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JANUARY TV EXTRAVAGANZA
DO NO HARM * (out of ****) Nicely done, Do No Harm. You couldn’t even make it to when this review was due. Do No Harm this week was placed in the TV Hall of Fame for doing something few shows have ever done before: not make it to its third episode. And…
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THE FOLLOWING **1/2 (out of ****) The Following is probably early-2013’s most anticipated new show. It’s on FOX, which knows how to promote the everliving fuck out of something, especially if you are a viewer of their sports programming. It has, for television, a major star in Kevin Bacon, and it’s about a serial…
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LEGIT ** (out of ****) Louie and Legit are two FX comedies in which their stand-up comedian stars, Louis CK and Jim Jeffries, respectively, play themselves. Aside from the fact that they both have five letter titles that begin with L, that’s pretty much where the similarities end. Not every comedy has to be…
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OUT THERE **1/2 (out of ****) The last thing we need is another weirdo cartoon about little weirdos growing up to be bigger weirdos. And that’s exactly what Out There, which had a sneak preview last week, and premieres seems like on the surface. It’s about two social outcasts trying to get through the hell…
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DECEPTION ** (out of ****) Watching Deception kind of makes you wonder what kind of homes will, based on this pilot, become Decpetion homes. Somewhere out there there are NCIS homes, and Big Bang Theory homes, and Survivor homes, and although I’ve never met anyone that belongs to these homes, these houses that make…
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HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU SHOULD DO? In which we tell you about awesome things that you must look into and enjoy. You know what you should do? Get caught up on the movies of 2013. It’s what I spend every waking hour of my life doing. Are you better than me? That’s what I…
Read MorePOPFILTER VS. THE END OF THE YEAR
POPFILTER VS. THE END OF THE YEAR There are two facts about film critics — critics of all pop culture, really — particularly around this time of year: 1) They force themselves to make a top ten list, even though they bitch about it the entire time, and find it terribly arbitrary. 2) …
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PITCH PERFECT *** (out of ****) Here’s what we know: Pitch Perfect, impossible not to call Glee: The Movie, is about the four a capella teams at Barden University, a school that treats a capella groups more seriously than any school should (maybe the fictional front office of the school had also seen Glee,…
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SUCK MY DISC QUICK HIT HOPE SPRINGS **1/2 (out of ****) Hope Springs is one of those movies where you can watch the preview, close your eyes, imagine what happens in the movie, and be 100% right. From the twists of the story to the decisions made by the director, it offers almost nothing…
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QUICK HIT THE DARK KNIGHT RISES Is this going to go down as the most polarizing movie of the year? It might be, with Cloud Atlas barely registering on the radar, and without a Michael Moore movie. The feeling I got when I heard anybody talking about this movie was that their love or hate…
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