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‘Star Wars’ fans: Are you OK with George Lucas rewriting established lore? (TV and movie commentary)

The fictional franchises I like most are the ones that have an ongoing, non-contradictory, canonical storyline — “Star Wars,” “Buffy” and “The X-Files” being my

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‘Angry Video Game Nerd’ is pure nostalgic bliss … and anger (Commentary)

The “Angry Video Game Nerd” (type in that phrase on YouTube or go to his website) uses modern production values (film clips and staged scenes to

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Turtles were ‘Lean, Green and on the Screen’

I can’t really say it better than I did in my Nov. 1, 2002, Easily Bemused column for my college paper, the North Dakota State

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‘Turtles Forever’ is Laird’s love letter to longtime fans

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the first “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” movie, which isn’t the truest and best incarnation of the Turtles (that

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What are your favorite Christmas stories? (Commentary)

My question for this post is: What are your favorite Christmas stories (movies, books, comic books, TV episodes, etc.)? When you think of Christmas entertainment,

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Sorry, George Carlin, but I have no place for my stuff (Commentary)

There’s nothing like moving to make a person realize how much stuff he has. I recently unloaded 90 percent of my “Star Wars” and “Teenage

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5 random things I noticed (Commentary)

1. I notice there has been a lot of anti-Shia LaBeouf sentiment lately. Geez. What did he ever do to you? (more…)

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