Time to ask this question on all my blogs: What are your favorite premises for episodes or story arcs in fiction/TV/movies/what have you?

Time for an audience participation topic: Paramount has abandoned their lawsuit against the party behind the AXANAR project.

In the wake of this, would you want to make a fan movie?  If so, what franchise?

GetTV was showing the 1960s Jason And The Argonauts just now.  It's weird that when I saw it in theater when I was a kid that I was so awed by the effects.  I still see the genius in it, even though now it's painfully obvious how it was done.

In 1977, the only night of the week on which NONE of the three major U.S. television networks showed a feature film in Prime-Time was TUESDAY.

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of August 13, 2015
In some phases of your life, you have been a wanderer. You've had a fuzzy sense of where you belong. It has been a challenge to know which target you should aim your arrows at. During those times, you may have been forceful but not as productive as you'd like to be; you may have been energetic but a ( Read more... )

(I found out a fact this week I should have known decades ago.)  The Feggans Brown company, which built aircraft mockups for movies and TV series, also built scores of Daleks for various Doctor Who productions.


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Superman 2 was on one of the TV networks we get this afternoon, and I have to say it hasn't aged as well as I expected.  It got me thinking about things like speed and how we perceive motion.

I'm about average size for a human being.  If I went like the Man of Steel and flew at a rate of my own body's "flight length" per second, that's only about 5 ( Read more... )

Almost six whole years after I first posted about it here I finally got a copy of Sky Crawlers on DVD ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of October 31, 2013

I had a dream that you were in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? You were like the character played by George Clooney after he escaped from a prison chain gang. Can you picture it? You were wearing a striped jailbird suit, and a ball and chain were still cuffed around your ankle. But you were ( Read more... )

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