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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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There’s a lot of snow where you are, …
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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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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 …
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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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 …
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When CNN announced that it would air not only the official GOP response to the State of the Union address but a live Tea Party response, given by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), I was skeptical. On the one hand, it gave the GOP two responses—a courtesy not afforded to opposition party factions, …
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Over at TIME’s Healthland blog (Swampland, Techland, Healthland—when will Tuned In acquire land?), my colleague John Cloud has been recapping House, M.D. From his writeup of last night’s “Carrot or Stick” (spoiler alert, kind of):
They start Driscoll on an antibiotic (doxycycline), but soon he has another symptom: his leg muscles feel
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