Cancel the office pool and forget the Vegas bookmakers, because a certain movie about a stammering monarch looks set to be …
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The Morning After: Fringe Self-Watch, and a Programming Note
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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Big Love Watch: On Thin Ice
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 …
The Rite: Anthony Hopkins Speaks of the Devil
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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The Morning After: Stop… Pooping!
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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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Office Watch: Kirk Meets Picard
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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 …
The Mechanic Review: Can He Fix It? Well, He Can Blow It Up
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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TV Tonight: Archer
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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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Snow Day Video Break; Plus, Media's Snowcabulary Challenged
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There’s a lot of snow where you are, …
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The Morning After: Sweet Emotion?
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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 …
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Bachmann's Looking-Into-Camera Video Found! Mistake, or Genius?
As I mentioned in my post this morning, there was a reason that Rep. Michele Bachmann was looking off at an odd angle during her Tea Party State of the Union response: she was speaking to the camera that was streaming her talk on the Tea Party Express website, rather than the media-pool camera. Oddly, though, the website itself as of …
Top 10 Historically Misleading Films
No one ever said that movies—even those about historical events—were obligated to reflect fact. Still, some have taken a few too many liberties.
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The Morning After: Lights On?
Lights Out, FX’s strong new boxing drama that I gave a positive review, has been on the ropes in the ratings,* and I have no time today to review last night’s episode at length. I am part of the problem. But I want to see if Tuned Inlanders have stuck with the series up to this episode, which was the one that sold me on the drama and …