May 2010

A&E Network announces the original scripted drama series, " The Glades " (previously titled "Sugarloaf"). "The Glades," a character driven police procedural set in the fictional town of Palm Glade, Florida, stars Australian actor Matt Passmore ("McLeod's Daughters," "Underbelly"), Kiele Sanchez ("Lost," "Samantha Who?") and Carlos Gómez ("Shark," "Sleeper Cell").

In "The Glades," Passmore stars as Jim Longworth, an attractive, brilliant, yet hard to get along with homicide detective from

In a unique effort Audi has created its signature sound: from music to voicemail.

Sending heartfelt and sincerest sympathies to Jorge Garcia on the passing of his beloved dog Nunu. You can read Jorge’s story at his blog DispachesFromTheIsland.

Reviewing the events of the series; past and present cast members discuss their experiences.

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A&E has solidified its place as the fourth largest entertainment cable network among adults 18-49, continuing its phenomenal ratings growth behind the strength of the network's Real Life Drama brand and expansive slate of original series.

A record year across all key demos in 2009 capped off six consecutive years of growth and A&E began 2010 with the best quarter in network history. A&E is driving its 'Real Life. Drama.' brand with an original programming slate featuring an unprecedented

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The season finale of [H]ouse is airing  Monday, May 17th on FOX at 8pm titled, “Help Me”.  It was directed by Greg Yaitanes (Children of Dune, Bones, House).
It was shot on the Canon 5D Mark II DSLR, a still camera that shoots stunning HD motion footage. This camera was also used extensively on the SyFy series Caprica.
According to Greg, “it has a sensor the same size as the Vistavision 35mm horizontal format… 8 perf full frame… but given the fast Canon lenses available , (50mm T1.0, 85mm T1.2 for example)… creates of the look of ‘big cinema’ 70mm film which gave us a very shallow depth of field.”
Here is an interview with Greg about the episode.
http://philipbloom.co.uk/other-stuff/case-studies/greg-yaitanes-house-interview-transcription/
Initially the camera could only shoot 30 or 25 fps, which made it a nightmare for post. I’m not sure if it was a firmware upgrade, but we were able to get 24 fps on Caprica. It has a 21 megapixel sensor, and is incredibly sensitive to light. Finally, it is able to shoot 30 minutes of 1080p, and can use a wireless transmission device for storage.

By Edgar Burcksen, A.C.E.
I’ve had it with Final Cut. After editing three documentaries with enormous amounts of footage, enduring multiple crashes every day, with media that had to be reconnected every time, waiting for shots to render at every turn and losing many edits to unexplainable saving miscues, I finally told the producer of my upcoming editing job – another documentary with enormous amounts of footage – that it had to be ported to Avid from Final Cut Pro.
I started out on film and worked on flatbeds and uprights and then from the early tape based off-line video editing systems like Convergence to the laser based non-linear editing on Editdroids to the early Avid Film Composer, but none are as inadequate in dealing with the intricacies of editing long form film or TV projects than Final Cut Pro.
I embraced “electronic” editing in the early nineties because it expanded my creative possibilities especially with the advance of the Editdroid which I used on the Young Indiana Jones TV series at Lucas Film. Opticals like speed changes, flops (we called them mirror image), blow-ups, dissolves, fades, wipes, color corrections, titles, etc. all of the sudden became a ready to use arsenal in my daily work. After dealing with Final Cut Pro (FCP) in the last two years I felt like I was slowly being boxed in again, because all the freedoms I earned as an editor were complicated and annihilated by the clumsiness of FCP. I had long resisted working on FCP and even rejected some jobs because they were on that system. I finally relented when a job came along that was too good to refuse, thinking that a tool is a tool and I could probably learn how to work on it in a couple of days. That turned out to be true, mastering FCP is not a big thing, editing is editing and FCP had come a long way according to some editors.
Well for me that turned out not to be the case. FCP has two major flaws and in addition to those a myriad of smaller but not less annoying ones. First FCP is designed as an all-in-one system: you input your media, edit it, finalize it with all the effects, opticals and color correction tools available in it and you’re ready to output for your final product to be screened or broadcast. This might all be good if you are only editing small projects that only use one format and uses FCP to output the final. But in the real world you’re mostly dealing with different formats, different frame rates and massive amounts of footage that needs to be managed by assistants.
FCP might be fine to do an output that you can use as a final, but forget trying to use any of the lists or formats that FCP tries to spew out to talk to other machines or facilities because it is a complete nightmare. Ever tried the FCP to give you an accurate change list? FCP is arrogantly designed as its own entity, not needing to talk to anything else but itself. When you’re operating in the long form TV and movie business, it just does not work.
Avid has always worked as a link in the chain of post production making sure it would be able to talk to all the platforms through OMF, ALE, AMA and other tools. Over time Avid has added the gear to make it a finishing tool as well.
So what are the detailed gripes I have with Final Cut Pro? When you create a project in FCP it has a limited project size that you become aware of when your project starts to grow beyond 100 MB. Frequent crashes are the result and the bigger the project the slower the start-up. Because of the limits of the project size you have to create multiple projects to make your media accessible in a workable way; for example different projects for camera media, archival material, sound effects, and music. When you go through a lot of edits and re-edits of your sequences you have to create different projects, and when they become too big and when you want to move around through these projects because you want to rearrange your sequences or use an older edit that seemed better than the one you currently use, you have to make sure that you don’t have more than three projects open because… you guessed it; FCP will become more prone to crash.
When you crash you hope that it has saved your latest edit. Well this might not have happened because FCP only saves the project highlighted in the project bin. If you have the media project open because you last checked out a shot, it will save the media project, a useless exercise because nothing ever changes in it apart from media additions. Why it does not save the timeline you’re working in, is a mystery to me. Yes, I know there’s a Save All button but when you’re in the momentum of editing, you don’t think about that. And shouldn’t the Autosave function take care of that? Noooo.
When you import media with a different frame rate or format from your project, you have to render it to make it run smoothly. When you move these shots around they lose their render and it makes FCP prone to crash. If you want to prevent this from happening you have to export these shots (with the project settings in place) and import them again. You lose all the pertinent information of the shots which you have to manually input. In Avid when you import a shot of whatever frame rate and/or format it creates a new media file that you can use and abuse however you want. In FCP when you attach some kind of effect and/or formatting to the shot it makes it even more vulnerable and prone to crash.
In Avid you can put any sequence you have created in the source monitor and use it as a source you can cut in as a whole or partial. By using the toggle button it will give you even the timeline of the sequence with a yellow position indicator so you can chose whatever you want to cut into your sequence. You can move video or sound tracks around to fit into the timeline you’re editing. In FCP you can move a sequence into the source monitor but it loses all the pertinent information attached to each individual clip. It becomes its own entity with no reference to the original: not very useful. To do what you can easily do in Avid using the source monitor, you have to copy and paste the exact piece you want from one sequence into another.
(Editor Note: you can copy clips, then hit Shift+V to ripple insert those clips in another sequence, but this is not obvious or well known)
The effects in FCP are awkward too but that’s something you can learn to live with once you’ve figured out where they all live and how to manipulate them. Some effects live in the effects tool tab but others live embedded in the source monitor. Motion effects you’ll find in the source monitor, just like titles and sizing. Most other effects you’ll find in the effects tab organized in categories that you have to get used to. What all the effects have in common is that they need to be rendered otherwise won’t play them properly or becomes prone to crash. Move your shot one frame and you have render it again and this goes for the titles as well. In Avid when you create a title, you create a media file that you can manipulate any way you want to without re-rendering.
The trim tool is worthless in FCP because it always goes into clip collision mode or something like that so you find work-arounds: to refine your edits you resort to a typical FCP view, you start stacking shots so you can move them individually until they fit right. The clean ‘one video track’ mode with effects, titles or superimposed shots in other tracks of the Avid is thrown out. In FCP you have easily 12 video tracks just to cover a simple edit without much else going on.
Crashing is annoying but in FCP it is extremely annoying. It happens most of the time totally unexpected; you’re editing away, absorbed by the momentum and “plop” everything disappears to put you back at the computers desktop. When that doesn’t happen it starts to hang and the colorful spinning beach ball appears, inviting you to force quit the application. Most of the time in Avid you will get a message that the computer is about to crash, so either continue or force quit. It gives you the chance to save before you force quit.
On my last project on FCP SOS/ State Of Security, a documentary with about 250 hours of footage, I crashed at least 5 times a day, sometimes 5 times an hour when I had to work in multiple projects with a lot of archival footage that always needed to be rendered. Darfur Now a similar project I edited on Avid: during the almost one year of editing I crashed maybe three times. Bluetopia, the Dodgers baseball documentary edited on the Avid during a period of six months, there were two crashes. Crashes on FCP also make that you often lose media connections that you have to reconnect and renders that have to be re-rendered; all these are time consuming momentum killing annoyances.
Is everything bad on FCP? No, you can actually port over your personal Avid keyboard settings to FCP. Also a nice feature is the interactivity of the timeline: you can drag and drop clips on the time line and extend or shorten shots by dragging the end or beginning of a shot. But is this enough to reconsider working on FCP? No, because the new Avid Media Composer 5 has these features added to its repertoire.
What about this as a replacement: Diane Weynand wrote a book called Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors, may I suggest that she should write a book called Avid Media Composer for Final Cut Pro Editors? Because with the latest software updates for the Media Composer and the fact that Avid also has made their pricing equivalent to Final Cut Pro, there’s no reason for me to use Final Cut Pro ever again.
Setup:
FCP 6.0., Mac Pro 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon, 5 GB of RAM, AJA Kona 3
3 G-Technology RAID 5 towers total 9 TB SATA,  1 G-Technology 1 TB drive SATA
1 G-Technology 1 TB drive FireWire 800
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A man finds himself disoriented and doesn't know where he is...

