Movie Tuesday | 17 Again (Chesapeake Family)

Permit me a moment to talk about how pretty Leslie Mann is.

She's really, really pretty.

She's in 17 Again, with some other people, one of whom is apparently quite popular with the youngsters. I review the film this week on chesapeakefamily.com.

(Apologies to Judd Apatow, who's having quite the life--lucky bastard.)


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TV Review | Frakking Up Is Hard to Do: Battlestar Galactica's Series Finale

How could a show that was so gritty and challenging descend so quickly into bathos and implausibility? Have them go camping. Check out a few of my many thoughts on the Battlestar Galactica series finale at my new television blog Pan & Scan.


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Film Review | Race to Witch Mountain (Chesapeake Family)

My review of Race to Witch Mountain, late but not never. More cultural-criticism fun can be had at my new blog Pan & Scan, which focuses on the shrinking television wasteland. Check it all out.


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TV Review | Amateur Hour: Late Night with... who, again?

I and my friend Kristen have been working slowly (oh so slowly) on a new blog focusing specifically on television, and even more specifically on all the things we know about television that you don't. It's in its infancy, this media empire of ours, but so far we've set a little of our minds out on display, mine in the form of this critique of Jimmy Fallon's faltering go at Late Night.

More cocksure opinionizing to come.


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Movie Tuesday | Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Kick, punch... it's all in the mind. Read the review of Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, then skip the movie. (Then read the review again, and a few others, and then maybe click on an ad or two. C'mon, I gotta eat.)

Comments will sweep the leg, Johnny.


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Movie Tuesday | Fired Up!

Fired Up! is not a cheerleader movie in much the same way that Scarface is not a cocaine movie. It may be that neither item is a subject, per se, but both are the prime motivators of the gluttonous heroes and the objects of single-minded, pathological and, at times, implausible consumption.

I don't have anything nearly as pithy to say in my actual review of the film; I just came up with that now. Oh, well.

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Movie Tuesday | Coraline

The last movie I saw in 3-D was Jaws 3, twenty-six years ago. Coraline was better. Read all about it at chesapeakefamily.com/Movie Reviews.

Also, check out Kristen Page-Kirby's clever-clever-clever review of He's Just Not That Into You. (My reduplication there is a sign of my lingering jealousy of anyone who can unclench and just wite a funny review. Okay, therapy over.)

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