Dr. Jackson and Lois Lane!

So NBC drops a new summer show called Saving Hope. Starring Michael Shanks (Stargate SG.1) and Erica Durance (Smallville) this shows centers around the Chief of Surgery, Charlie Harris who fall into a coma after a bad accident that he and his fiancé Dr. Alex Reid were in on their way to their wedding.

While in a coma Dr. Harris' spirit moves around the hospital observing things as they goes and especially keeps an eye on his fiancé. Each day he encounters other spirits of folks who are near death either in the surgery table or when coding in their admitted room or ER.

This show is pretty fascinating, but like most shows it makes me wonder what will happen when he comes out of a coma? How will they keep the show going? It's like Prison Break, Lost and other shows that makes you wonder what will happen when the major goal is met. The recent episode a saw was when he meets a guy who like him, falls into a coma, but unlike him comes out of it quickly. Charlie's spirit is baffled and wonders if he is fighting strong enough.

I feel this show will do well, but how long will it last. Too bad I can see how they are doing in the ratings. I'll just keep watching. Check it out if ya like. Thursday nights on NBC.

Until next time...

Stubborn Scots!

So my mother, my wife, my sister, my niece and me went out for lunch then checked out a movie of my choice. See my mom felt she owed me a birthday gift so she wanted to treat me to that.

My movie choice was Brave by Disney/Pixar. Pretty much a story where a young princess becomes very defiant in the way of her kingdom and wished not to be part of an arranged marriage. There was definitely a lot more to the movie than they showed in the trailer, which is how I like it.

Overall I felt this movie was great and hilarious as most Pixar films are and I look forward to the upcoming flicks from this company including Finding Nemo 3D and Monsters University.

Check it out if you like animation.

3.5 stars.

Later...

There He Is!

Just checked out a new show via Hulu called "The Soul Man". This show will premiere on TV Land on June 20th, but Hulu had a special glance at the pilot episode on their site.

This show stars Cedric "The Entertainer" (Original Kings Of Comedy) and Niecy Nash (Reno 911). It's about a former soul singer who left his singing career and pursue his true calling, Man Of God. The church he preaches at used to be ran by his father, played by John Beasley, who decides to retire from the ministry.

After checking out the pilot, I felt that Cedric and Niecy may be on to a good thing. They are very funny and their supporting cast are great. This show falls in like with TV Land's other shows with more or very seasoned actors doing the old school quirky sit-coms.

Other original TV Land shows include: Happily Divorced w/ Fran Drescher (The Nanny), The Exes w/ Donald Faison (Scrubs) & Wayne Knight (Seinfeld), Retired at 35 w/ George Segal & Jessica Walter (Archer) and their big show, Hot In Cleveland w/ Valerie Bertinelli (One Day at a Time), Jane Leeves (Fraiser), Wendy Malick (Just Shoot Me) & Betty White.

The Soul Man could turn out to be a good show depending on how well the writing continues. Good luck Cedric and Niecy!

Later.........

Deadman Wonderland

So a new anime has entered my world. Of course this is the English Dub version and is on Toonami/Adult Swim/Cartoon Network. I know many anime fans hate this, especially the young ones, but I feel they are just too sucked into this world. "I only like the original Japanese version", they would say and I get that, but some of you don't need to be so snobbish about it.

Anyways.......

From what I gathered so far Deadman Wonderland is a place where convicted felons are used for entertainment for the world's twisted enjoyment. It features, Ganta, a 14 year old kid who is on death row for the murder of his classmates. He claims innocence and I'm sure we'll see. He is friends with a weird girl named, Shiro. It is unknown why she is there.

This show has the most profanity I have ever seen in an anime of course with being on cable TV you can imagine the amount of beeps that happens. Like most recent amines it is very twisted. Interested to see how it goes.

Later........

Kali-Ma!

I know I may have spelled that wrong, but anyway. We have just finished seeing Snow White and the Huntsman starring Kristen Stewart (Twilight Saga/Into The Wild), Chris Hemsworth (Thor/Star Trek) and Charlize Theron (Monster/Hancock).

