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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of August 13th, 2017 – Thou Shalt Not Covenant (or Shalt Thou?)

Josh Zyber — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:00:52 +0000

New Blu-rays this week are inundated with terrifying bloody carnage, soapy teen romance, and drunken clowns. Geez, sounds like my seventh birthday party all over again. New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Alien: Covenant‘ – The trailers for Ridley Scott’s new xenomorph splatterfest all made it look like a shameless retread of the original ‘Alien’ movie. Depending on...

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‘Chuck’ (2017) Review: Real Rocky’s Rockier Road

Philip Brown — Fri, 26 May 2017 16:00:10 +0000

Countless hard luck boxing dramas have been released since ‘Rocky’ and most aren’t worth the pain of suffering through. ‘Chuck’ is the latest and thankfully proves to be an exception to the rule. The reason? Well, it’s about Chuck Wepner, the man that Stallone allegedly based ‘Rocky’ on, and it’s as much about the awkward...

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TIFF Journal: ‘The Bleeder’

Philip Brown — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:00:36 +0000

Hey, you know those movies about boxers whose lives are just as tumultuous outside the ring as they are within? ‘The Bleeder’ is one of those. It’s even based on a true story to theoretically maximize the hanky-soaking, teary-eyed potential of the piece. However, this one is thankfully far more entertaining than most movies of...

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‘Intelligence’ Pilot Recap: “I Got an App for That”

Josh Zyber — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:00:24 +0000

You know how CBS’s ‘The Mentalist’ is such an overt knockoff of the goofy cable series ‘Psych’, but played seriously? That formula apparently worked well enough that the network has employed it again for the new sci-fi-ish spy drama ‘Intelligence’, which is basically NBC’s ‘Chuck’ without any of the laughs… or, sadly, the intelligence. Josh...

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Blu-ray Highlights for October 30th, 2012 – Good Evening…

Josh Zyber — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:00:45 +0000

As if this year hasn’t bombarded us with enough major Blu-ray releases, this week brings us another highly-anticipated, expensive, multi-film box set. I hope you’ve been managing your finances in preparation. The Master of Suspense ‘The Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection‘ contains brand new Blu-ray editions of ‘Saboteur’, ‘Shadow of a Doubt’, ‘Rope’, ‘Rear Window’, ‘The...

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2011-2012 TV Survivors and Casualties

Josh Zyber — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:00:17 +0000

As the fall 2011 to spring 2012 TV season draws to a close, it’s time to look over the schedule to see which of the past year’s shows have made the cut to return again in a few months, and which have hit the end of the line. NBC ’30 Rock’ – Renewed ‘Community’ –...

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Blu-ray Highlights for May 8th, 2012 – Somebody Needs a Nap

Josh Zyber — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:00:57 +0000

Cult films take center stage on Blu-ray this week. Mainly, that’s because the new releases are such a snoozefest. The following discs see release this week: ‘42nd Street Forever‘ (Synapse Films) ‘The Barbarian and the Geisha‘ (20th Century Fox) ‘Beautiful Wave‘ (Starz/Anchor Bay) ‘The Big Heat‘ (Twilight Time) ‘The Big Trail‘ (20th Century Fox) ‘Chuck:...

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TV Madness: Knight vs. Little – Angel vs. Walker

Aaron Peck — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:00:24 +0000

Monday’s TV Madness featured another very close race. There’s chance that things could change right before this article is posted, but as I’m writing this, John Locke leads Eric Northman by one vote. We’ll see if his lead holds up. In the other match-up, Worf easily handled gangster extraordinaire, Al Capone. Can the ’80s version...

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‘Chuck’ Series Finale Recap: “I’m a Stone Cold Spy”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:00:52 +0000

The five-year odyssey of ‘Chuck’ ended its run this past Friday with a two-part series finale that, if perhaps not an artistic pinnacle for the show, at the very least brought things together with a satisfying note of closure. The first episode, ‘Chuck vs. Sarah’, opens with Sarah stumbling home to Chuck, bruised and bloody....

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‘Chuck’ 5.11 Recap: “Behold the Flames of Destiny!”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:00:18 +0000

As some of my recent complaining probably makes clear, ‘Chuck’ doesn’t always come together as well as it should. However, when it does, it’s one of the most purely entertaining shows on TV. This past Friday gave us the penultimate episode before the series finale, and fortunately it was a really good one. ‘Chuck vs....

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‘Chuck’ 5.10 Recap: “You’re No Longer a Perfect 10”

Josh Zyber — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:00:17 +0000

While ‘Chuck’ is certainly no stranger to being meta, the show turned almost bizarrely so this past Friday with a guest appearance from former ‘10‘ star and 1970s poster pin-up girl Bo Derek… playing herself… as a spy. The strangest part of all this: We’re supposed to believe that Bo Derek is still a sex...

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‘Chuck’ 5.09 Recap: “Spies That Care”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:00:31 +0000

The pendulum of my feelings for this final season of ‘Chuck’ continues to swing. I don’t know if this Friday’s episode really saw a big increase in quality, or if I was just more receptive to being entertained by it that night. In either case, this one really clicked with me. ‘Chuck vs. the Kept...

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