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.
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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.
‘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 […]
‘Night Stalker’ (2005) brings Kolchak into 21st century
One-season wonders (TV review): “X-Files” veteran Frank Spotnitz brings Carl Kolchak full circle with this 2005 update for a new generation.
Darth Maul on ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’: Cyborg, ghost or clone? (TV commentary)
In the Jan. 21 episode of “The Clone Wars” (7:30 p.m. Central Fridays on Cartoon Network), the Nightsisters send Savage Opress off to the Outer Rim to be trained by one of his brothers. We see in […]
‘Star Wars’ fans: Are you OK with George Lucas rewriting established lore? (TV and movie commentary)
The fictional franchises I like most are the ones that have an ongoing, non-contradictory, canonical storyline — “Star Wars,” “Buffy” and “The X-Files” being my big three. These are franchises that aren’t driven by remakes, […]
Glau makes mediocre ‘The Cape’ worth tuning in for
First episode impressions (TV review): NBC takes its crack at superheroes with a two-hour premiere of “The Cape.”