I love Nicole Kidman.  And this movie is the perfect reason to do so.  She plays a perfect Samantha.  Will Farrell plays Darrin.  Eh.  Will Farrell.  So much like Darrin no one cares.  Best summed up by the line, "They changed Darrins, and no one noticed!"

Isabel is a witch that has decided to live a perfectly normal life... by giving up witchcraft.  This is easier said than done, as anyone that has tried to do that can tell you.  Her father is critical about the whole idea; I mean really.  Who would want to give up witchcraft?

She runs across Jack Wyatt.  A never-was movie actor whose last big screen film cost $140 million to make and grossed only $1.2 Million.  That's what he gets for filming the movie in black-and-white and with that wardrobe department.  The fact that he's a overly egotistical jerk ("Make me 20 cappuccinos and bring me the best one.") is beside the point.

Jack is trying to redeem himself... well, it's the only acting job he could get... as being cast as Darrin in a remake series of the original Bewitched television show.  He demands that they retool the show to make it central on the Darrin character and take away all lines and parts that Samantha has.

When Jack sees Isabel wiggle her nose in a bookstore, he falls in love with the wiggle.  The fact that she's an unknown and won't overshadow his character is a huge plus.  He begs for her to play the part of Samantha -- a witch that gives up witchcraft to live and love her mortal husband, just as Isabel is trying to do.

Jack keeps being a jerk until Isabel can't stand it anymore and the magic starts flying.



Isabel:  It's like rich guys that don't really know why those women sleep with them.
Father:  But they sleep with them, so there's not really a problem.

Jack:  I've worked my ass off to the bone.

The two-hour premiere opens with Blade setting up shop in Detroit, investigating the vampire House of Chthon.  Along the way, he forms an uneasy alliance with Krista Starr, a former military veteren who becomes entrenched in the world of vampires while investigating the murder of her twin brother.

By the turn of the millenium a technology known as VIRTUAL REALITY will be in widespread use.  It will allow you to enter computer generated artificial worlds as unlimited as the imagination itself.  Its creators foresee millions of positive uses -- while others fear it as a new form of mind control...

Thus begins the visually stunning Virtual Reality thriller, The Lawnmower Man.

Rich and Laura sneak out of the hospital with the creature footage before Lee and his men can get to them. Upon their successful escape Rich and Laura take the exclusive footage to tape to a copying service company in an effort to upload it onto the internet and convince a news station to run a piece about the footage. Meanwhile, Miles is sad and defeated while he watches doctors preparing to perform an autopsy on Nim but that all changes when Nim sneezes and they realize he is still alive.

Inara gets a call from an old friend — Nandi, who has left the Companion Guild and opened a whorehouse. Nandi's place is being threatened by Ranse Burgess, who impregnated Petaline, one of Nandi's whores, and is claiming the child. Nandi offers to pay the Serenity crew to help protect them.

Mal's instinct, after meeting Burgess, is to skip out and avoid this mess, but Nandi refuses to give in. So the Serenity crew helps fortify the whorehouse — save for Simon, who is busy delivering Petaline's baby.

Nandi and Mal share a night together; in the morning Burgess attacks. Nandi is killed in the melee, but the Serenity crew and the whores emerge victorious. Petaline kills Burgess herself, right in front of his newborn child.

This episode never aired in the original 2002 running of the series.  It wasn't until the SciFi Channel picked up the rights that it was seen on broadcast television.

At a space station, the crew shops, pokes around, and picks up mail. Jayne gets a letter and a knit cap from his mother, and Mal and Zoë get … a corpse.

The corpse's name is Tracey, and Mal and Zoë served with him during the war. He had left a recording, requesting that his remains be brought home to St. Albans. However, a Fed named Lt. Womack also wants Tracey's corpse, and he's willing to shoot down the Serenity to get it.

Reluctantly, Mal orders an autopsy while Wash evades Womack. The most shocking discovery of the autopsy is that Tracey's alive. He was in a suspended state that simulated death — and now he says he wants to get home, but he's carrying transplantable organs that need to incubate in a person. He decided to take a better offer on the black market, but the new buyer was caught, so Tracey "killed" himself and had himself shipped to Mal and Zoë.

