Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Charles Dickens’ 1843 novel A Christmas Carol has been adapted hundreds of times for stage, radio, movies and television. (Of course, the fact...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
OK, boils and ghouls, just one more foray into murder and mayhem before we hunker down to (slightly) more traditional fare for the rest of our holiday...
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When the seminal British series The Avengers debuted in 1960 as a straight-forward police procedural, no one would have guessed that, in just a few...
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It’s a dark and stormy night. A creepy old mansion sits atop a hill (“somewhere in Maryland”) surrounded by thunder and fog. Who...
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Considering its genre, it’s not surprising that the holiday celebration that received the most attention on Buffy the Vampire Slayer was...
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Fans of The X-Files fall into two categories: those who prefer the episodes connected to the alien conspiracy and those who prefer the self-contained...
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Let us take this opportunity to praise Seth Green who, when it comes to deadpan comedy, might well be this generation’s answer to Buster Keaton....
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With the collapse of the studio system, the death of the censorship code and the advent of color television, Hollywood went through a lot of odd...
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“There is nothing funny about a clown at midnight” -- Lon Chaney, Sr. Good ol’ Lon knew exactly what he was talking...
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Although it occasionally delved into social and political commentary à la Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, Joseph Stefano’s seminal...
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