When you are out of ideas, it's time to look back on what worked. That seems to be the Hollywood mantra these days, with some of the newest projects coming from movies that have been around for decades. Unfortunately though, very few of these re-makes ever encroach the exclusive classic status of th ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the episode "Show Me the Mummy" from the SciFi Channel series, "Eureka." This episode was a bit of a departure than the normal episode of "Eureka." Instead of focusing on some new technology gone awry, this one tackled the ancient lore of Egyptian mummies an ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "The Clotharian Contamination Protocol," the eleventh episode of the ABC Family show, "The Middleman." It's nice to see actors and actresses from "Battlestar Galactica" getting work on the different networks. During this episode, we see Mark Sheppard (soon t ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "The Shrine," the sixth episode of the fifth and final season of "Stargate: Atlantis." "You're stuck with me, Rodney. Just accept it." -- John Sheppard "You're a good friend, Arthur." -- Rodney McKay After being stuck on top of a Stargate in a flooded valley ...
Read MoreIf you missed SyFy Radio Wednesday night, you were left out of a somewhat historical show for us ... well, as historical as you can get for being about five months into broadcasting. First of all, we were stood up for the first time (we knew it had to happen eventually) by some guy named Chuck Willi ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the episode "I Do Over" from the SciFi Channel series "Eureka." Been there, done that. D?j? vu all over again. Are there any other clich?s I can add that would reflect the tired, overused and clich?d nature of this episode of "Eureka?" This was another one o ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "The Vampiric Puppet Lamentation," the tenth episode of the ABC Family network's show, "The Middleman." I must be on to something with my finding similarities between "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" and "The Middleman." This week, Wendy even says, "Ah ... I'm gon ...
Read MoreThis column contains MODERATE SPOILERS for the BBC series, "Primeval." First things first ... I want to again mention that "Charlie Jade" continues to be shown on the SciFi Channel. The bad news is that it is running Tuesdays at 3 a.m. The reason I mention it is that I keep running into people who l ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the "Ghost In the Machine" episode of "Stargate: Atlantis.""For all we know it could be Oberoth inside that body." -- Woolsey "That's creepy." -- Sheppard The SGA team is flying away from a planet apparently filled with flying monkeys when the puddlejumper g ...
Read MoreI know I wasn't the only kid who did this, and don't even try to deny it. I couldn't have been more than 4 years old, sitting at the kitchen table watching my mom prepare food for my little sister and I. I couldn't even begin to tell you what she was making for me, but my sister was still on the Ger ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the episode "Best in Faux" from the Sci-Fi Channel series "Eureka." "Eureka" may unofficially hold the record for most puns in their episode titles. Cute and clever titles don?t make an episode successful, though. For that, you need a decent script, consiste ...
Read MoreThe passage of time is something that has scared me since I learned at 5 years old that our time on Earth was finite, and unless you believed in reincarnation, it was the only time you were ever going to get here. A few years ago, I had a tiny brush with death. It was nothing immediate, but I had a ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "The Obsolescent Cryogenic Meltdown" episode of the ABC Family cable network show, "The Middleman." Old murder mystery show cliche #1 states that the actor or actress playing the detective/murder-solver gets top billing, but the person getting second billing ...
Read MoreI'm back from Comic-Con International, and having dealt with a problem with my apartment, I'm ready to write.I attended several panels for various shows at the con, but what I want to talk about today is "Fringe." On preview night, the pilot episode for "Fringe" was aired. The pilot script was revie ...
Read MoreIn less than a week, Airlock Alpha celebrates its 10th anniversary. And while our history is long enough that I could start all of it in this column, I'll spare you. But it is strange thinking that it's been 10 years since I first started the site as Syfyman's World. I really had no idea what I was ...
Read More