Archive for December, 2007

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Underdog (2007)

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

If you're too young to remember the 1960s cartoon "Underdog", this movie might not be your cup of tea. It takes characters and situations out of the old cartoon series and puts them on the big screen for the first time as a live-action movie.
I watched it when I was a kid. It was one [...]

Rocky and His Friends (1959-1961) and The Bullwinkle Show (1961-1964)

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Both of the titles refer to the same animated television series. The name was changed when the series was moved from the ABC network to the NBC network in 1961.
I could write an exhaustive article on this, but it's already been done! Take a look at Hokey Smoke! Rocky and Bullwinkle for the complete history [...]

Contact (1997)

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Eleanor Arroway works for SETI and starts receiving intelligent-life radio signals. She spends a great deal of time fighting bureaucracy and obtaining funding to receive and decipher what is being received.
Eventually, an alien-engineered sphere is created to send one of the characters on a journey of some sort. A sphere that gets blown up by [...]

They Call Me Bruce (1982)

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

This is a kung fu comedy. Korean comedian Johnny Yune plays a Chinese man looking for a specific woman in the United States after his grandfather dies (played by Johnny also). He also had a hand in writing the screenplay.
The movie pokes fun at all ethnicities and kung fu as well. It's pure slapstick from [...]

UFO (1970-1973)

Monday, December 10th, 2007

I have some fond childhood memories of TV shows that lasted awhile. Obviously, no TV series survived longer than "Gunsmoke" which ran from 1955 to 1975 (20 years), but some didn't last long enough to make a lasting impression. UFO barely made a blip on the radar of my memories. Of course, I was only [...]

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