
Hi guys. The "NA" grade is the server playing tricks on us. The grade is an A. I'm working on getting it fixed.
The Warrior's Way is coming, samson. It was not screened for critics, and I had to rush out in the middle of my work day to see it. It will be up as soon as I can get it typed.
As for Black Swan, it really has strong horror and suspense elements, though it defies any formal genre. That, and Aronfsky's standing with fanboys, is enough to get a review. Also, it rocks. :)
From an editor's perspective, we haven't been able to find any lists along these lines anywhere. There's apt to be a little fine tuning as we cross reference. The hope is that people will be able to refer to it as an unofficial guide, and hopefully help us clean up any oversights along the way.
I'm not concerned about Howard; the name that worries me is Akiva Goldsman, who has a history of writing mediocre-to-awful adaptations of good source material. His screenplays include I Am Legend, I, Robot, Lost In Space, and the two Joel Schumacher Batman films. That is not an encouraging track record.
Oh hanso. You are a bitter, bitter man. You need a hug buddy? We won't make you watch the movie again...
Hate to burst your bubble there, guygardner, but Evans isn't the first. Halle Berry played Storm for Marvel and Catwoman for DC. I know, it's easy to blot out memory of Catwoman--one's sanity may depend on it--but there it is.
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Daforce, I have a subscription to TV Guide and I also consult TVGuide.com and a couple of other sites while I'm writing the column. Can't blame Mania for the Reaper snafu; total imbecilic brain fart on my part. (TV Guide sometimes publishes two weeks in a single issue, which is part of what threw me.)
As Ami said, John Glover was the voice of the Riddler on Batman: The Animated Series. The Floronic Man is a third-tier DC villain with a basic plant theme. Glover played him--or at least a non-powered mad scientist version of him--in Joel Schumacher's Batman and Robin. (And if you don't remember it, consider it a mercy that so much of the film has been blotted from your mind.) If you want to read a great Floronic Man story, check out Alan Moore's first year on Swamp Thing. It has a doozy.
There could be any number of reasons why Lost is a rerun. I suspect it may be due to long-term scheduling: they want the season to kick off on a particular date and have the season finale on a particular date and in order to meet both those dates, they need to have a rerun or two in there somewhere. That's speculative, but it's happened like that before.
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Thanks for the input Gimpy. Like I said, the Reaper thing was a complete brain fart on my end. I thought it was premiering next week and had it labeled on my calendar as such. Again, an explanation, not an excuse. My severed pinky will be on everyone's desk in the morning.
Along those lines, there's a lot of discussion out here and in the office about what sorts of shows should be covered on this column. There's definitely a blurry line on some of these shows like Lie to Me and the CSI shows. Some people like the fact that we cover CSI, some people don't. Do Lie to Me and The Mentalist constitute genre shows? Does Burn Notice? I also include movies being broadcast--especially if they're smaller genre films like CSA. Is that useful to you? The goal is to serve you guys: to make this as useful to y'all as we can. What do you want to see that we're not covering? My in-box is always open and I do read all of the comments being posted.

I don't want to blow too much abotu the film, but yes, TRON makes an appearance.