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		<title>TV Review: Human Target Pilot (Comic-Con &#8216;09)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Valley is Christopher Chance, a freelance bodyguard at the center of FOX&#8217;s new action-adventure show Human Target. Unlike his comic book counterpart, from which the show is based, the TV version of Chance does not, in fact, assume the identity of his employees. Instead, Chance blends into the background in order to flush out the assassin, and then takes him or her out. In that respect, Human Target isn&#8217;t really all that different from a lot of shows where a mysterious operative helps people who can&#8217;t find help elsewhere. And because he&#8217;s so good at his job, Chance gets referrals from sympathetic cops.
In the pilot episode, one such referral lands train engineer/power suit babe Tricia Helfer at Chance&#8217;s doorsteps. It seems an assassin once tried to blow up our damsel in distress, but by a stroke of luck, she survived. Now she fears that the assassin is back, and may strike just as she&#8217;s about to launch her very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV Review: Dark Blue Pilot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the title, and the somewhat familiar premise, TNT’s new cop show Dark Blue is not, in fact, a TV version of the Kurt Russell cop movie of the same name from 2002. The show is yet another product of uber producer Jerry Bruckheimer (the CSI franchise), and stars Dylan McDermott (“The Messengers”) as the head of a special Los Angeles police unit that works undercover. Deep, deep undercover. So undercover, in fact, that only one person in the Department knows of their existence; to everyone else, they mind as well be the criminals they regularly hunt down and associate with.
The one-hour Dark Blue pilot finds one of Carter’s cops, Dean (Logan Marshall-Green, Traveler) heavily embedded in the crew of the violent and elusive Franzine (James Russo). Franzine brings with him a host of problems for Carter – the cops have no idea what he’s back in L.A. to steal, and the feds are on his tail, their investigation threatening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV Review: Leverage Season 2 Premiere</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The boys (and girls) are back, as Season 2 of TNT’s original series Leverage kicks off next week, July 15. The Season 2 premiere picks up with former insurance investigator turned Robin Hood criminal mastermind Nathan Ford (Timothy Hutton) and his merry band of (somewhat) reformed criminal posse having separated at the end of last season’s clash with Jim Sterling, Nathan’s fellow co-worker and someone equally as brilliant as he is. Sterling is nowhere to be seen in “The Beantown Bailout Job”, but it’s probably a given that the show isn’t going to keep a worthy nemesis like that away for too long. At least, not if they’re smart.
Of course, there wouldn’t be much of a show if Nathan stayed retired, and in short order his attempts at going legit and getting back into the insurance investigation game is ruined by a need for … booze. As you’ll recall, ol Nathan was fighting the bottle (and losing) pretty regularly in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV Review: Burn Notice Season 2 Premiere</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly into the “Burn Notice” Season 2 premiere episode, Sam Axe (Bruce Campbell) is caught enjoying a cup of java in the apartment of the show’s hero, Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan), to which Sam comments (something to the effect of), “I didn’t expect to see you back so soon.” I share Sam’s confused reaction to seeing Michael Weston back at his old-new stomping ground, especially after having left Michael in the back of a pitch-black semi-truck at the end of Season 1. I had assumed Michael was being trucked off to some nefarious locale, where he would finally meet Carla, the woman with the husky voice on the other end of last season’s phone conversation, and discover once and for all, why he was burned, and why he is such a hot commodity to these faceless people.
As it turns out, not so much.
As the Season 2 premiere begins, Michael is allowed out of the truck, only to discover some dead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Adams (2008) TV Mini-Series Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historians have, for two centuries, portrayed the men who signed America&#8217;s Declaration of Independence as proud figures standing alone in their greatness and grand ideals.  Many of the documentaries about history spend a great deal of time on the momentous events that defined the course of history but few accurately depict the lives that were a part of those events.  The HBO miniseries, John Adams, due out on DVD June 10th does, basically, the opposite.  
This miniseries centers around the later life of a single, only slightly more than ordinary, man who became the voice of thirteen colonies struggling for their rights and for liberties that they believed should be recognized as self evident.  Executive producers Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, the same duo behind the Emmy award winning HBO miniseries about World War II, Band Of Brothers, have teamed up with Writer/Producer Kirk Ellis.  They have valiantly taken on the task of telling the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Andromeda Strain (2008) TV Mini-Series Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 02:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science-fiction movies have a few rules they generally must adhere to in order to be considered &#8220;science&#8221; fiction.  First, they must revolve around a science, whether that&#8217;s physics, astronomy, biology, quantuum mechanics, geology or any of a multitude of fields of study.  Really good science fiction includes more than one of the sciences.  Second, they have to stretch the currently accepted &#8220;absolutes&#8221; and propose ideas that, though unproven, allow you to believe in new concepts that might be possible.  It&#8217;s not as easy to do as it sounds.  Consider that we currently take for granted so many things that people thought wildly impossible only fifty years ago.  Communications lasers, biological warfare, weapons satellites, DNA mapping, space stations, microscopic memory chips, bionic implants and nanotechnology to name only a few.  Science fiction stories introduce new theories that, though implausible by today&#8217;s standards, inspire a belief that it might just be possible.  
