If you looked at the premise of Battleship–a summer blockbuster about an alien invasion that’s very loosely based on a …
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Battleship: More Fun Than a Board Game Blockbuster Has Any Right to Be
Come for the aliens and stay for the naval warfare, and you’ll wind up raving about the patriotic salutes. Peter Berg’s ‘Battleship’ may be based on a board game, but it ultimately defies anything you’re expecting — in the …
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NBC Casts Wonder Woman, Prime Suspect. Good Actress = Good Show?
I usually don’t bother reporting casting news on this blog, because I’d end up doing little else, but yesterday came reports that NBC had found actresses to re-create two iconic, if very different, classic-TV roles. In its remake of Prime Suspect, Maria Bello (A History of Violence) will reportedly take on the role of a tough, …
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TV Tonight: Trauma
The first few minutes of Trauma, the paramedic drama that debuts tonight on NBC, seems determined to show where the network put some of that money it’s saving with The Jay Leno Show. Depicting a crisis/rescue/disaster on a rooftop high above San Francisco, it starts with a guy getting fried in an electrical accident and ends with a …
