Check out OW‘s Top 10 Movies here. View William Goss’ Honorable Mentions here. Let me first say that this year has been an absolute pleasure at the movies. Not always, of course (*shakes fist* JOAQUIIIIIINNNN!!!!), but more often than not I found myself impressed with the state of things. Then again, I’m impressed any...
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Somehow, I resisted tonight’s Rocky Horror-themed episode of Glee. It wasn’t easy; I had to politely beg off when a friend phoned in an 11th-hour reminder. (And this was somebody with whom I once shared a stage in an actual production of Rocky — so admitting to no interest in the episode was kind...
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Pt. 3 of a 3-part series. Check out parts 1 and 2, and a Gawker mention here! Praise be to Grilled Cheesus, I was right. Now, I’m not usually the type to say “I told you so,” but damn. About two weeks ago, in part one of this three-part series, I reacted to the...
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Part 2 of a three-part series. Also see: Part 1 and Part 3, and a Gawker mention here! Wow. Last night’s Britney Spears-centered Glee was an exercise in excess and train-wreckery, was it not? It was actually hard to watch the episode’s writer-director Ryan Murphy, apparently in his coked-out Coppola phase, single-handedly demolish something...
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Pt. 1 of 3. Check out parts 2 and 3, and Gawker’s mention here! I know, I know. We’ve heard from everyone and their momma that Glee‘s mega-hyped season-two premiere Tuesday night didn’t quite live up to everyone’s Gleespectations. Despite enormous ratings, critics deemed it mostly meh: “Self-indulgent,” says the Daily News. “Neither awful...
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