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  • The Big Bang Theory

    The Big Bang Theory. Mondays on CBS, 8:00pm ET/PT As a genre, the sitcom has seen better days. For the past four years, since...

  • Monty Python's Life of Brian

    Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979). 83 minutes, Handmade Films / Sony Pictures. Directed by Terry Jones. It was the fall of 1979. I...

  • Funny Games

    Funny Games (2008). 111 minutes, Warner Brothers Independent Pictures. Directed by Michael Haneke. Pretentious, sadistic, and capricious film that advertises itself as a horror...

  • The Music of Jonathan Coulton

    Over the past few days I’ve discovered a great singer/songwriter, Jonathan Coulton. Apparently he’s been an Internet "It" Boy for a while, but somehow...

  • The Orphanage

    The Orphanage (El Orfanato) (2007). 105 minutes, Warner Bros. Pictures de España Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. An atmospheric, intelligent, elegant and extremely scary...

  • The Golden Compass

    The Golden Compass (2007). 113 minutes, New Line Pictures. Directed by Chris Weitz. A dismal, unsatisfying and confusing adaptation of a great book. Avoid...

  • Across the Universe

    Across the Universe (2007). 133 minutes, Columbia Pictures. Directed by Julie Taymor. I am a huge Beatles fan, to begin with. There is no...

  • Hairspray

    Hairspray (2007). 117 minutes, New Line Productions. Directed by Adam Shankman. A fun, colorful musical with likable characters, enthusiastic acting, great dancing, snappy tunes,...

  • Chuck and the Incredible Exploding Computer

    Ah, the new fall television series. An American event that has survived from my childhood up until the current day, albeit in a somewhat...

  • Disturbia

    Disturbia (2007). 105 minutes, Dreamworks Pictures. Directed by D.J. Caruso. A taut, engaging and extremely gripping thriller done in true Hitchcock style - paired...

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