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The Man in Black’s final fate is determined, and one survivor must make the ultimate sacrifice to save the island. Meanwhile, in another life, the ones who might have been the survivors gather for a final time.

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When William and Walter visit the Harvard lab in the Alternate Universe, there is a strange phrase written on a chalkboard: "A DEMON'S TWIST RUSTS". The phrase is an anagram for:

DON'T TRUST SAM WEISS
Sam Weiss is dude from the bowling alley that Olivia has visited several times for advice, and was also the secret glyph clue for "Over There, Part 2".

Why would Sam Weiss be someone not to be trusted? Who left this message in the alternate universe? Do they mean the Sam Weiss from our universe, of the one from "over there"?

* Thanks to Andrew for decoding this!

Here is the red "alternate universe" Fringe title sequence. Besides the obvious fact that everything is red, there is at least one fringe science element that is different - something called "First People".

Tonight on Fringe is Part 2 of the Fringe Season 2 finale "Over There".
As always, we'll have a LIVE Fringe chat from 9:00 PM to 12:00 PM ET, if you want to talk with other Fringe fans, during or after the show. We usually play "spot the observer", and "What's the glyph code?", plus discuss the action on the show. To join the chat, visit the Fringe chat room, enter your name or a nickname, and join the fun! (please don't use the default mib_xxxxx nickname!)
To discuss this or any other Fringe episode, head over to the Fringe Episodes section!
Also, don't forget to check the Fringe Easter Eggs section for Observer sightings, Glyph codes, and other Fringe hidden clues.

How would your rate "Over There, Part 2"?

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Here is the "Exclusive clip from the Fringe finale" that was mentioned in the Ford Taurus commercials shown during Over There, Part 2.

In the Fringe episode "The Man From The Other Side", we saw some video from "over there", in which a US flag with only 48 stars was shown. In "Over There, Part 2", we can see a map that shows what the differences are here are there. It appears in the alternate universe:

• Washington is called Southern British Colombia
• California is missing half of the state (perhaps because of the "big one")
• Nevada is called Independent Nevada
• Texas is divided into North and South Texas (+1)
• North and South Dakota are combined into one Dakota (-1)
• Kansas and Oklahoma are combined into one Midland (-1)
• Louisiana is called Louisiana Territory
• Michigan is missing its upper half
• North and South Carolina are combined into one Carolina (-1)
• Virginia and West Virginia are combined into one District of Virginia  (-1)

Based on the pluses and minuses, that would give us 47 states, assuming we count Hawaii and Alaska.

UPDATE: Here is a high-res version of the map:

After displaying a talent for judging contests, Moe is invited to appear on “American Idol”; Homer gets on Marge’s nerves when he spends too much time at home.

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When the press learns that Sabre’s printers catch on fire, Jo (Kathy Bates) tries to find out who the whistle-blower is.

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In "Over There", an Observer leaves a drawing for Olivia which depicts Peter as some sort of Alternate Universe weapon. Olivia later shows this drawing to Peter. The drawing shows that Peter is the key to Secretary Walternate's plans to destroy the other side. The bottom of the drawing is encoded with a genetic sequence, presumable matching Peters.Here is a high-res version of that drawing:

In the Fringe season finale "Over There", Peter is taken to an apartment, where he and Alt-Olivia discuss how the two universes are different. The Secretary (Walter-nate) left some personal effects for him, including a family photo and some framed comics.

DC Comics has an interesting interview with Geoff Johns and Hank Kanalz regarding these alternate versions of famous comics:
One of the first calls I got was from the director of the Fringe season finale – writer/producer/director Akiva Goldsman. He was shooting a scene in an alternate world where things weren’t exactly like ours. Where even the smallest details were somewhat off. Including the comics. Together with executive producer Jeff Pinker, Akiva wanted to showcase an array of DC Comics that could’ve been including the ones you can see below. He wanted them to be as authentic as possible. Something only the hardcore would really recognize.
Here are the covers of the Alternate comics, and I also tracked down the originals as well:

A domesticated Shrek hatches a plan to recapture his mojo and discovers what life in Far Far Away land would have been like had he never existed in this final chapter of the popular animated film series. There used to be a time when the villagers would run in terror at the mere mention of the name Shrek, but these days the big green ogre is married...

I played the very first Prince of Persia game in my old PC in the 1990's and it was a slick game. So when I saw the trailer for the the very first Prince of Persia movie (although it was based on a later version of the game), I was pretty amped up. I figured this could be a good franchise.

But after watching the movie, I hope they won't make a sequel.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has the signature of Jerry Bruckheimer film, but it falls flat on generating excitement and memorable action sequences. The chemistry between the titular prince (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) and the princess (played by Gemma Arterton), one of the key parts of the making the movie go forward, is as generic as they come.

The sense of adventure seems to be lost in the whole movie's preoccupation with sand, time travel, and politics. There's no major threat to give folks a big reason to root for the Prince. The supporting characters, save of Alfred Molina's, are forgettable. If you're a fan of big twists though, you'll like how the film wraps up.

For me, the ultimate flaw of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is doesn't have enough character the great ones have. All you have is just... sand.

Rating: 1.5/5

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Wow, Shrek is re-writing the book on "How to Milk a Film Franchise."

Shrek Forever After is not only the weakest of the Shrek series so far, but seems me a play by Dreamworks' at the 3D goldrush.

The story could be seen as Shrek in the Twilight Zone as the lovable ogre is transported to an alternate universe no thanks to a shady deal with the devious Rumpelstiltskin.What makes the premise rather unacceptable for me is that the whole premise of the alternate universe/timeline is a bad fir in the fantasy realm of Shrek.

If the plot was bad enough, the jokes in the movie is a rehash of what the first movies had done. Kids will surely like the physical humor and the animation, but adults will rant at the lack of originality. The franchise seems to have run out of fresh ideas-- even the talents of Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, and Antonio Banderas couldn't lift this film.

Shrek Forever After qualifies as an exercise of futility for me. I suggest renting the first two Shrek movies and admire the series at its peak.

Rating: 1.5/5

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It's good to be blogging about movies again! I got married and was on vacation for almost a month and what a perfect way to get back in the blogging groove by reviewing a movie about a wedding.

Here Comes The Bride is a comedy about trading places-- five characters are on their way to a wedding when a (super)natural event causes them to switch bodies. Angelica Panganiban, Eugene Domingo, Tuesday Vargas, John Lapus, and Jaime Fabregas play the five seemingly flawed characters that for different reasons complemented the flaw of another person. The movie gets its funny moments from the mismatch and role reversals due to the body/soul switching. It also helps that Eugene Domingo and John Lapus brought their "A" game.

