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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.
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Sure, Dick Tracy is Here, but What About Madonna
The Dick Tracy Show: The Complete Animated Crime Series provides hours and hours of enjoyment for children, and in short spurts can be moderately amusing for adults as well. This boxed set is meant to celebrate the 75th anniversary of… Read More ›
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Man of the Year? Probably Not, But Maybe of the Week
It’d be funny if it weren’t so sad. It’d be outlandish if it weren’t quite so close to the truth. It’d be a comedy if it weren’t quite so serious. Whatever else it may be, Barry Levinson’s new movie, Man… Read More ›
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Arrrrrrr You Ready For Some Fun?
Once again entering into the world of computer games, TV & Film Guy checks out some pirates that don’t know Jack Sparrow Boy, talk about a fun little game. Pirates of the Atlantic is a small game, but a fun… Read More ›
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Nova’s "The Deadliest Plane Crash" (no, not the NYC one)
Nova’s latest episode, “The Deadliest Plane Crash,” focuses on the collision of two 747 jumbo jets on the island of Tenerife in 1977. Due to a myriad of factors, most notable and most importantly grossly negligent pilot error (without which… Read More ›
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Stude…It’s All About The Shmumps
Once again the TV and Film Guy ventures into the land of computer games, or, more correctly, Happy Valley. Dumbow & Cool is far more the former than the latter. It stars off innocently enough. King Lecture, the big evil… Read More ›
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God, It Looks Like Daniel…Hmmmm…Must Be the Clouds in My Eyes
Last January, NBC put on a show about an Episcopalian priest. He had two sons, a daughter, a wife, and several other relatives. He also talked on a regular basis to Jesus. I don’t mean that he prayed and asked… Read More ›
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Woo-Hoo, It’s Time For The Nine
Below is an updated and revised review for The Nine It is always hard to try and judge a television series based upon the pilot: parts get recast, showrunners leave, time periods change, the focus of the series itself shifts,… Read More ›
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Seriously, Can Desperate Housewives Get a Little Bit More on the Ball?
Every once in a while the TV and Film Guy gets to wondering. And the wondering eventually turns to ruminating, and the ruminating to fuming, and the fuming to ranting. This is one of those times. What in the name… Read More ›
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Yeah Classic TV, The Odd Couple Makes it to DVD
As more and more classic television series appear on DVD, a glaring problem has become obvious: while some of these shows were huge hits and very successful at the time, they don’t hold up to viewing decades later. What was… Read More ›
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Game Tycoon? Yeah, Sure, Why Not.
Today the TV and Film Guy will venture outside his comfort zone…sort of. Today I will review a computer game. Now the TV and Film Guy likes his computer games (console and arcade games too), but to this point he… Read More ›
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Dear The Class, I Hereby Expunge You From my TiVo FOREVER
As a wise man once said: That’s all I can stands, I can’t stands no more. The Class is officially off my watch list, and I’m not happy about it. Still though, I don’t have a choice anymore, it’s gone…. Read More ›
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Nova scienceNow: Science Now, Science Later, Science All The Time Really
Last year PBS launched a brand-new spin on its classic show, Nova, entitled Nova scienceNow. The show will debut its second season during the first week in October. New this season is astrophysicist Neil Tyson as the host for the… Read More ›
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Loverboy: Bacon Expanding That Whole Six Degrees Thing
Loverboy, Kevin Bacon’s feature film directorial debut, is the moderately disturbing tale of a woman who wanted to provide her child the love she never felt from her parents. It stars Kyra Sedgwick as Emily, a woman with such a… Read More ›
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A Lament for er
Dear Producers of the once great er,I must tell you that you’ve simply strayed too far.For years you’ve recycled more than one old plotSurely others have told you this, have they not? Last night you started to take from other… Read More ›
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Smith: No Face, No Name, No Heart, No Soul
Sometimes it’s incredibly difficult to review a new television show. Watching Smith is one of those times. Here’s a show with a good cast: Ray Liotta, Virginia Madsen and Simon Baker among others. The story is the exact sort of… Read More ›
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MI-5 is Back: Tom’s Not, But That’s Okay
Friday night A & E network premiered the latest season of MI-5, known in England, where the show originates, as Spooks. The show focuses on, as the American titles states, MI-5, the England’s domestic intelligence service (the equivalent of the… Read More ›
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The Greatest Game? Maybe. The Greatest Movie? Not so much.
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 ›
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The Genius of Homer
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 ›
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Changing a Classic Movie: Sensational or Senile?
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 ›
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Nip/Tuck Looks Great For Now
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 ›
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