Posts Tagged “The Electronic Babysitter”
This post falls in the recent category of my solicitation via Facebook regarding ideas of what to post about. The question “Whatever happened to…” sort of morphed into “What 80″s tv shows you want back and why, were they good , would they hold up to time?” So here I am – what do I…
This news comes with three things – good news, bad news, and a preface. PREFACE: Two and a half years ago when my family visited Massachusetts for a couple of weeks we stayed in a house in Salem. Nearly every day we went out and did something, and almost every day our normal schedule was,…
I was introduced to The Go-Gos like most of the world through the music video for “Our Lips Are Sealed.” Because we didn’t have cable it was “Friday Night Videos” that brought the video into our living room. It would be a couple of decades before I got to see the band perform, but I…
August has, in his 12 years so far on this earth, had more sleepovers than I did in almost my entire childhood. But that’s not the half of it. A couple of nights ago he had a friend spending the night and they watched Metropolis. August is 12 years old, and he’s watching a film…
The Croods are coming back to a screen near you thanks to Netflix and Dreamworks. The film was such as success a sequel is in the works and a television series “Dawn Of The Croods” is set to debut beginning today. In celebration Netflix and Dreamworks have sent us an activity kit to get us…
Frankly, I think the title for this collection is a bit on the ridiculous side. Then again, this is the second time this collection has been released on Blu-ray (not to mention the previous DVD releases) so there needed to be some differentiation. I just wish it weren’t in such a cumbersome manner. Getting past…
Easily one of, if not the best animated series “The Animaniacs” was syndicated from what I remember and broadcast in the afternoons Monday through Friday. While I could easily go on and on about how subversive the humor of the series was (and still is) I want to focus on one of the other aspects thee…
Once again the gang faces the familiar conundrum of dealing with toys who forgot they are toys. This time it is a bunch of dinosaurs. While not as fresh in concept there is still plenty of enjoyment to be had here for kids and their parents. The Toy Story franchise is solid, placing these characters…
Many a series has debuted only to find an audience lacking. With low ratings far too often a series would get canceled before being allowed time to develop and find an audience. Other times a series would just be too expensive to continue being produced. This is the case with the original “Battlestar Galactica” (which…
Oh man, that’s Dale Arden!! Alright, so that’s probably not the first reaction Shout Factory wants viewers to have when watching their DVD offering of “Manimal” but I was surprised to see Melody Anderson from the 1980 Flash Gordon film and remake that connection after all these years. Here she stars as Detective McKenzie, a…