The original [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV Review: Life Pilot (2007)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Life&#8221;, and its male lead Damian Lewis, are goddamn fantastic, which probably translates into the show having a very short shelf life on network TV. Shows this good just don&#8217;t last, which speaks more to the crappy taste of the American TV public than to the cast and crew of &#8220;Life.&#8221; Then again, Charlie Crews could exist in that special bubble that allows for unique characters like Doctor Gregory House on FOX&#8217;s hit &#8220;House&#8221;, so who knows, maybe my pessimism about the show&#8217;s future is unwarranted. I certainly hope so.
Damian Lewis is Charlie Crews, a police officer wrongly convicted of a murder he did not commit. After a 12-year stint in prison, a sentence filled with solitary confinement, frequent trips to the infirmary, and 100s of stitches courtesy of his fellow inmates (cops don&#8217;t do prison time in peace, in case you were wondering), Charlie has been released from prison when evidence exonerates him. He did not do it, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV Review: K-Ville Pilot</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a moment there, I considered writing a longer review for FOX&#8217;s new crime/buddy cop show K-Ville, but after seeing the pilot, and finding it lacking, I&#8217;ve decided to take the lazy route. Which is unfortunate, because from everything I&#8217;ve seen of the show before actually seeing the show, I had high expectations. Alas, like the people of New Orleans when Katrina swept in, I was left wanting. There is a great twist at the end of the pilot, but it&#8217;s not quite enough. Besides its Katrina hook, K-Ville is nothing you haven&#8217;t seen before, and done better.
The biggest source of disappointment has to be the squandering of a great cast. Anthony Anderson, usually associated with bit comedy roles in big movies, proves to be an outstanding dramatic actor, and if you were cautious about him playing the lead (and yes, Anderson&#8217;s Marlin Boulet IS the show&#8217;s male lead, not co-star Cole Hauser), then you shouldn&#8217;t be. Even if K-Ville [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV Review: Prison Break Season 3 Premiere</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) is back in the joint, but big bro Linc (Dominic Purcell) is not, and it&#8217;s up to Linc to find a way to break Michael out. Or maybe not. It appears that Michael being held at the notorious Panamanian prison Sona was no accident, and that certain parties wish him to do something for them. I won&#8217;t tell you what, because frankly, that&#8217;s the episode&#8217;s big twist, and spoiling it would just not be very nice of me. Suffice it to say, it involves breaking out of Sona, and not by himself. And oh yeah, Mahone, T-Bag, and Bellick are all in Sona with Michael. The gang&#8217;s all back!
The Season 3 premiere is a great way to get audiences back into the series, and makes a nice jumping on point for newcomers to the Prison Break parade. We are almost completely back at square one, having come full circle, from the first season, when Michael purposefully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kill Point: Episode 1-2 (2007) TV Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing I&#8217;ve come to learn from Spike TV is to expect the unexpected. I&#8217;m not a regular viewer of any current programs running on their schedule at the moment, but some of you may recall the recent &#8220;Blade&#8221; spin-off based on the seemingly popular New Line franchise. To be perfectly honest, I have not the slightest clue as to whether or not the show is even still running, but my guess would be that it was axed at mid-season if not before. I began watching &#8220;Blade&#8221; with little expectations. First, not only was Hollywood&#8217;s bad ass Wesley Snipes replaced, but not one cast member from any of the three films returned on the show that I can recall. Even so, however, I was quite surprised with the style and overall quality of the series. I&#8217;m sure many of you have seen or at least heard of how horrid the special effects were in Sci-Fi&#8217;s (unfortunately still running) Stargate series [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV Review: Bionic Woman (2007) Pilot</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think about it, adapting &#8220;The Bionic Woman&#8221; to contemporary times makes sense. (Curiously, the new version is simply called &#8220;Bionic Woman&#8221;, minus the &#8220;The&#8221;.) Who actually remembers the bionic woman? Everyone remembers the bionic man, of course, but the woman? It&#8217;s hard to even recall the actress who played her in the old TV series off the top of my head. (For the record, it was Lindsay Wagner.) So remaking the woman and not the man was a no-brainer &#8212; David Eick and company gets to use the premise, but avoid the pitfalls of having to follow up on the series fronted by Lee Majors.
