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FlashForward Season 1, Episode 7 Review: The Gift

November 6, 2009

For viewers on the verge of quitting FlashForward, frustrated by its tendency to ask questions without providing answers, “The Gift” should feel like a breath of fresh air. It not only definitively answers the question of whether… Read More

V Season 1, Episode 1 Review: Pilot

November 4, 2009

The original 1983 miniseries V is a tense, slow-building piece of science fiction that showed the creation of a fascist movement in the United States by the alien Visitors. An allegory for the creation of the Nazi movement, the original V portrays… Read More

Heroes Season 4, Episode 8 Review: Once Upon a Time in Texas

November 3, 2009

One of the most compelling storylines from the first season of Heroes was the ill-fated romance between time-traveling Hiro and waitress Charlie (Jayma Mays, Glee). This week’s episode “Once Upon a Time in Texas” revisits… Read More

Star Wars The Clone Wars: Season One Blu-ray Review

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November 3, 2009

As the Star Wars prequel trilogy unfolded it became painfully clear that the Clone Wars emotionally alluded to by Ben Kenobi in A New Hope would not be the focus. The narrative chosen by George Lucas was a major blow… Read More

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FlashForward Season 1, Episode 6 Review: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps

October 30, 2009

Events from last week’s episode had left me pondering whether “Scary Monsters and Super Creeps” would give us our first set of answers to some of the show’s mysteries. After all, if Agent Janis were to die from the… Read More

Heroes Season 4, Episode 7 Review: Strange Attractors

October 27, 2009

Reminding us that Christmas is not the only period to inspire corny, unimaginative television, this week Heroes remembered that Halloween is just around the corner and decided to give us a cheesy girls-in-a-slaughterhouse episode to get… Read More

FlashForward Season 1, Episode 5 Review: Gimme Some Truth

October 23, 2009

“Gimme Some Truth” is the first FlashForward episode to open, somewhat appropriately, with a scene set in the future. Taking place thirty-nine hours in the future we see a car, containing Mark, Wedeck, Demetri and Vreede, get… Read More

Heroes Season 4, Episode 6 Review: Tabula Rasa

October 20, 2009

Has Samuel never heard the old expression about the dangers of playing with matches? It was certainly the first to come to my mind when he took a serial killer with a penchant for collecting abilities, introduced that killer to his “family”… Read More

FlashForward Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Black Swan

October 16, 2009

Opening with a chilling sequence set to Bjork’s “It’s Oh So Quiet” that served as a reminder of the devastation caused by the flashforward, “Black Swan” begins strongly. We are introduced in that opening… Read More

Heroes Season 4, Episode 4 Recap: Hysterical Blindness

October 13, 2009

The episode opens with Sylar, having dug his way out of a shallow grave, being picked up by the Police. Disorientated and with no memory of his own identity, a psychologist named Dr. Gibson (Christine Adams, Dr. Who and Batman Begins) is introduced… Read More