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When an international news story like the uprising in Egypt breaks, American anchors will often appears on the scene in what appear to be carefully controlled circumstances. But as Anderson Cooper‘s CNN crew showed, there is no magical bubble of American-media invulnerability at the scene of a …
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The Kennedys, the much-troubled miniseries about the much-troubled political clan, has finally found a channel to air it: ReelzChannel, a movie channel available in around 60 million cable homes. The eight-hour saga, from 24 co-creator Joel Surnow, was originally sold to History Channel but the network announced recently that it was …
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I’m still largely out of commission today, but the news never takes a day off. So I thought I’d throw this post open for your thoughts on the TV news coverage of the astonishing events in Egypt—in particular, on Al Jazeera English, which most of us (me included) can only see streaming online. While the Qatar-based network has owned …
Cancel the office pool and forget the Vegas bookmakers, because a certain movie about a stammering monarch looks set to be the big winner at the 83rd Academy Awards
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Some personal business is going to keep blogging here light-to-nonexistent for the next day or two. In the meantime, I’ll turn this post over for your discussion of Fringe, which came back with a roaring return a week ago, but whose Friday episode I have yet to catch up on at this writing. Or, feel free to use this as an …
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Spoilers for last night’s Big Love coming up:
The first two episodes of Big Love this season were a pretty grim affair, as the repercussions of problems and bad decisions from last season walloped the Henricksons repeatedly. “Certain Poor Shepherds” was—well, pretty grim as well, as the family was walloped by some new problems and …
As an old exorcist teaching a young seminarian a few new tricks, Anthony Hopkins does his best to animate the latest entrant in an already swollen film subgenre
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So here’s the deal: Now that Parks and Recreation is back and Archer has returned, on Thursday night we have several sitcoms that are capable of delivering a killer episode. Last season I tried for a while doing a picture gallery of Thursday comedies with paragraph reviews, but I felt I managed …
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Though I had read long in advance that David Brent (Ricky Gervais) would be making a cameo appearance on last night’s The Office, I expected it to be a quick hoot of an encounter without much significance. Which in a way it was—but it was also, in miniature, a statement on how each version of …
Jason Statham raises his taciturn action hero game opposite Ben Foster in this capable remake of Charles Bronson’s macho 1972 classic
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As a critic, there are screeners I watch out of obligation, screeners I watch studiously and screeners I gobble up immediately upon getting them, like a starving man gorging himself on chocolates. FX’s Archer is in the last category, a hilarious animated spy parody (with voice talent including …
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While I don’t believe I’ve ever missed a performance round of American Idol, I don’t watch most audition episodes. Because I’m going to die someday and I’ll have to account for how I spent my time on Earth. But I caught the a chunk of last night’s tryouts in Milwaukee, including perhaps the …
