Posts by Max Silvestri
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Rachael vs. Guy, Week 4: Sloppies’ Seconds
It’s the episode we’ve not been waiting for; the remaining cast of Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off tackle the sinister and mysterious food truck craze, if you define a “craze” as just a “thing that has comfortably and unexcitedly just gone on existing for what seems like over half a decade now.” This episode was […]
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Rob Lowe IS Drew Peterson Who IS Untouchable in Lifetime’s Drew Peterson: Untouchable
“I’m untouchable, bitch.” It only took Rob Lowe three words to capture the hearts and the minds of an entire generation (or at least just me) when Lifetime released the trailer for its original movie Drew Peterson: Untouchable last month. The film finally premiered on Saturday, and it succeeds in turning a depressing true crime […]
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We Found It on Watch Instantly: Steel Sharks With Gary Busey
What It’s About: A team of Navy SEALs must escape from an Iranian sub and free a captured chemical weapons expert. Who It’s For: Billy Warlock. I was drawn to this week’s Queue Review selection by its cast (Gary Busey, Billy Dee Williams, and Billy Warlock; two Billies!) and its title: Steel Sharks. To what […]
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Rachael vs. Guy, Week 3: Just Three More Weeks of This
It’s hard to imagine Rachael Vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off teaching anybody anything useful, save perhaps when to say no to class A drugs and elective surgeries, but most reality competition shows could learn a thing or two from the Cook-Off’s six-episode season. Six is plenty of episodes for this sort of horseshit. “On episode sixteen […]
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We Found It On Watch Instantly: Flesh Wounds With Kevin Sorbo
Each week, Netflix Watch Instantly adds hundreds of new titles. Four or five are movies you want to watch, some are bad TV shows or camp classics, and most make no sense at all. Those in the latter category are puzzling: not bad enough to be good and certainly not good enough to be interesting. […]
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Beyond Chunderdome: Rachael vs. Guy, Week 2
When judges eliminated America’s Sick Kid (Aaron Carter) in the first episode, I’ll admit that I was unsure whether or not Rachael Vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off had legs. I was also unsure whether Aaron Carter had legs, because his vests and Jigsaw face make him look like a ventriloquist’s dummy. Are we sure we ever […]
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We Found It on Watch Instantly: 11-11-11
Each week, Netflix Watch Instantly adds hundreds of new titles. Four or five are movies you want to watch, some are bad TV shows or camp classics, and most make no sense at all. Those in the latter category are puzzling: not bad enough to be good and certainly not good enough to be interesting. […]
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Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off Apocalypse
As someone who watches Top Chef, a number of things have always troubled me about the format. One, almost none of the chefs were in the movie Young Guns. Two, many of them seem to have previous cooking experience, or at the very least to have eaten normal human food through their mouths. Three, not […]
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We Found It on Watch Instantly: Death Race 2 With Ving Rhames
Each week, Netflix Watch Instantly adds hundreds of new titles. Four or five are movies you want to watch, some are bad TV shows or camp classics, and most make no sense at all. Those in the latter category are puzzling: not bad enough to be good and certainly not good enough to be interesting. […]
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We Found It on Watch Instantly: Emmanuelle Chriqui in Waltzing Anna
What It’s About: A corrupt elderly caregiver is sentenced to give more care to the elderly at a nursing home, which is filled with different types of characters and lessons. Who It’s For: The guy who has to cut the sizzle reel for the writer/actor’s funeral video. When I first spoke with the Grantland folks […]
