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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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Damages Is Broken, But Not Beyond Repair
In watching this week's episode of Damages, I can't help but think that the producers are trying to be too clever. By adding in so many different mysteries they find themselves this week with a twist that is no twist… Read More ›
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Wending One’s Way Through a Labyrinth to Get The Dark Crystal
There is always something wonderful about revisiting movies from one's youth, and finding out that they are as good as you remember. This feeling is even more thrilling when it is clear that others like the films as well and… Read More ›
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Jackie Chan Gets Involved in a Crime Story
Though he is best known for his comedic roles and humorous stunt work, Jackie Chan has, on occasion, been known to take on more serious roles. They still involve fisticuffs and gunplay, but far less humor. One such of work… Read More ›
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Getting Father Brown off My Chesterton
In 1911 G.K. Chesterton published his first series of short stories about the priest-detective Father Brown. Over a half a century later, the BBC adapted the character for television, and three decades after that, the final six episodes of BBC… Read More ›
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Can There Be Any Doubt That Noah Bean Gets the Brunt of the Damages?
While some stars may have the luxury of playing murdered characters and still be able to claim I Know Who Killed Me, Noah Bean, who plays dead fiancé David Connor on FX's Damages has no such luck. In a recent… Read More ›
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Reality TV: Catching Lighnting in a Bottle
So, I've been watching a lot of summer reality programming and boy, are my eyes tired. Seriously, from the ex-celebrities that have shows to the insane individuals that think they can cook, make movies, or find buried pirate treasure, I… Read More ›
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Woo! It’s Time to Get Hard-Boiled
John Woo is an undeniable master of the action movie. Unquestionably, the man has made some lesser works, but there was a period of his career in Hong Kong where turned out one mind-blowing movie after another. Arriving at the… Read More ›
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One Byrne, Some Blood, And A Lot Of Damages
FX's new series Damages, which aired its second episode this week, features Rose Byrne as Ellen Parsons, a young legal associate at a firm run by Glenn Close's Patty Hewes. The series takes place in two distinct time periods, six… Read More ›
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Sure, it’s a Great Performance, But Will You Respect Yourself in the Morning?
In the latest episode of Great Performances, entitled “Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story,” the show makes an attempt to recount the history of Stax Records, one of the most influential, and different, record labels of the last century. There… Read More ›
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Feldman and Haim: The Coreys are Back in Action!
What you will find below is a review of The Two Coreys, A&E’s new“reality” show. Should you be really curious about what you missed you can find a recap of the double episode that aired last night over on Zap2it’s… Read More ›
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A New Film Noir Collection – It’s the same, but different
A skeleton is found one morning, having washed up onto the beach. There are no clothes, no flesh, and no clues as to what happened. Or are there? In comes the forensic expert who correctly identifies the bones as being… Read More ›
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How to Eat a Turtle (if You’re a Tiger Shark)
Jaws. That’s almost enough said. That movie was enough to make a generation of children terrified of swimming in the ocean. How better to capitalize on our society’s continuing and continuous fear of sharks than the Discovery Channel’s yearly Shark… Read More ›
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Racking Up Some Serious Damages
Exactly what type of show is FX’s new series, Damages? Is it a murder mystery? Is it a legal thriller? Is it something more personal? After watching the premiere episode, it seems unclear; I am not even sure that the… Read More ›
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Nova science NOW NOW NOW
Sadly, after several reviews in which I said that Nova scienceNOW was a good, fun show, this week’s episode leaves me quite disappointed. Certainly the humor is still there and Neil deGrasse Tyson holds everything together, but the stories —… Read More ›
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Breaking News: My Recaps Now on Zap2it!
Dying to know what happened yesterday on Scott Baio is 45… and Single, or, starting next week, how Haim and Feldman are doing on The Two Coreys. Well, I’ll now be writing weekly recaps for Zap2it’s blog on those very… Read More ›
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Bad AND In A Home, Then That’s Resident Evil (For the Wii)
No matter what the popular myth is, Resident Evil did not invent the video game survival horror genre (personally, I’d vote that Alone in the Dark did). What Resident Evil did do however is set the gold standard in the… Read More ›
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Just Yearning To Be Kidnapped
Are you down in the summer television doldrums? I'm not, but I imagine that there are many of you out there who are — there's nothing particularly interesting for you right now on television. You really just want to hunker… Read More ›
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The Time Has Come For More Nova scienceNOW
Sitting down to watch the fourth episode of the second season of Nova scienceNOW I'm mainly struck by one thought: why have they only put out four episodes nearly nine months into their second season? They show is incredibly accessible… Read More ›
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Nova Channels Jimmy Durante
Though it seems like a natural, this Tuesday marks the first collaboration between Nova and National Geographic Television. The material, entitled “The Great Inca Rebellion,” focuses on new discoveries and revelations about the Spanish conquest of the Incas. It is… Read More ›
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Worst.. Finale… Ever…
Oh boy. A week and a half after the finale of HBO's The Sopranos, it seems like the perfect time to take a step back and have a look at television finales, specifically bad ones. I didn't think that The… Read More ›
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