Articles by Jeff Pfeiffer

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Family

Fans of cuteness are the winners when Animal Planet pits “Puppies vs Babies”

October 14, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Jeff Pfeiffer Follow @ChannelGuideJP This Saturday, Oct. 15, at 10pm ET/PT, Animal Planet’s Puppies vs. Babies begins its first installment of three one-hour specials that seek to determine which is cuter — baby humans or baby animals. (Although it is called Puppies vs. Babies, trailer clips seem to also include toddlers and older kids in the mix with babies, along with kitties in addition to puppies). Wherever you fall in the debate (I’m not afraid to take a side — go puppies!), it’s a good bet you’ll be awwwing all throughout this battle, which takes the 16 most popular […]

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Action

VOD Spotlight: “Green Lantern”

October 14, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

As any fan of the Green Lantern comic series knows, the plots concern the clash between fear and will. And for star Ryan Reynolds (The Proposal), who plays Hal Jordan in the film Green Lantern, there was a great deal of will needed while making the movie because his role of a test pilot turned intergalactic superhero required he overcome his own fear of flying, beginning with his transport to the Lantern home planet of Oa.

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Movies

Nothing says the holidays like Syfy Original Movies

October 13, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Jeff Pfeiffer Follow @ChannelGuideJP Perhaps trying to recapture the feeling of that long-ago time right after the original Halloween came out, when every horror movie seemed to have a holiday theme, Syfy has announced a new slate of holiday-related films in its infamous Saturday Original Movie franchise. According to Thomas Vitale, executive vice president of programming and original movies for Syfy, the network is “committed to finding new and different ways to destroy the world in our Saturday Original Movies. Since 2002, we’ve unleashed natural disasters, unnatural disasters, creatures on land, sea and air, and iconic fantasy characters. Now […]

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Documentary

Discovery premieres new Steve Jobs documentary this Sunday

October 11, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

To celebrate the innovative genius of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who passed away last week at age 56, Discovery Channel is airing a one-hour documentary called iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World, premiering this Sunday, Oct. 16, at 8pm ET/PT. MythBusters stars Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman host the special, which features interviews with people whose lives and livelihoods were forever changed by Jobs, including: * Those at the front lines of the birth of personal computing, and former Apple employees and executives, including Lee Felsenstein, founding member of the Homebrew Computer Blub; Daniel Kottke, a friend who traveled […]

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Comedy

VOD Spotlight: “Horrible Bosses”

October 11, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

The comedy Horrible Bosses features three helpless schmucks (played by Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis) who meet over drinks to diss three of the worst bosses in film history. But the fact that the put-on employees’ plot to kill their bosses become funny is because the bosses are so over-the-top horrible. Two of the actors playing bosses, Colin Farrell and Kevin Spacey, have played villains before, but for Friends star Jennifer Aniston, the role of sexual predator was new to her. She plays a dentist whose hilariously overt advances toward her assistant are the likely reason the film […]

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Commentary

Twitter-feed ghosts of TV series past

October 10, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Jeff Pfeiffer Follow @ChannelGuideJP This morning, while perusing my Twitter feed, I happened to glance over at the “Who to Follow” suggestions off to the side and noticed that the Twitter feed for NBC’s Free Agents was among the recommendations. I found this odd, since the show had been canceled last week. Why would I want to follow a feed that likely will not be updated, and which probably should be deleted at this point? I remembered a similar experience I had in seeing that the Twitter feed for FOX’s Lone Star — a show we really liked last […]

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Drama

TNT pays tribute to Steve Jobs with reairing of “Pirates of Silicon Valley” film

October 6, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

Tonight (October 6) at 8pm and 10pm ET/PT, TNT will pay tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who passed away yesterday at the age of 56, with a presentation of the 1999 original movie Pirates of Silicon Valley. The film, which received five Emmy nominations, follows the race between technology rivals Apple Computer and Microsoft during the early days of the personal computing revolution. Noah Wyle plays Steve Jobs, with Anthony Michael Hall as Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and Joey Slotnick as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

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Horror

“From Beyond” preview: “Priscilla’s Baby” episode

October 5, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

Getting in the mood for this upcoming Halloween season, here’s a clip from this Sunday’s (October 9) episode of From Beyond, a paranormal investigation series that airs Sundays at 10pm ET/PT on mun2, and which has become a record-setting breakout hit for the bilingual network. In “Priscilla’s Baby,” we meet Priscilla and Frank, who brought home their newborn baby girl several months ago. But that’s when things started going awry. The strange movements, sightings, and what they call “the wind of a spirit” in the dining room did not bother them, until they discovered unexplained scratches on their baby. The […]

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Action

VOD Spotlight: The cars of “Fast Five”

October 4, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

“Top gear and full throttle” is a phrase that most speed demons only dream of in our 65-mph world, but the romance of speed fuels The Fast and the Furious films. In the fifth installment of the roaring franchise, Fast Five, the stakes are even higher and the stunts more awe-inspiring. At the heart of the speed-driven film is the 1970 Dodge Charger that Dom (Vin Diesel) drives. It killed Dom’s father and was totaled twice, but, like the Terminator, it keeps coming back. Picture car coordinator — yes, a film like this needs someone with that title — Dennis […]