Posts with tag blade
Posted Feb 11th 2008 6:10PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.
- Blade - Complete Series
- The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Hour - Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners
- Dallas - Season 8
- The Equalizer - Season 1
- Family Ties - Season 3
- General Hospital: Night Shift - Season 1
- George of the Jungle - Complete Series
- Girlfriends - Season 3
- Riptide - Season 3
- Route 66 - Classic Episodes Vol. 1
- Tell Me You Love Me - Season 1
- This is Tom Jones - Vol. 2
Posted Oct 27th 2007 11:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Stargate, Episode Reviews
(
S04E05) The folks over at
Stargate HQ are having a good week. First,
Atlantis gets picked up for a twenty episode season five, and then they finish it off by heading into their weekend with another very good episode. It was, for the most part, another stand-alone offering, but we did get some hints at a couple things in the future. If that wasn't enough for you, they also had the good sense to hire Jill Wagner for a guest spot. My TV is better with more Jill Wagner on it.
Continue reading Stargate Atlantis: Travelers
Posted Oct 20th 2007 10:31AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Stargate, Episode Reviews
(
S04E04) Last week, Rich commented on the previews for this episode and asked where have we seen that before? It's a fair point, because the dream device is something that has been used again and again in the sci-fi/fantasy/horror genres. I'm OK with that though. Much like episodes where we get to see two characters both narrate previous events from their own point of view, what I like about dream episodes is that they often give us a chance to see characters in a way that we wouldn't normally see them. We got a bit of that here with the evil Shepard.
Of course, the dreams weren't the only part of the episode that felt familiar. Carter made reference to when O'Neill was knocked unconscious by an energy being that took on his appearance. That's from the season one
Stargate episode "Cold Lazarus." In an interview with Gateworld, writer/director/producer Robert C. Cooper called it an homage. That's a good way to put it, as you can see if you go back and look at the scene where O'Neill touches the crystal. That video is after the jump.
Continue reading Stargate Atlantis: Doppelganger - VIDEO
Posted Sep 14th 2006 7:20AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: OpEd, Horror, Spike, Blade: The Series
(S01E12) Blade, we hardly knew you. But we got to know Krista, Chase and Marcus pretty well. Some other folks too, but they're mostly dead. I mean
dead dead, not just
undead. I'm hard pressed to think of a series with a body count this high, but I had fun. In this, our final first-season installment, we still need to get the purebloods out of the way, so that Blade can battle Marcus just as nature intended.
Marcus, by the way, thinks Blade is playing right into his hands, and Shen tries to convince Blade that they have Marcus right where they want him thanks to Krista. Then, from that as a premise, spectacular (well, considering bugetary limitations, anyway) season-finale stuff happens.
Continue reading Blade: Conclave (season finale)
Posted Sep 7th 2006 7:41AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: OpEd, Horror, Spike, Blade: The Series
(S01E11) Woo hoo, the last episode before the season finale (as show promos are so fond of saying). So far Krista's been turned into a vampire, seen her whole family killed, had her hand sliced off and grown back, etc. Marcus, meanwhile, has discovered the cure to all the ills of vampirism, and declared war on all enemy houses. And Blade has ... Well, Blade is still Blade. Basically he seems to run around killing non-essential vampire day-players far from the central story arc of the series. But that was before this week. Blade comes along nicely this time, bags a major player and Sticky gets more dialog this episode in some well-played scenes with Collins than he's had in the rest of the series combined.
Now explain to me how the purebloods have managed to survive all these centuries when they so easily get duped into believing that Chase has converted to their side against Marcus. If that isn't enough, why in the world is Marcus so sure a bomb on the company Lear jet is gonna do the trick to wipe out Charlotte and her crew of purebloods. Right after the crash Charlotte and her assistant "Lurch" wick away a few drops of blood, feed on nearby campers and are back on their way. It's not even that close a call for them -- though it did make Charlotte very thirsty. Good plan Marcus.
