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TV v. Film: The Kick-Ass Women of TV
On Tuesday, I wrote about some of the ways television creates strong female characters. Now, film has its share of powerful women — Ripley, Sarah Connor, Thelma & Louise, and Clarice Starling, to name a few – but television has the luxury of creating equally powerful characters and then building upon them for multiple seasons. [...]
Continue reading...Tidbits for December 13, 2007: Viewers’ Obsessions Edition
Thursday, December 13, 2007
X-Files may have gone off the air in 2002, but suddenly Gillian Anderson is everywhere. Next summer, loyal fans can finally get their Scully fix when the second X-Files movie is released. She will also be hosting the revamped Masterpiece Theatre on PBS and doing some old school radio drama for BBC Radio 4, performing [...]
Continue reading...Trailer Tuesday: Southland Tales
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
I can’t remember the last time a movie trailer has taken me on a journey of indecision quite the way the Southland Tales one has. The trailer begins with hand-held camcorder shots of happy Americana, which can only mean that the film intends to explore the dark underbelly of the American dream. Yawn. -3 Ooooh, mushroom cloud! [...]
Continue reading...- Fall Cleaning
- Why I Hate British Soaps
- 5 Best TV Pilots
- On the Fringe of Quality TV
- Revisiting Pushing Daisies
- They Can Be Heroes
- Why I Can't Commit to Mad Men
- Big Ideas and Humiliating Holes
- Project Runway Takes a Break
- 5 Predictions for the 2008 Emmy Awards
- Scooter McGavin: I did mst of my "Fall Cleaning" a couple years ago...
- Kate: I, too, have a mad crush on James May. I do hope h...
- Carrie: Er...I didn't know Hole in the Wall was on. I will...
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- Big Ideas and Humiliating Holes
- House Trained
- They Can Be Heroes
- Revisiting Pushing Daisies
- Fall Cleaning
- Why I Hate British Soaps
Latest Videos
Supernatural returns this Thursday, and about damn time, too.
The BBC has released the first trailer for Merlin, the 13-episode retelling of the famous fantasy saga. The series will also air on NBC this winter.
Kristen Chenoweth uses the power of song to explain exactly why crystal meth is a bad thing. Some NSFW language.
Heroes returns September 22, and it looks awfully shiny and pretty. I’m looking forward to giving it another chance, even with Sylar still in play. Stupid Sylar.
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Wednesday’s top picks:
Pushing Daisies visits the circus on tonight’s episode, all but guaranteeing a visual feast. ABC, 9:00
On tonight’s Bones, Brennan and Booth solve a murder. Never saw that coming, did ya? FOX, 8:00
At long last, Project Runway heads to the finale. I’m watching this, then I’m done with this show. DONE, I tell you. Bravo, 9:00
I should be done with America’s Next Top Model. I would like to respect myself again. And yet, I can’t seem to look away. CW, 8:00
Thursday, August 7, 2008
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