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Author: Don Mancini

Director: Ronny Yu

I’d heard this was a “good” Chucky movie, though considering the previous ones that wasn’t saying much. In total I’ve seen maybe 10 or 15 minutes of the whole series, and that’s all I needed to see. But this one is campy fun. It’s witty and self-mocking, in the tradition of the most recent Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream. My favorite bit of humor was the clever “homage” to the Cliver Barker Hellraiser “pinhead” character after Chucky kills John Ritter with a face full of nails and then says, “He looks familiar somehow.” Warning: if you don’t like spurting blood and violence, keep your finger near the fast forward button.

I haven’t mentioned any TV shows in my news yet, but this week’s Voyager is a classic. It’s hilarious. The holographic Doctor — my favorite character — suffers from bouts of daydreaming (in which he’s always the hero and all the Star Trek women hit on him), while a race of aliens spying on the ship for a sneak attack tap into his dreams and think they are real and the Doctor’s some sort of one-man army! You guessed it: the Doctor’s required to save the day for real in the end. Great fun for ST fans.