Movies and TV (1183)

Shazam!

I grew up in the ‘70s, right around the time there was a push to make Saturday morning children’s fare as soft and flaccid as possible. I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again: kids hate to be preached at. I liked the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) an

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Comic Book Men

Kevin Smith’s (I guess you’d call it a) reality series is back for a second season. I had some less-than-complimentary things to say about the early episodes last year, but over the course of the season I found that it grew on me and I missed it when

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Looney Tunes

Starting with the first volume of Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Disk One:

 

Baseball Bugs (1945), Directed by I. Freleng.

 

Bugs plays singlehandedly against the thuggish Gas-House Gorillas.  Amusing enough, not an all-time favorite.  I always wond

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Halloween(s)

I watched Halloween last night for the first time in probably 30 years. I remembered the basic plot, but some of the details had faded from my memory over the course of the last three decades. (spoilers follow) A lot of horror movie clichés (or what

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