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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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Wii are Distressed with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Hitting One Out of Bounds
Now, I’m all for tough scoring in golf. I’ve never been one of those people willing to kick a ball out of the rough or improve my lie. Consequently, my golf scores have never been very good – I’ve always… Read More ›
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Can Royal Pains Ever Achieve Greatness?
After several weeks of watching it, I find myself totally and completely unconvinced by Royal Pains. I'm not saying that it's bad, I'm not even saying I dislike it, I'm just saying that I don't get it. Watching the series… Read More ›
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Leverage Returns and Dark Blue Premieres
Next week, July 15 to be exact, TNT will be launching its third wave of summer original programming. This time out it's the premiere of the second season of the Timothy Hutton-starrer, Leverage at 9pm, followed by the series premiere… Read More ›
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SciFi? Syfy? Either way, it’s Sci-Fi (for now)
Yesterday, the network once known as SciFi (pronounced like sci-fi) became the network currently known as Syfy (still pronounced like sci-fi). Is it no longer a sci-fi based network? Well, no, it probably is. They, technically speaking now don't necessarily… Read More ›
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Diving into The Deep
In 1975, the film Jaws opened. It was, as you may already know, a huge hit. In fact, some argue that Jaws helped bring about the current “blockbuster” era of filmmaking, but that's neither here nor there. Whether or not… Read More ›
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Catching up with some Grumpy Old Men
There are some comedy duos that just plain work, pairs that are natural together and inherently funny. Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau were one of those teams. Even when the film they were wasn't the best, when the two men… Read More ›
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Taking the Battle to Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
Movies based on videogames do not have a terribly good reputation. While it is possible to make a successful and popular film based on a game, more often than not, the audience is left with a terribly disappointing movie, one… Read More ›
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A Few Summer TV Options
Today I awoke and found myself oddly pleased with the summer television fare available to me. Usually, I dread summer TV, or, at the very least, I recall dreading summer TV, whether I did or not may be debatable. In… Read More ›
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Doing a Little Waltz with Bashir
There are times when someone sits down to watch a film and after 90 minutes realize that they've been sitting there in stunned silence the entire time. Did they like it? Maybe, maybe not. Was it a good movie? Well,… Read More ›
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The Triumphant Return of Nova scienceNOW
Traditionally speaking, television in the summer is filled with reality shows, burn-offs of series that failed, and lots and lots of repeats. Cable has slowly started to change the game, launching lots of original scripted series over the summer. However,… Read More ›
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Doctor Who and "The Next Doctor"
There are certain moments in television, certain episodes, to which I greatly look forward. Yes, season premieres and finales are most certainly among them, “special” episodes for sweeps tend not to be. On my favorite long-running series though I hugely… Read More ›
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Steven Spielberg and Noah Wyle to Fight Aliens for TNT
News comes to us from TNT today that Noah Wyle has signed on to a pilot with them. In the as-yet-unnamed series Wyle is set to play the leader of a group trying to resist an alien invasion of Earth…. Read More ›
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Getting Into Striking Distance
I hesitate to instantly, right out of the gate, damn a movie with faint praise, but the recently released to Blu-ray Bruce Willis action flick Striking Distance… isn't bad. At least, in hindsight it isn't. Oh sure, the movie wasn't… Read More ›
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Promoting Watchdog Television
On last night's episode of Screen Time, Erin Medley and I discussed – in a terribly joking fashion – the notion that some sort of new version of Fight Back! with David Horowitz ought to exist (the Fight Back! website… Read More ›
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Sure, There’s No Way Back, but you Wouldn’t Want to go There in the First Place
It is essentially a rule of Hollywood — become a big enough star and all your early work (the stuff from before you were a global superstar), no matter how bad, will get released to every new medium. While there… Read More ›
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There is no Reason to try Cracking The Code
It would be very easy to sit back, call the new Blu-ray release The Code a bad movie, and wash one's hands of the entire affair. It would take little skill or effort to state as much, and undeniably, one… Read More ›
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Takes off on Blu-ray
Not every comedy is a mindless series of fart and boob jokes. That type of fare unquestionably has its place in the pantheon of filmmaking genres, but a comedy can certainly also provide a deep, hard-thinking, sobering look at our… Read More ›
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Nothing Addictive About Confessions of a Shopaholic
Both as a society and as individuals, we seem to increasingly find ourselves addicted to things. Whether it's an incredibly enthusiastic obsession with television, a compulsion to check one's fantasy baseball team on an hourly basis, or a shopping fixation,… Read More ›
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Obsessed with TV? Who, Me?
As many of the columns I've written would indicate, I'm moderately obsessed with television. Oh no, not in a “Hi, my name is Josh and I'm a TV-aholic” sort of way, much more in a “I don't have a problem… Read More ›
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The Greatest Game Ever Played Makes for a Pretty Great Movie Too
A few years ago, it was suggested to me that I sit down a and watch The Greatest Game Ever Played. I was told that not only was it well-directed, but that it told an interesting — and true —… Read More ›
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