Tag: Reviews
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New Scrubs? Not Quite.
Just finished watching the first two episodes of the new season of Scrubs on ABC. I think that’ll be the last time I’ll be watching it for a while. I’ve been a bit of a Scrubs fan since it first hit the airwaves. It was different, creative, and populated with solid actors playing horrendously quirky […]
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The Prisoner: Be Confusing You.
I finally got around to watching the remaining four hours of AMC’s new version of The Prisoner. After watching the first two hours when they ran last week, I can’t say I was terribly impressed. It had potential, sure, but it was missing something. And it seemed a bit more surreal at times than the […]
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Three claws down for X-Men Origins: Wolverine
I could spend hours poking and picking at the things they changed from the comic book continuity I grew up on and loved. I could lament the lack of some of my favorite story bits and the light touch they gave others. I could do all that, but, when it comes to X-Men Origins: Wolverine […]
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Push
Got back a little while ago from seeing Push. Not a bad film, but definitely not as advertised. If you’ve seen the ads, it’s being billed as “the first real action film of the year” or some such. Let me be the first to tell you, Push is not an action film. It’s got a […]
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This past week’s remakes
This past week saw the premiere of a handful of U.S. remakes of shows originally done for other channels in other countries. Life on Mars, Eleventh Hour and Kath & Kim seem to be the three big ones currently being pushed. I caught all three. I also haven’t seen the original versions of any of […]