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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Music Review: Greg Wood & Dwayne Ford

Greg Wood, Greg Wood: Greg Wood’s promotional biography says he is a splash of Eddie Vedder, Kurt Cobain, and Johnny Cash, all the while peddling below grade, generic hard rock. The above list of artists changed the state of the … Read more

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Alton Brown, Good Eats: Volume 1, The Early Years

The Good Eats Recipe – Serves Millions Weekly 1 part Julia Child 1 part Mr. Wizard 1 part Monty Python Mix thoroughly then heat at 350 degrees for 30 minutes in a cast-iron skillet. Serve with a witty and knowledgeable … Read more

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A.J. Jacobs, The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment

Have you ever internally, or possibly externally, groaned at the grind of managing the day-to-day minutia of your own life? The problem is always what to do about it. You could conceivably just give up and stop worrying about those … Read more

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Review: Solomon Kane

Robert E. Howard is most widely-known as the man that created Conan the Barbarian, but he also gave us Solomon Kane whose film adaptation is far less kitsch. Solomon Kane (James Purefoy) was a murderer driven by his greed, but … Read more

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Review: The Loved Ones

The concept of a final girl was coined by Carol Clover and is used to describe the young woman that is inevitably left alive at the end of a slasher/horror movie to save herself from her tormentors because if anyone … Read more

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Review: Daybreakers

Fans of the vampire genre are forced to sift through a lot of bad films to find the good ones – Daybreakers is one of those gold nuggets in the sand. Dalton (Ethan Hawke) is the head hematologist at Bromley … Read more

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New on Blu-ray: Lie to Me (Season One)

The average person tells three lies in ten minutes of conversation. Now, imagine you could catch someone telling those lies on the spot — no special powers required. That’s the concept behind FOX’s TV series Lie to Me, whose first season was recently released on DVD and Blu-Ray. Read more

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Review: Jennifer’s Body

Jennifer’s Body is a horror movie made for women by a couple of prominent women in film: Oscar winner and screenwriter Diablo Cody and director of Girlfight Karyn Kusama. Jennifer (Megan Fox) and Anita “Needy” (Amanda Seyfried) have been best … Read more

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Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats

There have been numerous serious movies made over the last few years about the Iraq war, many of which have not been very good (with at least one exception being The Hurt Locker released earlier this year). The Men Who … Read more

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Review: The Boys are Back

Clive Owen has mostly had his name pasted above the titles of action- and spy-type movies of late, but he’s recently taken a step out of shooting range to make a film about grief and fatherhood. Joe’s (Owen) second wife … Read more

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Posted on August 22, 2010

Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean will appeal a recent decision by Haiti’s electoral council rejecting his run in the country’s Nov. 28 presidential election. The former Fugees member’s candidacy was rejected beacause has hadn’t resided in the country for the past … Read more

Posted on August 22, 2010

Here are top 20 programs in Canada for the week of August 9-15, 2010. This chart shows the top TV programs for all home market stations for the week indicated. Programs are ranked based on their average minute audience. The … Read more

Posted on August 14, 2010

Here are top 20 programs in Canada for the week of August 2-8, 2010. This chart shows the top TV programs for all home market stations for the week indicated. Programs are ranked based on their average minute audience. The … Read more