As summer winds down to August, all those movies that studios either couldn’t make sense of or otherwise couldn’t cut it get unleashed on the public. Consequently August is a kind of limbo; most of the releases have the hallmark of a blockbuster but aren’t quite “award season” material. They’re somewhere in between. As with
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WARNING: There will be plenty of spoilers in this frank and open discussion of the fourth season premiere of Mad Men, “Public Relations.” So hold onto your hams, because here we go. BENJAMIN: I’ll just start off by saying that it’s going to be tough to be objective about the entire episode when it ended on such a ridiculously
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In the immortal and possibly slightly paraphrased words of noted philosopher Jamie Farr (from one of his appearances on The Gong Show): “What you see is what you got, what you don’t see might be hot!” Oh, Mr. Squirrel in Underpants…you are such a tease! Though thinking on this further…the auction reads as follows: “Are
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This week, since there weren’t really any albums coming out I felt compelled to review (none I could stream, anyway), I figured I’d take a
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