SyFy Channel - Wy ?

First it was Caprica, next came Stargate Universe - the two anchors of the season canceled in mid-season. Then SyFy renews Haven and picks up Merlin and seems to be going forward with Sanctuary.

It seems as though SyFy is morphing into SyFantaSy which may help to explain how any of its programming could coexist with professional wrestling. We were worried when they changed the name of the channel a few years back - as if programming science fiction was too narrow or too embarrassing to embrace - now they've gone and done this.

Admittedly, neither show was that great, but at least they were both real science fiction shows and we watched diligently hoping somehow they'd improve. But perhaps the writing staffs of the SyFy channel shows have been watching too much wrestling or worse yet Harry Potter movies and the exposure proved damaging to their cognitive and creative abilities.

Caprica Season 1.5 Preview

We know Caprica was stupid - but it was OUR kind of stupid ok? Can we make a series based on Inception, please? Anything - just no more Harry Potter, Sexy Vampires or Wrestling !!!


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Public Domain Movies

It's been awhile since our last post, we promise not to let it happen again. Today we wanted to talk to you briefly about the emerging sources of public domain movies that are beginning to crop up around the Internet.

Quite Frankly, this is something we'd always hoped would happen - to make available thousands of films and documentaries available without purchase through web. More important perhaps is the historical significance of these resources and the ability for all sorts of filmmakers to have access to these types of resources while making their own films.

You can find these movies at that the following locations:

• Openflix
• The Internet Archive
• and of course you can find many on YouTube as well
  

This combined with sites like Hulu is beginning to change the way we view the Internet and of course so many people are using Video on Demand that Comcast is now charging folks extra to use Netflix online.

We came across two remarkable examples (documentaries related to WW2) - The Memphis Belle (The Internet Archive) and The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler (Openflix - http://www.youtube.com/user/openflix) as well as old commercials, newsreels and silent films.

The Memphis Belle

BTW - we will review the 1990 movie named after and inspired by this documentary sometime soon - it's kind of hokey but we love it anyway.

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