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‘The Orville’ Pilot Recap: “There Is No Pizza Party”

Josh Zyber — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:00:15 +0000

Seth MacFarlane’s new live-action sci-fi series ‘The Orville’ gets just about everything right to look and even sound like a spot-on ‘Star Trek’ spoof. Inexplicably, the creator of ‘Family Guy’ then completely forgot to add in the spoof part. I thought this was supposed to be a comedy? MacFarlane himself stars as Ed Mercer, a...

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‘Logan Lucky’ Review: Soderbergh Gets Silly

Philip Brown — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:00:21 +0000

The release of ‘Logan Lucky’ marks a return from self-imposed cinematic retirement for director Steven Soderbergh. You’d think that might mean the Oscar-winning filmmaker has an extra important and ambitious project that forced him back into the art form. Nope. The guy just wanted to have fun and has delivered one of his most endearingly...

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‘Sing’ Review: Contagiously Cute

Philip Brown — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 16:00:10 +0000

‘Sing’ is about as good as a movie about a bunch of cute CGI animals hosting a singing competition could possibly be. This is base level animated family comedy stuff, filled with celebrity voice acting and more pop culture references than the movie’s IMDb page could possibly handle. The emotional arcs are all pretty obvious....

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‘Ted 2’ Review: More of the Same (For Better or Worse)

Philip Brown — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:00:32 +0000

The simplest way to describe ‘Ted 2’ is something along the lines of, “It is what it is.” If you liked the first ‘Ted‘ (or any of Seth MacFarlane’s crude comedy output), you’ll probably like this one. It’s pretty much just more of the same, which is really all it needs to be. So many...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of October 5th, 2014 – Respawn in 3… 2… 1…

Josh Zyber — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 13:00:36 +0000

Among the huge assortment of new Blu-rays available this week (many of them simple reissues or bundles) can be found a sci-fi epic with a serious identity crisis, a raunchy Western spoof, and lots of sharks in tornadoes. Let’s dig in and see what we find. New Releases ‘Edge of Tomorrow‘ – Originally greenlit as...

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‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ Review: He’s a West-ern Guyyyyy…

Philip Brown — Fri, 30 May 2014 13:00:11 +0000

Seth MacFarlane may not be the most ambitious or beloved comedy mind around, but he’s damn funny, consistent and prolific. That’s been enough to make him a huge success. Depending on your feelings for him, the new comedy Western ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ is just as good or bad as you’ve...

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‘Cosmos’ Pilot Recap: “Question Everything”

Josh Zyber — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:00:08 +0000

The new reboot of classic science educational series ‘Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey’ launched this week simultaneously on the Fox network, the National Geographic Channel and several of their sub-channels. In this day and age of inane Reality shows and raunchy, hyper-sexualized sitcoms, can a show that advocates thinking and learning survive on the primetime network...

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The Trailer Park: The Super Bowl Spots

M. Enois Duarte — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:00:12 +0000

Arguably, the best part about the Super Bowl is the commercials. Every year, movie studios love to join the fun with half-minute sneak peeks at their upcoming releases. For this week’s selection of previews, we’ll look at one teaser spot and two official trailers. ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ So much for Michael Bay’s claim that...

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Mid-Week Poll: How Was Seth MacFarlane as Oscar Host?

Josh Zyber — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:00:31 +0000

Since the ceremony aired on Sunday night, ‘Family Guy’ creator Seth MacFarlane has received very mixed notices for his job as Oscar host. Some viewers called him the best host in years, while others decried the whole event as a fiasco. What did you think? Would you like to see MacFarlane come back to host...

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2013 Oscar Winners & Losers

Josh Zyber — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:20:19 +0000

Sadly, I wasn’t able to host an Oscar live-blog this year. However, I still watched the ceremony. This year, ‘Argo’ ultimately triumphed as the Best Picture winner, at least in the eyes of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The rest of the race’s results and some commentary can be found after the...

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2013 Oscar Nominations Make Ben Affleck Sad

Josh Zyber — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:00:08 +0000

This year’s Oscar nominations were announced this morning by ‘Ted’ director Seth MacFarlane (who will also host the telecast on February 24th) and ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ star Emma Stone. While, on the one hand, the Academy hasn’t offered up too many big surprises among the nominees that made the cut, bigger shocks came from the people...

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Blu-ray Highlights for December 11th, 2012 – Teddy Ruxpin’s Revenge

Josh Zyber — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:00:59 +0000

This week’s Blu-ray releases bring us an eclectic mix of content, from foul-mouthed teddy bears to deadly spy assassins and adorable prehistoric rodents. Which will you spend your money on? New Releases Despite having long since run his animated sitcom ‘Family Guy’ into the ground, Seth MacFarlane scored a pretty big hit this summer with...

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