ginny on April 19th, 2009

Now I’m wide awake and watching the SciFi Channel’s miniseries,
‘Knights of Bloodsteel’
The four-hour, two-part movie tells the tale of Mirabilis, a mythical land chock full of humans, elves and goblins in which the only thing of value, apparently, is a magical metal called bloodsteel. What little remains is controlled by the awful and horrible [...]

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ginny on December 26th, 2008

A long time ago, in a far-away land, I used to be a major geek for Highlander: The Series. I even bought a computer so I could find other fans online, and eventually hosted a twice-weekly chat on AOL and ran keyword: H I G H L A N D E R. Yep. like I [...]

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ginny on September 17th, 2006

Immortal DVD | Movie and TV Reviews | SCI FI Weekly
Oh, lucky day. I was channel surfing just now and stumble onto the opening credits of tonight’s SciFi.com “scinema” feature, Immortal. Struck by the oddity of just one character so far being played by a fully human actor, and most others with some sort of [...]

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ginny on September 7th, 2006

I was checking local movie listings just now, and spotted a potential Perfectly Dreadful Movie contendah. Anything I find bwah-worthy (possibly spit-takeworthy) will be in bold:
 
Beerfest – Movie Details – Yahoo! Movies
 

When American brothers Todd and Jan Wolfhouse travel to Germany to spread their grandfather’s ashes at Oktoberfest, they stumble upon a super-secret, [...]

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ginny on February 27th, 2006

Chicago Tribune | Actor Dennis Weaver Dies at 81
He really had quite a distinguished career.
What a pity that career included Submerged. Still, he was in some great plays, great TV series, and some great movies (not Submerged, though).

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ginny on November 21st, 2004

Another one of those really bad movies that I watched as a public service, so that no one need ever watch it again.
Title: Submerged (2000)
Cast:
Coolio …. Jeff Cort
Maxwell Caulfield …. Agent Jim Carpenter
Brent Huff [...]

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ginny on September 19th, 2004

Title: Darklight
Stars: Richard Burgi, John DeLancie, David Hewlitt, Sherri Appleby
Official Website: Sci Fi | Darklight
my husband David recorded this movie because John DeLancie was in it. We always, always enjoy his work, so I thought “How bad could it be?” and sat down to watch with him. There was some sort of incomprehensible [...]

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