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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of June 14th, 2015 – Malfunction, Need Input

Josh Zyber — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 12:00:07 +0000

From hip-hop gangsta robots to the resurrected dead, this week’s Blu-rays sure do feature some wild tales. Welcome to our latest roundup. Let’s get down to business. New Releases ‘Chappie‘ – When Neill Blomkamp made ‘District 9’, he seemed like an exciting new voice in science fiction. When he followed that up with the idiotic...

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Weekend Roundtables: Career Turnarounds

Josh Zyber — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:00:56 +0000

Sometimes, an actor just needs to find the right role to suit his or her talents. In this week’s Roundtable, we discuss the actors that we used to dislike, even hate, until one project finally turned their fortunes around. There are two possible ways to look at this topic: You generally don’t like the actor,...

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‘The Newsroom’ Series Finale Recap: “Be a Father, It Lives Up to the Hype”

Shannon Nutt — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:00:21 +0000

In the series finale of ‘The Newsroom’, Will McAvoy gives up being a news anchor and joins a Country-Western band! Well, that’s exactly what it may have felt like to viewers who tuned in late to the episode. As series enders go, there isn’t a whole lot to complain about here. The episode serves very...

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‘The Newsroom’ 3.05 Recap: “It Looks Like Urine”

Shannon Nutt — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:00:58 +0000

The penultimate episode of ‘The Newsroom’ turns out to be a rather mixed bag, with some good and some not-so-good subplots, plus a shocker of an ending that I’m still not sure how I feel about. The episode opens with Will being escorted to his new prison cell by a guard, who warns him that...

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‘The Newsroom’ 3.04 Recap: “I Find Your Irish Stoicism Irritating”

Shannon Nutt — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:00:17 +0000

One of my favorite things about ‘The Newsroom’ was the idea that the show would take major real-life news stories and provide “hindsight” commentary (although not for the characters) on the events. However, we’ve gotten very little of that in Season 3, and get none in this latest episode. But you know what? I thought...

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‘The Newsroom’ 3.03 Recap: “I Still Don’t See Any Way We Can Survive”

Shannon Nutt — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:00:59 +0000

After opening the season with two strong episodes, it’s perhaps no surprise that this week’s entry of ‘The Newsroom’ is a little weaker. However, it’s still a good episode that continues the major storylines of this final season and puts the pieces in place for what will follow. This episode begins right where last week...

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‘The Newsroom’ 3.02 Recap: “You Walked Right Past the Waffles”

Shannon Nutt — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:00:47 +0000

Despite not having anything to do with a historical news story, nor even featuring any scenes of characters delivering an on-the-air report or commentary, the second episode of the final season of ‘The Newsroom’ is another solid one, once again reminding viewers of how entertaining this series can be when it’s firing on all cylinders....

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‘The Newsroom’ 3.01 Recap: “An Unwelcome Opportunity to Be Sure”

Shannon Nutt — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:00:00 +0000

Followers of my past recaps of ‘The Newsroom’ and/or my reviews of the Blu-rays already know my position on this HBO series. I was a huge fan of the first season, but I thought Season 2 almost completely took away everything I loved about the show. Many out there feel the opposite, and thought the...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of November 2nd, 2014 – Woke Up This Morning, Got Yourself a Gun

Josh Zyber — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:00:15 +0000

This week’s new Blu-ray slate brings us one of the greatest TV shows of all time, an extended cut of a movie that was already too long, and some 3D movies that the studios aren’t bothering to release in 3D (at least, not in the United States). Those, plus a bunch of ugly SteelBooks. Let’s...

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Odds & Ends: Director Obsessions and Screenwriter Break-Ups

Josh Zyber — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:00:18 +0000

Because my available time to write is more limited these days than I’d like, I’ve decided to create a post to compile some quick-hit thoughts on news that might be pertinent to the interests of this blog. I’ll leave it to our readers to discuss further in the Comments, if you’d like. Orci and Kurtzman...

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‘The Newsroom’ 2.09 Recap: “What I Have Can’t Be Taught”

Shannon Nutt — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 19:00:47 +0000

One wonders if ‘Election Night, Part II’ was written with the thought that it might be a series ender for ‘The Newsroom’. The Season 2 finale has no cliffhangers, and at least two major characters wind up at points in their relationships that almost certainly would have been saved for later had Aaron Sorkin and...

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‘The Newsroom’ 2.08 Recap: “I’ve Appointed Myself in Charge of Morale”

Shannon Nutt — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:00:26 +0000

It’s the beginning of the end for ‘The Newsroom’ in ‘Election Night, Part 1’, this season’s penultimate episode. The fallout of the Genoa story has hurt the reputation of the ‘News Night’ team, and Charlie is determined to make sure that their election coverage goes off without a hitch. In fact, he has an application...

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