After reading io9’s persuasive pitch for Pushing Daisies, I downloaded the first season of the undeservedly underrated TV show.
What I had originally assumed was just a gooey, flower-frilled sitcom is actually one of the most cleverly quirky yet cutely macabre shows on television. Pushing Daisies is the love child of Roald Dahl and Tim Burton—but [...]
Pushing Daisies Burrows Deep
Animated Batman Flies Again
More than 16 years since it first aired, Batman: The Animated Series is now available in a complete boxed set. The cartoon draws its storytelling inspiration from ’40s comics, while the aesthetic is a clear nod to the Tim Burton film made just three years earlier. Using voice actors like Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill [...]
The Death Of Heroes
Last week’s Entertainment Weekly cover story was a foreboding turn for the ever-worsening Heroes. With today’s news that execs Jeph Loeb and Jesse Alexander have been unceremoniously offed, it seems that the over-crowded, increasingly unimaginative TV show will need serious saving of its own. Not that I don’t feel a little smug about the whole [...]
Bender Rides Again
The third of four straight-to-DVD Futurama movies—the sum of which comprise the cult show’s fifth season—comes out Tuesday November 4th. While the preceding film, The Beast With a Billion Backs, was an awesome nod to movies like The Thing from Another Planet, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and other ’50s pulp classics, Bender’s Game has [...]
TV Fantasy Full Of Cliches, Still Entertaining
Legend of the Seeker starts out like every fantasy story ever: a FARM BOY with no knowledge of his TRUE HERITAGE and MESSIANIC PURPOSE is aided by a WIZARD (formerly thought to be the village loon) on a quest to stop a DARK LORD who wants nothing more than to ENSLAVE ALL OF MANKIND. Also [...]
