In 1969, a young, bored Marv Newland disregarded copyright law and most of the basic guidelines for successful film-making and threw together a moronic cartoon which propelled him to cult fame.
Weekly Digital Disc Picks – November 6, 2007
If you’re looking for feature films, it’s not a wonderful week. If you’re looking for TV releases, this is an excellent week, including some nifty complete series sets.
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Galactica’s Last Season Pushed Back? (again?)
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the final season will premiere not in January, but in April. At least “Razor” is still on for later this month, though one two-hour movie is precious little solace.
Supernatural Discussion – “Bedtime Stories”
There was a new Supernatural on Thursday, as well.
Smallville Review – “Lara”
Sorry it’s late. My role at work changed significantly effective November 1, so I couldn’t get to it as soon as I’d hoped.
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Joss Whedon: Glutton for Punishment
Looks like he’ll be returning to TV and Fox no less, with Dollhouse.
Sure, the premise sounds cool. Sure it reteams him with Buffy alum Eliza Dushku. Sure it’s Joss back on TV.
But Fox? Sci-Fi hating, Firefly cancelling Fox? Dammit, Joss. Have you learned nothing?
Second X-Files Movie in production
Fox confirmed yesterday that a second X-Files film is in production and will be out next July.
Weekly Comics Discussion – October 31, 2007
Marvel and DC both have Halloween themed items ready for shelves this year. The complete list can be found here.
There have also been some updates on the Flash and Green Lantern movies.
October Review: London After Midnight
The most successful of the Tod Browning/Lon Chaney collaborations, London After Midnight is Hollywood’s first full-length vampire film (The European Nosferatu predates it, of course). A fire, it was long believed, destroyed the last existing copy in 1965, however….
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October Review: Mark of the Vampire
Tod Browning’s 1935 remake of London After Midnight gives us the horror movie as it used to be done, and Bela Lugosi as a vampiric Count not named Dracula