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Friday, March 14, 2008

Separated At Birth?

(...and raised by families with very different ideas about hair care?)

Top Chef 4's Richard

and

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters protag Steve Wiebe

I know, I know. I think all white people look alike.

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Keckler said...: Okay, see, I think that Richard and last year cheftestant, Sandee Birdsong, look separated at birth!; 2:34 PM, March 14, 2008

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Battlestar Galactica (4/25)
If I'm looking for a word to describe Gaius Baltar, I think I'll settle on "egregious." That is one egregious motherfucker. He also manages to get out of more scrapes than the Dukes of Hazzard. I thought the pleasure/pain parallels were drawn a little thickly, but I really dug Chief going nuts on Adama as well as all those Six/Tigh scenes. The hole in Tigh's face was really well done. And Ellen in the Six wig was all sorts of disturbing.

Grey's Anatomy (4/24)
Okay, I'm just going to advance a novel opinion: Meredith Grey effing sucks. I am so beyond over her making every single diagnoses a reflection of her boring feelings about Derek, and I was deeply hoping Clea DuVall would punch her in the pace. Overall it was a good episode -- I like when they're all competing for something -- but a lot of my pet peeves with the show cropped up (quit whining about your broken home, Alex), and I really don't think making Callie and Erica a lesbian couple is going to work either.

Lost (4/24)
Great, intense, surprising episode. And I know it was technically not a great scene, but the part where Sawyer was running around evading gunfire and everybody else got shot was hilarious. But overall, a good time spent with the more interesting people on the island, and while I haven't entirely cracked the time-travel stuff, things are operating in a way that I'm convinced makes sense. So good to have this show back.

Ugly Betty (4/24)
So good to have THIS show back too! Okay, I still hate Gio and Betty's still kinda boring, but between Hilda threatening a bitch with her fingernails and Marc sniffing Daniel's mesh underwear I was all kinds of set.

Step It Up And Dance (4/24)
Tovah was kind of falling apart, but she always gave the best interviews (well, her and Oscar, that lovable weirdo). Unlike effing Miguel who I cannot wait to see fail and fail horribly, Never have I seen a man's hair mirror his personality so disgustingly: it's ugly, but there's also something seriously wrong there, on a fundamental level.

Survivor (4/24)
Wow, I hereby apologize for any time I bitched about not seeing enough of Natalie. Send her back! Send her back! Seriously, it's not that she was unnecessarily cruel to Jason in engineering his ouster (though she was), it was her ferret-faced overestimation of her own prowess (you've got a clear path to Final 5, hon, but what after that?), and also her wholly disproportionate anger at...well, everything.

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Lions For Lambs
Yuck. I couldn't imagine this movie would be as didactic, obnoxious, talky, and boring as everybody said it was. And yet...here we are. How a movie thinks it can get away with the message that it's not enough to just talk a good game about the quagmire this nation is in by...talking a good game about it. That's some balls, Robert Redford. C-

Reds
Even after clocking in at three hours plus, I don't think this movie wore out its welcome, so kudos to Warren Beatty for that. I have to respect the guts involved in outting out a three-hour Communist romantic epic not two years removed from the Moscow Olympics boycott. The real standout, for me, was Diane Keaton, who I have never seen play this kind of character before. The closest she came again, I think, were certain scenes -- few and far between -- in Godfather III. There's a fire in her belly and steel in her bones; she's absolutely riveting to watch. Jack Nicholson, too, is all the more powerful for holding back that trademark twinkle in his eye. Interesting that Beatty and Maureen Stapleton walked off with Oscars (director and supporting actress); I'd have given Keaton and Nicholson statues. Anyway, well-acted, well-paced, Greenwich Village as the center of the universe...good stuff. B+

Wristcutters: A Love Story
I see what they were trying to do with this story, and it's not un-interesting, the idea of purgatory for suicides being a gray wasteland where nobody smiles and everyone waits tables and pumps gas for no real reason. But in practice, it's dreadfully boring, and pairing Patrick Fugit (here drained of his usual charisma) with a wet rag like Shannyn Sossamon doesn't help. Will Arnett deserves better, you guys.

Inside
Not the most consistent movie in the world, but fantastically creepy in a really simple way. I prefer Nick D'Agosto playing it silly, but he's so good here, going from troubled quasi-stalker to the slowly burning realization of the kind of situation he's gotten himself into. The third-act reveal is pretty typical of junky thriller fare, and Leighton Meester is either terrible or wasted in this role, but the film builds tension quite effectively.

Friday, March 14, 2008

Separated At Birth?

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