Category: Reviews
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Bones: O.C. Meets The Closer; Distant Cousin of CSI
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The TV Executive “recipe for success” is this: Take a look at the latest hit shows and create as many different variants, spin-offs, and hybrids of them as you possibly can. It’s a lot like the grunge movement, but with a lot less flannel. Fox Television’s “Bones” is one of those hopefuls, trying to jump…
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Bad Karma
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This weekend, an unprecedented event occurred. In fact, I could scarcely believe it myself when it happened: I actually finished a game. While this may seem like a relatively common event for most people, it isn’t for me. In my long history of gaming, I have only been able to finish two games in my…
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Coffee, Tea or Me – A Gadget Review
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I enjoy a good hot cup of tea. Now, when most people read that sentence, they key in on the words “hot cup of tea” and forget the “good” part. Growing up, I was only exposed to Red Rose tea that my dad would make for me when I was sick. Suffice to say, dear…
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The Closer Closes Painfully Overused Clichés and Plotlines
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Over the past decade, there has been a switch between television and Hollywood movies. In the past, where movies gave us depth of characters, complex plotlines and suspense, television provided simple stories in short, thirty minute segments. It was a simpler time for television, and movie-makers really knew how to put on a show. Both…
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The Mystery of the Box Office Slump, Solved: Your Movies Are Crap
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We’re all movie experts in our own right, aren’t we? We know what we like. It may not be what the next person likes, but what we do like, we are experts at. And in the past, there has always been a movie to suit our individual and collective tastes. Not this year. I have…
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