Category: Television & Movies

Writer, actor and director Harold Ramis died today at the age of 69. In all of the Ghostbusters-centric remembrance, it’s easy to forget that Ramis is also credited with co-writing that movie, along with National Lampoon’s Vacation, Stripes, Animal House, and many others, as well as writing and directing such movies as Caddyshack and Groundhog Day.

And yet all of the memorializing hews to the magnetic pull of Ghostbusters, as if that was the only movie with which Ramis had ever been associated. But there’s a reason for that: Egon Spengler was a geek hero of the highest order. … Read more

While the rest of the internet – or at least it seems that way tonight – declares a satisfactory end to the uncertainty over Heisenberg’s principles (ha!), I’m sitting in a corner over here doing my own thing. Not because I’m a TV hipster, mind, but because I have a confession to make: I tried, repeatedly, to climb aboard the Breaking Bad RV, and I just could not get into it. I read a news article earlier tonight about how flawless the show’s run was, and how we’re in the middle of a new golden age of TV, and… actually, come to think of it, a lot of the stuff that everyone’s been praising in recent years has left me cold or left me by the side of the road too. What’s going on here? … Read more

J. Michael Straczynski has quitely woken up the Babylon 5 fan base with – wait for it, wait for it – a call to arms to show Warner Bros. that there’s interest in Babylon 5 – remastering the existing material for the future, and perhaps doing something new with it down the road – by using the hashtag #FreeBabylon5 on Twitter and Facebook.

This is an excellent idea on so many fronts.

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