You may not have realized yet what family film Disney had in store for us this holiday season. What with so many sequels released in recent years from their animation studios, it’s easy to overlook the occasional original story they might release. It only occurred to me the other day as I watched the trailers before a showing of Wreck-it Ralph that this is their holiday theatrical release.

With a budget to the tune of $165,000,000 (estimated) it’s more than surprisingly delightful. This first film — in an undoubtedly new movie franchise — has been well-received. It is sure to attract…

Well it’s not particularly reassuring that fearless Miles is scared by this Sgt. Strausser guy. Miles has been up against a lot and has never been afraid before. So this should be interesting.

Be aware that there are many SPOILERS here for Fringe Season 5, Episode 5, An Origin Story.

Last week we saw some pretty heavy stuff, and we saw Peter doing some very questionable things, morally speaking. His daughter was killed and he is out for blood now.

Joshua Jackson, Anna Torv, and John Noble talk Peter Bisop in this video from Fox.

“How are ye, Sheriff?” “Old.”

No kidding! And he still can’t act. Still.

Seriously, this movie looks beyond stupid, which I admit may make it worthwhile seeing in itself. Sometimes — just every so often — if a movie is stupid enough its almost kind of fun in a mocking sort of way.

After The MovieByte Podcast Episode 16. TJ and Joseph discuss drinking and drunkenness and the U.S.’ poor outlook on alcohol consumption. This leads into more talk about ‘Flight’ as well and some of the nuances and how they could have presented the drinking and drunkenness better, the drama and melodrama and more. They also discuss Denzel Washington and his faith.

Join TJ and Joseph for some awesome movie discussion! This week they kick off with some follow up on the ‘Star Wars’ discussion with Mathew Vaugn rumored to be in the running to direct Episode VII, plus Joseph really liked the idea of Machete Order. Then they briefly talk about ‘The Amazing Spider-man’ coming on on DVD and Blu-ray. As they have discussed in a past episode, Joseph quite liked the film and TJ didn’t see it in protest. TJ also wrote a short article regarding 3D which TJ and Joseph discuss. Then they get to the meat and potatoes and talk about ‘Wreck-it Ralph’. Wreck-it Ralph is estimated by your hosts to be a really, really great ‘Pixar’ film even though it’s technically not a Pixar film, it’s a Disney film. With John Lasseter executive producing though, who would have expected anything different? They also discuss the idea that Disney and Pixar swapped studio names for ‘Brave’ and ‘Wreck-it Ralph’. They have a lot of fun with this one. And then the discus briefly the also released this past weekend ‘Flight’. Flight was an okay film and worth watching. Be sure to tune in for a great conversation.

The USA Network series unspools the final eight episodes of Season 6 starting this Thursday at 9/8c, with a double-header. When last we tuned in, Michael — stranded in Panama with Sam, Fi, Jesse and sketchy sniper Tyler Gray (played by Kenny Johnson) — had just gleaned that his CIA mentor, Tom Card (John C. McGinley), had set him up to die, and nearly succeeded in that endeavor.

Coming out of that, “You’ll see a more hell-bent Michael,” Donovan previews. “The relationship that Michael has with Gray and Card is going to turn Michael down a path that leads even Sam to question Michael’s…

I have to tell you, I was a big fan of Battlestar Galactica for like three seasons. And I even enjoyed season 4 to some extent, though I didn’t know where they were going with Starbuck and things like that.

And then the biggest disappointment of all is the way the series ended. It was all for nought, none of it mattered. I swore I would never watch BSG or related things again. I deleted the entire series from my iTunes library.

That said, I’m warming up to the idea of pretending that last 20 minutes of that last episode just didn’t happen. As such I have had a bit of a desire to at…

My wife is the one who like Les Mis, I know very little about it actually. And I’m not a huge fan of musicals — some are more tolerable than others. But this film really looks fantastic from the trailers. Looks like some great cinematography, and it’s certainly loaded with talent. But the music — the music even just from viewing the trailer is very moving.

I’m a huge fan of film scores and I love observing how they affect the viewer and create mood, and I love being affected by film score when it’s done in appropriate ways, so this is something I am very curious to see.

Here’s the…