The list of upcoming reviews that I haven’t updated in
ages has finally been updated at same
old URL that it used to be at. Please let me know
if you ever refer to it; it just took me seven hours
to do, and I plan to update the grossly outdated schedule
next month. That won’t take quite as long, but it’s
not a short job, either, so I want to know that it’s
worthwhile before I start it.

It’s time for Dave’s annual “tinker with the database” session. Read on for the latest round of stuff he broke.
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Now that our Big Screen Batman week has come to a
close, we’re going to fill everyone in on our next
batch of pre-planned reviews. Starting in July, we’ll
have Summer Double Features every Sunday, with reviews
of pairs of related titles. For the complete
schedule, click on the “Read More” bit below.
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With the recent server change, there has been a slight relocation of some of the files we have out there with hints about what’s coming. Our list of possible upcoming reviews is here, my own personal DVD collection is here, and the list of everything that we’ve ever reviewed under the 42 point system is available here. Finally, we have a schedule of everything we can tack a definite date to available here. I should mention that this is a little out of date. I’ll be moving house in March, so I want to review a number of DVDs that I’ll lose access to before then, namely Abbott and Costello’s Jack and the Beanstalk, Chicken Run, Dead Like Me: Season One, Harvey, Joe’s Apartment, Mary Poppins, and The Wizard of Oz. If you have any preferences from among those titles, now is the time to speak.

You may have noticed the site being slow and weird and flaky. Or not. Either way, read on for boring technical details.

Fiziko: Please read the comments for an important message that I can’t deliver to you any other way at this time.
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Starting tomorrow morning, we’ll have a Christmas
Countdown, much like the Halloween countdown we ran
a while back. (This one will only last two weeks,
though.) Most of the Christmas specials we grew up
watching will be reviewed, as well as a couple of
movies. The schedule can be found here.
The only thing that may seem to be missing is a
review of It’s a Wonderful Life. We
reviewed that in 2002.
Have a happy Winter Solstice, Hanukkah, Christmas,
Kwanza, and/or Gurnenthar’s Ascendance!

Since my University of Alberta web space can vanish
at any moment, I needed a new home for my stuff.
Dave kindly set me up with some Bureau 42 space, so
now my list of upcoming reviews can be found here,
my list of all 42 point reviews ever posted to Bureau
42 can be found here,
and my web listings of my DVD collection can be found
here.
Review requests are still accepted via fiziko@bureau42.com.

Erf has pointed out to me that it would be convenient
to provide links to previous reviews when reviewing
something that’s part of a series. Well, that’s a
lot of work for every review, so I put in a heck of a
lot of work today, and created this
list of every review we’ve written since adopting
the 42 point schemes. I’ll add links to the relevant
areas in my review templates, so the past reviews
will be relatively easy to track down. I hope it’ll
help readers keep track of our past reviews, as I
expect it to help me. The list of stuff I may be
potentially reviewing is still here,
and theangrymob’s list is still here.

Due to unforseen technical difficulties, some comments have been resurrected from beyond the grave.

I typoed a database update, and a couple hundred comments from about three years ago were updated so that the database thinks those comments were made today.

Shouldn’t hurt anything, but it might look weird (especially if you look at the stats page and see a bunch of comments made on articles from three years ago.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Let’s face it, folks, this site is kinda ugly.
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