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With the nation celebrating a long holiday weekend, there's really NOT MUCH on TV of genre interest. The reruns include GHOST WHISPERER (Friday, CBS), HARPER'S ISLAND (Saturday, CBS) and Fox's Sunday night animated lineup. HBO airs a TRUE BLOOD ("Scratches") Sunday but we're unsure if it's new or rerun.
Fortunately, there is ONE massive set of reruns worth watching as the SCI FI Channel (a.k.a. SyFy) is broadcasting its annual TWILIGHT ZONE marathon featuring many of the very best episodes of Rod Serling's classic TV series. It's now underway and continues all day July 4. Highly recommended! WE think THE TWILIGHT ZONE was science fiction TV's finest show.
First, the timeline! Blue Sky Studios' CG-animated ICE AGE (2002) introduced three unlikely prehistoric pals---Manny the Mammoth, Sid the Sloth and Diego the Friendly Sabre-toothed Tiger. ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN (2006) continued the fantasy saga while adding Ellie, a mammoth love interest for Manny, and her two wise-cracking possum "brothers" Crash and Eddie. They're all back for this second sequel---joined this time by outrageous weasel adventurer Buck Wild (Indiana Jones by way of Captain Ahab and Bugs Bunny)---as they await the birth of Ellie & Manny's baby and search for parental wannabe Sid in a colorful, dinosaur-filled land that time forgot. 
The good news for Shemp-o-holics is that Sony has released, as part of their ongoing Three Stooges project, 
KNOWING (Summit, out on DVD and Blu-ray July 7) is audacious, ambitious, bold, fearless and occasionally fascinating. It's also uneven, erratic and implausible. But one thing it is not is boring. Director Alex Proyas' (I, ROBOT) film starts off in 1959 with a time capsule ceremony at a Massachusetts elementary school where one of the students, the pallid- and gloomy-faced Lucinda Embry (Lara Robinson), feverishly scribbles down a bunch of seemingly random numbers on a piece of paper and offers that as her contribution. Fifty years later, that time capsule is opened and student Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury) is given Lucinda's scrawl, which he shows to his father, astrophysics professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage), who takes a look at the paper after having a couple of drinks and comes to the conclusion that the numbers signify the date, number of deaths and GPS coordinates of different disastrous events that have occurred over the last 50 years-as well as three more that are still to come. Determined to prevent those calamities from taking place, John enlists the aid of Lucinda's grown-up daughter Diana (Rose Byrne) and her daughter Abby (Robinson again)
Jackson Rathbone is a young actor quickly compiling some notable genre credits: S. DARKO, the upcoming cinematic adaptation of Clive Barker’s DREAD and, of course, the TWILIGHT saga, in which he plays Jasper Hale, the Cullen family member who can manipulate emotions. In Part One of this interview, which you can find 
Savvy entertainers often save some of their most popular hits to conclude a concert. What you can do for an encore may just determine if your audience exits whistling happily or not. And so it can be with comics—specifically Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill’s THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN.
