Compass International Pictures In hindsight, 1978’s “Halloween” was always destined to have a sequel. Co-writer/director John Carpenter and co-writer/producer Debra Hill even included a particularly prophetic line of dialogue in their tale of a supernaturally-charged maniac, Michael Myers, terrorizing his hometown on Halloween night: “You can’t kill…
CBS Television Distribution A fun bit of trivia: when “Gilligan’s Island” was at the height of its popularity, sometime in 1965 show creator Sherwood Schwartz received a visit from one Commander Doyle of the United States Coast Guard. Evidently, the Commander was getting a lot of (jokey)…
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History Channel In 2020, Michael Hirst’s gripping historical drama series “Vikings” came to an end, rounding out the era of Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) and his kin after six seasons (which was all the more impressive given that Hirst didn’t think “Vikings” would make it past one)….
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Macall Polay/HBO How good was “The Penguin,” when it was all said and done? Well, let’s put it this way: The worst thing about it had absolutely nothing to do with the actual show itself. Despite going into the “The Batman” spinoff with more than my fair…
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Netflix Who would have thought “Cobra Kai,” now approaching its sixth and final season, would’ve become the massive Netflix hit it is today? What makes this scenario even more interesting is the fact that the “Karate Kid” spin-off show didn’t even start out as a Netflix series. For…
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Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady’s 2007 sitcom “The Big Ban Theory” was hotly contested when it was on the air. In the early 2000s, certain kinds of “geek” interests moved from the cultural fringe directly into the mainstream, and previously derided niche interests like “Dungeons & Dragons,” comic books, long-form video games, astronomy, trivia, and…
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Columbia Pictures If you’ve ever seen Willem Dafoe in a movie, chances are you’ve watched him die. He’s been stabbed, shot, blown up, crucified, burned alive, and, in one memorable instance, impaled by his own goblin-themed glider. (In another especially memorable scene, he was even buried alive and…
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Amazingly, it’s truly only in recent years that Hollywood has managed to crack the code on video game adaptations. Aside from these movies, we’ve had hits on the small screen such as “Fallout” and “The Last of Us.” But at the same time, on the movie side, we’ve continued to have baffling blunders like Eli…
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FX Danny Boyle’s 2002 post-apocalyptic thriller “28 Days Later” (which was unavailable to watch for a spell) isn’t technically a zombie movie. It follows the spread of a newly-concocted virus nicknamed simply the Rage Virus, which invades its victims’ brains and transforms them into un-thinking, wrathful monsters….
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Static Media/Shutterstock The 1990s were a monumental decade for animation. Plenty of kids who came of age during this time fondly remember watching classics of the medium on their television sets while Disney was in the midst of another renaissance with the likes of “Beauty and the…
