Monday Mix-Up: “How I Met Your Mother” meets “Star Wars”

In honor of the series finale, not because JJ Abrams is planning this. We think.

In honor of the series finale, not because JJ Abrams is planning this. We think.
Closing them on my desktop so you can open them on yours. Here we go: Trading on Charlie Brown’s good name: What a cheap ripoff. I Am So Very Tired: I am tired, not of arguing in favour of equality, diversity and tolerance, but of having to explain, over and over and over again, why…
We picked on Marvel for all the Tron covers this month, and now they have more to answer for, with this reimagining of the climactic battle from Aliens: Ellen Ripley. She fights for the Newtsers.
By its nature, a trilogy connects. In movies, it becomes a single story united by narrative and/or theme. Each component film should stand on its own but they should come together as a single narrative. Star Wars, especially the Original Trilogy (now known as Episodes IV, V, and VI), is a good example of this….
I’m back, and on a personal note I would like to thank everyone for their very kind wishes and condolences on the death of my father, more about which on Wednesday if I can manage to make Dad the focus of my next column. In the meantime, things here seem a bit — different, don’t…
Ralph Bakshi has been a visionary filmmaker and animator, whose ambitions always seemed larger than his talent. After cutting his teeth at Terry Toons, he talked his way into running Paramount’s dying animation arm before moving on to work such as the ABC Saturday morning [[[Spider-Man]]] series. He finally gained recognition when he set out…
Since the age of nine, actress Alicia Witt has dazzled us with her work in JUSTIFIED, MR HOLLAND’S OPUS and CYBILL. Again this year, she has a holiday project with The Hallmark Channel but also a new Christmas(!) song that might be the most honest one yet. She explains how she really isn’t a Grinch…