Posts by Tara Ariano
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Video on Demand Report: Giant Lizards vs. Giant Robots in Pacific Rim
The Headliner Pacific Rim It’s the relatively near future. The Earth is in turmoil. What’s ruining everyone’s good time — the catastrophic effects of climate change? Economic collapse? Oh my, no: It’s all the giant lizards that keep swimming out of an interdimensional fault in the floor of the Pacific Ocean. But the humans aren’t […]
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Freak Show & Tell: Prayers for Marques
Every week, television documentaries present us with so many unusual people, with so many strange and/or disturbing problems, you might find it hard to keep up with all of them. That’s where I come in! Here’s an unflinching look back at TV’s Week in Freak Shows. Doomsday Preppers Bugged Out (Nat Geo) Who Is This […]
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Video on Demand Report: The Wolfpack Calls It a Day in The Hangover Part III
The Headliner The Hangover Part III Like the Ocean’s franchise before it, The Hangover started with a wild caper in Las Vegas; made its sequel more exotic by setting it overseas; and then humbly returned to Vegas for its threequel. Two years have passed since the gang (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, and junior […]
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Video on Demand Report: This Is the End, The Croods, and Linsanity
The Headliner This Is the End When This Is the End debuted, Grantland’s own Girls in Hoodies reviewed it for their podcast, with Molly Lambert drawing attention to the movie’s casual homophobia and reliance on rape jokes, both of which are present and neither of which I can defend. That said: It really made me […]
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Freak Show & Tell: Dragged Kicking and Screaming
Every week, television documentaries present us with so many unusual people, with so many strange and/or disturbing problems, you might find it hard to keep up with all of them. That’s where I come in! Here’s an unflinching look back at TV’s Week in Freak Shows. Tough Love: Co-Ed (VH1) Who Is This Now? Paj. Why Are […]
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Video on Demand Report: Joss Whedon Goes Back to Basics With Much Ado About Nothing
The Headliner Much Ado About Nothing Say you’ve just finished directing (and writing) one of the highest-grossing movies in history — a superhero super-epic that super-redeems you from past underperformers. How do you possibly follow up that kind of astronomical success? … Well, fine, you work on a TV spin-off of your franchise. But in […]
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Freak Show & Tell: My Big Fat Revenge Is the Most Useless Show Ever, Huh?
Every week, television documentaries present us with so many unusual people, with so many strange and/or disturbing problems, you might find it hard to keep up with all of them. That’s where I come in! Here’s an unflinching look back at TV’s Week in Freak Shows. My Big Fat Revenge (Oxygen) Who Is This Now? […]
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Video on Demand Report: World War Z, Now With More Zombie Dismemberment
The Headliner World War Z It’s not that all movies need to be extremely gory, OK? I’m not an animal. I’m a respectable person — a Canadian person, for God’s sake — who abhors real violence. But when approximately every other scene in your movie requires someone to kill a zombie with whatever happens to […]
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The Nine People You Meet in a Dance-Battle Movie
Battle of the Year krumps its way into theaters today, and while I haven’t been fortunate enough to see it yet … in a way, I kind of have, because other than the specific choreography, all dance movies are kind of exactly the same. Here are the nine people you meet in a dance-battle movie […]
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Freak Show & Tell: Trapped in the Pantry
Every week, television documentaries present us with so many unusual people, with so many strange and/or disturbing problems, you might find it hard to keep up with all of them. That’s where I come in! Here’s an unflinching look back at TV’s Week in Freak Shows. My Big Fat Revenge (Oxygen) Who Is This Now? […]
