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Hey, You Know What You Should Do?
Hey, You Know What You Should Do? In which we tell you about awesome things that you must look into and enjoy. Watch “Cheers†Saying that the sitcom is dead is like saying slavery is bad. No one is going to disagree with you, and they were actually able to form that opinion long ago.…
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THE POP FILTER TOP TEN CREEPIEST HERO/SIDEKICK RELATIONSHIPS 10-Booster Gold and Skeets So let me get this straight. Skeets is a robot from the future armed with centuries of knowledge about human events and yet he somehow doesn’t know that he’s named after a cum shot? There’s no way that’s logical, so it’s pretty clear that…
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NEW FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA!!! THE SECRET CIRCLE If I told you that The Secret Circle is about a coven of teenage witches who live in a oceanside town called New Salem (get it? Me neither.) and it’s based on books written for teenage girls and it’s on the CW, you would just automatically skip…
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NEW FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA!!! UP ALL NIGHT Sometimes scripts come off in a way I call “Funny 101”. Basically what this means is that they feel like the writers recently took a comedy class in order to learn how comedy today works, instead of being funny on their own. Typically, what this results in…
Read MoreDC the New 52: Week Three
WEEK THREE BATMAN AND ROBIN #1 One of the most intriguing parts of this whole reboot is what events and actions DC decided to keep, and what they’ve discarded. There’s not a map of the new DC Universe out there, so we have to figure out on our own from the little bread crumbs…
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NEW FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA!!! RINGER Was there any point where we, as a society, believed Sarah Michelle Gellar to be a good actor? It’s been so long, I genuinely can’t remember. Or did we just tolerate her because she was tiny and cute? Buffy’s big return to a pseudo-network is called Ringer, and Holy…
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POP FILTER VS. THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA One of the most difficult things about watching, and attempting to review, a “classic†film, is trying to figure out what your responsibility is before and while you watch it. How much are you supposed to understand, or not take for granted, the year or…
Read MoreDC The New 52: Week Two
WEEK TWO ACTION COMICS #1 The grandaddy of the DC Comics line has the most to lose for a couple of reasons. One, its issue numbering was the highest, just over 900, before it was kicked all the way back to zer0, if that’s the kind of thing that matters to you. It’s…
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THE POP FILTER TOP TEN DYSTOPIAS WE WOULD ACTUALLY LIKE TO LIVE IN 10.TOTAL RECALL I think the primary reason I could handle living in this dystopian future is the presence of an alien young lady with 3 breasts. I actually love ALL of the Martian characteristics, and I understand why the main character…
Read MoreDC The New 52: Week One
DC Comics (which is Batman, Superman, Green Lantern. Marvel Comics is Spider-Man, Wolverine, Iron Man) attempts to be a superhero this week with the release of Justice League #1. The comic book industry is dying, aside from the staying power of providing Hollywood with the colored storyboards that will one day lead to the disappointing…
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