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Lost - The Constant
Thursday, February 28th, 2008If you have read my thoughts on Lost in the past then you know that my favorite episode of Season 3 was the Desmond-centric Flashes Before Your Eyes. So far in the young Season 4 the also Desmond-centric The Constant is the best offering of the year.
Sayid has long been my favorite character. A man [...]
All Is Right In Hollywood
Sunday, February 24th, 2008For once, Hollywood has gotten it right.
In recent years, movie fans have crawled like hopeful lemmings to their television sets on Oscar night, only to be crushed and broken by a series of bizarre winning choices. Bloggers like Piper over at Lazy Eye Theatre have gone on and on about the many terrible choices among [...]
Odds on Favorites
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008Tomorrow is the 80th annual Academy Award ceremonies. Unlike the last several years, this year promises to be much more exciting and competitive than previous years. If you still have to email in you picks for you office pool take a look at what the gamblers have to say about tomorrow night’s favorites.
According to 1800-sports.com (click to [...]
Lost - Eggtown
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Do you ever get that feeling that you’re the smartest person in the room, only to look around and realize that you’re the only person in the room? Happened to me tonight during tonight’s episode of Lost.
The episode as a whole continued on the same path that has been set in Season 4. There is [...]
Can Spielberg Be Topped?
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008No, I don’t mean sexually.
Chris and I recently discussed Steven Spielberg’s extensive legacy. At one point, Chris said, “Spielberg is to movies what the Beatles are to music. You can follow in his footsteps, but you cannot top him.”
Much depends on how you rate Spielberg among the greatest directors of all time … and how [...]
Double Standard?
Monday, February 18th, 2008This past Friday night Charles Barkley appeared on CNN and was interviewed by Wolf Blitzer. Barkley spoke his mind and maybe caused an uproar from the Conservative right-wing Christians.
It Ain’t Cool
Sunday, February 17th, 2008Everyone knows that Harry Knowles, the so-called “head geek” over at Ain’t It Cool News, is a media conglomerate-sucking whore of epic proportions. Harry would eat out his dead grandmother’s cold, gray asshole if he thought there was a dime just inside her rectum.
But this article decrying the death of HD-DVD is just too much [...]
The Economist
Friday, February 15th, 2008I have put off writing anything about last night’s episode because frankly I myself am starting to get a little lost.
A Trailer Ahead Of The Game
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Everyone has spent the day poring over the new trailer for INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL. While I thought the trailer was a whipsmart homage to the feel-good eighties era of moviemaking, something dark and cynical rose up from my aging heart while watching it.
We’ve been through this before.
Great Live Performance
Monday, February 11th, 2008Last night, the 2008 Grammy Awards were handed out. The awards provided no real surprises, but the show did gives us a couple of great performances.
The Ultimate Idiot
Monday, February 11th, 2008I love it when people who were never really very famous in the past, try as hard as they can to get people to notice them one last time. Former wrestle Ultimate Warrior is the lastest never-was trying to get just 15 more minutes.
Monday Night Metal 2-11
Monday, February 11th, 2008This edition of Monday Night Metal features some of my favorite bands from the 90’s. Check out videos from White Zombie, Megadeth and Biohazard.
Confirmed Dead
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Near the end of last season it seemed that we might be getting close to some answers in the world of Lost. It was confirmed that Jack and Claire were siblings. We know how and why Locke ended up in the wheel chair. We met the real Sawyer and watched him die. Just as it appeared [...]
Super Tuesday?
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008The results from the massive Super Tuesday voting came trickling in overnight and into this morning. It appears that Hillary Clinton and her merry band of major defense contractors beat out Barack Obama on the Democratic side, and John McCain and his merry band of defense contractors beat out everyone else on the Republican side.
Doesn’t that [...]
Worst Half Time Performance Ever?
Monday, February 4th, 2008It’s strange. The Super Bowl has an audience of 95 million (mostly) males of various ages, and yet the organizers behind the yearly most-watched television event cannot understand what type of musical performance best fits the venue.
Case in point: yesterday’s laughable Paula Abdul “performance.”
The Beginning of the End
Friday, February 1st, 2008Wow! Season 4 is here and it started with a bang. The usual formula of Jack-centric flashbacks were replaced with the surprising twist of Hurley flashforwards. While the on island stuff picked up exactly where we left off, the off island story was really a kick to the head.