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I am really, really glad I decided not to watch 24 this year.
So Jack meets up with his brother, who’s much uglier and less charismatic than Jack is (you can sort of see why the guy was driven to the Dark Side), and Jack almost immediately starts torturing him. It’s as if the Bauer family […]

I’m not suprised that I don’t know any of the songs, but how is it that I have never even heard of the artists for 5 of the top 10 songs on iTunes for 2006?  I feel old.
# Daniel Powter - “Bad Day”
# Nelly Furtado - “Promiscuous”
# James Blunt - “You’re Beautiful”
# Gnarls Barkley - […]

HBO hears word, brings ‘Preacher’ to small screen - washingtonpost.com
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - HBO has seen the light and is bringing “Preacher” to the small screen.  The pay cable network is developing a one-hour series based on the popular Vertigo comics series.
“Preacher,” which ran from 1995-2000, told the story of a down-and-out Texas preacher […]

Space balls | Salon Arts & Entertainment
Surely you’ve heard by now (because we’ve certainly repeated it often enough) that “Battlestar Galactica,” the new remake of the cheesy ’70s series, is the most thrilling and trenchant dramatic series on TV at the moment (except, of course, for “The Wire”). Maybe you still haven’t given it a […]

Ain’t It Cool News has a piece about the new 2-disc rerelease of the soundtrack to The Nightmare Before Christmas (coinciding with the release of the movie in 3-D, which as far as I can see isn’t playing in my area, dammit). It sounds like it might be worth picking up:
Marilyn Manson, along with […]

I’ve been meaning to write a television post, now that the new season has had a chance to soak in.

I like Aaron Sorkin. I think the cast is mostly great. But I’m not really in love with Studio 60. Apparently I’m not alone in this. I want to like it, and […]

TV might cause autism - Slate Magazine
Today, Cornell University researchers are reporting what appears to be a statistically significant relationship between autism rates and television watching by children under the age of 3. The researchers studied autism incidence in California, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington state. They found that as cable television became common in California […]

If your problem with the current wave of coldblooded horror movies is that they’re insufficiently mean-spirited, let me point you toward Terry Gilliam’s “Tideland,” the misanthropic nadir of the director’s crash-and-burn career.
Don’t bother waiting through the ad on Salon to read the rest of it, you’ve pretty much gotten the gist of the review.