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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 Amazing Race – Kent, Vyxsin, Bottlenecks, and Passports

  By Josh Lasser on March 14, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Okay, maybe I’m wrong.  Maybe I’m crazy.  Maybe I’m ludicrous.  I have railed on more than one occasion against bottlenecks on The Amazing Race.  I have stated that having all the teams end up tied at the airport may not… Read More ›

• Mr. Sunshine – Yay

  By Josh Lasser on March 10, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Last night, as I’ve done for the best several weeks, I have sat down to watch a new  Mr. Sunshine.  Over the handful of episodes that have aired to this point, I think I can recall myself having laughed once…… Read More ›

• Loving Burt Hummel and Revising my Views on Glee

  By Josh Lasser on March 9, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Let it never be said that I do not give credit where credit is due.  I have complained on more than one occasion that Glee has failed to create characters and storylines that I care about, that for me, on… Read More ›

• Love & Other Drugs & Blu-ray & Romantic Comedies & Something Else Too

  By Josh Lasser on March 8, 2011 • ( 1 )

  The romantic comedy is an incredibly popular genre.  That’s something that always seems a little odd to me as 99 percent of romantic comedies follow the exact same formula.  Heading into one of these films, rather than just knowing what… Read More ›

• The Amazing Race: 15 Minutes, a Fanny Pack, and Ditching Friends

  By Josh Lasser on March 7, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Tonight, The Amazing Race asked a really interesting question (we’ll be getting into SPOILERS rather quickly here, just FYI), or at least the teams did – do you go to your destination direct or do you change plans somewhere if… Read More ›

• Breakout Kings – A Tale of Two Shows

  By Josh Lasser on March 4, 2011 • ( 0 )

  I have sitting in front of me two episodes of Breakout Kings.  One of the episodes I liked very much, the other interested me far less.  The normally difficult process of judging a television show based simply on the pilot… Read More ›

• Timmy Time Jumps to DVD (With the Same Problems as it had Before)

  By Josh Lasser on March 2, 2011 • ( 4 )

  (editor’s note: a full review of the TV series is available here) In my review of the television series Timmy Time, I wrote that “while the show may be imparting positive messages to youngsters and doing so in a way… Read More ›

• Nancy Drew Gets Her Mobile Mysteries on with Shadow Ranch

  By Josh Lasser on March 1, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Growing up, I loved reading Choose Your Own Adventure books.  The ability to actually make a series of choices based on what you would do and read the results of your actions in the story was hugely appealing… in fact,… Read More ›

• HIMYM’s Barney may be Growing Up

  By Josh Lasser on March 1, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Now, I may not write that much about How I Met Your Mother anymore, but it isn’t because I don’t love the show and wonder about it on a regular basis.  For instance, there I was watching tonight’s episode and… Read More ›

• Jet and Cord try to Keep Their Business Unfinished on The Amazing Race

  By Josh Lasser on February 28, 2011 • ( 1 )

  As we began tonight’s The Amazing Race, I was exceedingly worried about my good friends Jet & Cord, the team affectionately known as the Cowboys (because they’re cowboys in real life).  Now, when I say “good friends” I mean the… Read More ›

• New Address, New Look, Same Us

  By Josh Lasser on February 25, 2011 • ( 0 )

  That’s right, in keeping with our week of changes (follow us on Twitter – @tvandfilmguy), we have not only given the site brand new look, but a new address as well. The old Blogger address (http://tvandfilmguy.blogspot.com) will now forward you… Read More ›

• A Look at Sega’s Upcoming Titles

  By Josh Lasser on February 24, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Attending PR events for games’ publishers can be an odd experience.  Wherever the showcase is, the room is full of monitors playing the latest iteration of not yet released titles and now with the PlayStation Move and Xbox Kinect there… Read More ›

• Amazon Launches Unlimited Streaming Video

  By Josh Lasser on February 22, 2011 • ( 0 )

  In April of last year, I wrote an article about the increasing choices one had with on demand viewing.  At the time I said Amazon’s service, Amazon on Demand, offered a plethora of shows and really high quality viewing.  I… Read More ›

• And so we Join Twitter…

  By Josh Lasser on February 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

  That’s right folks, The TV and Film Guy’s Reviews has succumbed to peer pressure and is now on Twitter. Follow us at: @tvandfilmguy

• 2010’s Unstoppable – Relentlessly Disappointing

  By Josh Lasser on February 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Watching the special features on the Blu-ray release of Unstoppable (2010), one gets the impression that a whole lot of time both during pre-production and production was spent on character development, figuring out who these two main characters were and… Read More ›

• The Amazing Race Looks at Some Unfinished Business

  By Josh Lasser on February 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Since I first heard what this newest edition of The Amazing Race would feature—folks who didn’t win but nearly did or lost for horrible reasons—I’ve been referring to it not by its correct title, The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business, but… Read More ›

• Romance of Rome – It’s Like Where’s Waldo, but Roman

  By Josh Lasser on February 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  I like the notion behind hidden object games.  That probably comes out of my old-school love of Where’s Waldo – there’s a sense about finding that which is hidden in plain sight which I find quite satisfying.  What I don’t… Read More ›

• The Road to the (MLB 11) The Show

  By Josh Lasser on February 16, 2011 • ( 2 )

  At an event this week in New York City, we were able to take the newest iteration of Sony’s baseball franchise, The Show, around the block and we certainly liked what we saw.  Outside of outstanding graphics and what seems… Read More ›

• The Mustachioed Plumber Takes to the Court in Mario Sports Mix

  By Josh Lasser on February 15, 2011 • ( 2 )

  No stranger to sports titles, the famed plumber Mario Mario along with his friends (and enemies) from the Mushroom Kingdom and beyond are now part of a new Wii release, Mario Sports Mix.  Consisting of four main games and several… Read More ›

• You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and You Will do so on Blu-ray

  By Josh Lasser on February 14, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Perhaps oddly, there is for me a certain comfort in sitting down to watch a Woody Allen film.  While the stories he tells are different, while the characters (more so when he’s not present) differ, and while the genre (or… Read More ›