David Eick doesn&#8217;t like to waste time. No sooner are we introduced to 20-something bartender Jaime Sommers (Michelle Ryan), her angst-ridden teen sister Becca (Mae Whitman), and boyfriend, genius college professor Will (Chris Bowers), does Jaime end up in a horrific car accident. Of course it is quickly revealed that said car accident wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firefly: Unaired Pilot (2003) TV Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the very narrow world of rabid fanboys, Joss Whedon&#8217;s name gets uttered with the same reverence as Bruce Campbell (of the &#8220;Evil Dead&#8221; movies). Having been responsible for two of the more influential &#8220;teen geek&#8221; shows in recent years (&#8221;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&#8221; and &#8220;Angel&#8221;), Whedon tried to bring the same geek irreverence to space via &#8220;Firefly&#8221;, a one-hour series set in the future, where the term &#8220;space cowboy&#8221; is apparently the order of the day. He succeeded in rallying the fanboys around him, but failed to justify the existence of such an expensive show, and thus &#8220;Firefly&#8221; didn&#8217;t last long enough to see the end of its first season, much less a second season.
The episode under review is the two-hour pilot, which curiously was not shown as the series pilot, but rather as a two-episode arc toward the end of the series&#8217; much-harangue first (and final) season. Perhaps this wasn&#8217;t such a bad idea, as the pilot is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars (2004) Mini-Series TV Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2004 06:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part One:
It&#8217;s back. &#8220;Farscape&#8221; resurfaces after a year&#8217;s absence, ushered back to life by fan outrage that was so loud The Powers That Be at the Sci-Fi Channel (which owns the show) saw fit to grant the makers of the series 4 hours (plus commercials) to tie up all loose ends and finally send the series off with a bang. Considering the lackluster way the series ended (with lovers Aeryn and Crichton turned into crystals by an alien ship, of all things), anything that erased the memory of such a lousy cliffhanger would be a step up. 
With &#8220;Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars&#8221;, series creator Rockne S. O&#8217;Bannon and series writer David Kemper have decided to make a mini-series that continues the adventures of our favorite space fugitives instead of just tying up loose ends. In fact, ex-Peacekeeper Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black, &#8220;Pitch Black&#8221;) and human astronaut John Crichton (Ben Browder) gets literally put back together in the first night&#8217;s first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generation X (1996) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2004 06:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Savitski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long before the X-Men made a splash on the big screen, Marvel Comics tried things on a smaller scale with a television film based on a spin-off of the X titles. They made a very wise decision, and the result signals the beginning of Marvel&#8217;s rise as a theatrical force to be reckoned with. Breezy and entertaining, audiences will be surprised how effective the low budget entry &#8220;Generation X&#8221; is. 
&#8220;Generation X&#8221; takes us to a world where children are born with genetic anomalies. These children are labeled mutants, and are endowed with superior abilities that make them feared by the general (re: non-mutant) populace. Several of these children are taken to the Xavier Institute and trained by Emma Frost aka the White Queen (Finola Hughes) and Sean Cassidy aka Banshee (Jeremy Rachford) to be a force for good. But not everyone has the children&#8217;s best interests at heart. An insane scientist named Russel Tresh (Matt Frewer) schemes to capture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>King Solomon&#8217;s Mines (2004) Mini-Series TV Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So sue me, but I didn&#8217;t know &#8220;King Solomon&#8217;s Mines&#8221; was a TV mini-series before watching it. Had I known, and considering my general aversion to TV mini-series (what, I gotta wait multiple nights to see how it all ends?), I wouldn&#8217;t have bothered. As it stands, &#8220;Solomon&#8221; could have been better. For instance, take out 90 minutes of it (that is, one whole night) and you&#8217;d have a decent standalone action-adventure. But as a two-parter, I&#8217;m afraid one can&#8217;t help but notice that during much of the first half nothing really happens. 
&#8220;King Solomon&#8217;s Mines&#8221; stars the ex-dirty dancer himself, Patrick Swayze, as literary hero Allan Quatermain (played with gruff invincibility by Sean Connery in the big-screen &#8220;League of Extraordinary Gentlemen&#8221;). While this version of novelist H. Rider Haggard&#8217;s hero remains a gritty adventurer (helped in no small part by Swayze&#8217;s lined face), he&#8217;s also a single parent with a teen son he hasn&#8217;t seen in years. Having left [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 01:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Savitski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people barely remember this offering, which aired back in November of 1978 and was never repeated again. There&#8217;s a reason for it being kept under wraps, mostly because it wasn&#8217;t exactly &#8220;Star Wars&#8221;&#8216; finest hour and proved to be a colossal embarrassment to the fledgling franchise. But thanks to eBay and a few savvy souls with VCRs, copies of the movie have survived and multiplied to allow fans a chance to view what no sane man should want to see.
