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Big guy on the big screen
‘The Simpsons’ to Hit the Big Screen I saw this trailer this weekend at the Ice Age 2 showing.
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Cheap Trek (didn’t they sing “Dream Police”?)
There’s good news for all of the Trekkies who don’t have the money to buy 28 season box sets at $100 each. There are now “Fan Collective” box sets which group episodes around a theme. Unofficially, this was started with the Jean-Luc Picard Collection. Pardon the banner ad, but it was a faster way to…
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Chef didn’t quit South Park!
If Roger Friedman is right about Chef’s Quitting Controversy, then someone has been falsely representing Isaac “Chef” Hayes while he’s been incapacitated. After South Park ran a daring and controversial episode attacking Scientology, there was some outcry from Scientologists but then the controversy died down. Then, out of nowhere, Isaac Hayes allegedly quits the show…and…
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A great reason for torrents to exist
BitTorrent is used to exchange illegal DVD rips and music files, and that’s bad. It’s also used to exchange copyrighted works that aren’t available on DVD, and that’s still illegal but not without some merit. And here’s a great example of that. The footage from September 11th, 2001, has been kept off TV for years,…
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“Return to the Batcave” is on DVD?
I didn’t realize you could buy “Return to the Batcave.” This was a TV movie which seemed to have a multiple personality syndrome, but it was a lot of fun. It details the making of the 1968 Batman TV show in flashbacks, and that part is played straight while focusing on such silliness as Burt…
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View the Justice League of America Pilot online
Many of you have asked where they can see the Justice League of America pilot, which I reviewed for Fanzing back in 1998. It is now available online through YouTube. If you’d like to see it now, click on the extended entry and it will begin loading.
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Tom Cruise yank episode now available online
Hollywood, Interrupted has the Tom Cruise episode of South Park viewable online as a RealMedia video. Get it while the getting’s good…who knows how fast this may get shut down! Hat tip: Lucianne.com
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South Park defiant; Comedy Central less so
Variety reports that a re-showing of the South Park Scientology episode was mysteriously yanked and replaced by the early episode “Chef’s Chocolate Salty Balls” which featured Isaac Hayes’ character Chef. That’s a noteworthy choice, since Hayes recently quit the show due to their Scientology parody. Forced between tweeking the nose of Scientologists again or kissing…
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DON’T FORGET: DOCTOR WHO on Sci-Fi Tonight!
Doctor Who is on tonight. Get your wheelbarrow of tacos ready! You’re welcome.
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MST3K Box Set #9 Announced
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 web site has announced the four episodes that will be included in DVD Box Set #9. 104- WOMEN OF THE PREHISTORIC PLANET 207- WILD REBELS 613- THE SINISTER URGE (with short: KEEPING CLEAN AND NEAT) 812- THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES As a bonus…