Posts Tagged ‘Review’

Television review: ‘The Tenth Inning’
Ken Burns’ follow-up to ‘Baseball’ dramatically covers the players’ strike, the steroid scandal and historic feats. It’s the rare documentary that requires a sequel, especially if the original film was done by Ken Burns. Any man who can, and did, put together a six-part, 12-hour series about our national parks is clearly not someone constrained by current quick-hit convention. Instead, Burns is …

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The Gates: Repercussions Review
Even a veteran Buffy the Vampire Slayer director/writer can’t pull The Gates – a series Entertainment Weekly in its latest issue named a loser in its “Summer Winners and Losers” list – out of the bowels of mediocrity…

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‘Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ Review: Meyer’s Vampires Return
The third trip into the world’s most vaunted human-vampire love story is the best of the lot

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TV Review: ‘Big Bang,’ ‘V,’ more set Comic-Con plans
Image Credit: Cliff Lipson/CBS ABC’s science-fiction show V and the network’s cult-fave Castle will have a presence at the annual Comic-Con International in San Diego, which runs from July 22 to July 25. The network’s high-concept drama No Ordinary Family — a Michael Chiklis starrer about a family with extraordinary powers — will also bow at the convention.

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TV Review: ‘SNL’: Revisit our Zach recap
After a dismal cold-open about President Obama’s health-care reform during which the studio audience was quietly bored, as though it was attending an actual Obama health-care summit, Saturday Night Live perked up considerably with host Zach Galifianakis and his piano musings during the opening monologue, including: “I’ve been in Canada, opening for Miles Davis,” said Galifianakis, then corrected …

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