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http://tvandfilmguy.blogspot.com/ - Josh Lasser, formerly known as "TV and Film Guy," and complete with a Masters Degree in Critical Studies from USC's School of Cinema-Television continues his epic quest as a freelance entertainment journalist. This keyboard for hire.
I hunger for sitcoms. There was a time that wasn't the case. There was a time when I hungered for more dramas, but that time has passed. It was back in the day, you know, when comedies were an 8-10 pm staple and dramas mostly limited to the 10 to 11 hour. Now that dramas are on almost all the ...
Celebrities
There was a point in time, one which lasted several years, in which every Star Wars game that one played featured a run down the Death Star trench. It is an iconic moment in film history and carries over exceedingly well into videogames – it's the classic hero moment. It may feel a little ...
Movies
Star Wars
It would probably be wrong to say that Kevin Smith speaks for my generation. He certainly has, as his production company name tells us, a View Askew, and that means that we'd all have to have the same sort of skewed view if he spoke for my generation. While it might be that we all see things ...
Celebrities
Kevin Smith
Sometimes reinventing the wheel isn't necessary. Sometimes just giving the wheel a nice spit-and-polish is all that is needed to make the wheel seem shiny and new and tons of fun. As old as the wheel might be, even if it, horror of horrors, is from the 8-bit world, it can still ...
Music
Mario
Rabbids, originally introduced in the Rayman series of videogames, are, essentially demented little anthropomorphic rabbits. They're less than intelligent, less than cunning, terribly violent, and sometimes mean creatures. They're also ridiculously funny things. The Rabbids latest adventure, ...
Television
How good was Artie's "Dancing with Myself" last night on Glee ? No, it wasn't good, it was great, wasn't it? It was a great use of a song, it was well sung, and then they're repeating the song when everyone was riding around in wheelchairs, but using the Billy Idol version ...
Celebrities
Glee
Ever committed to bringing you, our readers, all the latest info, we here at The TV and Film Guy's Reviews are happy to report our preliminary findings of New Super Mario Bros. Wii . Our full review of Mario's latest adventure will be forthcoming next week, but having had the opportunity ...
Music
Mario
I am very happy to report that after a second week of V (the 2009 one, not the old one), I'm liking the show more and more. Oh, in case you couldn't tell, we're probably going to be talking a lot about what happened in the episode last night, so if you don't want to know, don't continue ...
Celebrities
Just because a film is a remake – or perhaps a movie based on a book that was already made into a movie – doesn't mean the film is destined to fail. To be less cryptic, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009), directed by Tony Scott may not be a brilliant film (or terribly ...
Movies
CBS has this incredibly odd way of promoting The Amazing Race . Well, perhaps "odd" isn't quite the right word — maybe "forward" is better. They have a very forward way of promoting the Race . Whenever one sees scenes from the next episode - either right after the ...
Television
The Amazing Race
It may be foolhardy to do so, but there is plenty to dispute in Rocky – The Undisputed Collection , the new Blu-ray boxed set of all six Rocky movies. That lovable, sometimes punchy, lug from Philadelphia; the Italian Stallion; Philadelphia's Favorite Son went through a heck ...
Celebrities
Rocky
There are many possible reasons that the sport of soccer hasn't taken off in this country the way that it has in the rest of the world. It's not as conducive to television viewing as other sports – there's no easy way to break for a commercial. It can often be a low scoring ...
Television
Originally a special produced as a part of Disney's House of Mouse in 2001, Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse is returning to DVD. With tons of Disney characters making an appearance as well as classic Disney cartoons, the DVD is a can't miss success for fans of ...
Celebrities
Mickey Rourke
Disney Studios
There is something absolutely wonderful about watching Cary Grant. Grant, no matter the role, always exudes an incredible amount of charisma and charm, and can carry an entire film on his back. It is, however, still preferable to see Grant in a great role in a great movie. Get the opportunity ...
Television
It seems as though every other week some new version of an old television show or movie is making its way onto the screen (either big or little). The latest of these reimaginings appears this week on ABC, with V . The original V miniseries aired in 1983 and was successful enough to ...
Celebrities
Almost two years ago, I labeled Monsoon Multimedia's HAVA Titanium HD (a device similar to the more well-known Slingbox) "a nice idea, but not a must-have device." Ever since that assessment, the folks at Monsoon have been doing everything in the power to prove me wrong, in part ...
Television
To attempt to fully describe what director Mira Nair has created with Monsoon Wedding is not the easiest of tasks. The 2001 film, shot by Declan Quinn with a script from Sabrina Dhawan, is the tale of the wedding of the only daughter of a Punjabi family in Delhi. As with so much of Nair's work, ...
Movies
Mira Nair
"The Cylons were created by man. They rebelled. They evolved. They look and feel human. Some are programmed to think they are human. There are many copies. And they have… a plan." So the audience of Battlestar Galactica was repeatedly ...
Celebrities
Battlestar Galactica
If Turner Classic Movies is right, if there really is a list of "The Essentials" – the movies everyone ought to see – then somewhere on that list resides 1969's legendary Easy Rider . Whether one likes the film or not, whether one believes that it speaks well or ...
Movies
Larry David, the absurdly nitpicky Jewish curmudgeon who can be seen on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and co-creator of Seinfeld , has an attitude that could easily be mistaken for Woody Allen’s. Though not the same man, and though they may always see alike, the way in which an ...
