Artistic Veritas

Reviews of current literary and cinematic offerings.

Saturday, October 04, 2008

Tropic Thunder & Iron Man, or Why Robert Downey Jr. is my secret boyfriend

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I'm not a comic book reader, so I neither know, nor care, when a comic book becomes a movie and then doesn't stay true to the cannon...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Movie Reviews: 21, Departed, Tombstone

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I’ve got three movie reviews for you – one now in theaters and two rentals. It’s unfortunate that I saw these back to back because two are s...
Tuesday, December 19, 2006

DVD Review: The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

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Get Your Nostalgia On You always hear people talking about “the good old days” – usually referring to something within their childhood, like...
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Friday, November 24, 2006

DVD Review: An Evening with Kevin Smith

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I’ve always been a fan of Kevin Smith’s writing. I know, technically he is thought of as a director, but for me it’s really the dialog that ...
Saturday, November 11, 2006

Book Reviews: Echo Park and Born in Death

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My pleasure reading of choice has always been mysteries. While I’ll watch any genre when it comes to movies or tv, I’m all about the mysteri...
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Saturday, November 04, 2006

Movie Review: Running with Scissors

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Running with Scissors is based on the book of the same title by Augusten Burroughs. It’s his memoir, and my god, what a childhood he had. Fr...
Friday, October 27, 2006

TV Reviews: "Lost" Wannabes

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When I start reading a new comic book, I will give it four issues before I decide to keep reading or drop it. Some books start strong, some...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Movie Review: The Illusionist

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So, I finally got to go out and see a movie I wanted to see, for the third time this year. Lucky for me, it was only two months old, so ther...
Saturday, October 21, 2006

This Week in Equalizer

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Just in case you "have a job" and can't stay home to watch syndicated TV shows from the 80's, here's what you missed. ...

TV Reviews: Survivor & Amazing Race

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Survivor: Cook Islands Genre: Competitive Reality Channel: CBS Premise: A bunch of people are stranded on an island to fend for themselve...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

There but for the Grace of God go I

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My daughter handed me a Passport (identity card) of someone who lived through the Holocaust, when we entered the United States Holocaust Mem...
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TV Review: The Equalizer

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Genre: Action Drama Channel: Spike Season: 4 (Syndication) The Premise: Robert McCall is a former agent of an unnamed government agency w...
Monday, October 16, 2006

Still Not Dead

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We're working our way back from lots of life events. While you're looking for something to read, check out: SaraJ's Holocaust Mu...
Wednesday, October 11, 2006

We're Not Dead - We're Just on Holiday

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Due to Chris' most excellent birthday, we're slacking. We'll be back. Stay tuned.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006

TV Review: Friday Night Lights

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Genre: Drama Channel: NBC Season: 1 The Premise: A small town in Texas revolves around its high school football team, which is ranked #1...
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Sunday, September 24, 2006

TV Review: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Original)

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Genre: Drama Channel: CBS Season: 7 The Premise: Crime Scene Investigation. Heck, if you don’t know what CSI is by now, you’ve been livi...
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Thursday, September 21, 2006

TV Reivew: Smith

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Genre: Drama Channel: CBS Season: 1 The Premise: Normal, traveling cup salesman, family guy is actually a master criminal. Why this shou...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

TV Review: Vanished

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Genre: Drama Channel: FOX Season: 1 The Premise: The wife of a Georgia senator is kidnapped. Wackiness ensues. I've watched 4 episod...
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

TV Review: Studio 60

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Genre: Drama Channel: NBC Season: 1 The Premise: Two star writers come to save a SNL-type show -- as seen from the backstage. From NBC: ...
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Friday, September 15, 2006

Underrated Badass of Cinema: LL Cool J

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Here’s why LL Cool J is the undisputed biggest badass of scary movies: LL Cool J is the only black man that EVER survives a scary movie. EVE...
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Leaving a Bad Flavor

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A few weeks ago, I professed my love for VH1's "Flavor of Love." It's junk food TV, meaning that it has no redeeming val...
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Thursday, September 14, 2006

None Of Us Are Dead (That We Know Of)

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We here at AV would like to extend a heartfelt apology to all four of our dedicated readers. We have slacked, for one reason or another, whi...
Friday, August 25, 2006

Underrated Badass of Cinema: Samantha Caine/Charly Baltimore

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Back when Samuel L. Jackson was a badass [when he screamed Fuck You Motherfucker! You knew he would Fuck. You. Up . Watching trailers of...
Thursday, August 24, 2006

Underrated Badass of Cinema: Quint

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First off, can we all agree that Jaws is just a fantastic movie? Actually, screw it, I don't care if you agree or not; just know that i...
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Underrated Badasses of Cinema Week!

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This may or may not work, but I am all about the theme weeks, even if they start on a Friday. So my particular theme next week: Underrated B...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

TV Review: Weeds

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Genre: Drama Channel: Showtime Season: 2 currently airing; 1 on DVD The premise: Widowed mom sells pot to support her kids and ultra sub...
Thursday, August 10, 2006

TV Review: 30 Days

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Genre: Documentary Reality Channel: FX Season: 2 currently airing; 1 on DVD Morgan Spurlock is best known as the guy who ate nothing but ...
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

TV Review: Life On Mars

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Sorry about the lateness of the last of my Summer Shows I'm TiVo-ing Week , but I see that Sara and Jake valiantly came to the rescue to...

TV Review: EUReKA

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The premise: Crazy, secret small town where science is king and abnormal is the norm. The result: Comedic SciFi. Eureka, a SciFi original ...
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Monday, August 07, 2006

TV Review: Project Runway

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The premise: aspiring designers desecrate themselves, jump through fashion hoops, and argue with snooty judges. The result: fashion dreams...
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