When the FBI sent Dana Scully to discredit agent Fox Mulder's work on paranormal cases, a classic television franchise was born. Years before Lost, The X-Files set the template for supernatural anthology shows, inspiring Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, and, well, Supernatural. It featured a rich (and never fully explained) mythology, but some of its best episodes were stand alone stories and monsters, such as the Flukeman and the Peacock family. (In the very scary and disturbing episode Home.

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Easily the most ambitions superhero film in both tone and scope, The Dark Knight is not your typical summer blockbuster. Complex, depressing, and sometimes hard to watch, Director Christopher Nolan improves upon his 2005 film Batman Begins in every way. If Nolan's goal is to bring Batman into the real world (a decision I feel is unnecessary, I prefer Tim Burton's nightmarish Gotham), at least this time he ups the ante with real world problems.

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You wake up in a hospital. You're not sure who you are, but you discover you have super strength, and can fly. What do you do with these powers? You start saving lives, but along the way you damage buildings, houses and cars. Years pass and no matter how many lives you save, it's not good enough. The public wants more. So you get alienated. You get depressed, you get angry. You decide to hell with the people, you'll save who you can, property be dammed, and you'll drink a whole lot of whiskey while you're at it. You're John Hancock.

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If you remember the 80's, one look at the small robot Wall*E will remind you of Johnny 5 of "Short Circuit" infamy. The similarity is so strong, I kept waiting for Steve Guttenberg to pop on screen at any moment. (No such luck, fellow Guttenberg fans.) W.A.L.L.*E. stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class. (Good thing they dropped the 'C' from the abbreviation, because otherwise his name would be "Wall Ec.")

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I'm excited about the upcoming release of the fourth Indiana Jones movie, as I am a big fan of that franchise. If I wasn't, I'd most likely feel indifferent about seeing old Indy crack his whip again, and indifferent is more or less where I'm at when it comes to "The Chronicles of Narnia." C.S. Lewis' books are highly regarded...

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