Helmed by the talented Chris Martinez (writer of Kimmy Dora: Kambal Sa Kiyeme and director/writer of 100), the movie shows that Filipino comedy can go beyond slapstick and toilet humor. There may be a lot of rough edges in the production and really unbelievable situations (like how come it took them such a long time to figure things out?), but the actors and their performances take the limelight. This film may be Angelica Panganiban's steady (but a little awkward) break into comedy films.

The talent of the cast and the creative folks behind the movie is reason enough to watch Here Comes The Bride. I, for one, am glad that there's a nice Filipino film this year that's not titled after a pop song.

Rating: 4/5

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Solitary ManVery Good Reviews, Key Cities (71.5% Positive). Solitary Man opened in key cities to very good reviews. • Amy Biancolli wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle, "...although the movie's end zone is visible from a long way off, Douglas brings us... More about this film...

Movie: Badmaash Company
Director: Parmeet Sethi
Cast: Shahid Kapur, Anushka Sharma, Veer Das, Meiyang Chang
Genre: Heist/Con
Rating: *
Ludicrous and boring! This is my reaction to the movie. I didn’t find anything worthy of entertainment in this movie. The so-called badmaashi didn’t appeal to me. The content seems to be so ingenuous that I have my doubts!
The narrative is not really innovative. The movie begins with Shahid and his friends making trip to Bangkok for a retailer. This trip frames Shahid’s perception of life and influences him to earn money quickly through unscrupulous means. Meanwhile, our hero has ample time to romance his girl and lead a lavish lifestyle with his bumchums. The screenplay explores Shahid’s rise and fall and then again a rise with hardly a bother from my end.
Here are few reasons why this movie could be in your AVOID list:

• Boring direction
• Dull storyline
• Foolish dialogues
• No solid grounding of the happenings in the movie
• Non-happening music
• Lack of emotions, thrills,suspense, characterization

Everything seems a cake walk in the movie. Having great ideas is not enough; execution matters a lot. The hero travels to US from Mumbai with much ease and elan.  I recollect Meiyang Chang  only indulging in finest liquors. (Hope, I didn’t fall asleep when he came on screen!) Veer Das seems wasted. Shahid acts amateurishly and I have no comments for Anushka. I feel bad that a fine actor like Pavan Malhotra has to play such poorly written roles! How can Yashraj even produce such a movie?
I don’t feel anything for any of the characters. Is this what Parmeet Sethi wrote in six days? True as they say, haste is waste. I don’t at all discourage the director but it’s necessary for the filmmaker to realize that if movie making is meant only to realize creative aspirations then better make the movie for home viewing. Don’t waste the hard earned money of the movie bufsf and scores of Hindi movie fans. Come on man! Deliver something that truly makes me feel that there is enough of true badmaashi and make me watch your movie over and over again!

The year 2000 saw ‘Ek Pal Ka Jeena’ and thereafter there has been no stopover. I am talking of Hrithik Roshan and his dance hits. His pelvic moves have swayed people like anything. This song in his debut movie followed by ‘Main Aisa Kyon Hoon’ of movie Lakshya and ‘Its Magic’ of movie Koi Mil Gaya have enthralled audiences worldwide. In his to be released movie, Kites, the charmer sways his body to a song called Fire.
If one has caught hold of the preview then one just can’t imagine the talent, versatility and sense of rhythm of this dancer. The dance moves are simply awesome. Here, he is with Locking Popping, Hip Hop and other dance forms. What is presented to the viewer is a dance competition scenario wherein a group of fellows seem to compete with Hrithik Roshan and Kangana Ranaut.
Have a look at Hrithik’s well-built body, his expressions, his body control and you’ll be amazed. Dressed in whites, both Hrithik and Kangana throw an attitude never seen before. The lighting scheme, camera angles render a good feel to the clip.
I wonder if a twelve second clip threw me into amazement and created a gush of adrenaline in my body, what the song would do. Could this be his best choreographed performance till date? Come May 21andthe verdict will be out.

Gaby puts herself at risk in an attempt to help Angie.

Comic Bill Engvall helps the team rebuild a house for a family in Texas struggling to overcome

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Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) is a very ordinary guy whose only ‘superpower’ is to be invisible to girls. But there is a nagging question going through his mind: Why did never anybody dress up as a costumed vigilante and went out there on the streets, protecting the good people and catching the bad? ‘Because they [...]

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Puccini’s Tosca will be broadcast live from Genoa’s Teatro Carlo Felice to cinemas across Europe on June 10, 2010. The production stars Daniela Dessì and Fabio Armiliato, two of the hottest stars on the European opera scene. American audiences will get a chance to catch Tosca (get it?) in September, when she’ll be hitting theatres in full force across the United States.

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Disneynature’s “Oceans”

Disneynature’s “Oceans” came out on the “Earth Day” Thursday, 2010, just like last year Disney’s “Earth” came out on the same date also. A small disclaimer: I have not seen Disney’s “Earth”.

1. The visuals in the “Oceans” are simply amazing. Most Earthlings will never see all that was shown in the movie, even with special equipment. From microscopic animals to biggest animal on earth, the Blue Whale – this film has it all in great detail. Captivating and enchanting visuals that make you yearn for more.
2. Many of the Earth’s oceans are covered – from Antarctica to equatorial Atlantic to South Pacific and Indian oceans.
3. I hate when movies are narrated (unless it’s done by Morgan Freeman) – my philosophy is that if the director needs narration then he is a really bad story teller. The only exception to this rule are nature, science and history documentaries – where a movie is created for the purpose of educating viewers. This is not the case with “Oceans” – you will be captivated with quality high-definition under-water cinematography and variety of life in the ocean, but you will probably learn nothing new.
4. Pierce Brosnan has a nice voice and style of narration, but there’s absolutely no information in the narrative. Brosnan basically reads poetry: “The fish are swimming, the shrimp are tiny, the slug called ‘Spanish dancer’ waves its red cape, the spider crabs gather for war”, and so on, but there’s no information as to why they do it. If you are expecting something similar to “March of the penguins”, you will be disappointed -without informative narrative the whole movie falls apart as an animated slide show. Why don’t we just “google” same images without paying the ticket price?
5. Of course, to keep the movie short – just 1 hour 20 minutes – the movie jumps from images of one animal to another trying to cover as many animals as possible, which reaffirms my previous statement about this movie being a slide show without any real story behind it, unlike “March of the Penguins” or “Walking with Dinosaurs” or similar movies.
6. I was going to say that you can watch this movie with sound muted because of dreadful, really disappointing narration, but here’s a great and unique thing about this movie: water is known to be a great conductor of sound, and the filmographers managed to record some of the most amazing sounds that ocean animals make – from the waling of whales (no pun) and clicking of dolphins, to the sound an oyster shell makes when it opens, or sound of a walking crab, or a sound of a fish being eaten by a predator, or sounds of crab and shrimp fighting under water.
7. Beautiful musical score
8. The boy in the beginning and end of the movie that was probably incorporated into the movie as a symbol, a call to preserve oceans for the future generations… the boy was ugly. He should be cast in “children of the corn” or some other creepy child-vampire movie.
9. The movie is tri-lingual, with Brosnan narrating English version, but there’s also a French and Italian ones.
10. If you ignore the retarded narrative, you will really enjoy and appreciate the beautiful diversity of life in our fragile oceans, which is what this movie, and the Earth day, are all about.

