Oscar Talk: Box Office vs. The Academy

Posted by: Mike Walkey  •  February 21, 2012 @ 6:22pm

If you read the list of nominees this year, or any year, and wondered, "I've never heard of these films," you're not alone.

Year after year, the Academy overlooks many of the top-grossing films of the year in favour of smaller films that play in far fewer theatres and make much less money.

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Alcatraz: Johnny McKee

Posted by: Andrew Burns  •  February 20, 2012 @ 9:35pm

It was bound to happen sooner or later but seven episodes in Alcatraz delivers its first 'meh' episode. If television had a scale for good and bad entertainment this week's episode "Johnny McKee" would remain horizontal the whole way through.

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Underground & Overseas: Black Mirror

Posted by: Tony Hinds  •  February 20, 2012 @ 8:17am

In exchange for the safe return of a kidnapped Princess, the British PM must decide if he will submit to a sickening form of public humiliation... A loner living in a corporate dystopia makes a violent attempt to free himself from a life of plodding servitude...

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The Walking Dead: Triggerfinger

Posted by: S.P. Young  •  February 20, 2012 @ 12:12am

"You killed the living, to protect what's yours?"

Nightfall has arrived, making the perfect setting for a zombie survival horror scene.

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Fringe: A Better Human Being

Posted by: Andrew Burns  •  February 19, 2012 @ 11:35pm

Some say less is more. Others say bigger is better. In the case of this week's Fringe episode "A Better Human Being" both statements ring true in the best ways possible with small story twists leading to huge possibilities.

Fringe may be many things, but formulaic is not one of them.

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Glee: Heart

Posted by: Mike Walkey  •  February 19, 2012 @ 8:07am

This week's Glee Club assignment is "The World's Greatest Love Songs", which is a pretty broad assignment, if you ask me. But it does provide the show with some nice expressions of affection through song.

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Alcatraz: Paxton Petty

Posted by: Andrew Burns  •  February 19, 2012 @ 12:37am

Alcatraz started easing in their audiences with some of the sick & twisted variety of felons in the beginning but it looks like they are getting to the hard-core criminals as of late.

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Supernatural: Repo Man

Posted by: Kyle Tetarenko  •  February 19, 2012 @ 12:33am

Four years ago, Sam and Dean saved Jeffrey from a demon that had possessed him.

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Review: Albert Nobbs

Posted by: Tony Hinds  •  February 17, 2012 @ 8:04am

Meek and soft spoken, Albert Nobbs goes through life with her eyes always averted, never challenging others. And no, 'her' was not a typo. Albert Nobbs is unquestionably a woman. Set in Dublin in the late 1800s, the film follows Nobbs (Glenn Close), a lonely houseman, working (and living) in the upscale Morrison Hotel.

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The Vampire Diaries: All My Children

Posted by: Kyle Tetarenko  •  February 16, 2012 @ 9:36pm

Since Esther told her that she planned to kill her entire family, Elena has been torn as to whether she should save Elijah or let Esther destroy him along with Klaus and rest of the originals.

Following the emotional fallout after last week, Stefan and Elena are brooding (which usually happens at the end of each episode).

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