We're getting closer to the end of summer which means its almost time for another installment of Paranormal Activity. I'll be the first to say that i was not a fan of the first movie, but the subsequent releases have improved every year. The first trailer can be viewed on the Movies official you tube page via the link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M5nMc-Ht-yo
Dr. Horrible gets an air date on the CW
A few weeks back at Comic-Con Joss Whedon announced that there's a sequel in the works for the insanely popular Dr. Horrible Sing-along blog. He also announced that the orginal Dr. Horrible would be airing on the CW. Today at the TCA (Television Critics Association) tour Wheddon announced that Dr. Horrible will be airing on the CW October 9th at 9pm. It would appear that after his success with Avengers and Cabin in The Woods,mainstream media is giving the creator of the cult classics Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly the respect and accolades he deserves.
Stay tuned for more great content
My thoughts on The Newsroom
I have to admit that The Newsroom has not been on my radar. I've never watched any of Aaron Sorkins shows. I always thought that the West Wing was a bit of an old persons show (I was in my teens at the time). But I've heard great things about The Newsroom and I love all the names attached to it. Jeff Daniels is fantastic, Allison Pill and Olivia Munn are both adorable, and the writing is amazing. Ill be reviewing the show starting from Sunday's episode "Bullies". So stay tune, more great content on the way.
True Blood "Somebody That I Used to Know" Review
“Somebody That I Used to Know” Review
I’d
like to begin this review by stating my disappointment at the end credit song.
As I’m sure most of have realized the title of the song that plays during the
credits of True Blood is often the same as the title of the episode. I was
pretty anxious to hear some Gotye on True Blood last night; it would have been
a mix of my two guiltiest of pleasures (like a Reese's peanut butter cup
stuffed inside a Krispy Kreme donut) but instead I was treated to Elliot Smith.
It’s not a bad song it’s just not what I was expecting.
We
start off the episode with Sam and Luna in the hospital dealing with the
shifter shooting sub-plot. Am I the only person who half way forgot that Luna
can shift into humans? It was mentioned last season when we first met Luna (in all
her nakedness) but I feel as if it was never touched on again until now, and only
for a few cheap parent trap style gag laughs with Sam. I’ve noticed over the
past few seasons that True Blood has a tendency of to rope subplots together
mid season. After Sam uses some pretty snaky interrogation techniques (see what
I did there?) we find out that the douche in the hospital that tried to kill
Luna is working with the douches Hoyt has been hanging out with and those
douches have vamp napped Jessica. I feel as if the show is aware that these are
the scenes that no one really cares about, which would explain why both these
plots were taken care of fairly early on in the episode and with little fanfare.
Hoyt decides that he can’t kill Jessica and helps her dispatch her would be
capturer. Sam, Andy and Luna/Sam arrive to save Jessica but some how miss Hoyt
walking down the exact same road.
Didn’t
Alcide just find out a few episodes back that Debbie took a shotgun to the
face? I only ask because he and Rikki
are back at his place breezing thru the first half of the Kama Sutra. We catch
up with the rest of the wolf pack later in the episode along with the pack
master selection ritual. It couldn’t be anymore obvious that JD is an extremely
bad dude; all he’s missing is a Snidely Whiplash mustache and top hat. A battle ensues between the two, and Alcide
swiftly gets his ass handed to him thanks to JD’s addiction to V. If not for
the intervention of Rikki and Ma Harris Alcide would have been put down for
good (see what I did there).
On
the last bit of subplot we see Lafayette ,
and Terry’s smoke monster story cross paths (I dare you to tell me that’s not
the smoke monster from LOST). It isn’t long before Arlene and Holly track down Lafayette to do his best
impersonation of Whoppi Goldberg in Ghost to try and trick the crazy out of
Terry. However shit gets real when the spirit of the woman Terry killed decides
to crash the party and tells Terry the only way she’ll call off old Smokey is
if either he kills the Sergeant of the Sergeant kills him.
We
catch up with Sookie outside the secret fairy club (did I just type secret
fairy club?) blasting kamehamehas into the sky in an effort to relieve herself
of her fairy powers. It isn’t until Jason sits her down and explains that being
normal pretty much sucks that she decides it’s best for her to lay off the fire
works, at least until they are able to track down the vampire that killed their
parents. With the help of Claude and his fairy sisters (…..) Sookie is able to
relive the night her parents were killed through the eyes of her mother, in an
effort to identify the vampire responsible. Things get out of hand however when
Sookie connects with vampire who slaughtered her parents instead of her mother.
We find out from Claude that that’s very bad news for Sookie. Which we see
later down the episode when Sookie is threatened by the spirit of said vampire.
After
chugging the blood of Lilith last week Russell, Bill and the rest of the authority
decide to chow down on a few bar goers who probably wished they stayed home and
made it a net flicks night. When the party gets back to authority HQ the
vampire Scooby gang are all hopped up on Lilith blood and decide that
coexisting with humans is for the birds. Were treated to a scene in which Bill
visits his daughter on her death bed and opts not to turn her into a vampire.
We seemingly see Bill decided that being a vampire is the bee’s knees as he
proceeds to drink the proverbial Kool-aid, by which I mean some poor girls blood.
Eric is shaken by his vision of Godric and tries to bring Nora back to the not
so dark side. At the end of the episode we see the authority begin to put their
plans for ending mainstreaming into action. We also see a bonding moment
between Russell Edgington and Steve Newlin over talks of massages from Asian
men. The team gets spit balling on ideas for devouring human’s en mass, but it
isn’t until Bill suggests destroying the True Blood production factories that
things start to sounds very serious. It’s still anyone’s guess if Bill really
has gone bat crap insane or if this is somehow a part of a plan he’s not
willing to share with Eric.
All
in all I have to say that this was a very mediocre episode of the show. This
was Stephen Moyer’s directorial debut and I feel his inexperience really shows.
I can’t lay blame solely on Stephen however; this season has been pretty lack
luster. Once of True Bloods strengths is its ability to pick up towards the end
of the season and I’m really hoping that happens this time around.
I’m giving this episode 6.5 out of 10
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