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This year, the Fremont Outdoor Movies is back for it’s biggest summer yet!  We are very excited to announce the 2010 season line-up of movies and look forward to seeing all of you on Saturday nights. There’s something for everybody and all ages, which includes a few Vampires, thousands of Zombies, pink prom party, male models, and a Vegas bachelor party gone bad, to name a few. We think it’s our best season yet.
The choices were tough with so many great movies out there to pick from, but we picked a handful of can’t miss movies that we all know and love and had to put back on the big screen this summer.
So grab your calenders, Facebook your friends, dust off your lawn chairs and a few blankets, and start planning your Saturday nights for some summer outdoor fun in Fremont. We will be announcing all of the games and re-show entertainment over the next few weeks, so keep checking back for more information each week.
Want to keep up with us on the go for the latest updates and news? Join us on Facebook Fan page and Twitter Page and get connected wherever your are for summer fun.
2010 FREMONT OUTDOOR MOVIES LINE UP (Doors open at 7pm and movie start at dusk)
Saturday, June 26th – Twilight: New Moon with ECLIPSE SNEAK PEAK (Free Screening – Opening Night)
Saturday, July 3rd – Red, White, and Dead Zombie Walk + Movie Party – Dawn of the Dead
Saturday, July 10th – Ghostbusters
Saturday, July 17th – The Hangover
Saturday, July 24th – Zoolander – Blue Steel’s Walk-Off Night
Saturday, July 31st – Fritz Lang’s Metropolis with Live Orchestra (Film version to be announced)
August 7th – Pretty in Pink – 80’s Prom Party Night with John Hughes Tribute: Through the Eyes of John Hughes
August 14th – The Goonies 25th Anniversary Celebration Party – “Never Say Die” Night
August 21st – May have one more film to announce, so stay tuned.

Ubisoft's popular video-game series of the same name gets adapted for the big screen in this sweeping fantasy adventure starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton. The setting is sixth century Persia. A nefarious nobleman covets the Sands of Time, a legendary gift from the gods that allows its possessor to turn back time. Whoever owns the Sands o...

By Clark Collis
Clark Collis digs deep into the twisted, frequently so-bad-it's-hilarious subject of new documentary

By Mandi Bierly
Presale on Fandango and MovieTickets.com; timing coincides with May 13 airing of stars' sitdown with Oprah Winfrey

By Nicole Sperling
Nicole Sperling: Even after screening for would-be buyers, viewers wonder whether it's real or hoax

By Mandi Bierly
Mandi Bierly records one bit of overheard NSFMD (Not Suitable for Mother's Day) conversation as it played before ''Iron Man 2''

By Nicole Sperling
Sequel has fifth highest opening weekend ever; high grades from audiences bodes well for longevity

"Someone remind me why we made this door so big."Since King Kong's release in 1933, viewers have asked, sometimes mockingly, "If you built a massive wall to keep Kong out, why, in God's name, did you make a door big enough for him to get in?!" It's a logical question. After all, if any one of the villagers needs to get outside to take a stroll or have a picnic it's a simple matter of installing a 7 foot door, or doors, along the wall. Building a conveniently sized 40 foot door seems to defeat the purpose of the wall. But maybe not.I believe the villagers are extending a welcome to Kong, albeit a guarded one. They are saying, "Now, right now, we are enemies. You are big and powerful and can eat us. Or step on us. Or even throw us around. But one day, far off in the future, perhaps, we will be friends. We will invite you to dinner and for you to accept and actually attend, you'll need to get through the wall. No problem. We already have a door big enough for you to do just that. It's locked right now but one day, we hope, it will be open." Kong relieves himself outside the wall. Hey, when you gotta go, you gotta go.I imagine every time Kong came to get a fresh bride he looked at that door and thought, "I've got to get past my anger for these people. They want me to know I'm welcome but for now, at least, I cannot be, for I hate them."Kong does eventually come through that door and gets gassed for his troubles.What might have been. "Up yours, jerkwads!" Kong gives everyone the finger upon his triumphant entry.

Why do people decide that big creepy mansions in the middle of nowhere make great vacation rentals? You know someone is going to get possessed. It's usually on the lease in the small print.

Watch Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor in the theatrical trailer of Prakash Jha's politcial thriller Raajneeti.

After challenging an evil dragon, rescuing a beautiful princess and saving your in-laws’ kingdom, what’s an ogre to do? Watch the fourth and final installment of Shrek to know...

Lady Gaga's android army returns in this Italian space opera that is desperately in need of an editor. Every scene, and I do mean every scene, lasts five times longer than it should. The climatic final battle takes almost half an hour.

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Freddy might be coming for you, but are you coming for him?  Host Grace Randolph asks audiences if this horror remake is a dream come true or a nightmare!

The first edition of the (S8) Peripheral Film Festival to be held next June 3-6 in A Coruña, Spain, aims to 'combine the new cinematographic trends... with the temporary and historical trail that the cinematographic format has been providing since its appearance'. During its four days, the newly-born festival packs an incredible programme featuring partial restrospectives of Iván Zulueta and Eugenio Granell's s8 film works, a session of Spanish contemporary s8 experimental films focusing on the work of David Domingo, videoinstallations by Maria Cañas and Alberte Pagán and a 16mm projectors performance by Bruce McClure.
You can access the full programme here.

Lala drops in over at Revision3 to kick back with Andrew, enjoy cocktails and introduce some videos.

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The following is all speculation, so do not take it as fact. But according to one source, NBC now seems less likely to renew Heroes for a fifth season, or even for the previously hoped for 13-episode “wrap up” mini-season. Instead, the best case scenario has Heroes fans settling for either a 2-hour or a [...]

America is a funny place these days. And by funny, I mean disappointing. While conservatives continue to fret about the degradation of American values in the economy and our way of life - citing liberty and freedom - they continue to restrict the freedom of their fellow citizens. Homosexuals are just the latest minority to be discriminated against in this country, and whether you approve or disapprove of the gay lifestyle, don't for one second think that denying them certain rights that straight people are allowed is anything but discrimination.Read FilmJabber's full 8: The Mormon Proposition movie review.

As someone who owns all eight Freddy Krueger movies, including the good, the bad and the ugly, I was looking forward to the rebooted version of A Nightmare on Elm Street with hesitant anticipation, well aware that while glossy and full of beautiful actors, it would have to get things just right to be a worthy entry in the celebrated series. Unfortunately, this new Nightmare on Elm Street is a nightmare for all the wrong reasons.Read FilmJabber's full A Nightmare on Elm Street movie review.

Director Ridley Scott is back with his third sword-and-sandals epic in ten years, reuniting with Gladiator star Russell Crowe to take on the legendary story of the ultimate outlaw: Robin Hood. Needless to say, the pairing has raised expectations as it looks more or less like a sequel to the aforementioned Best Picture winner.Read FilmJabber's full Robin Hood movie review.

The summer movie season officially kicks off today with what could be the biggest movie of the year: Iron Man 2, which reunites director Jon Favreau with now-superstar Robert Downey, Jr. The plot kicks off moments after the first movie ended and so does the entertainment, as the movie more or less lives up to the hype in satisfying fashion.Read FilmJabber's full Iron Man 2 movie review.

Jessica Lowndes, AnnaLynne McCord, and Jessica Stroup return in "90210."
The CW will not officially reveal its schedule until Thursday morning, which is when yours truly will be on a plane. Not to worry; the blog will be updated with the official schedule soon after it is released.  Besides, enough information has trickled into the trades for us to talk about a few important details and make some educated guesses as to where new series will land on the schedule. Or, we should say, the first version of its schedule, because almost every network tweaks its lineup once the upfronts come to a close.
Before we get to the new stuff, here’s a round-up of the current news: “One Tree Hill”  was officially picked up earlier this week, joining previously announced CW renewals “90210,” “Life Unexpected,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “Gossip Girl,” “America’s Next Top Model,” “Supernatural,” and “Smallville.” Additionally, the CW confirmed today that “Smallville’s” 10th season will be its last.
Gone from the schedule (thereby proving there is a Higher Power that cares for us all) are “Melrose Place,” “High Society,” “Fly Girls” and this season’s “here today, gone tomorrow” prizewinner, “The Beautiful Life: TBL,” which barely made it out of the gate. Their departure from the TV landscape will doubtless be mourned by…someone.
On the other hand, if they hadn’t been cleared away, The CW wouldn’t have any place to put its new additions, “Nikita” and “Hellcats.”
“Nikita” is a reboot of the franchise that began with Luc Besson’s (freaking awesome) cult action film “La Femme Nikita,” which was remade for American audiences as the awful “Point of No Return” starring Bridget Fonda.  The character of Nikita resurfaced in a Canadian-produced action drama that ran for about five seasons on USA Network, and was played by Peta Wilson. Maggie Q takes over the role in the new version, which also has her going rogue.
The first TV version of “La Femme Nikita,” it must be mentioned, was part of a late-’90s, early ’00s girl power trend on television that included “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Xena: Warrior Princess,”  and “Alias.” Considering that we live in a time in which Paris Hilton, the Kardashians and  “Girls Gone Wild” are celebrated pop culture fixtures, returning “Nikita” to TV is — in concept — a breath of fresh air.
On the other hand, it’s on The CW. If someone doesn’t screw it up, there’s still the question of whether it’ll pull the ratings to survive. With McG as an executive producer, there is hope.
“Nikita” is joined on the schedule by “Hellcats,” a drama about competitive cheerleading starring Aly Michalka and Ashley Tisdale. If “Nikita” is a nod to what The CW used to be (in its previous incarnations, UPN and the WB), “Hellcats” seems to fit in perfectly with what the tiny broadcast network is now.
Question is, where will they appear on the schedule? Currently there are two obvious opportunities, one on Wednesday nights, and one on Fridays, where “Smallville” has been able to hold on to its audience.   The CW’s schedulers have been known to slide veterans into different timeslots in the hope of finding a perfect pairing so really, it’s foolish to guess what the network’s lineup will look like. But why should that stop us?
Keep reading after the jump for our scheduling guesswork.

