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Lost: Season 1
Lost is first and foremost a show of mystery. Â More than any other show I can recall seeing, it sets up fantastic yet somehow not entirely far-fetched scenarios with a host of compelling and more or less interesting characters. Â The basic premise is one we have seen played out many times before: Â a group of […]
Salt
Popcorn movies require a lot of hardware these days, but not a lot of firmware. I can be very forgiving of cheeseball action movies that simply exist to be over-the-top trash (The A-Team, From Paris With Love). These movies present a lot of impossible action sequences in the midst of generic plots. When something like […]
Ugly Truth
Mike Chadway seems to be the writers’ attempt to incorporate the male perspective on relationships. Mike is a tad likable for a minute here and there just because he’s not ashamed of being a guy. But in the end, what his lines amount to is a restatement of the same things that bitter, sexually frustrated women say about men. In other words, Mike has only found a more phallocentric way of saying “men are pigs.â€
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