Even without Renee or President Taylor this hour, there was plenty of suspense. What made this ep interesting was, of course, Jack Bauer.

If there’s one thing this soundtrack doesn’t lack, it’s intensity. I popped the album in my car, and as I was listening to it, I felt like I was traveling to a haunted town full of mystery and suspense, which sets the perfect tone for a film that has been pegged as a “sexually charged melodrama.”

Chad catches us up on the first half of Season 2 of Leverage, starting with the second season premiere.

NOLA #4 displays the same level of potential as the rest of the series and, likewise, is similarly disappointing. Although it gives readers the violence and gore that was missing from the rest of the series, the last chapter in the story fails to rectify the two-dimensional nature of the series’s protagonist.

With Burton at the helm, I was hoping for a ramped-up, psychedelic trip sprinkled with some familiar characters. Yet, in the theater with my plastic glasses on, I was so underwhelmed. This bizarre retelling and merging of texts is too hard-to-follow and creepy for kids, but takes too many cheap shots for adults to take it seriously.

Whoa. This episode right here somehow got me to proclaim it as my favorite of the entire series by the time the credits rolled. And it started with the only character I’ve ever actually wanted the show to get rid of! I wasn’t prepared for the amount of gut-wrenching awesomeness I got while watching this episode.

This production of Alice in Wonderland, directed by Jonathan Miller, is dark, surreal, and frequently haunting. Alice doesn’t smile and doesn’t seem curious about anything — just critical, and even bored. But the DVD is well worth the cost just for the extras and the backstory of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell.

This is basically a great installment. There’s a plot twist. There’s suspense. There’s a cliffhanger. I don’t like the cliffhanger part, since I now have to find wait weeks to find out what happens next. But it’s good storytelling, that’s for sure.

OK Go’s Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky is an interesting collection of music that probably will appeal to virtually any listener. Some die-hard OK Go fans may view the different style of their latest work as detrimental to their sound, while many listeners who were ambivalent about the band have become more engrossed in the new music.

Deadly Premonition is a brilliantly made spoof of the survival horror genre. Admittedly, I’m not sure whether the spoof is intentional, but it works so perfectly that I hate to imagine that the game is supposed to be taken seriously.