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The one-two punch of “Gossip Girl” and “One Tree Hill” seemed to work out just fine this season in spite of creative problems with the former’s story arc. “OTH” is a veteran whose audience has grown up and stuck with it, and the trend-setting “Gossip Girl” is now as acceptable among adults as it is with tween and teens. We doubt the network will mess with this.
TUESDAYS
Since “Life Unexpected” was a late addition to this season’s schedule, it’s highly possible that it will move to Wednesdays in order to team up “Hellcats” and “90210.”
WEDNESDAYS
On the other hand, if “Hellcats” is as bitchy as it sounds, coupling it with “America’s Next Top Model” wouldn’t be the worst idea.
Bloody lust is so sexy. Paul Wesley stars in "The Vampire Diaries."
THURSDAYS
Here’s where things get a bit dicey. “The Vampire Diaries” is this season’s clearest hit, not only among new shows but in the context of the schedule at large. It finally gave The CW a real presence on Thursday nights.  At the same time, it’s probably popular enough to take its audience with it if it were to move. The obvious destination for it would probably be Friday.
Please. Not going to happen.
“Supernatural” is another veteran series that paired beautifully with “Smallville” on Thursdays in season past. One should not be surprised if The CW decides to reunite old friends  — especially considering that the repeats of this past season’s episodes will air at 9 o’clock Fridays this summer. “Supernatural’s” audience probably won’t be too excited to see its show move to Fridays next fall, but they’re (we’re!) passionate, and most of them (us!) will follow.  That leaves 9 o’clock Thursdays open for “Nikita” to slide in,  and with potent “Vampire” as its lead-in, “Nikita” would have one of the best slots on the CW’s schedule.
FRIDAYS
On the flipside, “Smallville” fans could already be familiar with “Nikita’s” mythology, so the network could opt to create an end-of-the-week destination for action genre viewers.
Now it’s your turn.  Have any guesses as to how the deck will be shuffled?
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Ben Stiller certainly isn’t known for his charm. In fact, most of the movies he has starred in have drawn from his grating personality to provide comedic fodder for the plot. It took the directorial genius of Noah Baumbach to ask the question ‘what if we eliminated the funny and just kept all the annoying ticks and irritating personality traits in a Stiller film.’ The result is Greenberg.
Think of the biggest loser you know. Now think of the guy at the party that everyone avoids because he’s constantly teetering on the edge of either crying about his ex-wife or starting a fight with some frat dude. Combine those two people and you have Greenberg’s title character, played without any hint of whimsy or joy by Stiller. Recovering from a nervous breakdown is the type of film fodder that is usually reserved for actors with the emotional range to address seething internal turmoil, but in this case they decided to cast Stiller, which is the on-screen equivalent of trying to cram 45 winos into a clown car – there just isn’t enough room inside for all of the bad smells and shattered dreams.
During the course of an interminable hour and a half, Greenberg awkwardly goes down on an even more awkward au pair, manages to alienate his only remaining friend in the world, bumbles an attempt to hit on the still-married former love of his life and reveals that he broke up a band with the imaginative named Magic Marker. Some viewers might enjoy these ‘slice of life’ movies that take us deep inside the main character’s existence, but with Greenberg it feels like high-diving into the shallow end while on fire. Gravity wants to pull us forward through the hard-as-concrete plot, but the sheer laziness of the story and unappealing nature of almost every character holds us back like ice cleats in a glacier. And the water has been replaced by rubbing alcohol.
I had personally thought that Stiller had given up on serious acting after the succession of films he made where he was trapped in a museum, trapped inside a cargo container with 35 of his in-laws or trapped underneath Owen Wilson at the bottom of a cuddle puddle. It turns out that he was merely waiting for one of the worst scripts ever put to paper, and for a chance to completely exorcise his one, questionable gift – making people laugh – from his bag of performance tricks. Witnessing Greenberg is like witnessing the on-screen death of a friend that you never really liked but who was always around in the background whenever someone took a group photo. An on-screen death that takes 107 minutes. While you are being asphyxiated from behind with a shopping bag.

From the team that brought the "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy to the big screen, Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films present "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," an epic action-adventure set in the mystical lands of Persia. A rogue prince (Jake Gyllenhaal) reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess (Gemma Arterton) and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time—a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.

Oscar® winner Russell Crowe stars as the legendary figure known by generations as “Robin Hood,” whose exploits have endured in popular mythology and ignited the imagination of those who share his spirit of adventure and righteousness. In 13th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power. And whether thief or hero, one man from humble beginnings will become an eternal symbol of freedom for his people.

The fun, the fashion, the friendship: "Sex and the City 2" brings it all back and more as Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) take another bite out of The Big Apple--and beyond--carrying on with their busy lives and loves in a sequel that truly sparkles. What happens after you say "I do"? Life is everything the ladies ever wished it to be, but it wouldn't be "Sex and the City" if life didn't hold a few more surprises...this time in the form of a glamorous, sun-drenched adventure that whisks the women away from New York to one of the most luxurious, exotic and vivid places on earth, where the party never ends and there's something mysterious around every corner. It's an escape that comes exactly at the right moment for the four friends, who are finding themselves in--and fighting against--the traditional roles of marriage, motherhood and more. After all, sometimes you just have to get away with the girls.

Iron Man 2 is a movie that takes the numeral after its name a little too literally. This sorry excuse for a sequel falls into almost every single trap out there for next-in-line superhero movies without even taking the slightest chance or breaking any new ground.
For starters, the characters in the film are borderline absurd. Gone are the subtle vestiges of vulnerability and internal growth witnessed in the original film’s protagonist, Tony Stark, and in their place are a host of antics and impulsive behavior from actor Robert Downey, Jr. that simply read like a page out of the millionaire playboy’s playbook. And hey, while we’re at it, let’s add a second quirky, uber-wealthy weapons designer to the mix because if there’s one thing audience’s love, it’s when the villain is almost indistinguishable from the main character. In fact, the entire film seemed like a bizarrely choreographed ritual with Downey, Jr. channeling Bill Murray without the whimsy and Sam Rockwell attempting to turn back the clock 10 years to tap into the actually cool villain persona he displayed in Charlie’s Angels. Neither one succeeds.
Of course, the director wants us to focus on the ‘real’ villain of the flick, a ridiculous Russian he-man super genius named Ivan Vanko who has a hard-on for revenge and an accent so stupid one of my ears actually melted. Perhaps the hope was the Mickey Rourke’s supremely ugly depiction of this completely forgettable clown would distract us from the fact that ALIENS CAME IN THE NIGHT AND REPLACED TERENCE HOWARD WITH DON CHEADLE! But honestly, who cares, because as the only visible minority in the film not named Samuel L. Jackson, Cheadle’s Colonel Rhodes character honestly could have been played by anyone from Ice Cube to that fat guy from Transformers and no one would have noticed. Action movies are probably the palest of the Caucasian genres, and Iron Man 2’s cast is a veritable blizzard.
What else went wrong with this film? How about Scarlett Johansson being completely wasted as the token female in a skintight suit who gets to be marginally sexy while blowing stuff up during her 5 minutes of screen time. Or maybe that 45 minute sequence at the end of the movie where the red Iron Man and the grey Iron Man and the Russian Iron Man all flew around and around in the air shooting at each other until I started foaming at the mouth. How many Iron Mans do there really need to be? And why no Iron Woman? Or Sony AIBO IRON DOG!?!?
Have I just accidentally revealed the plot of the next sequel?
Actually, no. Given that the theme of Iron Man 2 seemed to be two or three of everything, then I can only imagine that in Iron Man 3 everyone on the planet will be given their own Iron Man suit and invited to some kind of infinite Royal Rumble where the last steel-coated cutout standing will have to then fight Johnny Five in a steel cage. Robot hardcore wrestling – it has to be more entertaining than this limp garbage.

