http://www.toobtalk.com Watching the Toob With Our Brains Turned On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:08:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On a lazy Sunday, I've been going back through some things on the good ol' DVR. One of them is a History Channel documentary about the lost pyramid in Egypt, about five miles outside of Giza. Interesting bit of detective work to piece things together. But that's not what I'm going ... http://www.toobtalk.com/2008/08/03/history-repeats-itself/ Anyone who's been paying attention to things showing up in the movies or on their television over the last few years has probably noticed that everything old is new again--either through a re-make (or re-boot, or re-visioning) or through a sequel. Well, it looks like the coming film and television ... http://www.toobtalk.com/2008/07/28/new-slew-of-remakes-and-sequels/ Just a quick reminder that Dr. Horrible's Sing A Long Blog "opens" in a handful of hours. Am I still excited? Yes I am. :) Of course, I won't be watching it until I'm home from work Tuesday night, so I'm expecting to be scooped on everything. But I'm still going to enjoy ... http://www.toobtalk.com/2008/07/14/dr-horrible-arrives-soon/ ...and, wow am I glad I didn't see that in the theater! Seriously. They could have had two good movies and, instead, they crammed it all into one kinda crappy one. Pretty, though. In fact, as long as you don't care about semi-sensible plot, proper character development or actual working story ... http://www.toobtalk.com/2008/07/14/just-finished-spider-man-3/ According to reports from Ain't It Cool News and Zeit Online, a massive amount of previously unknown footage from the sci-fi classic Metropolis has been discovered. This is footage that may not have been seen anywhere since the first showings of the silent epic in the late 1920s. Anyone who's a ... http://www.toobtalk.com/2008/07/04/metropolis-rediscovered/ If you're even a passing fan of anything Joss Whedon has done (Buffy, Firefly, the upcoming Dollhouse series, etc.), you've probably already heard of his latest project. It's a little ditty called Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. And it looks like it's going to be a tremendous amount of fun. Of course, it's ... http://www.toobtalk.com/2008/06/30/everyone-sing-along/ Tonight, NBC premiers it's new "reality" show, Celebrity Circus. I, of course, won't be watching it. (I'll be watching a much more worthwhile "reality" show, Ghosthunters.) Here's the thing about what I've seen of this show just from the previews--I've already seen a better version of this a decade or three ago. ... http://www.toobtalk.com/2008/06/11/celebrity-circus/ After being horribly disappointed by the Thursday night show I actually watched in real time, I was slightly hesitant to queue up Swingtown on the DVR. Very quickly, that hesitation turned to elation. This show could be really good. Yes, sex and swinging was a sizable part of this introductory episode. But ... http://www.toobtalk.com/2008/06/10/swingtown-starts-with-fireworks/ I won't say I had high hopes for NBC's Fear Itself, but I did have moderate ones. And still, I'm disappointed. After a promising beginning, the first installment of the new anthology series, The Sacrifice, quickly degraded into a melange of same-old, same-old flat characters and sad excuses for plot twists. ... http://www.toobtalk.com/2008/06/09/nothing-to-fear-in-fear-itself/ The new summer season kicks off Thursday night with the debuts of two new shows at 10 p.m. On NBC you have Fear Itself, a horror anthology series in the vein of Tales from the Crypt. Each week the hour will be dedicated to a single story. The show was created ... http://www.toobtalk.com/2008/06/04/new-on-thursday-fear-itself-and-swingtown/