Setting the bar very low for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek. I'm a fan of the original series, but I'm not a purist.  If legends like Robin Hood and King Arthur can be rewritten and revised for new generations, then there's nothing sacred about a TV show, and I don't see any reason why the characters f...

I wonder which challenge the gang at Pixar set for themselves when they came up with the idea for Wall-E. Let's see how many references to classic science fiction movies we can pack into one movie? Let's see if we can sell an extremely dystopic depiction of the future to small children? Cars was too...

Racing through Season Three of Weeds to get ready for Season Four which premieres on Showtime June 16, I stayed up late the other night watching episode after episode and wound up scared, depressed, lonely, and miserably contemplating my own mortality in the increasingly haggard faces of Nancy Botwi...

The blonde and I went to a play Friday night.  Off-Broadway.  When I was reading the actors' bios in the Playbill before the lights went down, something jumped out at me, a common factor in all their resumes. CHARACTER ACTOR YOU RECOGNIZE FROM A HUNDRED BIT PARTS IN MOVIES AND WHO TURNS OU...

Third season of Weeds comes out on DVD next month, fourth season begins on Showtime June 16, second season of Mad Men premieres on AMC in July, with the first season on DVD showing up in the stores and on Netflix just ahead of it, but right now, with nothing new to watch to watch to satisfy my late ...

My daughter is a huge Hannah Montana fan. Loves the crap out of her. Because she watches the Disney Channel.... .... not because she reads Vanity Fair. If some tweeny is intelligent enough to have moved into the Vanity Fair readership then I'm going to trust that they are sophisticated enough to get...

Yes this week's posts are sucking wind but it's a work thing. Next week may prove even worse but maybe not. For now here are some random TV thoughts after sipping on the morning coffee and reading the gossip. Not a big Idol fan, only catch it in passing but I'm going to go on record as thinking the ...

So the disks for the second season of Weeds came from Netflix last week and one evening when the Dr was hanging out with The Engineer (next door) helping him tile his porch after the kids had gone to bed I put the disk in and sat back to enjoy. For several episodes the house is plagued with plumbing...

Once upon a time, my two favorite TV shows were Cheers and St Elsewhere and one night, for fifteen minutes the two shows became one show, when the three main characters from St Elsewhere went out for a drink at a neighborhood bar called Cheers where they met the three main supporting characters from...

Twelve year old looks up from the newspaper last night and says, "You know, God got a lot more merciful in the New Testament than he was in the Old Testament.  Why is that?" Question didn't have anything specific to do with the article he was reading.  It was just one of those th...