Womack, having grown tired of Mal's stalling, resumes shooting at Serenity. Eventually, the crew realizes that Womack won't stop until they're dead — but Book also notices that Womack hasn't checked in with the local Fed base.

Tracey doesn't like the crew's plan, and shoots Wash to keep him from contacting Womack, which results in Zoë shooting Tracey. Wounded, Tracey runs and takes Kaylee hostage, but Mal is able to gun him down, leaving Womack empty-handed — and a threat from Book to alert the Fed base to Womack's extracurricular activities leads the Fed to depart Serenity in peace.

The crew returns Tracey's body to St. Albans for proper burial.

This episode never aired in the original 2002 running of the series.  It wasn't until the SciFi Channel picked up the rights that it was seen on broadcast television.

While exchanging contraband with fellow rogue Monty — another former "browncoat" — Mal meets Monty's new wife. To Mal's shock, it's Saffron, now calling herself Bridgit. Monty is not thrilled to find out that his wife also married Mal once, so he leaves her behind on the moon with Mal while the latter waits for the Serenity to return.

Frustrated with Inara's complaints about Mal not flying to worlds where she can entertain clients, Mal brings Saffron aboard with a job she insists will provide them all with tremendous wealth: stealing a "Lassiter", a rare old laser weapon, from a collector on Bellerophon.

Kaylee comes up with a method of getting the Lassiter out of the estate without the sensors detecting its departure: by throwing it out with the garbage, then having Serenity intercept the trash carrier. Mal and Saffron infiltrate the estate and start to make the theft, when Durran, the owner, walks in — and recognizes Saffron as his wife, Yolanda.

Mal, not entirely surprised to meet yet another husband of Saffron's, quickly pretends to have "rescued" Yolanda, who went "missing" some years before. The tables are soon turned, and Mal and "Yo-Saff-Bridg" depart with the Lassiter, tossing it in the disposal.

Saffron then double-crosses Mal, taking his sidearm and leaving him naked in the desert. When Saffron arrives at the trash can, though, she finds nothing, even after digging through all the filth. Then Inara arrives with the Lassiter, which she claimed before Saffron arrived, as Mal planned from the start — the Serenity crew has conned the con artist.

This episode never aired in the original 2002 running of the series.  It wasn't until the SciFi Channel picked up the rights that it was seen on broadcast television.

I started out very disappointed in this movie, after it was hyped up pretty good by a friend of mine.  While the first portion of most movies is setup and character building, the build up went on way too long.  The first half of the movie at least.  We had to pause the movie to go do some Christmas stuff and when we got back to the set we decided to watch a SciFi Channel presentation that I was currently recording instead of returning to the movie.

Once my girlfriend fell asleep (she's sick, poor thing), I finished watching the movie by myself.  That's the point it got interesting.  Things started to happen -- I mean literally.  The movie started to actually get some action sequences and some interesting scenes as well as things moving and going bump-in-the-night on screen.

While I can't say that I shy away from spoilers in my opinions, I think I'm going to hold out any mention of what occurs at the end.  Don't skip forward to the last 2-3 chapters of the movie.  After you have seen it all the way through once, you could probably miss the first 5-6 chapters after that.  But the ending by far makes up for the slow start.

Have fun.

LAURA AND RICH RETURN FROM PLUNGE TO THE OCEAN FLOOR -- WITH NO BOAT IN SIGHT -- When Laura and Rich return to the surface from the ocean floor, they realize the boat that took them to this location is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, Miles is taken to the hospital after suspiciously passing out in class. Elsewhere, Miles' sister Savannah comes to the realization that her brothers sudden admittance to the hospital may have be a result of a bite mark on his body caused by his former pet Nimrod.

After six months active flying towards Orion at nearly the speed of light and an estimated 700 years passing on Earth, the crew lays down for a long winter's cryogenic hibernation.  Thoughts of home and questions rattle through thier heads.  Does man still wage war with one another?  Does hunger still ravenge parts of the globe?  Does anyone remember they are up there?

