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2/11/2012
The crazy continues this week on One Tree Hill. As much as I usually enjoy this show, these last few episodes are not the typical dance of drama and humor that I’ve come to expect. Instead of the usual lighthearted drama and occasional huge catastrophe, we’re drowning in one disaster after another...
2/7/2012
The Spartacus: Vengeance storyline rolls on, this week focusing a lot more on Oenomaus and his back story. The episode beings with a young Oneomaus fighting in the pits and Titus Batiatus buying his services. Cut to the present, and a fully painted adult Oneomaus prepares to fit in the pits once...
2/7/2012
This week, the first concert film for Owl City, the group made up of Minnesota-native Adam Young, hits store shelves. The film is made up of his July 11, 2011 performance at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, which is why it’s simply called Live from Los Angeles. There’s certainly no need for fancy titles...
2/5/2012
"I drive."
It’s night in Los Angeles. A lone man is standing in a dark apartment, staring at the window while the Clippers game is on television. He’s on the phone with someone, giving his terms of agreement. He drives up to a warehouse and waits before two men come out running. The man, who the audience will...
2/3/2012
"Thank heaven for little girls!"
Even in 1959, the Academy was old fashioned. That year, the Academy could have awarded the 1958 Best Picture to the sexually charged adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or Stanley Kramer’s gritty racial drama The Defiant Ones. Instead, they went with Gigi, a stately, classical...
1/27/2012
‘What a time we had Rosie...what a time.’
When you look at some of the actors from the Golden Age who are still popular, people like John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart or Cary Grant, they all have one thing in common. They waited a long time to get their Oscars. Wayne waited until 1969, when he won Best Actor for True Grit. Grant never even won...
1/25/2012
Week two of FOX's new show Alcatraz came and went with no further explanation of why the inmates are coming back or who sent them, but it provide an incredibly entertaining race-against-time storyline featuring some pretty edgy material.
The episode opens with a man walking into a house late at...
1/20/2012
"Oh no. No, things are the way you think I made...
Comedies do not usually perform very well at the Oscars, with very few winning in the acting categories and even fewer winning Best Picture. In the mid-1930s, though, it was impossible for the Academy to ignore the massive success of the screwball comedy genre. The genre, which blended comedy,...
