Now that Mockingbird Lane has aired, the question arises–how was it? The answer rather depends on what you wanted it to be. A term comes to my mind in wake of several remakes over the past year (including Fright Night and Dark Shadows). I call it “nostalgia inertia.” Consider fans of some film or t.v.…
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Mockingbird Lane Halloween Special
Mockingbird Lane, emerges onto television screens as a Halloween Special on Friday, October 26, 2012. Plenty of buzz surrounded this project. After all, Bryan Singer remains the man behind House M.D. as well as The Usual Suspects and of course the first two X-Men movies. What might he do with what is essentially a remake…