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TV Review: THE CHICAGO CODE – Season 1 – “Black Sox”

By CARL CORTEZ | 05/10/2011
Delroy Lindo in THE CHICAGO CODE - Season 1 - "Black Sox" | ©2011 Fox/Jeffrey Garland

Stars: Delroy Lindo, Billy Lush, Matt Lauria, Jennifer Beals, Jason Clarke, Devin Kelley and Todd Williams Writer: Heather Mitchell & Kevin Townsley Director: Michael Offer Network: Fox, airs Monday nights Original Telecast: May 9, 2011 There have only been a couple of episodes of THE CHICAGO CODE that haven’t lived up to the show’s enormous potential, and sadly “Black Sox” is one of them. The police procedural elements, usually so dead-on perfect and engaging prove to be unspectacular, while all the ongoing personal drama keeps this episode from going completely to the dogs. The story begins with a hate crime […]Read On »


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TV Review: CHUCK – Season 4 – “Vs. The Last Details”

By CARL CORTEZ |
Lauren Cohan in CHUCK - Season 4 - "Vs. The Family Volkoff" | ©2011 NBC/Michael Yarish

Stars: Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Adam Baldwin, Joshua Gomez, Vic Sahay, Scott Krinsky, Sarah Lancaster, Ryan McPartlin, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Bonita Friedericy Writer: Henry Alonso Myers & Kristin Newman Director: Peter Lauer Network: NBC, airs Monday nights Original Telecast: May 9, 2011 With one more episode to go before the Season 4 finale, the hard question begins as to whether or not next week might be the series finale of CHUCK. Certainly the show has escaped cancellation so many times, this year, would seem no different (and victory is always there). Yet, as much as we can hope, there are […]Read On »


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TV Review: DANCING WITH THE STARS – Season 12 – Week 8 – Insta’ Dance Night!

By PAMELA HARLAND |
Karina Smirnoff and Ralph Macchio perform in DANCING WITH THE STARS - Season 12 - Week 8 | ©2011 ABC/Adam Taylor

A DANCING WITH THE STARS miracle will have to happen tomorrow night for Ralph Macchio to escape elimination during Week 8 of Season 12. A miracle far greater than the one he just accomplished by dancing The Viennese Waltz and an “Insta’ Dance” Cha Cha Cha on a bum knee. With his knee injury peeking last Friday, it wasn’t even known whether or not Macchio was going to dance at all tonight, let alone get through it, until right before showtime. He persevered, making it through with somewhat decent, though not impressive, scores. And yet in this stage of the […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: STARGATE UNIVERSE actor Brian J. Smith talks the end of the Syfy series (and the wrap-up movie rumor)

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/09/2011
Brian J. Smith in STARGATE UNIVERSE - Season 2 - "Resurgence" | ©2011 Syfy

STARGATE UNIVERSE concludes its two-season run tonight at 9 PM on the Syfy Channel. With U.S. military and Earth civilians co-existing uneasily on an alien vessel called Destiny, trying to find their way back to our solar system, SGU was markedly darker than its predecessors, STARGATE: SG-1 and STARGATE: ATLANTIS. Series regular Brian J. Smith, who plays series regular Lt. Matthew Scott, will be seen this summer on the Syfy telefilm/pilot/videogame adaptation RED FACTION: ORIGINS (stay tuned for that interview). Here, the Texas-born actor talks with ASSIGNMENT X about his time aboard the Destiny. ASSIGNMENT X: At what point did […]Read On »


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Interview: Nathan Fillion rocks CASTLE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Nathan Fillion in CASTLE - Season 3 | ©2010 ABC/Bob D'Amico

ABC’s hit show CASTLE, wrapping up its third season Mondays at 10 PM and coming back for a fourth season, is named for its hero. Nathan Fillion’s Richard Castle is a hugely successful NY-based mystery novelist who lives with his mother Martha (Susan Sullivan) and teenaged daughter Alexis (Molly Quinn). He has become unofficial partner to NYPD homicide detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic), who treats Castle with a combination of affection, annoyance and attraction as he trails her, ostensibly as inspiration for his writing, but clearly more because he just enjoys her company. For anyone who doesn’t know Fillion’s pre-CASTLE […]Read On »


