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“Crazy in Love”: My Super Ex-Girlfriend

by Rob on February 8, 2010

When it comes to movies, the adjective, “bad,” can have a wide variety of meanings.  It can mean that a movie is irredeemably flawed on every level, just a complete failure–bad story, bad acting, bad writing, bad everything–and absolutely unentertaining. It can mean all of those things but that the film is so epic in [...]

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Note: This review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Spartacus: Blood and Sand, including the most recent, “Legends.”
The third episode of Spartacus: Blood and Sand may lack a small degree of the oomph of the first two installments, but that is understandable, as “The Red Serpent” and “Sacramentum Gladiatorum”  were very much about establishing [...]

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Caprica 1.03: “Reins of a Waterfall”

February 6, 2010
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Caprica, including the most recent, “Reins of a Waterfall.”
Like Battlestar Galactica before it, one of Caprica’s greatest strengths is proving to be its scope.  What both shows have most in common, besides their shared history, is a keen ability to deal with the worldwide [...]

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“…On a Cloudy Day”: Sunshine Cleaning

February 4, 2010
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Sunshine Cleaning’s concept has “quirky indie” written all over it.  The story of a down-on-her-luck single mother, who decides to open her own company with her sister–a cleaning service that caters to crime scenes and the sites of other grisly deaths–after learning from her married cop boyfriend (also the father of her son) that it’s a [...]

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Lost: “LA X” – An Un-Review

February 3, 2010
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I had the noblest of intentions.  I really did.  I truly considered doing a weekly review of the final season of Lost, just I’ve done for Glee and just as I am now planning on doing for Caprica, but the fact of the matter is, I don’t think I can.  I am a Lost fan [...]

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Dork Side: Fanboys

February 3, 2010
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A long, long, long time ago in 2007, a movie called Fanboys with a truly fantastic concept was first filmed, directed by Kyle Newman.  Set in 1998, it tells the story of a group of diehard Star Wars fans who decide to travel across the country and break into George Lucas’ world-famous Skywalker Ranch to steal [...]

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“Dead, to Begin With”: Ghost Town

February 1, 2010
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How to best describe the romantic comedy/fantasy, Ghost Town?  Think of it as A Christmas Carol meets Ghost.  Now, I know what you’re thinking: A Christmas Carol already has ghosts in it, so isn’t that a bit redundant?  The answer, however, would be, no.  Unless there’s a part about Scrooge falling in love with the [...]

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Caprica 1.02: “Rebirth”

January 31, 2010
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Note: The following review contains major spoilers for the Caprica pilot, but not for the second episode, “Rebirth.”
Now, that was an enormous improvement!  The first “proper” episode of Caprica takes what really worked in the pilot–most notably Zoe’s rebirth, the relationships between the major characters, and the world-building–and expands upon them admirably, while eschewing its [...]

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A Gay Old Time: Beautiful People

January 30, 2010
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The phrase, “That’s the gayest thing I’ve ever seen” is often overused.  People will describe anything that shows signs of even the vaguest elements of camp, whether it be bright colors, cartoony flourishes, or musical numbers as being “extremely gay,” and while American shows such as Glee and Ugly Betty certainly qualify as owing a [...]

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Playboy, Interrupted: Iron Man

January 29, 2010
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Superhero films have always been a particular love of mine, I must admit.  I will watch them all, from the sublime–Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films, Bryan Singer’s X-Men films, Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins–to the underrated–Singer’s Superman Returns, Ang Lee’s Hulk–to the silly–Mystery Men, Blade, Fantastic Four–to the lame–Catwoman, Ghost Rider, Wolverine.  There is something I find intrinsically appealing [...]

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