Mystery Science Theater 3000 (tv program)

"I am a child stuck between two countries," says 15-year-old Fang "Jenni" Lee in the insightful new documentary "Somewhere Between." Adopted at age 5 and raised in Berkeley, Calif., she is one of roughly 80,000 girls who have come to the U.S. since...

There's got to be a morning after…if you can hold on to Dec. 31. If bar-hopping and candlelight yoga aren't your bags, the ever-splendiferous Music Box Theatre has a fun alternaplan for New Year's Eve: a screening of the classic disaster flick &#...

If you want to celebrate the holidays but “White Christmas” isn't your bag (and it sure isn't mine, as the treacle factor is off the charts annoying), Music Box Theatre (3733 N. Southport) has an alternative. Of course they do. They are the...

Late last year I posted my Top Geek Gals of 2011. I wanted to shine a spotlight on the wonderful ladies that fly the geek flag proudly, doing what they can to make the world just a bit geekier. But then a debate broke out on the post over whether one...

The surprise plot turn: a brilliant scientist and his beautiful daughter! I wonder if MST3K ever did comic strips. Dec. 15, 1960: Matt Weinstock writes about a longtime resident of Los Angeles who is horrified to discover that Castelar Street......

Well, "First Spaceship on Venus" is quite the odd little movie: a vintage space epic filmed in East Germany and co-produced with Poland. It features an international team of characters and a strong anti-nuclear message! Released in German as "Der...

Moxie is defined by Webster's New World dictionary as "courage, pluck, perseverance; guts." And if there's one thing Hagerstown native Jon Macht, 52, has, it's moxie. Moxie was what lead Macht as a teenager to have the nerve to send a note to The...

Cinematic Titanic Thursday, Feb. 2, The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, 166 Capitol Ave., Hartford, (860) 987-5900, bushnell.org   To everyone wondering what the difference is between "Cinematic Titanic" and "Mystery Science Theater 3000," you...

When it was announced that "Family Guy" had been given permission to do a "Star Wars" parody for its season premiere, I had a pretty good idea of how the episode would go. Peter Griffin walks in on Meg's messy room and says, "Geez Meg, you're an even...

OLD-TIME television is making a comeback. Not on television, though. Aided by the neutron star-like cultural gravity of Google's YouTube, an increasing number of vintage TV programs and early commercials are flying out of collectors' closets, ending half...

Friday April 19, 1996      "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie" is based on a concept so simple and obvious cynics everywhere must be kicking themselves for not thinking of it themselves: Take a minor motion picture of questionable artistic merit...