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ABC Offers 'V' for Vendetta
3 November 2009 10:00 PM, PST
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ABC's reboot of Kenneth Johnson's '80s miniseries V (which originally aired on NBC) debuted last night, and for the most part, it was pretty entertaining.
In less than an hour, writer/exec producer Scott Peters (The 4400) sets up the gambit—visitors from another planet who come to Earth in search of natural resources, promising peace and prosperity, and quickly polarize humanity into those who are taken in by the Visitors' claims of benevolence, and those who immediately distrust them.
Whether wisely or not, Peters chose to be very economical with time and got things off to a blistering start. Consequently, the entire setup happens within the first installment. Unlike the original '80s show, which took more time to reveal the Visitors' true nature, the new series took us from arrival, to suspicion, to resistance, to revelation about the aliens' reptilian nature, all in the first episode.
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'Community' Halloween episode preview: Chevy Chase as The Beastmaster!
14 October 2009 11:26 AM, PDT
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As someone who keeps The Beastmaster special edition DVD in her office — and still gets goosebumps thinking about that bonus feature in which Marc Singer talks about the moment he learned he'd be rescued by ferrets — I cannot wait for Community's Oct. 29 Halloween episode. From the behind-the-scenes video below, we now know that Chevy Chase's Pierce dresses up as The Beastmaster; Danny Pudi's Abed, Batman (awesome impersonation); Yvette Nicole Brown's Shirley, Harry Potter (allegedly); Donald Glover's Troy, Eddie Murphy; Ken Jeong's Señor Chang, a matador; Gillian Jacobs' Britta, a squirrel; and Alison Brie's Annie,
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- Mandi Bierly
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Five: Late Night TV Gems
4 March 2009 8:39 AM, PST
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You can’t beat late night television to catch some of the oddities of the film world. Series’ like Moviedrome and Mondo Macabro presented some weird and wonderful films, but sheer scheduling alone would bring the occasional strange delight our way. The only bonus of insomnia was that I’d never miss these films when they were on and it’s how I got into loving film, the veritable B-movie banquet that was the early hours So, here are my choices of five late night TV gems:
Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark (1973) Now you see them, now you don’t…now you die
Be afraid, be very afraid in this very effective made-for-tv movie which has already made an entry in fistinface’s ‘Five: TV Movies Not About Eating Disorders’. I love cheesy TV movies but this is the rare thing of a darker, more original film and
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- Fiona
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