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The Closer Ends This Yearnew
The TNT crime drama The Closer ends after seven seasons. Farewell to a great show we hardly saw.
Tags: The Closer
The Big Uneasynew
Bad policy doomed New Orleans, says muckraking Katrina doc.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
07-06-2011 |
Reviews
Misfits Fits Right Innew
When delinquents gain super powers, that can't be a good thing ... but it makes for great television.
Boise Weekly |
Brady Moore |
07-06-2011 |
Reviews
Going South: American Noir in Mexiconew
Hoods on holiday.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
07-06-2011 |
Movies
Revenge Fantasy: Pals Laugh Bosses into a Shallow Grave
A much more successful bromance comedy than "The Hangover 2," "Horrible Bosses" benefits from the volatile comic mixture of chemistry between its actors and a genuinely quirky script.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
07-05-2011 |
Reviews
Glee is the Product of a Dead Culturenew
Glee is the worst thing to happen to music since Kids Incorporated, and Glee creator Ryan Murphy is a musical mother bird who consumes pop's best, spits it back up, and then tries to feed all of those regurgitated bits and pieces back to his starving chicks.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
06-29-2011 |
TV
Transformers: Dark of the Moon is Michael Bay's loud, jingoistic metaphornew
"We're pretty much all Republicans around here."
Best Thing About Latest Transformers Is That It Should Be the Lastnew
Textbooks be damned. The use of alternative histories has been such a go-to fad in cinematic curriculum recently that no one should be surprised if impressionable movie-going kids really start believing vigilante superheroes helped earn America a victory in Vietnam (Watchmen) or that young mutants saved the country from nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis (X-Men: First Class).
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
Getting Serious with Stephen Colbertnew
The Colbert Report host talks about the sad state of politics and the even sadder state of cable news.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
06-29-2011 |
TV
Bad Teachernew
Bad Teacher’s one joke is right there in the title.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
Cars 2new
After 16 years of smooth sailing down a highway of animation bliss, the check engine light is officially blinking at Disney/Pixar with their newest feature film Cars 2.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
Ozploitation in the Outbacknew
Does anyone really think of Mel Gibson as being Australian at this point, or is he just a talented and offensive Hollywood madman with extremely bad taste?
San Antonio Current |
Mark Jones |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
It Ain't Easy ...new
'Green Lantern' melds a lame premise with lazy special effects.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
06-28-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Ryan Reynolds, Green Lantern 3D
Not Reiser-ing To The Occasionnew
Build it and they will come ... and then they'll cancel it.
Boise Weekly |
Damon Hunzeker |
06-27-2011 |
Reviews
Coogan and Brydon take their shtick on the road in The Tripnew
The reliably adventurous Michael Winterbottom has latched onto a pretty foolproof low-budget gambit with this amiable, often riotous road film.
