Michael Lee
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Talking Horror With the Writers of John Carpenter’s ‘The Ward’
I sat down with the Rasmussen brothers to discuss working with Carpenter, their favorite films — and the future of horror
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The Summer Movie All Stars: From Tudyk to Byrne, Who Has Stood Out
While Major League Baseball pauses mid-summer to honor its heavy hitters, we’re doing the same thing for the major studios
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10 Ways to Un-Screw Up ‘Green Lantern’
Instead of a franchise starter, Warner Bros. ended up with a $200 million lesson in what not to do — will they heed that lesson?
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The Top 10 Biggest Detective Blunders on AMC’s ‘The Killing’
It would have been a great show, if not for the offensive amount of crime-solving sloppiness
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Shocked by ‘Game of Thrones’? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet!
All of us who’ve read the books know that the bad news is just getting started
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‘Thor’s’ Villain: Tragic Hero … or Was He Playing Everyone?
Here’s why most of the film’s praise is aimed at the villain Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston, branded “one of the best villains ever in a comic-book movie”
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No New ‘Wonder Woman’? No Worries — We Still Have the Super Heroines of the ’70s
Until David E. Kelley’s “Wonder Woman” pilot surfaces online we have the Lynda Carter version to sustain us — along with other heroines of that era
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The Best Movie You Haven’t Seen
About bringing simple cataract surgery to developing countries, “Out of the Darkness” is an adventure worthy of Kipling — but it’s all real
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Why ‘Your Highness’ Is the Biggest Disappointment of the Year
It’s the kind of bad that leaves you feeling angry and cheated because it’s due to a lack of commitment
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It’s the Audience That Gets Sucker Punched in the Dreadful ‘Sucker Punch’
Main characters aren’t like batteries or light bulbs that you can swap out
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An Open Letter to David E. Kelley RE: Wonder Woman
It doesn’t matter if you assemble a brilliant cast and dodge all the network pitfalls if the end product sucks — so I’ve got some suggestions
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The Best Film of 2010 — It’s Yogi Bear
No, not that thing in theaters — it’s this animated spoof of “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”
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Hollyblog: What I Hope HBO Gets Right on ‘Game of Thrones’
The network has to go into George R. R. Martin’s still unfinished mammoth project without fully knowing where it will all end up
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After Harry — What ‘Potter’ Kids Should Do Next
For Daniel, Emma, Rupert and Tom, their next choices could make all the career difference in the world — ask Harrison Ford
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‘Continuity’ Can Be the Death of a TV Show
The longer a show’s continuity the greater the risk that the producers and writers will take a turn that disappoints or angers a sizeable portion of the base