Continue reading Blade: Monsters
Posted Aug 31st 2006 7:20AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: OpEd, Horror, Spike, Blade: The Series
(S01E10) First thing we learn this week is that there are clubs in Detroit where a vodka tonic still only cost an inflation-fighting four bucks. Secondly, if you frequent such clubs, be prepared to encounter masked super-villains who channel Leatherface from
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and collect teeth.
Krista gets locked up by Shen and Blade to detox from her sex and blood feast with Marcus
last episode. This is a gruesome episode, with lots of dungeons, torture and references to historical sadists like
Gilles de Rais. It fails to be very scary and this torture-fest made me impatient for them to bring back Richard Roundtree, or for at least some mention of all the other threads they've put on the back burner, if not dropped altogether. Where's Boone been lately?
Continue reading Blade: Hunters
Posted Aug 25th 2006 3:48PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: And I Quote
The TV Squad team has made their picks for the top quotes of the week from TV:
- "Most of all, what I'll remember about my time at the show, are the decent, ordinary working folks I've met...and tried to bone." -- Rob Corddry, on his last day at The Daily Show.
- Shen: "So the enemy of my enemy is my friend?"
Blade: "I don't have a problem killing my friends either." -- Blade: The Series
- "It's his last week and we're just trying to think up terrible stuff for him to do." -- Jon Stewart, after Rob Corddry reported from a toilet on The Daily Show.
- "Do you think I like upsetting you?" -- Chief Will Pope to Dep. Chief Brenda Johnson on The Closer.
- "A pleasure carving a baby in half with you as alway, Tommy." -- The mayor after negotiating a compromise in committee with Tom Caffee, on Brotherhood.
- "Now you're a master lip reader? Is there anything you can't do?" -- Josh just after Kyle discovers he can lip read, but before he discovers he has super hearing, on Kyle XY.
- "The problem I find with being 'on a trail' is that, by definition, you'll always be behind your prey." -- Agent Alexander Mahone to Bellick, on Prison Break.
Posted Aug 11th 2006 3:44PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: And I Quote
The TV Squad team has made their picks for the top quotes of the week from TV:
"How bad do you want me to be?" Lt. Provenza to Dep. Chief Brenda Johnson after she tells him they're going to play good cop, bad cop with a suspect, on The Closer. - "Then get yourself a badass summer-weight coat." -- Chen, after a leather-clad Blade gets after him for not fixing the Blademobile's air conditioning, on Blade: The Series.
- "Oh, Rusty. You are never alone. Those stars -- well, okay, you can't see them right now 'cause we're in the city -- but those stars... they're always watching us!" -- Jonas The Alien, to Doc Venture, on The Venture Bros.
- "Join the Army and spend your mid-life crisis in a real-life crisis." -- Jon Stewart, regarding the Army's new age limit, on The Daily Show.
- "Trust me, they're top notch!" -- Ryan McPoyle, commenting on his sister's breasts, on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
- "You will not mistake the newspaper man. He looks like a big turtle." -- Hearst, regarding A.W. Merrick, on Deadwood.
- "This whole experience has given me a whole new skin on life." -- Virginia, on Hell's Kitchen.
Posted Jul 13th 2006 8:27AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Cable, Horror, Spike, Blade: The Series
(S01E03) For those who forgot to tune-in or record
Blade The Series opposite the second half of
Nightmares & Dreamscapes, or were perhaps still digesting the
Project Runway premiere (
don't lie, you know who you are): SpikeTV's resident daywalker Blade (
Kirk Jones) and newbie hemoglobin-addict Krista (
Jill Wagner) had to fight their separate battles this week. In order to find out more about the Aurora vaccine, Blade hunts down an ex-guinea pig one used by head Detroit-vamp Marcus's -- a sort of tweeker dude called Sands, while smashing progressively harder barriers (hotel room drywall, then brick wall, then big iron door) in the process.
Continue reading Blade: Descent
Posted Jul 9th 2006 1:33PM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Cable, Horror, Spike, Blade: The Series
(S01E02) In the opening shot of this one we see Detective Boon (Bill Mondy) yanking out one of his newly-acquired fangs and poking his way through the plastic baggie that has imprisoned him. Right away, I know we're in for more twists. Boone was a goner last week, when he awoke bagged and tagged for Aurora testing. Now,
why the dude has to
pull out his tooth to rip the plastic with it, I don't know. Nor do I know why House of Chthon researchers don't ship their test subjects in fang-proof packaging. Anyway, Boon is back -- doubling the tally of series regulars that are newbie-vampires.