MacGruber is the first SNL movie in ten years! Host Grace Randolph gives you the rundown of how your favorite Saturday Night Live movies came to be – from Blues Brothers to Wayne’s World to MacGruber! And be sure to check out the official MacGruber website! http://iamrogue.com/macgruber/ Enjoy MacGruber!

airdate: 03/02/10 episode: ---6.06"Sayid is faced with a difficult decision, and Claire sends a warning to the temple inhabitants." written by: ---Paul Zbyszewski & Graham Rolanddirected by: ---Bobby Roth Burning Questions On the Island:

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On the Island Off the Island Intro: Claire and "Locke" get ready to infiltrate the temple, which Dogen is trying to protect. Intro: --- Kate Kate goes to see her Claire, who's being held in a hole in the floor of the temple. She tells Claire that she took Aaron off the island when they couldn't find Claire. When the smoke monster invades the temple, she tries to get Claire out of the hole, but she falls in with her. They get out using a rope ladder, and Kate reluctantly joins the "Locke," Sayid, Claire, and former Others gang. "Locke" He tells Sayid that Dogen thought "Locke" would kill Sayid. He wants Sayid to deliver a message. He offers him anything in the entire world. The only thing he ever wanted died in his arms and he'll never see it again (Nadya). "What if you could," asks "Locke."As the smoke monster, invades the temple with a couple dozen Others. Sayid Sayid confronts Dogen, who says that Sayid was hooked up to a machine that measures how much good and evil are in a person. As they talk, Dogen attacks and the two fight at length. The conflict only ends when Dogen's baseball rolls off the table. Dogen tells Sayid to leave and never come back. Later Dogen enlists Sayid to help him. Dogen says "Locke" won't stop till he's destroyed everything on the island. He is evil incarnate. He wants Sayid to kill "Locke" -- he gives him a sword to plunge into his chest. Why would I do anything for you? ask Sayid. To prove there's still good in you, replies Dogen. Sun Miles tells Sun that Jin was at the temple and had left. Claire Claire enters the temple and tells Dogen: "He wants to see you. He wants you to go to him."She's put in a hole in the temple, where she looks oddly satisfied. Jack He walks by Sayid, who's at the hospital to see his brother, Omar. Sayid Sayid shows up with flowers at Nadya's house. She's married, we learn, to his brother Omar and they have two kids. Sayid travels the world translating contracts for oil companies. Nadya wants to know why he hasn't responded to her letters, and her children find a picture of their mother in Uncle Sayid's bag. Uh oh...Omar wakes Sayid in the middle of the night to tell him he's in trouble. He borrowed money for his business through gangsters and is in a financial hole. He wants Sayid to use his persuasive skills learned in Iraq on the gangster.Soon, Omar is "mugged" and is in the hospital. Nadya pleads with Sayid not to take revenge and wants to know why he pushed her toward his brother. Sayid is tryign to wash his hands of the horrible things he's done, he says. He doesn't deserve her. Two men pick up Sayid and bring him to a restaurant kitchen, where we meet the head gangster, a man named Martin (who was also the mercenary Charles Widmore sent to the island). Sayid manages to take out the guards then Martin himself. He hears someone banging on the refrigerator door. It's Jin. He can only speak Korean. Jin He's locked up, bound and gagged in the walk-in refrigerator of the restaurant where Sayid kills all the gangsters. Characters that aren't in both places. On the Island Off the Island Ben --- Charlie --- Claire --- Boone --- Desmond --- Rose ---

airdate: 2/9/10 episode: Season 6, Episode 3"Kate finds herself on the run, while Jack is tasked with something that could endanger a friend's life." written by: Jeffrey Lieber, J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsisdirected by: Paul A. Edwards Burning Questions On the Island:

• What the heck happened to Claire?
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• Where will Kate run to next? And what will she do with Claire's credit card?
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On the Island Off the Island Intro: Juliet is still dead, Sayid has come back to life after a dying in the supposedly healing pool at the temple. Intro: It's the Kate 'n' Claire show this week back in 2004. Jack Jack is in full hero mode again. He tends to Sayid, then takes a bullet -- well, a pill -- for him when the temple people want to cure him of his "infection." Thanks to Jack, we learn that the pill was poison. Kate Kate manages to leave the temple, saying she'll bring back Sawyer. She outwits her minders and finds Sawyer distraught over losing Juliet. Turns out they both feel it was their fault that Juliet remained on the island, Kate because she convinced Sawyer and Juliet to get off the submarine. Hurley Provides the comic relief (or is it foreshadowing) when he asks Sayid, "Are you a zombie?" Sawyer Grieving over Juliet's death, Sawyer brandishes a gun and escapes from the temple. He scurries back to the house he and Juliet shared and pulls up the floorboards to find a box, presumably of mementos, but why is it so well hidden? He heads to the dock and while talking with Kate, flings Juliet's ring into the water. He's guilt-ridden because he convinced Juliet to stay on the island, only because he didn't want to be alone. Sayid Having returned from the dead, Sayid is understandably shaken. In his weakened state, his temple captors bring him alone to a closed room, where they torture him with electric shocks and a red-hot poker. Jin Accompanies Kate to find Sawyer. After she ditches Jin, the Others who'd escorted the pair from the temple begin to attack. He's saved when shots are fired...from feral Claire! Kate At LAX, Kate hijacks a cab, with Claire in it. She drops off her passenger in some random nearby location but keeps her luggage, hoping to find change of clothes. When she finds baby toys and a picture of pregnant Claire, something clicks and she goes back to pick her up. Together the women head to the home of the couple who are supposed to adopt Aaron, only to find that they've just split up. At that moment, Claire goes into labor and Kate stays with her at the hospital. Characters that aren't in both places. On the Island Off the Island Ben --- Charlie --- Claire Boone --- Desmond --- Rose ---

LA Xairdate: 2/2/10 episode: 6.01 and 6.02 written by: Jeffrey Lieber, JJ Abrams, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cusedirected by: Jack Bender Burning Questions On the Island:

• What was written on Jacob's note in the ankh?
• Who are the people at the Temple?
• What did Juliet mean by "it worked?"
• How does Richard know "Locke," ie, the Man in Black?