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TV Review: CAMELOT – Season 1 – “Three Journeys”

By SEAN ELLIOTT |
Claire Forlani in CAMELOT - Season 1 | ©2011 Starz

Stars: Jamie Campbell Bower, Joseph Fiennes, Eva Green, Claire Forlani Writer: Chris Chibnall Director: Stefan Schwartz Network: Starz, airs Friday nights Original Telecast: May 6th, 2010 It saddens me when Period shows fall into all too familiar traps. So often they start of strong and then lose some of the head of steam that they had when they started. CAMELOT has fallen under this dark banner. The latest episode “Three Journeys” felt like a filler in between more important plot threads that were left out of this story’s continuity. King Arthur (Jamie Campbell Bower) takes off out of Camelot after […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE TROLL HUNTER (Trolljegeren)

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
TROLLHUNTER poster | ©2011 Magnet Releasing

Stars: Otto Jespersen, Glenn Erland Tosterud, Tomas Alf Larsen, Johanna Morck, Hans Morten Hansen Writer: Andre Ovredal Director: Andre Ovredal Distributor: Magnet Releasing Release Date: May 6, 2011 VOD; June 10, 2011 theatrical Trolls. Can’t live with ‘em, can’t easily kill them. This is the situation presented to us in Norwegian writer/director Andre Ovredal’s THE TROLL HUNTER (aka TROLLJEGEREN) which has enough moments of straight-faced hilarity to balance out its slower stretches. The film is currently available VOD and opens theatrically on June 10. For those who don’t know much about the origins of trolls in Scandinavian mythology, they are […]Read On »


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TV Review: THE BORGIAS – Season 1 – “Borgias in Love”

By SEAN ELLIOTT |
Francois Arnaud in THE BORGIAS - Season 1 | ©2011 Showtime/Jonathan Hession

Stars: Jeremy Irons, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger, Colm Feore, David Oakes, Joanne Whalley Writer: Neil Jordan Director: John Maybury Network: Showtime, airs Sunday nights Original Telecast: April 24th, 2010 The last episode of THE BORGIAS that I reviewed I stated that the series was slowing down to a dreadful pace, and needed something to save it. Episode five, “Borgias in Love” seemed to quicken the pace and up the ante in the continuing various plotlines. Let’s start where we left off in episode four with Lucrezia Borgia (Holliday Granger) being married off to Giovanni Sforza (Ronan Vibert) to help secure […]Read On »


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CD Review: PAUL original soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
PAUL original soundtrack | © 2011 Universal

After showing his deadly serious Bond action grooves were a slam-bang fit for the buddy cop tribute HOT FUZZ, David Arnold now finds his background blasting aliens for INDEPENDENCE DAY comes in just as handy for a far nicer E.T. named PAUL– his second satirical film homage score for actor-writers Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. If there’s a recipe to this duo’s winning movie-movie formula, it’s walking a fine line between spoofing their source material and just going with their unabashed love of it. Ditto David Arnold right from the start with a winking 50’s sci-fi Theremin and a dark […]Read On »


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TV Review: DOCTOR WHO – Series 6 – “The Curse of the Black Spot”

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG | 05/08/2011
Karen Gillan in DOCTOR WHO - Series 6 - Episode 3 | ©2011 BBC

Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Hugh Bonneville, Oscar Lloyd, Lee Ross, Michael Begley, Tony Lucken, Chris Jarman, Carl McCrystal, Lily Cole, Frances Barber Writer: Stephen Thompson Director:  Jeremy Webb Network: BBC America, airs Saturday nights Original Telecast: May 7, 2011 Series 3 of DOCTOR WHO takes a deep blue detour from this year’s complex story arc with “The Curse of the Black Spot,” a well-timed down-shift of a tale that turns up on our screens just as a certain Captain Jack – no, not that one, the other one – is about to come back to movie theaters […]Read On »


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