I will say that this movie was much darker than I expected. Charlize did a great job as the wicked queen and Hemsworth did as expected as the Huntsman. As for Stewart, she did pretty well. Kept the film flowing in my opinion. I'm sure that those who hated her before this movie will continue to hate her because I don't think she did well enough to convince her critics otherwise.

Overall I felt the movie was well done. Like I said a bit more darker than expected and the slow scenes almost put me to sleep. Check it out is you want. No pressure to see in theaters.

3 out of 5.

BTW, the queen's brother is very creepy and a pretty good fighter.

Later........

New Addiction

So, I would like to thank those close to me for forcing a new addiction on to me.  I don't know if you heard of this show, but it's called The Walking Dead.  I heard about this show before it premiered last year and thought, "Seriously?  How can this develop into a show?  How can you make anything about this?  It's just about zombies!" 

I didn't hear much else after the first season, which was only six episodes long, but I guess it gathered quite the following.  I'm sure starting with your normal zombie movie loving crowd, who probably got excited about a TV show on it.  The thing that really caught my attention was when my close friends were talking so much about it. I was realizing that this show was becoming a phenomenon like Lost and Heroes (sad to see both of those go), along with a panel talk show called Talking Dead followed each episode. 

Eventually I was going to check it out, but I was busy with school and catching up on my own favorite shows.  Then the second season had a winter finale and folks were already crying about how they have to wait until February.  Well I had still had not checked it out and peer pressure was pushing strong on me so I decided to start checking it out.  I saw the first season on Netflix.  And I had to do a marathon of the first part of the second season.

I'll admit this show is great and I'll continue to watch it, but more so to see how far they can take it.  I'm sure very far again like Lost and Heroes, but like every phenomenon show there is a drop off point.  Curious on when that will be.

Good luck on the show, Frank Darabont.

Later.........

Bye Bye Angels

So messing around with my DVR and I noticed that this week's Charlie's Angels did not record.  So I went into my settings and saw that no more episodes were scheduled to be recorded.  Did the Angels get cancelled?  After confirmation with several sites, yes they were.  In fact 5 of the new shows of the 2011/2012 season have been dropped including:

Free Agents (NBC)
HBR (CW)
How To Be A Gentleman (CBS)
The Playboy Club (NBC)

and of course Charlie's Angels on ABC.

Bummer.  And I really liked that show, too.  Oh well.

Good luck to the other shows.

Brain Dead Donkey in the Middle of the Desert

So we decided to check out the Change-Up with Reynolds, Bateman, Mann and Wilde.  It was a very good and funny film.  Showing the usual world of a single man & a married man and how their lives can be effected when they switch.  Some would think Ryan Reynolds would have stolen the show, but it was actually Jason Bateman in my opinion.  The only issue I had with this flick was that it seemed like they half-assed the post-production.  Just thought there were some obvious errors. 

All and all I felt this movie was good, but not as well as Horrible Bosses.  Check it out in theaters if you wish, but it may be more worthy to see later for rental.  Ok movie.

Grade: C+

Lata............................

Fonduing

So I went with some friends to check out the First Avenger last night.  It was very well done and entertaining.  I'll admit that having Chris Evans play 2 Marvel characters (The Human Torch was the other), but I feel he did a great job as the Captain.  Tommy Lee Jones stole the show in my opinion. He was very funny in a dry humor kind of way.  Hugo Weaving also did great as the Red Skull.  I never new that much about Captain America, but I learned a lot from just this movie.

I am very excited about the upcoming Avengers film in May 2012.  It should be great!  I also heard that there will be new Iron Man movie coming out which kind of confuses me, but oh well. 

Check out Captain America in theaters!

A++

Snarf, Snarf!

Okay.  I am seriously geeking out.  Three networks are making remakes of cartoons I grew up on.  Three of these cartoons really caught my attention.

First The HUB, a new network, release two remakes, Transformers Prime and G. I. Joe Renegades.  This was followed up by NickToons releasing Voltron Force.  Now I checked out the series premiere of ThunderCats on Cartoon Network.  Pretty sweet.  I am pretty impress mainly because they are doing a great job with each series.  I am glad.

Check them out.

Lata..........