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Josh Lasser is a freelance entertainment reporter/critic. His work has appeared in print, online, and perhaps one day in book form.

• The Greatest Game? Maybe. The Greatest Movie? Not so much.

  By Josh Lasser on September 12, 2006 • ( 1 )

  The Greatest Game Ever Played? Maybe, but certainly not the greatest movie ever made. It’s perfectly fun (if you like golf), and moments of it are touching, but the plot plays out without anything remotely surprising occurring. From the main… Read More ›

• The Genius of Homer

  By Josh Lasser on September 12, 2006 • ( 2 )

  18 years. Amazingly, it’s been 18 years. Or, more correctly, 18 seasons as its own entity, and before that a part of The Tracey Ullman Show. And it’s still going strong. The center of the show seems to have changed… Read More ›

• Changing a Classic Movie: Sensational or Senile?

  By Josh Lasser on September 10, 2006 • ( 1 )

  At what point is a movie no longer owned by the filmmaker and instead owned by society? Does that transition ever occur? In recent years, with the advent of DVDs and new digital technologies, filmmakers have found it to be… Read More ›

• Nip/Tuck Looks Great For Now

  By Josh Lasser on September 7, 2006 • ( 5 )

  Last night the FX original series Nip/Tuck premiered its fourth season. Much like individuals after they have plastic surgery performed by Drs. McNamara & Troy, everything was tight, high gloss, and looked great. Of course, like the vast majority of… Read More ›

• Spielberg’s Last Great Film

  By Josh Lasser on September 6, 2006 • ( 1 )

  Steven Spielberg has had an amazing career as a director, he has made a string of hit movies and has unquestionably changed filmmaking (for better or for worse, I won’t argue which). But, do you realize that his last truly… Read More ›

• Numbing the Pain

  By Josh Lasser on September 1, 2006 • ( 3 )

  In my search to find some way to spend my evenings, last night I watched SciFi Channel’s Painkiller Jane, a repeat of one of their Saturday night made-fors. These “B-movies” that SciFi makes have virtually become a genre unto themselves…. Read More ›

• Rescue Me Needs Some Rescuing

  By Josh Lasser on August 31, 2006 • ( 1 )

  I won’t lie, I’m easily disappointed. I’ll still be disappointed and watch a TV program, but it’s the disappointment that lowers my rating from rave to raving mad. Last night’s Rescue Me season finale falls somewhere in between, maybe “good,… Read More ›

• The End of the Summer Season & Entourage

  By Josh Lasser on August 30, 2006 • ( 2 )

  Forget the summer as being the slow television season, that’s simply not true, there are tons of great (and not-so-great) summer series to watch, from Eureka to Rescue Me to The 4400 to Hell’s Kitchen & Treasure Hunters to Entourage,… Read More ›

• The Emmys

  By Josh Lasser on August 29, 2006 • ( 1 )

  I can’t imagine what I could possibly add to the coverage of last night’s Emmy Awards, which much to my chagrin I did in fact watch. I say “much to my chagrin” because I typically don’t enjoy watching award shows,… Read More ›

• Upside’s Downside

  By Josh Lasser on August 25, 2006 • ( 1 )

  Don’t agree with the below, that’s just fine, but I’m sticking to it. Yesterday I sat down to watch The Upside of Anger. Initially it seemed like a well-made movie, with interesting characters and a relatable plot and something that… Read More ›

• Veronica Mars

  By Josh Lasser on August 23, 2006 • ( 3 )

  That Veronica Mars, she sure is a little spit-fire, and the shows not half-bad either. From an intriguing over-arching mystery to single-episode contained story-arcs I’ve had a great summer watching it (a show that until June I hadn’t seen a… Read More ›

• Losing the Hunters & Entourage

  By Josh Lasser on August 23, 2006 • ( 1 )

  I sat down last night at 10 all ready to watch the last episodes of Treasure Hunters, remember that I spent 2 hours with Hell’s Kitchen last week and so had to catch-up on my Hunters this week, only to… Read More ›

• TV & FG’s Weekend Round-up

  By Josh Lasser on August 22, 2006 • ( 1 )

  So, I saw the movie, and I gathered this much from it: there were snakes, there was a plane, and the snakes were on it. It was perfectly fun although nothing terribly special. It’s not quite in the Harold &… Read More ›

• Studio 60 & 30 Rock

  By Josh Lasser on August 18, 2006 • ( 8 )

  I am continually digging myself into a hole. Before I called in all the favors owed me (and gave away a few of my future children), and now I owe everyone. On the upside, I’ve seen 30 Rock and Studio… Read More ›

• What is Funny?

  By Josh Lasser on August 18, 2006 • ( 1 )

  Today I would like to tackle the question: what makes funny? The answer is pretty simple actually: if it bends, it’s funny; if it breaks, that’s not funny. I think the problem comes in that things bend and break at… Read More ›

• COMMENTS ON THIS SITE

  By Josh Lasser on August 16, 2006 • ( 2 )

  There apparently was a problem with comments being allowed on the blog, that has now been rectified.

• Hell’s Kitchen Finale

  By Josh Lasser on August 16, 2006 • ( 1 )

  I spent two semi-precious hours (let’s be honest with each other, my time is important but not THAT important) of my time yesterday watching the Hell’s Kitchen finale. All the while I was rooting for Heather to win but completely… Read More ›

• Must Love Dogs

  By Josh Lasser on August 14, 2006 • ( 3 )

  There are films that I see that I want to root for, movies that you just want so much to be good that even when they’re not you mark them down as being “okay.” I watched just such a movie… Read More ›

• Kidnapped

  By Josh Lasser on August 11, 2006 • ( 2 )

  Faithful Reader, I know that I usually take Fridays off but today I can’t, today I feel the need to tell you about what happened to me last night. Last night part of me, my imagination, was taken hostage. It… Read More ›

• The Amazing Disappearing, Reappearing Nature of Shows

  By Josh Lasser on August 11, 2006 • ( 1 )

  I feel as though our society moves too quickly. This is, I’m sure, a common lament, but frankly it is hindering my ability to watch television. Last week, at the last moment, Sci Fi decided not to air Garth Marenghi’s… Read More ›