And a an MST3K stress ball if you buy it directly from Shout! Video.

Only if you'll go on a camping holiday with me.

Doctor Who Fans
Two new releases today. Very quickly, first is The Ark, one of the few surviving stories from the First Doctor's Third Season. It's pretty good, despite the usual limitations of budget and ability. Millions of years in the future, the Earth is dying and the survivors of humanity and some alien refugees…

Centurion
Nothing on Centurion? He's a amazing in that. He carries the film through the cliches and makes it a great B-movie.

I hate to admit this, and I really don't want to explain how I know it, but it was not a direct-to-video movie. *sigh* Reding 4 in OKC.

Yeah, it's nice that the last alien he fought as a series regular — Zygons — were totally pervious to bullets. If that's a term. Shit, he just shot the hell out of the last one.

An Amazing Man
This devastates me. Nic Courtney was an incredibly generous, charitable man who about as nice as they get. Just finished watching his last story as a regular — Terror of the Zygons — as part of a Who marathon, and so this news kills, esp. since I just go through watching his stories for the last three…

Are You Kidding Me?
Really? You watched this? Hell, wasn't there a taste test you could have traded out for this? I remember it being horrible when it was first aired, and every clip I've seen of it since then has only deepened the pain. Wow. I am so, so sorry.

Pfft. If we were talking about a demilich, then you might have something — Hipster AD&D Player

You'll never look at a Galleria Mall the same way again. Esp. the one in Houston.

What I meant was that while it fails as an attempt to reboot the series for American audiences (primarily), it works by itself pretty damned well. The direction — again, aside from the middle section — is fast and creative, and McGann is a fantastic Doctor, which you can also get from his performances in the non-canon…

For me, it's definitely The Time Monster. Besides the bad story, effects, acting, and overall execution, it just seems full of itself — as though when they were making it, everyone thought they were generating another masterpiece, similar to The Daemons the previous season. Monster of Peladon is right down there,…

Doctor Who Fans
The Mutants — one of the third doctor's lesser stories, and as unintentionally hilarious and weird a program as they ever made. Besides the convoluted plot and boring bits in almost any six parter, there are some nice CSO effects, and Christopher Barry's direction is as skillful as usual. In fact, what…

Right With You, Zack
I saw Phantom at a midnight screening, packed with fans in and out of costumes. I was having a root canal the next morning, so I was hopped up on pain killers, and that made the experience even better. Everyone clapped and cheered for the 20th Century logo, the Lucasfilm Logo, and then completely…

This…
… is the greatest movie sequence ever. I try to laugh at the execution and silliness, but am blown away by the execution and imagination. Fucking wow.

As long as Community is a part of this line-up, I say bring it on.

Can we agree that at least Colossus' resurrection was well written and thought out? Unlike the "reason-I-quit-reading-comics-for-years" resurrection of Jean Grey.

I understand he was upset with his trailer for that season, though.

Chris Traeger
I haven't seen a character turn that well written and performed in a long time. Rob Lowe sells that speech and his eventual emotional disappointment so fantastically well, that his final "Ann Perkins" was damned wonderful and moving. In 1-2 sentences, you understand everything about this guy, and it…

Oh, and just for being such a nice person, he was the go-to guy to play Hitler in everything, including Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.