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Three Things That Brought the Hammer Down Last Week
1. Thor smashed me pleasantly in the face with the mighty hammer of its polished superhero/mythological/space fantasy mashup. Thor has never been my favorite character, either in comics or in Norse mythology, but this movie was the real deal. My biggest concern going in was that the Asgardian fantasy trappings would look inherently goofy captured [...]
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television
My Kingdom for a Rocket Launcher, or Decent Ratings
06.24.09 | Permalink | 22 CommentsIs anybody else out there watching Kings? After an abortive stab at latching on to the television viewer’s consciousness in the spring, NBC declined to pick up the show and moved its remaining episodes into the graveyard of summer saturdays. The move bummed me out because I think the show is all kinds of awesome. [...]
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television
I Have Decided What Area of the Law I Wish To Practice
Old-Timey American Revolution law, as practiced in the excellent HBO miniseries John Adams. I’m greatly looking forward to wearing breeches and a powdered wig. I’m not much of a history buff; before I started watching this I may have been able to identify Adams as the 2nd President and that he was married to a [...]
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television
Cornell West on the Real World/Road Rules Challenge: MTV Delivers a Sign that The End is Nigh
Against the advice of my gastroenterologist, I found myself watching MTV last night and I bore witness to something that has to be a sign of the apocalypse. Either MTV has decided to splice footage of noted scholar Cornell West of Princeton into their programming, or I suffered some sort of episode that has caused [...]
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movies, television
Scripters of the World, Unite!
So it looks like the the music makers and the dreamers of dreams are taking it to the streets. The WGA is striking and couch potatoes across the country are freaking the hell out. No one seems to know how long it will last, but it’s a certainty that the networks will be foisting more [...]
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television
Oh, What a Fool, I’ve Been: Why Wasn’t I Watching The Wire on HBO?
08.23.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsFor some reason, I never watched one of the best shows of all time until four years into its run. I missed out on the Wire for its first three seasons on HBO. It’s funny because until recently I’ve been an HBO addict, religiously settling in on Sunday nights. With shows like Rome, Carnivale, Deadwood, [...]
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