Shaken awake from their slumber twelve months later, they have landed on an alien world.  A malfunction has crashed them down on the wrong world and in the middle of a lake.  Some 2000 years have passed back on Earth.  The female scientist died in her sleep, so the three other crew members are the end of their kind on this foreign planet.

This is the first of the Planet of the Apes series of movies.  Like everyone else, I've seen this in Saturday afternoon matinees on television.  I stole the box set from a friend of mine and decided to watch the films.  I've always enjoyed the movies.

CBS decided to swap timeslots for Threshold and Close to Home.  Sounded like a good idea to me.  Friday Evenings are "SciFi Friday" and my TV and TiVo are glued to SciFi Channel for Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica.  If it wasn't for a second TiVo borrowed from a friend of mine, I never would of watched, or been able to watch, Threshold to begin with.

This swap allowed SciFi nuts like myself to watch Threshold without having to record it and get to it eventually.  SciFi nuts are often really busy building computers and talking to aliens and don't always get around to watching TV like we should.

But for some reason Threshold bombed on Tuesdays.  The switch worked for Close to Home, but not for Threshold.  It was below Close to Home's ratings and below it's own average on Fridays.  CBS has pulled Threshold from the schedule with no word yet on it's future.  Nearing the "Mid-Season Switch" it doens't look good for the series.  But it's possible that it will come back as some other show's replacement.

TV.com lists five unaired episodes:

Threshold 110:  The Crossing

Molly and Baylock realize the Threshold detainees must be moved immediately to a more secure facility in West Virginia when a prisoner attacks and infects a security guard, then tries to break himself and other infected prisoners out of their cells.

Followed by Escalation, Vigilante, Alienville, and Head Trip.  Alienville?  Man, I want to see that one.

Good luck, Threshold.  See you on DVD.

When three women from completely different walks of life appear to be infected, Molly and the Red Team discover the connection among them and must locate the common cause.

RACE AGAINST TIME. As Laura and Rich race against time in a submersible they realize the "unidentified species" are laying thousands of eggs on the ocean floor. Meanwhile, Miles hears a report of a vicious attack on two electricians working on a marine dock, and suspects that Nimrod may be the culprit. Elsewhere, Phil stakes out an underwater power cable in hopes of finding Nimrod only to discover Nimrod now has a lot of underwater friends.

Detective Hank Holten on a missing persons case is seduced by the missing girl, Layla, to accompany her into an orgy.  Someone screams, and then another.  Some of the party-goers are biting the necks of the others.  When the detective starts shooting the vampires, the Master attacks him to defend his children.  During the struggle, a curtain is pulled aside and the Master gets a dose of sunlight.

This leaves Hank in a half-state slowly turning into one of them.  As the hunger builds within him, he calls on his recently estranged wife, Susan, who is a famous author of vampire novels, a la Anne Rice.  Spouting vampire cliches, they go after the Master, knowing that if he is killed then Hank's transformation will be halted.

Figuring they know where the vampires sleep, they know that they must go in while it's still daylight, find the Master, and kill him.  However, once the Master is killed, his life is forfeit -- the rest of the coven will attack.

It was a pretty good show, although I've seen many reviews that didn't like it that much.  It was loaded with cliche's and misinformation about vampires.  Well, at least misinformation as far as we know.  Susan spouts off a shopping list throughout the show of everything from garlic, to holy water, to not removing the wooden spike after the vampire dies.

The movie has a great ending.  All movies have a twist, but this one was very unique.  While the movie isn't a first run theater type of movie, it's a pretty good bet.  You should see it.

Layla:  I thought we had something -- you and me.  And then I catch you shacking up with Goldilocks.

SUBMERSIBLE SETBACK. Laura , Rich and Jackson race to finish the submersible they are building, and despite several setbacks during a test run, take it out to the spawning site. As Rich and Daughtery begin their descent, they spot the creatures spawning but a system failure causes the submersible to freefall, putting them in jeopardy. Elsewhere, Miles' parents consider sending him to a boot camp for problem children, but rethink their decision and send him to an aquarium for volunteer work.