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X-Files: I Want to Believe - Faith in the Unknown

Like The Simpsons Movie, one can't help leaving X-Files: I Want to Believe feeling like they just paid good money to watch something they should ...

Maurice_Broaddus in Movies at 04:34 AM on 07/27/08 | 1 Response
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The Dark Knight - The Evolution of Freaks

"To Job or not to Job" The Dark Knight managed to do what few sequels fail to do: be better than the first. Like Iron ...

Maurice_Broaddus in Movies at 05:11 PM on 07/21/08 | 2 Responses
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Hellboy 2: The Golden Army - Beautiful Freaks

"Beautiful Freaks" There is an element to our culture that seems to eschew imagination, our child-like creativity; that seeks to crush it from us as ...

Maurice_Broaddus in Movies at 03:48 PM on 07/11/08 | 0 Responses
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Wanted - No Thoughts Allowed

"The Spiritual Journey of Wesley" This. Movie. Rules. Wanted is an unholy mess of a movie. It features a ridiculous defiance of the laws of ...

Maurice_Broaddus in Movies at 11:23 PM on 07/01/08 | 0 Responses
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Kung Fu Panda - There's no charge for awesome

In the continual battle of animated movies, DreamWorks (think Shrek) the only rival to Pixar (think Ratatouille). Whereas Pixar is the inheritor to the classic ...

Maurice_Broaddus in Movies at 01:49 PM on 06/08/08 | 2 Responses
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Mad Men: Perpetuating the Lie

I am not cool. I will never be cool again. Now, I know what you're thinking: he's a cool dresser, he watches cool shows, he ...

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Cashmere/Jungle: Two Poor Women's SATC

In the vacuum left by the end of Sex and the City's run, we are faced with two series attempting to fill the void: Lipstick ...

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Ultimate Iron Man II

"Tech Run Amuck" Written by: Orson Scott Card Art by: Pasqual Ferry Published by: Marvel Comics Iron Man has never been one of those characters ...

Maurice_Broaddus in Culture at 08:30 AM on 02/21/08 | 0 Responses
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Ultimate Human

"Redemption Story" Written by: Warren Ellis Art by: Cary Nord Published by: Marvel Comics Bruce Banner (the Hulk) and Tony Stark (Iron Man) are the ...

Maurice_Broaddus in Culture at 02:36 AM on 02/21/08 | 0 Responses
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Terminator: The Sarah Connors Chronicles

"O Mary Don't You Shoot" The latest trend in Hollywood has been to re-tread nostalgic favorites, thus the return of Transformers, Rocky, Rambo, and the ...

Maurice_Broaddus in TV and Celebrities at 12:13 AM on 02/21/08 | 0 Responses
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My Name is Earl - "Bad Earl"

"Bad Earl" "After everything that happened, Karma had me pretty confused." --Earl Entering its third season, My Name is Earl spent much of the season ...

Maurice_Broaddus in TV and Celebrities at 03:06 AM on 02/20/08 | 0 Responses
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Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

"A Bloody Parable" Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, based on the Stephen Sondheim's 1979 musical, tells the infamous story of Benjamin Barker, ...

Maurice_Broaddus in Movies at 03:05 AM on 02/20/08 | 0 Responses
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The New Adventures of Old Christine

"The Passion of Christine": The Hole of Intimacy Traditional sitcoms have a built in "seen that" quality to them that often acts as a black ...

Maurice_Broaddus in TV and Celebrities at 03:04 AM on 02/20/08 | 0 Responses
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Dexter

"Hannibal the series" Many of us suffer from compulsions--from smoking to drinking to promiscuity--some more self-destructive than others. We look at a character like Monk ...

Maurice_Broaddus in TV and Celebrities at 03:04 AM on 02/20/08 | 0 Responses
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The Death of the New Gods

Written by: Jim Starlin Art by: Jim Starling Published by: DC Comics Price: $3.50 "Rival Gods" Let me start out by naming my bias: I ...

