Last week saw the premiere of the most recent Doctor Who Christmas special, which I find I have very mixed feelings about, just as I do about the current series* and the show as a whole. I’ve written before about my undying love for Doctor Who, and while I still adore the show–and very much [...]
What’s exciting you right now? What books, comics, games, movies, TV series, music, plays, art movements, people, places, things are thrilling and delighting you these days? If you’re excited about stuff, please share it with me (and others) in the comments. Let us all know what you’ve been reading, watching, playing, experiencing that is getting [...]
Like any long-running TV series, there have been some pretty stinky Doctor Who stories. Some have tried to hard to be comedy (and failed), some have had goofy premises, some have just been executed poorly. “The Gunfighters,” “The Twin Dilemma,” “Dragonfire,” “Fear Her” and “The Doctor’s Daughter” are far from the best Doctor Who has [...]
Late last night, I caught a couple of episodes of the 1990′s X-Men animated series on TV. The dialogue and animation were just as rough as I remember them being, but just watching those two episodes was more enjoyable than watching either of Bryan Singer’s X-Men movies. (There’s really no point in mentioning Brett Ratner’s [...]
Today is the first day of African-American History Month. It’s also the day the world learned that Don Cornelius, the creator and most famous host of Soul Train, committed suicide. I hadn’t thought about Cornelius in ages, but Soul Train was huge for us kids of the ’70s and ’80s. I’m about as Caucasian as [...]
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