With the new series about to premiere, we’re reviewing the original 1972 tv-movie. The production drew top ratings (hey, there wasn’t much choice in ’72), and spawned three other tv movies and an occasionally witty series, Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974-5) which presaged The X-Files, and is an acknowledged influence on that show.
Available here. The subsequent series (which holds a few gems) has recently been released on DVD.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the
water…
The 57th annual primetime Emmy
Awards were distributed last night. Last night’s
only genre winner was Lost (Outstanding
directing for a drama series for J.J. Abrams work on
the two part pilot episode, Outstanding drama series).
At the creative arts portion, Lost also won
for casting, editing, visual effects, and music
composition; A Christmas Carol won for music
direction; Star Wars: The Clone Wars Vol. 2
won for outstanding animated program one hour or more,
as well as outstanding individual acheivement in
animation along with Fairly Odd Parents,
Samurai Jack, The Powerpuff Girls
and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends; and
Frankenstein won for work in makeup.
DC’s new All-Star titles, while not in continuity with their mainstream comics, aren’t really intended to be an alternate universe, either. They represent, according to DC, their most famous characters at their purest, most iconic, and are intended to draw in readers who may be unfamiliar with recent comic books.
Who better to do Batman and Robin in this manner, than Frank Miller? He revitalized interest in Batman with Dark Knight. He rebooted continuity with Year One.
He has gone hopelessly awry with this effort.
This week’s “Pick of the Week” is presented in the
main lists as well as the bottom, as requested.
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Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof will be writing this forthcoming title.
Many critics consider Brannon Braga and Bragi F. Shut’s entry into the Dark SF sweepstakes as the best of the bunch, this year’s Lost. I believe this show could evolve into something interesting but, based on the pilot, it has a long way to go.
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Justice League Unlimited returns to American airwaves
tonight with a full hour, two episode premier. There
will be two episodes next week as well.
This is a non-horror ghost story, which you don’t find
very often.
rickyjames
writes, Serenity is scheduled to have its Los
Angeles Premiere on September 22, with the cast
and a galaxy of all-star guests. A half-dozen
two-guest tickets are now available over on the Universal
Serenity Movie Board “fan store”, which recently
got stocked with posters, T-shirts and such. The
catch is, members must have previously earned 10,000
“points” from fan activities to “purchase” these
premiere tickets, and only a few dozen of the
Browncoats out of the 50,000+ registered have that
many points accumulated. I’m one of them (from
posting a Serenity banner ad on a relatively high
traffic website for months), and I’ve “ordered” a
premiere ticket. Unfortunately, I’m stuck in Alabama
that night. Any Bureau 42 fans willing to go in my
place in exchange for posting a review here? Let me
know, and the ticket is yours for free if I haven’t
already given it to somebody else in LA already.
Serenity is definitely well worth seeing even despite
the negative energy I’ve previously vented here at B42
about the Memphis preview showing…