Category: Reviews
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SCI-FI/FANTASY FOR KIDS: The Secret World of Arrietty
My kids and I are huge fans of Studio Ghibli. I love almost everything that I have seen from them, and my kids adore My Neighbor Totoro and Ponyo. Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation studio. I would compare the studio to PIXAR, perhaps, and the primary force behind their output over the past decades…
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REVIEW: Alcatraz
(Mild spoilers ahead . . . very, very mild.) Last night, the Fox network tried to fill the hole left in so many people’s lives after Lost disappeared from the airwaves with Alcatraz. Say what you will about Lost’s finale, the the show defined “appointment television” in a television environment that had become increasingly difficult…
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SCI-FI FOR KIDS: Wall*E
When I was a kid, my imagination was dazzled by Superman and Star Wars on the silver screen and Superfriends and Battle of the Planets on the small screen (among many, many other things), not to mention various comic books like Superman and X-Men and kids books like Narnia and The Littles and . .…
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REVIEW: William Shatner’s “The Captains”
I’m a big fan of William Shatner. If we ever do a podcast to tackle the classic “Kirk vs. Picard”, there will be no question what side I fall on. I will listen to opposing arguments, but I will not change my mind. (Gauntlet thrown, Dr. Jayce.) I enjoy watching Shatner in Star Trek,…