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Caprica 1.06: “Know Thy Enemy”

by Rob on March 9, 2010

Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Caprica, including the most recent, “Know Thy Enemy.”
After last week’s “There Is Another Sky,” which told a very focused story about Tamara Adams’ evolution and the Adamas’ mourning process, “Know Thy Enemy” feels like more of a transitional episode, introducing new plot elements, characters, [...]

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Good Gods, Y’all!: Percy Jackson & the Olympians

by Rob on March 8, 2010

Enter the Young Adults section of any bookstore and you’re likely to find hundreds of shiny, new fantasy series that seem to be specifically targeted to cash in on readers’ fondness for Harry Potter, often illustrated with suspiciously similar imagery.  There are so many enticing covers that it can be difficult to tell which are truly [...]

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Guest Review: The Last Stormlord by Glenda Larke

March 7, 2010
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Note: For the first time ever, I’ve decided to have my wonderful partner, Thomas Scofield, write a review for the site.  I receive so many books to review from so many wonderful publishing companies that sometimes I don’t have time to read them all myself, so in the interest of getting more reviews up and [...]

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Spartacus: Blood and Sand 1.06: “Delicate Things”

March 6, 2010
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Spartacus: Blood and Sand, including the most recent, “Delicate Things.”
“Delicate Things” is a truly brilliant episode of Spartacus: Blood and Sand.  I would say it’s the finest to date, but I haven’t had a chance to watch last night’s new installment yet, so for all I [...]

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“Wonderless”: Alice in Wonderland

March 5, 2010
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Lewis Carroll’s much beloved, supremely nonsensical Alice in Wonderland–composed of two volumes, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There–opens itself up to many types of interpretation.  On film, Wonderland can be dark, it can be trippy, it can be chaotic, it can be threatening.  All of these aspects are [...]

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Caprica 1.05: “There Is Another Sky”

March 4, 2010
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Caprica, including the most recent, “There Is Another Sky.”
“Gravedancing” was very much the Greystones’ episode.  ”There Is Another Sky,” on the other hand, belongs to the Adamas, to such an extent that for nearly the first half, I wondered whether we would see any [...]

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“The Kids Aren’t Alright”: Parenthood

March 4, 2010
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NBC’s new family comedy-drama series, Parenthood, has received excellent hype and a nice assortment of fantastic reviews.  I’m not quite sure why.  That’s not to say it isn’t a perfectly serviceable, if somewhat maudlin, hour of family angst and vaguely humorous situations that are sort-of funny because they, like, mimic what sometimes happens to real [...]

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TV Flashback: Jake 2.0

March 3, 2010
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In September of 2003, UPN premiered Jake 2.0, a fantastic superhero/spy hybrid show that could have been described as Spider-Man meets Chuck, had Chuck not premiered four years later.  Created by Silvio Horta, who would later go on to head ABC’s Ugly Betty, and starring the extremely likable Christopher Gorham, who would later go on to [...]

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“Travel, Travel, Travel…”: Noel Coward’s Sail Away

March 3, 2010
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Noel Coward’s Sail Away is a musical that would never be revived today.  Most well-known for making Elaine Stritch a star in 1961, the style of the show even seems quite dated for when it first opened on Broadway.  One could be forgiven for thinking it were written in the Forties, if not earlier.  The [...]

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“Like Electricity”: Billy Elliot: The Musical

March 2, 2010
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“I can’t really explain it…I haven’t got the words.”  This is Billy Elliot’s initial response to being asked what it feels like when he’s dancing.  I feel similarly about Billy Elliot: The Musical, the international smash hit.  How to capture in words what a monumentally successful, goosebump-inducing, emotionally satisfying theatrical experience this show is, without [...]

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