The curated portfolio of film journalist Joe Lipsett
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In what may be the closest thing to an unofficial sequel to Showgirls, Gina Gershon takes on the lead role of fashion icon Donna Versace in Lifetime’s House Of Versace. Bring on the Ver-sayce!
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We open in 1483, ten years after last week’s episode, when the kingdom is at peace and everyone is, frankly, old.
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After seven years away, visionary director Alfonso Cuarón returns with a new film: Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock as a medical engineer stranded in space. So is the film worth your time (and money)? In short: this film is a strong case for the continued existence of movie theaters and 3D.
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It’s tough to judge a show from its pilot. They’re shot months before the season starts in order to sell the series to the networks and they have to introduce the basic premise of the show while getting us invested in the characters. Quite the task. Needless to say the first episode of The Crazy Ones left me a little cold, but I wanted to give the show a chance.
So did the second episode win me over? Or am I throwing in the towel?
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Well… I see what they were trying to do. I’ll give them that. But for those of us that watched the spin-off episode (read: test episode) of The Originals in the last season of The Vampire Diaries, let’s just say that tonight’s “premiere event” feels quite a bit like deja vu.
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Our babies are all grown up and off to College as The Vampire Diaries kicks off season five. But with the evil Silas posing as Stefan (Paul Wesley), is anyone safe?
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“Go big or go home!” That must be the mantra of the Scandal writers because the show has resumed with a bang. After an excruciating summer waiting to see what befalls Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), it’s time to see how she handles being at the center of the maelstrom.
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We watch a lot of TV – some of it good and some of it…not so good. For the 2013 pilot season, we’re checking out a few series we won’t be writing on regularly, but may check back on throughout the season. Next on the docket: the much troubled premiere of ABC’s Super Fun Night.
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It’s the end of the road for the first season of The Bridge. After a bit of a mixed bag run, does the FX drama end on a high note?
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If last week‘s pilot was a little underwhelming in its general perfunctoriness, what does the second episode of ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. look like? Apparently it’s “Disney with an edge”
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