Rebooting Hollywood: The New A-List
Dec12

Rebooting Hollywood: The New A-List

Remember when Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were the young guys of Hollywood? Remember when Charlies Angels movies made money?  If you stop and think, that was 15 years ago.  Since then, we’ve seen a lot of actors come and go.  Affleck, Damon, Diaz, and Barrymore are all in their 40′s now, so unless their swinging for Oscar fences, or playing fathers and mothers, they are definitely on the other side of their careers...

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Survivor: Blood vs Water Episode 13 Notes
Dec12

Survivor: Blood vs Water Episode 13 Notes

Redemption Island: Mother vs. Daughter After Katie gets voted off, she joins her mother, Tina, and Laura on Redemption Island. As expected, Tina is a loving mother and tells Katie she is willing to let her win and move on. However, Katie wants them both to give their best effort. In the end, Survivor is just a game. It is not life or death so Tina does not need to sacrifice herself to show her love for her daughter. At the challenge,...

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Tora! Tora! Tora!
Dec11

Tora! Tora! Tora!

“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” –Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto   After the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered an historic address to the United States Congress that began “December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy”. It is one of the defining speeches of World War II. The attack on Pearl Harbor changed the course of...

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Same Old Story
Dec10

Same Old Story

Well, as my friend Ben would say: yup, that movie exists. Surprisingly, you can read this whole article without having seen the film and the ending won’t be spoiled (I don’t give it away, I promise). I’d seen the original five years ago, and so this time around there were no surprises to spoil, though if I’m honest I never really thought the surprise was all that great in the first place. This is not to say that the end is easy to...

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Survivor: Blood vs Water Episode 12 Notes
Dec09

Survivor: Blood vs Water Episode 12 Notes

Redemption Island & Hidden Immunity Idol Before the challenge, Caleb will not look at his former tribe that voted him out. He tells Jeff Probst that a man’s word is worth something in the South but apparently not in Utah or Philly [referring to Tyson and Gervase]. While Gervase has no problem rubbing salt in other players’ wounds, he is absolutely correct when he points out that Caleb and Hayden plotted to vote Tyson and Gervase...

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I Was Wrong: Apologies to How I Met Your Mother
Dec09

I Was Wrong: Apologies to How I Met Your Mother

This past May, when the season finale of How I Met Your Mother concluded with a shot of—wait for it—the mother’s face, I reacted pretty strongly. I, and I’d imagine at least a few other dedicated HIMYM fans, was disappointed that she turned out to be someone we’d never seen before, thus turning all of the teases and hints of the previous eight years into just that: teases. My argument at the time was that what HIMYM had done was to...

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