My "Alien Tourist" podcast is in production and will air later in April. Click through for more on the podcast. [Continue]

The studio production process in TV/film forces mediocrity. Look to web-centric productions for the emerging wave of quality entertainment. Indie artists are producing Hollywood-quality work for cheap on the web, without studio constraints. [Continue]

PBS' "House" series of history documentaries take modern people back to live in earlier eras. These shows are a terrific study of human behavior and radical displacement in time and space. They might even be the next best thing to time travel. [Continue]

Free will versus predestination: what if there's a plan, and there are entities here to keep you on track with it? [Continue]

Intacto takes a look at what might happen if a small group of people can steal luck from others. Thought-provoking but slow with tangled storytelling. [Continue]

The Black Dahlia (2006) is an attempt to invent a solution to the unsolved Black Dahlia murder. It falls short on several counts. [Continue]

I'm going to be posting more media reviews soon, so I'm introducing the Dinosaur Stomp of Approval rating system. Here it is. [Continue]

ABC's fall show Pan Am cuts smoking, alters racism to vie for 1960s nostalgia market. Is this selective clean-up a recipe for mediocrity? [Continue]

Mad Men's Sally Draper watched spies on tv, and so did I - same shows, same year, same kind of tv. And that's where Forbidden Planet's Anne Francis first inspired me: as the kick-ass P.I. Honey West in 1965. [Continue]

"The Blind Side" - football biopic, true story and featuring Sandra Bullock. Thoughts, impressions and WOW factor, discussed. I was really rocked by this much more than expected. Did I say WOW. [Continue]