Just in time for our holidays, the Star Wars Holiday Special is making a comeback later this month. It will be forty-two years to the day that kids like myself first saw Bea Arthur serenade a cantina full of familiar aliens as Ackmena, met Chewbacca’s extended family, and saw Boba Fett on the screen for […]
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One of the best subjects I have discussed with a celebrity was asking Peter Mayhew–the actor known for playing Chewbacca from Star Wars–to talk about working with the Muppets when he guest-starred on The Muppet Show with Mark Hamill as Luke and Anthony Daniels as C-3PO in January 1980. Mayhew beamed as the memories flooded […]
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Apparently they don’t make it–at least in the first season–since a second season is already approved. It’s the most classic piece of science fiction and adventure, coming to your PBS Masterpiece: BBC’s latest adaptation of Jules Verne’s 1873 novel Around the World in 80 Days. It’s David Tennant in the lead role as Phileas Fogg […]
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Bueller? Bueller? If you think about it, who would have taken better advantage of staying home from school during a pandemic than Ferris Bueller? (That’s some pretty good social distancing in the above museum image). In advance of its 35th anniversary next year, the cast of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is one of many groups […]
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Peter Mayhew, the actor known best for playing Chewbacca in all three Star Wars trilogies, passed away Tuesday, April 30, 2019, according to a message distributed by his family yesterday. I was lucky to have gotten involved in the past 20 years with the convention circuit. It allowed me to meet some interesting people, including […]
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It was only last year that television viewers got a great look at the potential of theatrical quality, direct-to-Netflix films, via the superb, Academy Award-winning, black and white drama Roma (reviewed here). Will the next black and white movie produced by the Netflix studios fare similarly? Mank stars genre actor Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce If you’ve been missing the David Tennant from Doctor Who–he regenerated 11 (!) years ago into Matt Smith–and series like Broadchurch and Good Omens don’t cut it, and you don’t like your Tennant fix as a nasty villain as in Jessica Jones, then your series has finally arrived. BBC and PBS […]
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Robert B. Parker′s crime-solving duo made famous by Robert Urich and Avery Brooks in Spenser for Hire is getting its first movie adaptation with the Netflix Studios release, Spenser Confidential. The film is billed as an action-comedy, and is based on Parker’s star characters from his 40 novels. Parker used other writers for some of […]
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Once a year at borg we ask: What makes a great screen heroine? It’s time for borg′s annual look at the Best Kick-Ass Genre Heroines in film and television. Despite delays in releases due to the covid pandemic, nothing kept Hollywood from including great female characters on the screen, even if that meant moving movies […]
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When we created last year’s preview of 2019 movies we were pretty sure we were going to have some great movies this year, but we were surprised by what ended up being the best. All year we tried to keep up with what Hollywood had to offer and homed in on the genre content we […]
