Top 10 ‘Clone Wars’ characters: No. 8 — Count Dooku
TV commentary: John’s countdown of his 10 favorite “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” characters continues with No. 8, Sith Lord Count Dooku.
John’s top 10 ‘Clone Wars’ characters: No. 9 — Boba Fett (TV commentary)
Back in the 1980s and ’90s, Boba Fett was one of the most popular “Star Wars” characters. I remember “Star Wars” Galaxy Magazine conducted a poll shortly before the prequels came out, and Fett ranked […]
‘Adjustment Bureau’ is a romance story from the mind of PKD
Movie review: It turns out there’s room for traditional romance in a PKD adaptation.
John’s top 10 ‘Clone Wars’ characters: No. 10 — Captain Wilhuff Tarkin (TV commentary)
Beginning the countdown of my top 10 characters from “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” (7:30 p.m. Central Fridays on Cartoon Network), let’s start with No. 10, the recently introduced Captain Wilhuff Tarkin, who will eventually become the […]
All 22 episodes of ‘The X-Files’ Season 6 (1998-99), ranked
TV review: As production moves to L.A., several outside-the-box episodes make the sixth season the best of the series up to this point.
‘Parenthood’s’ Sarah Braverman is no Lorelai Gilmore, and that’s a good thing (TV commentary)
Could it be that Sarah Braverman is a better TV character than Lorelai Gilmore? To even type that question seems sacrilegious, but I will say this: When I watch Lauren Graham as Sarah on “Parenthood” (9 p.m. […]
‘Star Wars: Knight Errant’ has a hint of Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ saga (Book review)
Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” books don’t get mentioned enough as influences on “Star Wars.” In addition to inventing a planet named Korellia, only one letter off from Han Solo’s home world of Corellia, Asimov outlined interplanetary […]
‘Buffy’ Season 8 was an interesting, instructive failure; bring on Season 9 (Comic book review)
More than a decade ago, I declared Joss Whedon my personal god for creating “Buffy” Season 3, still arguably the greatest TV season ever. But one of the reasons I still admire him today is because […]
First episode impressions: ‘Mr. Sunshine’ (TV review)
Here are my first episode impressions of “Mr. Sunshine” (8:31 p.m. Central Wednesdays on ABC).
‘No Ordinary Family’ vs. ‘The Cape’: Which is the better superhero show?
TV commentary: We compare and contrast two original network superhero series.