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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of October 21st, 2018 – My My, How Can I Resist You?

Josh Zyber — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 12:00:16 +0000

Here we go again, another round of new Blu-ray releases. One will surely rake in money, money, money. As they say, the winner takes it all. That’s just the name of the game. When all is said and done, will you take a chance on something this week? (For the record, I hate myself for...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of October 14th, 2018 – The Latest Buzz

Josh Zyber — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 12:00:53 +0000

It’s been a whole two months since the last Marvel superhero blockbuster hit Blu-ray. You know what that means… Here comes the next one! New Releases (Blu-ray) Ant-Man and the Wasp – Between Black Panther and Infinity War (the top two movies of the year), Marvel has had a positively huge 2018. For its third...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 30th, 2018 – Soldiering On

Josh Zyber — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 12:00:17 +0000

The biggest Blu-ray releases this week are a pair of sequels that nobody really asked for and probably weren’t needed. Isn’t that the case with most sequels, though? New Releases (Blu-ray) Sicario: Day of the Soldado – Denis Villeneuve’s 2015 drug war thriller Sicario was highly acclaimed and a sizable box office hit, but didn’t...

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Six Seasons and a Movie After All?

Josh Zyber — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 19:00:09 +0000

Destiny calls for ‘Community’. The cult sitcom has survived perpetually terrible ratings, the firing and rehiring of the show’s creator, and now even cancelation. Against all odds, the series will return for a sixth season… but not on NBC. Honestly, I have to give NBC credit for keeping ‘Community’ on the air as long it...

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Classic 1980s G.I. Joe Characters Ripped Off from Movies and TV

Josh Zyber — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 16:00:46 +0000

Tonight on NBC, ‘Community’ will air a special animated episode parodying the ‘G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero’ cartoon from the 1980s. The potential for awesomeness in that is almost too much for my brain to process. I hope it can live up to my expectations. In the meantime, I’ve prepared a fun look back...

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‘Community’ 4.13 Recap: “I Hear You’re Graduating Kiddie College”

Dan Hirshleifer — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:00:39 +0000

The execs at NBC has gone off their meds. First they fire Dan Harmon, leaving him to find out about the news secondhand. Then they renew ‘Community’, but in a shortened order. They delay the start of the season, dumping it towards the end of the regular programming season, where it runs awkwardly through holiday...

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‘Community’ 4.12 Recap: “What’s an Anarchist to Do Without Her Organization?”

Dan Hirshleifer — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:00:56 +0000

The fact that this season of ‘Community’ even exists is a bit of a baffling proposition. By removing Dan Harmon, the show’s creator and driving force, NBC left the series rudderless, and this season has been about finding its focus again. The best episodes have been simple, straight-up sitcom stories about students at Greendale. Rarely...

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‘Community’ 4.11 Recap: “And That Is What I Would Be Saying If I Gave a Crap”

Dan Hirshleifer — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:00:40 +0000

I know that I may sound like a broken record at this point, but this season of ‘Community’ has consistently been at its best when it keeps things focused on the group and keeps the group at Greendale. This was perfectly displayed in last Thursday’s episode, ‘Basic Human Anatomy’. Not only was it one of...

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‘Community’ 4.10 Recap: “No One Wants to Screw the Group”

Dan Hirshleifer — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:00:12 +0000

Thursday’s episode of ‘Community’, called ‘Intro to Knots’, features Malcolm McDowell tied up in a chair for extended periods of time. Under Dan Harmon, this would have led to a smorgasbord of ‘Clockwork Orange‘ gags, but instead, we get a half-hearted homage to Hitchcock’s ‘Rope‘ that does no credit to either the original film or...

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‘Community’ 4.09 Recap: “Those Berries Made Us Real Talky… But Not Real Listen-y”

Dan Hirshleifer — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:00:32 +0000

It was bound to happen eventually. From time to time, ‘Community’ will do a show outside the norm, like the stop-motion Christmas episode, or the 8-bit episode that dealt with Pierce’s inheritance. At their best, these episodes can give us a whole new way of seeing the show. At worst, these episodes feel like a...

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‘Community’ 4.08 Recap: “I Britta’d It!”

Dan Hirshleifer — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:00:13 +0000

As this season has made abundantly clear, the current writers of ‘Community’ are at their best when they focus on Greendale. Thursday’s episode, ‘Herstory of Dance’, proves that assertion ably. It also puts the absurdity on the backburner in favor of real character moments, and in the process ends up being one of the best...

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‘Community’ 4.07 Recap: “Get Your Damn Hands Off My Let’s!”

Dan Hirshleifer — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:00:43 +0000

This season, the ‘Community’ writers have played me like a harp. Just when it seems like they’ve devolved into complete self-parody, they rebound with an episode that reminds me why I started watching the show in the first place. Last Thursday’s episode, ‘Economics of Marine Biology’, feels like the ‘Community’ of old. The Dean is...

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