwaves and multiplex theaters. The trend is certainly not new, but during the first part of the century, our media has flooded us with the fear of diseases ? both real and imagined. Recent film releases such as "Doomsday," "I Am Legend," "2 ...
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