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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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Rush Hour Gets Blu
The buddy cop flick isn’t exactly a new sub-genre of film in 2010. Throw a grizzled, tough-as-nails veteran in the same squad car as a wide-eyed rookie, add some laughs and a criminal plot, and you have yourself a film. … Read More ›
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The 7th Guest and Henry Stauf Return
Ah, memories. There are moments in my life which I remember quite clearly, things which can instantly be recalled – I know the first Star Trek episode I ever saw, the first James Bond movie I watched, where I was… Read More ›
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Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time – Well, It’s no Cliffs of Insanity
It would make me exceedingly happy to be able to sit down and write that the new Doctor Who iPhone game, Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time, was a brilliant digital transition for our beloved Time Lord. It is not. … Read More ›
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Salt (2010) Hits Blu-ray, but Lacks Flavor
The tagline for the 2010 movie Salt, upon its initial release to theaters this past summer, was “Who is Salt?” While the short answer to that question is a character played by Angelina Jolie in this spy thriller, it may… Read More ›
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If can Find it, Maybe you Should buy The A-Team
We have all seen a myriad of absolutely wretched TV show remakes hit the big screen. There are unquestionably moments when just seeing a trailer for the latest remake is enough to make you cringe. Hearing about a some of… Read More ›
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The Plumber’s Still got it: Super Mario All-Stars – Limited Edition
There are some games which are legends, untouchable bits of greatness. These are the games which, no matter how many times they may get rereleased to new systems, made playable as DLC, updated, tweaked, etc. you just know that you’re… Read More ›
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Despicable Me – It’s Gru to be Bad
For years Hollywood has been making live action movies about villains, and this summer saw animated features take up that some motif in two different films, Megamind and Despicable Me. The latter of these two films has just been released… Read More ›
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Calling Shenanigans on Micmacs (But in a Good Way)
Translating the title of his movie in one of the bonus features on the new Blu-ray release, Jean-Pierre Jeunet states that Micmacs means “shenanigans.” That is a brilliant description of this film which stars Dany Boon as the new guy… Read More ›
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Leverage Reaches the End of Season Three
The mechanics of scheduling a single television series much less an entire network are foreign to me. There is a multitude of things that have to be figured out, from how many episodes each series has in a season to… Read More ›
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EA Sports Active NFL Training Camp Gets us on the (Practice) Field
Training-based sports titles are becoming more and more prevalent in this generation of consoles. The Nintendo Wii made such things easy to start with, and then upped the ante with the balance board. Now, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 feature… Read More ›
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Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz – It’s Almost Like Knight and Day
Tom Cruise has starred in both comedies and action flicks, and his latest movie, Knight and Day, is a very successful mix of the two. Acting opposite Cruise in the film is Cameron Diaz, who, while she may be better… Read More ›
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The New Flesh Emerges on Blu-ray: Videodrome – The Criterion Collection
For a number of years, for a movie to simply be part of The Criterion Collection has been a glowing review in and of itself. Criterion has put out laserdiscs, DVDs, and Blu-rays of some of the best films ever… Read More ›
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Bing! It’s The Crosby Christmas Sessions
Although stores may have Christmas things in stock right after Halloween, I don’t truly begin my Christmas preparations until Thanksgiving week – which, let’s face it, is still plenty early. I get ready for Christmas when I do mostly because… Read More ›
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Amazing Cows by Sandra Boynton: Something for the Hippopotamus in all of us
Prior to my daughter being born, someone insisted that we purchase a copy of the Sandra Boynton’s book and CD, Philadelphia Chickens, an “imaginary musical revue.” Coming in a single package, Philadelphia Chickens features many distinctly odd songs, things like… Read More ›
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Disney’s Tangled Swings Over to the Nintendo Wii
I am a big fan of the sort of puzzle games that LucasArts used to do and which Telltale does so well today. I grew up playing Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max Hit the Road, and… Read More ›
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Fantasia & Fantasia 2000 Explode Onto Blu-ray
One of the complaints against Disney is that the films, books, television shows, etc., that they produce are all strictly low brow, that the company doesn’t have any ambitions to produce great works of art, merely commercially successful ones. Perhaps… Read More ›
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Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol – The Trailer
While it is true that I’ve already done some Christmas shopping, now that Thanksgiving is here I feel that I can really get ready for the holiday season, a time of year which I enjoy to a great degree. There… Read More ›
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Joining the Family Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
One of my favorite games of 2009, perhaps actually my favorite game of last year, is Assassin’s Creed II. The story of Ezio Auditore da Firenze and his adventures in Italy during the Renaissance is a hugely compelling tale (much… Read More ›
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The US Version of Top Gear has Arrived
To know me is to know my deep and unabashed love of Top Gear. Since I first discovered it several years ago, I have watched every episode BBC America has made available, I have read up on it, and I… Read More ›
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Scooby Doo 1 & 2 Both on Blu
Scooby Doo is different things to different people, embracing a large overall audience, and that is one of the reasons that the myriad versions of the cartoon have been so successful. A young audience can be amused by the surface… Read More ›
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