Kirk Jones (the-artist-formerly-know as Sticky Fingaz) doesn't have as powerful a screen presence as Wesley Snipes, and sometimes disappears into the background of the show (and even to get overshadowed by his own leather get-up). But kudos to the creators for going with a guy that has his own style and is no Snipes wannabee. Blade does seem like he is only making cameo appearances in his own show so far. I guess calling it
Krista: The Television Series doesn't have the same recognition factor.
Continue reading Blade: Death Goes On
Posted Jun 26th 2006 10:36AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Cable, OpEd, Horror, Spike, Blade: The Series
While I'm not a huge comic book reader, I've been a big fan of the Blade character since the first movie with Wesley Snipes. The detail behind the vampire's history and lore almost puts to shame even what Anne Rice has written (yeah, I know I'll be attacked viciously in my sleep for that comment).
Blade brought vampires to the 20th/21st century way of thinking.
When I heard a
Blade series was in the works, I was both skeptical and excited. Excited because there would be a real chance to tell more of the story of
Blade, but skeptical because, well, Spike TV was going to air it. Luckily, and thankfully, they've pleasantly surprised me.
Continue reading Blade: The Series -- An early look
Posted Jun 6th 2006 4:38PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
At 8, ABC has a repeat According To Jim, a new Rodney, another repeat According To Jim, a new Less Than Perfect, then a repeat Boston Legal.- CBS has repeats of NCIS, The Unit, and 48 Hours Mystery.
- NBC has a repeat Last Comic Standing, a new episode, then a repeat Law and Order: SVU.
- Over on FOX, two repeats of House.
- The WB has a repeat Gilmore Girls at 8, followed by a new Pepper Dennis.
- UPN has repeats of America's Next Top Model and Veronica Mars.
- At 9, in preparation for the debut of their new summer series, Spike has the movie Blade.
- Kathy Griffin returns for a second season of My Life on the D-List at 9. It's followed by the sseason premiere of Queer Eye.
- Also at 9: Frye Boots are profiles on a new John Ratzenberger's America, on the Travel Channel.
- FX has a new Rescue Me at 10.
- At 10, MTV has a new Real World, followed by a new Jamie Kennedy's Blowin' Up.
Posted Mar 26th 2006 2:22PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Talent, Commercials, Celebrities
I've been in love with this woman for over a year now. The
girl in the tight blue sweater that talks about how great the cars are. Until now, I didn't have any idea who she was
or where she came from. I just knew that I never changed the channel whenever her commercials came on.
But
now thanks to Google (a
cache actually; the original page didn't
come up), I find out that her name is Jill Wagner. She was born in Winston-Salem, NC, has a business degree from North
Carolina State University, and has been an actress in
Not Just Another Teen Movie,
Big Fat Liar,
Punk'd,
Dr. Vegas, and
Monk. She has a role in the upcoming TV series version of the
Blade flicks.
Wow, she's going to be on every single week now? Hey Keith, can I review this show?
Posted Mar 21st 2006 12:32PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cable, Horror
Blade:
The Series, which we've mentioned a few times in
the past, is finally in production for Spike TV with a premiere set for July 5 (but don't forget the
"real" two-hour premiere on June 28). Confusing enough for you? Okay, good. The new series will be based on
the comic book about a half-man half-vampire who battles evil creatures of the night. The two-hour "kick off"
will focus on Blade's new partnership with a human woman mired in the world of vampires as she investigates the death of
her twin brother. Ooh, sounds dramatic and suspenseful and all that stuff. Okay, so I'm not big into the whole
"vampire" thing, but what about the rest of you? Anyone excited about this?
Giveaway Monday: That '70s Show The Complete Series Stash box set
Giveaway Monday: Back to You season one DVD
Six shows that I am watching pretty regularly this season
