Cinematic universe films take a TON of preparation and writing to make them even remotely believable. Look at how much effort one went through just to create the first Avengers movie. You needed several standalone films, along with a way to tie all of them together. Same thing with the current James Gunn-authored DC Universe.…
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The Fugitive: The greatest ending to a serialized TV drama
For four years, the lead character was a man on the run. An escapee from the law. Someone convicted of murder, and all appeals were exhausted. While being escorted to prison and an eventual date with the electric chair, he escapes. And now he must stay hidden, and find the evidence to prove that the…
Read MoreThe Green Hornet was too much like Batman, and not enough like Batman.
After the breakout runaway success of the 1966 Batman TV series, there was an attempt to create another super-crime-fighting half-hour drama series by the same network. And with the same production company that operated the Batman TV series, we received The Green Hornet. The Green Hornet originally existed as a popular 1940’s radio drama, and…
Read MoreSo I watched “Spider-Noir” in color … because …
A few weeks ago, I blogged about the new Amazon Prime miniseries Spider-Noir, which takes the Spider-Man story and plants it into a 1930’s era crime noir drama. It’s almost as if Stan Lee and Steve Ditko had lunch with Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett, and this was the result of splitting the dining check.…
Read MoreThe Royale with Cheese TV Club: Fleabag
The Royale With Cheese Movie Club is a blog category where I finally get around to watching films that apparently everyone else in the world has seen. It was named after my finally seeing Pulp Fiction about 25 years after everyone else. Of late, I’ve added a TV subsection to this blog category, so at…
Read MoreThe Hardy Boys – with guitars??
Depending on your perspective or your age group, if someone said “The Hardy Boys” to you, you might think of the hundreds of mystery novels featuring the adventures of Frank and Joe Hardy, all penned by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym of Franklin W. Dixon (who never truly existed, that’s a mystery in and…
Read MoreTexico – how children in Japan learn programming skills
This is what I call educational programming. And I discovered this yesterday from the Hackaday website. Take a look at this short video clip. You’re seeing what looks like a dancing arrow – which, once the rest of the video rolls, provides a clue as to how the arrow can dance and move. You’ve just…
Read More𝄞 Baby, if you’ve ever wondered ♫ wondered whatever became of me…
WKRP in Cincinnati was an absolutely fun late 1970’s sitcom. It was a workplace comedy about a low-rated radio station whose new employee helps steer the broadcast entity into the popular world of rock and roll. Trust me, that show had plenty of iconic characters and moments. Right from the first episode, when new music…
Read MoreThe Magnificent Marble Machine – The pinball game show
There are some fantastic, long-running game show concepts. An elaborate version of the children’s game Hangman is the framework for Wheel of Fortune. A giant version of tic-tac-toe evolved into The Hollywood Squares. But sometimes the concept just doesn’t work when you turn it into a game show. And for that, I bring you The…
Read MoreIt’s been 25 gorram years already…
I enjoy good science fiction as much as the next person. Give me a good Star Wars movie or a good Star Trek TV series, and I’m a happy man. Is there a TARDIS nearby? Might there involve a time-traveling telephone booth? (air guitar riff) Then again, some science fiction fandom can border on the…
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