Art House Cinema on the SyFy Channel

We are truly living in a Television Renaissance. There are so many genuinely good TV shows on air these days it's almost impossible to keep up. But not for a T.V-watching virtuoso like myself. People will point to great shows like The Office, Mad Men, or The Hills as programs that demand more from the modern day viewer.

But I feel like even better material, truly provocative work, has been overlooked. I'm speaking, of course, about the endless slew of original movies on the SyFy channel. The SyFy Channel has achieved something special. A niche of TV movies so fantastic it's almost unbelievable. Every one is better than the last. Actually, I take that back. MegaSnake is clearly better than Rock Monster. But each is truly unique, in title if not plot, and the SyFy channel shows at least six a day.

Since this trend of movies has taken ahold of the SyFy Channel, my T.V. has a become playground of childhood fantasies. Secret agents fighting minotaurs, park rangers blasting mutant snakeheads, and even a movie simply called "Ogre." Now I could dedicate an entire blog to these films alone, but I would be doing America and the Internet a disservice. So I will limit of reviews of these fine films to those that are truly striking and/or brilliant. Stay tuned for my review of Bird Flu Horror.