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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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Movie Review: "Goosebumps"
There is something unsettling about the Rob Letterman directed “Goosebumps,” and it isn’t the scares that it offers. At first glance, the new film about the monsters R.L. Stine creates in his books coming to life feels like an updated… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Gets the "Wabbit" at New York Comic-Con
Yesterday I wrote a little about New York Comic-Con and my general amusement with the entire affair. Today, I have one of the things we were able to record while there, a series of discussions for “Lass is More” with… Read More ›
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Okay, but why do I Like New York Comic-Con?
If you saw anything that I posted to Twitter over the past few days, you’ll know I spent scads of time at New York Comic-Con. There is already a piece up at Blogcritics about some of the Capcom stuff I… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Room" (2015)
Some movies devastate you. You watch them and you wonder about humanity and what you would do in a similar situation and are just shaken for hours after the experience. If that isn’t your kind of thing, don’t watch “Room”… Read More ›
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007(x3) Weeks of 007 #19 – "The World is not Enough"
The end may be drawing ever more nigh, but 007(x3) Weeks of 007 still has some work to do. Up today, Brosnan’s third outing as my hero and yours, James Bond. It is time to see if “The World is… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Looks at Monsters, Horror, and Halloween
I do not like horror movies. This is an intense dislike I have felt for years. But it actually took me years to figure that when I say “I do not like horror movies” that exists with caveats. I don’t… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Talks to Actress (and more) Tracey Birdsall
Yes, it’s Monday, but we’ve got a new episode of Lass is More anyway! Why? Because we recorded it, because it’s interesting, because we’ve got a minisode coming later this week. There are, in short, any number of reasons to… Read More ›
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007(x3) Weeks of 007 #18 – "Tomorrow Never Dies"
Welcome back to 007(x3) Weeks of 007. Today we have Pierce Brosnan’s second, and perhaps second best, Bond outing, “Tomorrow Never Dies.” Sure, I could talk about Sam Smith’s song for “Spectre” which was released last week, but I’m not… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Offers "Love & Mercy"
It may not have come out on video this week, but “Love & Mercy” is still worth talking about. It isn’t just that it’s a great Beach Boys biopic, it’s a great biopic in general. It manages to offer something… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Hotel Transylvania 2"
Sometimes a movie fails not because the story isn’t fun or because the characters aren’t interesting, nor because the actors aren’t enjoying themselves. Sometimes a movie fails because the message it is sending, whether intentional or not, is horrid. This… Read More ›
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007(x3) Weeks of 007 #17 – "GoldenEye"
We enter the ’90s this week on 007(x3) Weeks of 007. We have a new James Bond in Pierce Brosnan. We have a somewhat different real world in which the films operate. We have the first Martin Campbell directed movie…. Read More ›
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"The Martian" has Landed… or Will Soon
Some movies just amaze you, they blow you away. It doesn’t really matter if you’ve seen something else kind of, sort of, almost like them before, they just make it work. Case in point, Matt Damon’s “The Martian.” Or, maybe,… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Looks at the new "Jumanji," "Zathura," and "Indian in the Cupboard" Blu-rays
Today, “Jumanji,” “Zathura,” and “The Indian in the Cupboard” all get swanky new Blu-ray “anniversary” editions. What strikes me about them is that they perfectly encapsulate why I watch movies, not in terms of what they offer to the viewers… Read More ›
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007(x3) Weeks of 007 #16 – "Licence to Kill"
It is a big day week here with 007(x3) Weeks of 007 as we discuss “Licence to Kill,” the second—and final—Timothy Dalton movie. Why is this big? Because “Licence to Kill” is the first Bond movie I saw in the… Read More ›
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How Young is too Young: "E.T." Follow-up and "The Martian"
Last week I spent some time wondering whether my son was old enough to go watch “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” in a movie theater. I pointed out that my son exhibits a lot of empathy, a lack of knowledge of how… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" asks if "Fast & Furious 7" is less
Once upon a time, way back when, I would get passes to go see pre-release screenings of movies. This generally involved me admitting to being a graduate student but declining to say that I was studying film. And, regularly, one… Read More ›
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Christopher Nolan Made a Documentary Short. Really.
When you think of Christopher Nolan–or at least when I think of Christopher Nolan–I tend to think of labyrinthine films, generally with longish runtimes. I think of “Inception” and “The Dark Knight” and “Interstellar” and “Memento” but more as well…. Read More ›
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How Young is too Young: "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial"
Previously, as you may recall (and you can totally read it and remind yourself if you don’t), I ruminated on whether my daughter, age nine, was too young to see “Jurassic Park” on the big screen. The screening hasn’t yet… Read More ›
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007(x3) Weeks of 007 #15 – "The Living Daylights"
Big week here at 007(x3) Weeks of 007. The Roger Moore days are behind us. We have passed the two men who played the character the longer and the one who played it the least. The brief Timothy Dalton era… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Delves into Telepathy with Khalil Sullins of "Listening"
Writer-director Khalil Sullins has done some studying up on telepathy. His new movie posits a thought on just how telepathy might come about and what it might be used for. Short answer: it’s going to go wrong. Or is it?… Read More ›
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