For a &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; offering, the plot is very simple. Han Solo tries to evade the Empire while getting his pal Chewbacca back to his home planet for Life Day, the Wookie equivalent of Christmas. Meanwhile, Chewie&#8217;s family anxiously awaits his arrival so the festivities can begin. While everyone waits, musical numbers and guest appearances fill up the 97-minute running time.
The &#8220;Holiday Special&#8221; does feature all the principal characters of the film, albeit too briefly. Harrison Ford (&#8221;Hollywood Homicide&#8221;) escapes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1998) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2004 04:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Savitski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things weren&#8217;t always so good for Marvel Studios. Several years before they were making big budget blockbusters, they were reduced to cranking out television films for the Fox Network. A fair effort went into bringing Nick Fury, the famed S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, to life, but even so it never truly does justice to the legendary character. 
In the movie, Nick Fury (David Hasselhoff) returns to S.H.I.E.L.D. after a five-year retirement to stop the menace of Viper (Sandra Hess), the evil daughter of Hydra leader Baron Von Strucker, who is plotting to release a deadly virus that will wipe out the population of Manhattan. Fury must lead his team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to stop her and prevent the wholesale slaughter of millions of innocent people.
The most notable thing about &#8220;Nick Fury&#8221; is that it is an early work by David S. Goyer (&#8221;Blade&#8221; and &#8220;Blade 2&#8243;), who produces a well-written and fairly imaginative script by providing plenty of dramatic tension while still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice League of America: Pilot (1997) TV Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2004 09:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Savitski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the disaster that was &#8220;Batman and Robin&#8221;, DC Comics tried to regain face with a live-action television pilot of their popular super team, the Justice League of America. Unfortunately, the finished product only made matters worse and was quickly shelved, never to see the light of day. But eBay shoppers and convention attendees can easily obtain this failed effort, and at the very least satisfy any curiosity about how the team looks in flesh and blood. 
The citizens of New Metro live under the protection of several powerful heroes: Martian Manhunter, The Flash, Green Lantern, Fire, and Captain Atom. Our heroes are needed when a mysterious super villain known as the Weatherman (Miguel Ferrer) attacks the city using meteorological means. Can the team stop the villain in time, all the while helping a woman to discover that she has super powers of her own?
Credit should be given to David Ogden Stiers and Miguel Ferrer, as Martian Manhunter and The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ultraviolet: Mini-series (1998) TV Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 1 (of 6): &#8220;Habeas Corpus&#8221; (July 26, 2004)
Although I&#8217;ve heard some very good things about the British vampire show &#8220;Ultraviolet&#8221;, I couldn&#8217;t help but be a little skeptical. After all, the British aren&#8217;t exactly known for their genre shows. Oh sure, they&#8217;re pretty decent when it comes to cops and robbers and the occasional wacky sci-fi, but genre stuff has never really been their forte. 
&#8220;Ultraviolet&#8221; comes in the form of six episodes (a full season&#8217;s worth in the U.K.), and stars Jack Davenport (&#8221;The Pirates of the Caribbean&#8221;) as Detective Michael Colefield, a cop who comes under suspicion when his partner, who is being investigated for corruption, disappears. Unbeknownst to Michael, a secret unit headed by a priest name Harman (Philip Quast) is also seeking Michael&#8217;s partner, but not for the same reasons. In the world of &#8220;Ultraviolet&#8221;, vampires are very much real, and it&#8217;s the task of Harman and his small band of cops to hunt them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stargate: Atlantis, Pilot (2004) TV Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wondering if you should bother with &#8220;Stargate: Atlantis&#8221; when you&#8217;ve never even seen a single episode of its predecessor, &#8220;Stargate: SG-1&#8243;? Here&#8217;s the quick answer: the first 30 minutes or so of the &#8220;Atlantis&#8217;&#8221; pilot will confound you, but the rest won&#8217;t. Although the early minutes of &#8220;Atlantis&#8221; are admittedly heavy on exposition and show lingo, once our heroes step through the stargate it&#8217;s basically a brand spanking new sci-fi show, complete with new rules, new villains, and new heroes. 
For the uninitiated, &#8220;Stargate: Atlantis&#8221; is the spin-off series to the long running &#8220;Stargate: SG-1&#8243;, a TV show starring Richard Dean Anderson. If the title sounds familiar, that&#8217;s because the show is a television adaptation of the movie &#8220;Stargate&#8221; starring Kurt Russell in the role now occupied by Anderson. Now in its eighth season, &#8220;SG-1&#8243; has proven popular enough (albeit in a cult-ish sort of way) to warrant a spin-off series, thus &#8220;Atlantis&#8221; was born.
The premise for &#8220;Atlantis&#8221; is simple: [...]]]></description>
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