Dead Like Me

Chicago – Oscar madness has left the Round Up a little weary of high profile, award-bait movies. We need a break from the Oscars and what better way to do that than with a few titles that might have slipped through the cracks while everyone was singing “Jai Ho”.
Catch up with some of your favorite characters from the cult hit “Dead Like Me,” watch the latest in Warner Brothers’ direct-to-dvd horror series known as “Raw Feed,” and check out a documentary that I think everyone thought would make bigger waves than it did, Bill Maher’s “Religulous”.
All three of these titles were released on February 17th, 2009.
“Alien Raiders”

Photo credit: Warner Bros. The “Raw Feed” series of Warner Bros. horror releases has been relatively disappointing. There hasn’t been a single real gem, although you’ll find some hardcore fans of “Rest Stop” and “Otis”. To this critic, they’re almost all near-misses,
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Bittersweet. Wholly bittersweet. Dead Like Me: Life After Death presents fans of the original series with a quandary. What is Dead Like Me without Rube (Mandy Patinkin)?
The new Dead Like Me feature film, reprising the plot of the ill-fated television series, answers that question but in a way that most fans will find lacking. By most accounts, getting 70% of an original cast back together 5 years after it ended (quite abruptly, I might add) would seem like a dream come true. Did we notice Laura Harris, who played Daisy Adair, was replaced by Sarah Wynter? You bet your ass we did. Did we care as much? No. What really gets at us - eats at us - is the void left by Rube's absence.  Sure, they play it off decently well in the story but you can't replace the grounding character of
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The name of the site isn't the only thing that has to change as 2009 gets under way. The SyFy Genre Awards, which have been a staple to the science-fiction community for a decade and attracted hundreds of thousands of votes, also is looking for a new name. And instead of depending on the Airlock Alpha staff to do it, they are instead turning to you, the readers. Until March 13, Airlock Alpha is accepting ideas from readers on what to rename the Genre Awards. All anyone has to do is send their ideas to Michael Hinman at mhinman@airlockalpha.com and include their name and where they're writing from. Submitters can send one name or as many names as they like in a single e-mail. Three random submitters will be selected March 13 to win their very own DVD copy of the "Dead Like Me" telemovie, ...

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