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What is the appeal of Boba Fett? He appeared in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi in the original Star Wars trilogy. He doesn’t have much dialogue in Empire and none in Return unless you include screaming. Reportedly, the character first appeared at the San Anselmo County Fair on Sept. 24, 1978,Continue reading “Boba Fett Gets His Own Show”

Being that it’s still the Christmas season, there is a part of the Bible that is hardly adapted to the screen. After Jesus’ body is resurrected on the Sunday we know celebrate as Easter, traditionally, most movies and TV shows have finished with the resurrection. Why? Because it’s a good way to end a story.Continue reading “‘Hawkeye’ Is Irrelevant MCU Filler”

Dopesick may have gotten a lot of rave reviews and even named by Entertainment Weekly as the part of the best of television in 2021, but unfortunately, I feel people are misinterpreting subject matter with excellence. The Hulu series is eight episodes long with each about one hour give or take. But even at eightContinue reading “‘Dopesick’ Functions More As A Placebo Than A Cure-All”

Jim Henson has been gone for more than 30 years, yet his legacy is still being felt by many people who weren’t even alive when he passed, nor were their parents even an item. He would’ve been 85 if he was still alive today but many of the original Muppeteers have also passed. While DisneyContinue reading “‘Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas’ Was Jim Henson’s Masterpiece”

In the olden days of network TV, many stations would do what is called a “burn off.” They would more or less dump a show that they had invested a lot of money and time in that they knew was awful during the summer months or during the hiatus periods of more popular months. TheseContinue reading “The Devil Wouldn’t Even Unleash Something Like ‘Santa Inc.’”

One of the jokes about The Avengers: Age of Ultron was that they gave Jeremy Renner some dialogue this time for his role as Clint Barton/Hawkeye. He had been part of the first Avengers movie but was overshadowed by some of the bigger characters. Renner has been acting in movies since the mid-1990s, but remainedContinue reading “‘Hawkeye’ Is Hit Or Miss So Far”

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving was first broadcast in 1973 and unlike the Christmas and Halloween specials that preceded it, it often gets overlooked, mainly because the special really doesn’t do much. Even that Flashbeagle episode had more going on in it. There’s no kids dancing. There’s no Great Pumpkin watchers. There’s no psycho stalking byContinue reading “‘Charlie Brown Thanksgiving’ Simple But More Thoughtful”

There’s no way to describe The Star Wars Holiday Special which was broadcast one time only on this date, Nov. 17, 1978 on CBS. It’s not great. But it’s not entirely deserving of its awful criticism. In fact, bootlegs of the special are considered prized collections among nerds everywhere. You can’t really call yourself aContinue reading “‘The Star Wars Holiday Special’ Is Something Else”

I’m only three episodes in the Hulu limited series Dopesick about the opioid crisis involving Purdue Pharma but it has problems that are only kept together by the performances of the ensemble cast. And that ensemble cast is also its illness. There are six stories interconnecting here jumping back and forth over many years overContinue reading “‘Dopesick’ Suffers From Similar Symptoms Of Docudramas, Hope It Gets Better Soon”