Maurice_Broaddus in Culture at 03:02 AM on 02/20/08 | 0 Responses
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Hulk

Written by : Jeph Loeb Art by: Ed McGuinness Published by: Marvel Comics "IncREDible Anger" Coming off of the World War Hulk comic event, the ...

Maurice_Broaddus in Culture at 03:01 AM on 02/20/08 | 0 Responses
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Supergirl

"Finding the Mission" Written by: Jeph Loeb Drawn by: Ian Churchill Published by: DC Comics One of the things you want in a "number one" ...

Maurice_Broaddus in Culture at 03:01 AM on 02/20/08 | 0 Responses
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She-Hulk

Written by: Peter David Art by: Shawn Moll Published by: Marvel Comics Price: $2.99 "Jaded" Jennifer Walters was a lawyer until she got a gamma-irradiated ...

Maurice_Broaddus in Culture at 03:00 AM on 02/20/08 | 0 Responses
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Chuck

"Nerd Delight" My arch-nemesis/friend Nick Kaufmann and equally huge television watcher, told me that I would love the show Chuck. I hate it when he's ...

Maurice_Broaddus in TV and Celebrities at 02:59 AM on 02/20/08 | 0 Responses
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Bionic Woman

"Keep Re-Building" From the creators of Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman updates the high camp of the 70s series with a straight face. Jaime Sommers ...

Maurice_Broaddus in TV and Celebrities at 02:58 AM on 02/20/08 | 0 Responses
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Mo*Con III: The Intersection of Spirituality, Art, and Gender

Hosted by The Dwelling Place and the Indiana Horror Writers. Church is a communal expression of faith, to pursue spiritual formation to be the kind ...

Maurice_Broaddus in Culture at 07:52 PM on 01/31/08 | 0 Responses
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Chuck

"Nerd Delight" My arch-nemesis/friend Nick Kaufmann and equally huge television watcher, told me that I would love the show Chuck. I hate it when he's ...

Maurice_Broaddus in TV and Celebrities at 11:22 PM on 01/16/08 | 0 Responses
Tags: TV, Television, Chuck
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Bionic Woman - A Review

"Keep Re-Building" From the creators of Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman updates the high camp of the 70s series with a straight face. Jaime Sommers ...

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I Am Legend

"Light up the Darkness" Adapted from the classic (1954) Richard Matheson horror novel of the same name, this is I Am Legend's third incarnation on ...

Maurice_Broaddus at 09:02 PM on 12/18/07 | 0 Responses
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Boston Legal (Season 3)

Now out on DVD, I have to say so far so good. David E. Kelly has managed to sustain the delicate balancing act that is ...

Maurice_Broaddus in TV and Celebrities at 11:58 PM on 11/22/07 | 0 Responses
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Hitman - More misses than a Hit

Based on the eponymous video game, I had high hopes for Hitman. This is the season of the ponderous Oscar bait, but just because it's ...

Maurice_Broaddus in Movies at 04:57 PM on 11/21/07 | 0 Responses
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The Mist

To be honest, I approach movie adaptations of Stephen King's work with a certain amount of trepidation. For every Misery, Stand by Me, or even ...

Maurice_Broaddus in Movies at 04:56 PM on 11/21/07 | 0 Responses
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Beowulf

"Fallen Hero" For many people, reading Beowulf marked when poetry, much less English class in general, became interesting. Adapted and reimagined by Neil Gaiman (comic ...

Maurice_Broaddus in Movies at 04:54 PM on 11/21/07 | 0 Responses
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Women's Murder Club

"It's All About the Club" There are times I'm hesitant to review a show only because I'm enjoying it so much that I hate to ...

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American Gangster

"A Dream Spoiled" If you've ever watched the HBO show, The Wire, you have experienced some of the finest that television has to offer. With ...

Maurice_Broaddus in Movies at 12:44 PM on 11/05/07 | 0 Responses

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