TV

Rate This Movie By the mid-nineties, Saturday morning cartoons were a blur of occasionally brilliant animated comedy mixed in with a lot of trash made to sell toys and merchandise, but one show rose above the rest for sheer novelty – ReBoot was the first show to be completely computer-generated, and it was set within a computer, turning programs and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Detective Eva Thörnblad must begrudgingly return to her hometown of Silverhöjd several years after her young child disappeared from a nearby  forest lake. The child’s body was never found and therefor presumed drowned, though Eva  has always felt like there was more to what happened that day. Upon her return to the strange, small town another …

Rate This Movie After starting his career as a television scriptwriter in 1968, Stephen J. Cannell created several dozen successful crime dramas from the seventies to the nineties, including The Rockford Files, Chase, Black Sheep Squadron, Baretta, City Of Angels, The A-Team, Hardcastle & McCormick, Wiseguy, 21 Jump Street, Silk Stalkings and The Commish. He was the cheapest writer on …

Rate This Movie “We thought we were alone. We believed the universe was ours. Until one night in 2063, on an Earth colony sixteen light-years away, they struck. Now we are at war. My name is Lieutenant T.C. McQueen. I’m an In Vitro, a race of artificially gestated humans. I command a marine corps squadron, the 58th, called the Wildcards. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she’s been killed in a terrible accident. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, he is greeted by a strange …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ash has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead until a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind and Ash becomes mankind’s only hope. REVIEW: Ash and the gang complete another season in this Starz network series. If you haven’t checked out last season’s review of “Ash …

Rate This Movie Before Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created The Fantastic Four and launched the Silver Age of comic book superheroes at Marvel, they created a handful of monsters with weird names like Rommbu, Fin-Fang-Foom, and Googam Son Of Goom, which appeared in Tales Of Suspense and Strange Tales magazines. The Hulk was the last of their monsters who, …

Rate This Movie Pierre Boulle‘s novel Monkey Planet was given the big-budget wide-screen Hollywood treatment as Planet Of The Apes (1968), and its only virtues are the result of money spent. The final script by Rod Serling and Michael Wilson – about Earth astronaut George Taylor (Charlton Heston) who crash-lands on a planet ruled by tyrannical talking apes, only to …

Rate This Movie In 1940, after serving on an advisory board for DC Comics, psychiatrist William Moulton Marston created the character of Wonder Woman in an effort to establish some balance in the male-dominated world of superheroes. Writing as Charles Moulton he crafted a female character that was equally heroic so young women would have a hero with whom to …

Rate This MovieTwin Peaks set the television world on fire in the 90s. While only two seasons aired, the quirky and engaging drama created by Mark Frost and David Lynch garnered a cult following.  It all started with a fervoured search for who killed teenage dream queen Laura Palmer and ended on an ambiguous cliffhanger, challenging viewers to figure out …

Rate This Movie Darkroom was an American television thriller series that aired on ABC from November 27, 1981 to January 15, 1982. It was an anthology horror/thriller series, similar in style to Rod Serling’s Night Gallery. Each 60 minute episode featured two or more stories of varying length with a new story and a new cast, but each episode wraparound …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Set in a world centuries from now, “Into the Badlands: The Complete First Season” focused on the spiritual journey of Sunny (Wu) and M.K. (Aramis Knight), a teenage boy who harbors a unique ability, and their growing relationship as teacher and student. Both discover their true purpose and decide to explore what lies beyond the borders …

Rate This Movie Where does one begin? I suppose it started with the debut episode that literally floored me upon arrival. I was lucky enough to have the pleasure of receiving a special “Ash Vs Evil Dead” promo kit that included all sorts of cool promotional materials, Though materials aside…I was more interested in the Starz channel and their brand …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in The Walking Dead (2010)? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question. REVIEW: Coming in off the success of a highly regarded program, “The Walking …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ghost Adventures is a weekly American paranormal television series that premiered on October 17, 2008 on the Travel Channel. Currently produced by MY-Tupelo Entertainment (a merger of MY Entertainment and Tupelo-Honey Productions),[1] the program follows and stars ghost hunters Zak Bagans, Nick Groff, and Aaron Goodwin, as they investigate locations that are reported to be haunted. …