Added on 10/11/08

Amazon.com: Will & Grace: The Complete Series: Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes, Megan Mullally: Movies & TV

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Added on 09/05/08

Amazon.com "I bought a car. Turned out to be an alien robot. Who knew?" deadpans Sam Witwicky, hero and human heart of Michael Bay's rollicking robot-smackdown fest, Transformers. Witwicky (the sweetly nerdy Shia LaBeouf, channeling a young John... See more

Amazon.com "I bought a car. Turned out to be an alien robot. Who knew?" deadpans Sam Witwicky, hero and human heart of Michael Bay's rollicking robot-smackdown fest, Transformers. Witwicky (the sweetly nerdy Shia LaBeouf, channeling a young John Cusack) is the perfect counterpoint to the nearly nonstop exhilarating action. The plot is simple: an alien civil war (the Autobots vs. the evil Decepticons) has spilled onto Earth, and young Sam is caught in the fray by his newly purchased souped-up Camaro. Which has a mind--and identity, as a noble-warrior robot named Bumblebee--of its own. The effects, especially the mind-blowing transformations of the robots into their earthly forms and back again, are stellar. Fans of the earlier film and TV series will be thrilled at this cutting-edge incarnation, but this version should please all fans of high-adrenaline action. Director Bay gleefully salts the movie with homages to pop-culture touchstones like Raiders of the Lost Ark, King Kong, and the... See less

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Added on 08/31/08

By the end of Season 3 of The Office (US), we get the sense that the series has finally established its independence from its European ancestry. Throughout Season 3, the BBC series continues to serve as a very basic template for the NBC series: the... See more

By the end of Season 3 of The Office (US), we get the sense that the series has finally established its independence from its European ancestry. Throughout Season 3, the BBC series continues to serve as a very basic template for the NBC series: the awkward merger, the upper management restructuring, the romantic role reversal (boy-chases-girl becomes boy-gets-new-girl/original-girl-now-chases-boy). The one major plot development from the UK original that has yet to be explored is the regional manager's slow, painful march toward termination as he clashes with a new corporate supervisor. Could Season 3's final scene been an ominous sign that a similar fate is in store for Michael Scott down the road? The popularity of this series, and the apparent commitment of all involved to keep it going for at least a couple more seasons suggests this doom will be postponed, at least for a while. In the meantime, much cheerier things seem to be on the horizon. And, it is on this issue that The US... See less

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Added on 08/31/08

Thank goodness for second seasons. While the first season of The Office started dubiously with a pilot that was just a poor copy of the original British version, it did manage to provide enough good material to stay on the air and hint that better... See more

Thank goodness for second seasons. While the first season of The Office started dubiously with a pilot that was just a poor copy of the original British version, it did manage to provide enough good material to stay on the air and hint that better was yet to come. And here it is. The second season of The Office finds its own footing and manages to do the near-impossible by not only breaking free of the gravity of that excellent BBC version to stand solidly on its own, but establishing it as one of the best comedies on TV. Season 2 starts out strong with "The Dundies," where Regional Manager, Michael Scott (Steve Carell, The 40 Year Old Virgin) hosts the company's annual office-awards event with his signature less-than-perfect grace. Things seem to only get worse for him this season as he bumbles a potential affair with his boss, Jan (Melora Harding), angers his employees by reading their emails ("Email Surveillance"), cooks his foot ("The Injury"), and accidentally destroys the... See less

Added on 08/31/08

Like most other fans of the great BBC series THE OFFICE, I was absolutely horrified when they announced that they were doing an American version of the show. Ricky Gervais's show was so perfect, so unique that it didn't seem possible for it to be... See more

Like most other fans of the great BBC series THE OFFICE, I was absolutely horrified when they announced that they were doing an American version of the show. Ricky Gervais's show was so perfect, so unique that it didn't seem possible for it to be successfully translated into an American context. Also, the show was unimaginable without Ricky Gervais, who was both the creator and lead performer of the original. And to be honest, when the American show straightforwardly imitates the original, especially in the first episode, it compares rather badly. The jokes were tailored perfectly to Gervais and his cohorts, and they just didn't translate all that well to the new set of actors. However, once you get past the first episode, and the American crew produces original material, it actually becomes a very, very funny show. In fact, if you have seen the BBC version, I would recommend just skipping the first episode of the American version and going on from there. My other complaint with the... See less

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Added on 08/12/08

* Genres: Comedy, Drama * Tagline: Where's Olive? * Plot Outline A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus. * Plot Synopsis: Olive is a little girl with a dream:... See more

* Genres: Comedy, Drama * Tagline: Where's Olive? * Plot Outline A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus. * Plot Synopsis: Olive is a little girl with a dream: winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so burdened with their own quirks, neuroses, and problems that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father Richard is a flop as a motivational speaker, and is barely on speaking terms with her mother. Her uncle Frank, a renowned Proust scholar, has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student. Her brother Dwayne, a fanatical follower of Nietzsche, has taken a vow of silence, which allows him to escape somewhat from the family whose very presence torments him. And Olive's grandfather is a ne'er-do-well with a drug habit, but at least he enthusiastically coaches Olive in... See less

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Added on 07/31/08

* Features: Closed Caption; The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring:; Revealing the Secrets Behind the Production of the Epic Adventure: "Welcome to Middle-earth," "Quest for the Ring," "A Passage to Middle-earth"; Featurettes created for... See more

* Features: Closed Caption; The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring:; Revealing the Secrets Behind the Production of the Epic Adventure: "Welcome to Middle-earth," "Quest for the Ring," "A Passage to Middle-earth"; Featurettes created for lordoftherings.net, exploring the locales and cultures of Middle-earth: "Finding Hobbiton," "Hobbiton Comes Alive," "Believing the World of Bree," "Ringwraths: The Fallen Kings," "Rivendel: The Elven Refuge," "Languages of Middle-earth," "Two Wizards," "Music of Middle-earth," "Elijah Wood," "Viggo Mortensen," "Orlando Bloom," "Cate Blanchett," "Liv Tyler," "Ian McKellan," and "Weathertop: The Windy Hill"; Exclusive ten-minute behind-the-scenes preview of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; Original theatrical trailers and TV spots; Enya "May it Be" music video; Preview of Electronic Arts' video game The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; An inside look at the Special Extended DVD Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the... See less

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