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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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Hell’s Kitchen Cooks Up Killer Food
What in the name of all that is good and holy are those women on Hell's Kitchen thinking? No, seriously, it's time for a good old fashioned rant… Last night, three of the women, yes, three of them, tried to… Read More ›
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Dig That Funky Binary Solo And Cable’s Other Great Offerings
With the ever-expanding set of original programming choices that are offered by cable networks over the summer, I think that the months between the end of one traditional season (May) and the beginning of the next (September), are rapidly becoming… Read More ›
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Nova Gets Jiggy With Thylacoleo Carnifex
There is very little that can be done to make paleontology “sexy.” This is not a slight against paleontology itself, the importance of paleontology, or some sort of joke about paleontologists. It’s just a cold, hard fact. Much like the… Read More ›
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The TV and Film Guy’s Recent Sporadic Posting
Okay, so here’s the deal: The TV and Film Guy is in the process of moving across the country. That’s bad because it means he doesn’t have the internet access he’d truly like nor does he have the television access… Read More ›
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The Nintendo Wii Is Now Ready for some Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat has been around for years and years. The franchise has put out an incredible number of releases — between console and arcade, the number is somewhere over 70. It’s an incredibly successful franchise and it has had both… Read More ›
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Out of the Frying Pan and into Hell’s Kitchen
For the past three summers, Fox has whipped up a deliciously spicy little reality treat, Hell’s Kitchen, starring the inimitable Gordon Ramsay as a complete and utter SOB. The premise is simple: take 16 chefs (or wanna-be chefs) that want… Read More ›
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Frak It All, Battlestar Galactica is Ending
Bye-bye BSG. It’s true, after months of rumor and speculation, hand-wringing among fans, statements from stars Edward James Olmos and Katee Sackhoff, Battlestar Galactica producers and the Sci-Fi Channel have announced that the upcoming 22 episode season will be the… Read More ›
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Watching Some Little Playdates
The world of digital video is a great equalizer. Have an idea for a movie? Think you can do things better than what is currently on the market? Have the ability to push the red button on a camera? How… Read More ›
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Is The Empire in Africa Just a Jedi Mind Trick?
Dramatizations based on historical truths often must gloss over certain facts. It can be impossible, over the course of two hours, to fully explore the historical realities of a moment in time. Events within our world tend to be far,… Read More ›
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Veronica Mars May Be Gone, But Neptune Noir Lives On
The world today moves faster than it ever has before. Television shows have fanbases that rapidly rise and fall with the tide. Incredibly vocal minorities decry the loss of characters, plotlines, and shows, all the while voraciously consuming everything written… Read More ›
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You Call That an Apocalpyto?
With each successive film Mel Gibson has directed, he seems to become more and more removed from traditional filmmaking. That is not a complaint, certainly, as such, non-traditional fare still made within the Hollywood system can prove interesting, Passion of the… Read More ›
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Being At World’s End With Those Pirates
What is there to say about Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End? It is a film that so totally and completely defies logic that to discuss it in logical terms seems foolish. It is a movie that actually seems… Read More ›
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How To Destroy A Good Reveal on Television
Here’s the deal this morning, folks: I am not going to come out the box swinging (at least not at what you think). Sure, I’m upset that Veronica Mars is no more (but seriously, Kristen, if you need consoling, tell… Read More ›
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Reading some Letters From Iwo Jima
It is an oft-repeated saying that there are two sides to every story. Filmically, I am hard pressed to imagine a better representation of this truism than Letters From Iwo Jima and Flags of our Fathers, the two films on… Read More ›
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Do I like her? Well, I Digger
As people age they tend to think back and remember a simpler time, or the good old days, days when the world was less complicated, and life wasn’t quite so hard. Ever so gently asking people to rethink this is… Read More ›
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The CW Doesn’t Have a Spot for Her, But Veronica Will Always Be Welcome In My Home
So, let’s get it out of the way, everyone can read this and then the complaints can start flooding in before the rest of the article is read, but let me just remind you: I didn’t make this schedule, it… Read More ›
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There Is No Fate But What Fox Makes Of It
Well, this year Fox has done it again, they’ve put out multiple schedules for the coming season, one pre-Idol, one for January, and for the spring. And, as usual, it’s a little difficult to figure out exactly what’s going on… Read More ›
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CBS Stays Safe, But Not Close to Home
Today it is CBS’s turn to step up to the plate and unveil their new fall schedule. Will it be heavy on the sci-fi, like NBC, will it repurpose car insurance commercials, like ABC, or will they finally bite the… Read More ›
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It’s Real Time, It’s Strategy, It’s Ancient Wars: Sparta!!
In the world of real-time strategy (RTS) games, the bar has been set awfully high. Series like Command & Conquer and Warcraft have been hugely, monstrously, amazingly successful. This naturally causes other games to follow in their wake. Some of… Read More ›
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Aishwarya Rai Gets Provoked
Aishwarya Rai’s latest effort to move outside of strictly Bollywood fare, Provoked (directed by Jag Mundhra), is based on the non-fiction book Circle of Light by Rahila Gupta and Kiranjit Ahluwalia. The movie and book focus on Ahluwalia’s life in… Read More ›
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