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• What is Desmond doing on Oceanic flight 815?
• Why is the Island under water?
• Why is Jack bleeding on his neck at the beginning of the episode?
• Why does Hurley claim to be lucky?
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On the Island Off the Island Intro: Back on the island, everyone’s tossed around after the explosion, and they’re in present day. It appears as if the explosion didn't work. Intro: It’s a brand-new Oceanic Flight 815! Almost all the crash survivors are onboard, plus a new one, Desmond, who sits beside Jack. We get a glimpse of the island, completely underwater, with no further explanation. It appears that this is what would have happened if the plane had never crashed. Jack Jack awakes to find that his plan to blow jughead didn't work. He works on Sayid's wounds and can't save him. He helps take Sayid to the temple, and once again tries to save him when it appears that Sayid comes back to life in the healing waters. Kate Kate awakens from the blast in a tree. She helps get debris out of the way so that they can save Juliet. She tries to help Sawyer bury Juliet, and he refuses her help. "Locke" After Ben kills Jacob, Bram enters the statue and asks what happened to Jacob. Flocke tells him, and Bram and his men try to kill him. “Locke” transforms into the smoke monster to kill off Jacob’s bodyguards. He turns back into "Locke" and tells Ben "I'm sorry you had to see me like that." Hurley Jacob, now an hour dead, tells Hurley they have to take Sayid to the temple to save him. Hurley tells him he doesn't know where that is and Jacob replies "Jin knows. Tell him to take you to the hole in the wall where he was with the French team. Through that opening you can get him to the Temple. You still have that guitar case I gave you?" Sawyer They hear Juliet’s voice and frantically try to get to her in the hole. When Sawyer reaches her, she’s despondent that the bomb didn’t work – she wanted him to have a life off the island. Soon, she dies, but later Miles “talks” to her to get her last words: “It worked.” Sayid Sayid is bleeding to death from a gunshot wound, and the survivors take Sayid to the temple,. They are met by a large group of people. Their leader agrees to put Sayid in their healing pool after the contents of Hurley’s guitar case (a gift from Jacob) are revealed. At the temple, Sayid dies in the pool after being held underwater. Jack attempts CPR to no avail. Much later, Sayid comes back to life, but is it Sayid...? Sun Sun asks Frank who the people from the flight are when they show up with Locke's body. Frank replies that they told him that they are the "good guys," but adds that he doesn't believe it. Jin Jin drives Sayid to safety because he is the only one who knows where the temple is. Jin knows where the temple is because he met Rousseau when he was time traveling, and saw the Smoke Monster drag one of Rousseau's fellow explorers down the hole under the temple. Jack Jack is on his way back from Australia on the day of his father's funeral. He saves and unwilling Charlie from choking on a baggie of drugs. When he lands, the airline informs him that they have misplaced his father's coffin. He meets Locke and gives him his card, saying that he is a spinal surgeon and [Locke's condition] is not impossible to fix. Kate A fugitive from the law, Kate lands with the marshall in LAX. She fakes that she has to go to the bathroom, and the marshall accompanies her. She uses a pen to try and get out of cuffs, but no dice. Meanwhile, the marshall gets impatient. Kate kicks the crap out of him, steals his gun and escapes the airport into a cab that contains a very frightened Claire. Locke Locke meets Boone and has a conversation about how he just finished his Walk-about, which is most likely a lie. He also meets Jack at LAX after the airline has lost his luggage. Jack asks Locke what happened to him (to put him in a wheelchair,) and Locke doesn't answer right away. Jack apologizes, saying he's a spinal surgeon. Locke says that there's nothing that can fix him, but Jack gives him his card anyway. Hurley Artz approaches Hurley on the flight and asks him to do an impersonation of his commercial for Mr. Clucks. Hurley does it, and the guy asks him how he can afford a chain of restaurants. Hurley informs him that he won the lottery. Sawyer Sawyer checks out Kate on the plane, and sits down next to Hurley. He overhears Hurley say that he's won the lottery. Sawyer tells him he shouldn't announce that because people will take advantage of Hurley. Hurley responds "Nothing bad ever happens to me. I'm the luckiest guy alive." Sayid Sayid kicks the bathroom door open when the flight attendant gets nervous about Charlie being in there for too long. Sayid then assists Jack with Charlie when he is choking. Throughout the rest of the flight, he looks at a photo of Nadia. Sun Sun is on the plane with Jin, watching Rose and Bernard. She comments on how in love they seem. Jin scolds her for having the top button on her sweater unbuttoned. When they land in LAX, Jin gets detained by customs agents. They ask Sun if she speaks English and she says "No English." Jin Jin seems cold, like we've seen him in flashbacks. He's carrying a watch and more than $10K in cash, which gets him in trouble with customs. Neither he nor Sun are wearing wedding rings, and she uses her maiden name with the customs agents. Characters that aren't in both places. On the Island Off the Island Ben Ben confronts Fake Locke about being used to kill Jacob. Flocke tells him to go and get Richard, which he tries to do. Richard won't enter the statue, and Bram takes Ben in the statue instead.Ben whitnesses Flocke turn into the smoke monster and back into Flocke. Charlie Charlie is found unconscious in the bathroom. Jack saves him from choking on a baggie of drugs. Charlie asks if he's alive, Jack says yes, to which he replies "Terrific." Authorities detain Charlie after he lands in LAX. Claire Claire is in a cab when Kate throws open the cab door and jumps in. Claire is visibly frightened when Kate puts a gun to the head of the cab driver and screams at him to drive. Boone Boone confides in John that he was in Australia to rescue his sister from a relationship she didn't want to be rescued from. Desmond Desmond sits on the plane next to Jack. At one point in their conversation, Desmond calls Jack "Brotha." Jack asks if they've met before, and Desmond doesn't seem to recall. Desmond disappears before the flight is over. Rose Rose talks to Jack at the beginning of the flight. The plane encounters turbulence, and it seems to be in trouble. However, the ride smooths out and Rose tells Jack that he can relax, they made it through.[I think Rose should be moved to another category. Something like "Seen off island. Might still be on the island." Rose and Bernard might still be living in their retirement hut. Also Bernard should be added wherever Rose is too. He came back and sat next to Rose]

by Tony DayoubMatt Zoller Seitz and Ali Arikan are on Day 3 of a wonderful Blog-a-thon dedicated to John Williams, a household name when it comes to composers of film music. It continues through May 30th over at Edward Copeland on Film. I've been on a short sabbatical enjoying time with my parents, in-town to visit with our kids who are out from school until next week, but I wanted to briefly interrupt the vacation to direct fans unfamiliar with his earlier work to two of my favorite themes of his.You see, some of you may know the easy answer if I ask, What powerful producer-director—best known for his science fiction work—did John Williams collaborate with at the outset of his career? Some may say Steven Spielberg because of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) or E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Alternatively, you might respond by saying George Lucas, for Williams' work on the first Star Wars trilogy.Years before though, when he was often credited as Johnny Williams, the composer was cutting his teeth by creating exciting, but brief television themes for the opening titles of many of Irwin Allen's cult science fiction series. Starting with Allen's Lost in Space (1965-68) and on through The Time Tunnel (1966-67), Williams music was married to some fantastically evocative main titles, titles that often summed up the premise for each show in thirty seconds. But the hook or the lure was Williams' brief compositions. The culmination of his work with Allen, in my opinion, are the soaring themes for the two seasons of Land of the Giants (1968-1970). I've been revisiting this underrated action show on DVD, and I can't tell you how rare it is to find a TV musical theme one can listen to so incessantly without it wearing out its welcome quickly. Both seasons of Land of the Giants are two exceptional instances which disprove that axiom.Since I'm not the most qualified person to discuss the intricacies of music, I'll share my appreciation by presenting the opening credit sequence for the first season, followed by the one for its second.Head over to The John Williams Blog-a-thon at Edward Copeland on Film for more.

airdate: ---03/23/10 episode: ---6.09"Richard Alpert faces a difficult choice." written by: ---Melinda Hsu Taylor & Greggory Nationsdirected by: ---Tucker Gates Burning Questions On the Island:

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On the Island Off the Island Intro: This episode takes place mostly in the past, where we learn more about Jacob, the Man in Black (MIB) and Richard's deal with Jacob. Intro: It's all Richard. Richard He was brought from the Canary Islands as a slave. The ship crashed (Jacob's doing), and Richard was the sole survivor, after the smoke monster and the captain killed everyone else. He only lives because the Man in Black extracts a promise from Richard to do anything he asks before he frees him. There's only way to escape from hell -- you have to kill the devil. MIB gives him a sword and tells him he has only one chance to kill the devil. The devil has Isabella, he tells Richard. Richard marches out to the beach to kill the devil. Jacob surprises him and, upon hearing Richard's theory that he's dead and in hell, dunks him in the water, convincing him he isn't dead.Jacob says he isn't the devil. He brought Richard's ship to the island. The island is the only thing keeping the darkness where it belongs. He brings people to the island to prove the MIB wrong. When they get there, their past doesn't matter. He wants people to help themselves, he says. Jacob offers Richard the job of being his intermediary and gets eternal life in return (he couldn't get his wife back or to be absolved of his sins). Richard retuns to the MIB, who says Jacob can be very convincing. Says his offer still stands and hands him Isabella's cross. Richard buries the cross. Back in modern times, Richard tells the others they're all dead and they're in hell. It's time to start listening to someone else, he says, and takes off with a torch. Back in modern time, Richard digs up the cross and says he's changed his mind. He calls out that he's changed his mind. He was wrong. Does the offer still stand, he wants to know? He turns to see Hurley who asks, "What offer, dude?"Hurley then lets him talk to Isabella. (see below) Jack Jack didn't know what they were candidates for, so the others fill him in that he's among the six candidates to be the new Jacob. "Locke" As the new incarnation of the Man in Black, he'll have a new ally in Richard. Hurley While the others gather around the campfire, Hurley's off to the side, talking in Spanish. He won't tell Jack what it's about. After Richard digs up his wife's cross, Hurley comes to him. "Your wife sent me," Hurley says. "She wants to know why you buried her cross." She's standing beside Richard, and Hurley tells Richard it wasn't his fault that she died. It was her time. You've suffered enough, she says. He'd do anything for them to be together again, he says. She says they're already together and leaves.He puts the cross around his neck. Hurley tells him she said Richard has to stop the man in black from leaving the island or they'll all go to hell. Cut to "Locke." Sun Discusses what it means to be a candidate with Ilana and the other candidates. Richard We flash back to 1867, Canary Islands. Richard is riding horseback to a sick woman. They speak in Spanish. She gives him a cross to take to the doctor. He says he will save her, then he rides off into the rain. The doctor tells him he has medicine that can save her life but it's very expensive. Richard hands over all his money and the cross. The doctor tosses the cross aside. The two mean struggle, and the doctor is thrown against the table and dies. Richard takes the medicine back to his wife, who has already died. Richard is imprisoned. The priest wouldn't give him absolution and tells Richard he'll hang in the morning. We see that Richard is reading the Bible in English.On his way to be hanged, he's given to a boat captain who's going to the new world because he speaks English.The ship is caught in a rough storm and crashes against what another prisoner calls "El Diablo."The captain proceeds to kill the other prisoners and is about to plunge the sword into Richard wheren we hear the smoke monster killing the others above. Then it reaches into the the hold and takes the captain. The smoke monster slithers up to Richard, where it stops. He alone is allowed to live. Because he's chained down on the hold, he had to try to free himself. He manages to pry a nail from the bottom of the boat After a few days, Isabella shows up. They're both dead, she says. he sends her out to avoid El Diablo (the smoke monster) but it gets her. Characters that aren't in both places. On the Island Off the Island Ben --- Charlie --- Claire --- Boone --- Desmond --- Rose ---

airdate: ---May 11, 2010 episode: ---6.15"The motives of John Locke are finally explained." Read the Full Recap written by--Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelofdirected by--Tucker Gates Burning Questions On the Island:

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On the Island Off the Island Intro: A pregant woman named Claudia washes up on the shore of the island. Another woman, played by Allison Janney, helps the woman give birth to twins and then murders Claudia. These twins are Jacob and the Man in Black. Intro: --- Jack Does not appear until the final scene when he finds the bodies of "Mother" and the Man in Black. Kate Does not appear until the final scene when he finds the bodies of "Mother" and the Man in Black. "Locke" Refers to "Mother" and the Man in Black as Adam and Eve. Hurley --- Sawyer --- Sayid --- Sun --- Jin --- Jack --- Kate --- Locke --- Hurley --- Sawyer --- Sayid --- Sun --- Jin --- Characters that aren't in both places. On the Island Off the Island Ben --- Charlie --- Claire --- Boone --- Desmond --- Rose ---

Season 6 of LOST Untangled.You better believe it, son-bug.

Get the latest updates for the show's final season, episode guides for Lost TV series season 5 and previous seasons. Lost Wiki is your one-stop online guide and resource for the Lost TV series previews, updates about your favorite Lost Cast and Characters, and more.The End recap *New* LOST Features Top 10 Unsolved Mysteries of Lost What mysteries keep you banging your head on the hatch door? Dive into the Top 10 unsolved mysteries on Lost. They are all Connected... Somehow Think that Grimmace, ham, and the Stay-Puft marshmallow man don't have a Lost connection? Think again. Ben turns the wheel and moves the Island. Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sayid return to the Island (unfortunately) in 1974 and join the Dharma Initiative. Locke sets out on his mission to bring everyone back to the Island. Juliet blows up "Jughead" in hopes of preventing the crash of Oceanic 815. After three years on the run Desmond decides to return to the Island. Ben kills Jacob and Locke still seems to be dead. Episode Guides Episode 6.17 "The End" DR. JACK SHEPHARDMATTHEW FOX BENJAMIN LINUSMICHAEL EMERSON KWON JIN-SOODANIEL DAE KIM KATE AUSTENEVANGELINE LILLY JAMES "SAWYER" FORDJOSH HOLLOWAY JOHN LOCKETERRY O'QUINN SAYID JARRAHNAVEEN ANDREWS SUN-HWA KWONYUNJIN KIM All Characters Lost Poll ● Lost's Michael Emerson: "I Don't See Any End In Sight" ● 'Lost' Final Season: "Get Ready to Scratch Your Heads!" - Fancast ● 'Lost' fans lobby Obama on State of the Union sked - USA Today ● The end of 'Lost'? Maybe not! Plus: What's your idea for a new 'Lost' show? - EW.Com ● EXCLUSIVE: Disney Actually Is Developing a Lost Ride - Movie Line

airdate: ---May 18, 2010 episode: ---6.16"While Locke devises a new strategy, Jack's group searches for Desmond." written by: ---Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, & Elizabeth Sarnoffdirected by: ---Paul Edwards Burning Questions On the Island:

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Harry Brown: A Movie Review

(Actually more of a political comment).
By John Lobell

Harry Brown, with seventy-seven year old Michael Caine, is in the tradition of Death Wish but it most closely evokes eighty year old Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino, even to the point of using the “Harry” from Eastwood’s earlier Dirty Harry movies.
Old retired guy, wife [...]

Can MacGruber rescue the Saturday Night Live movie?  Host Grace Randolph finds out if audiences are blown away by this comedy!

SNL brings MacGruber to the big screen, so Kristen Wiig and Ryan Phillippe talk to Grace Randolph all about it! Kristen Wiig plays Vicki St Elmo and Ryan Phillippe plays Lt Dixon Piper! This interview has fun info on the latest SNL character to make it to the big screen! Enjoy MacGruber like MacGruber enjoys Pepsi!

Queen Latifah and Common try to make beautiful music on the basketball court. Host Grace Randolph asks audiences if its worth getting courtside seats!

Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott try to recreate that Gladiator magic!  Host Grace Randolph finds out if they remember the recipe!

SNL brings MacGruber to the big screen, so Will Forte and Jorma Taccone talk to Grace Randolph all about it! Will Forte stars as MacGruber while Jorma Taccone directs! This interview has fun info on the latest SNL character to make it to the big screen! Enjoy MacGruber like MacGruber enjoys Pepsi!

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Orlando and the Fantasyland expansion at Walt Disney World allow you to enter your favorite movies! Get an update on what rides to expect and if your favorite Disney Princess will be there! Plus learn all about what Warner Brothers has in store for Looney Tunes! Host Grace Randolph gives you an inside look at upcoming movies and the box office with an industry perspective!

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Coming up on Episode Eight of The Pacific: Increasingly frustrated by his role campaigning for war bonds, Basilone convinces the Marines to allow him to train troops headed for combat. Transferred to Camp Pendleton, he enjoys a whirlwind romance with an initially reluctant female Marine, Lena Riggi. But the couple know they are living on [...]

YouTube movie reviewer Tom Chatalbash interviews Beyond The Trailer host/creator Grace Randolph and why she started the show and her thoughts on movies in general.

Can Prince Dastan defeat the curse of video game adaptations?  Host Grace Randolph asks audiences if its game over for this Jerry Bruckheimer action adventure movie!

Toys attend a special screening of Toy Story 3 and give their review to host Grace Randolph!