scoops on Season Four of ‘Battlestar Galactica’

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Have you heard about this Battlestar Galactica thing? Apparently it’s a little show on the Sci Fi Channel, something the network is trying to drum up interest in — it seems no one is watching. So Sci Fi paraded out the show’s creators and stars in New York City on Tuesday night, I guess hoping … more…

‘Jericho’ blogging: “Sedition”

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(previous: “Termination for Cause”) See, I was right about Beck: he’s totally pissed off about Goetz’s death because it’s a symbol of lawlessness. “You’re not a judge,” he tells Jake when Jake takes the blame — Beck feels, and rightly so, that it was not the place of the Rangers in a lawful society to … more…

daily list: 7 Michael Bay remakes we can do without

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I wish it were an early April Fool’s joke, but it appears to be real: Michael Bay is going to remake Rosemary’s Baby. It gets worse: he’s gonna redo Hitchcock’s The Birds, too. I guess Bay just couldn’t take my refound respect for him and decided he needed to waste no time in getting things … more…

The Band’s Visit (review)

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So you hear that this is a movie about a band from Egypt — where the people are primarily Arab — that takes a trip to do a concert in Israel — where the people are, you know, mostly Jewish — and maybe your first reaction is to groan and moan and avoid avoid avoid because who wants to see a political movie about Arabs and Jews and the mess that is the Middle East and why can’t everyone just get along anyway?

Paranoid Park (review)

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Gus Van Sant’s latest dreamy homoerotic ode to confused male adolescence is, well, a dreamy homoerotic ode to confused male adolescence…