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Author Archives: Lauren Kalal

TV Review: The Vampire Diaries 1.12 – “Unpleasantville”

February 1, 2010 at 11:00 am
Lauren Kalal
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Reviews, the vampire diaries, tv-
Mystic Falls's secrets are getting deeper. This week's episode uses a convenient 1950s decade dance (I wish my high school had those) to explore the secrets of the town and its founders. Meanwhile, someone (or something) bad is out for Elena.
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TV Review: The Vampire Diaries 1.11 – “Bloodlines”

January 27, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Lauren Kalal
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Reviews, the vampire diaries, tv-
Oh Vampire Diaries, how we've missed you. The residents of Mystic Falls are back with a bite (pun totally intended) after a long holiday hiatus. When we last left our favorite teenage vampires, all hell was about to break loose, and we pick up here
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Movie Review: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

January 19, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Lauren Kalal
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Heath Ledger, johnny depp, jude law, movies-, Reviews, terry gilliam, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
There is a certain macabre sense of voyeurism throughout The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, partly because the movie lays bare the inner workings of the imagination, but largely due to the fact that this film serves as the final film from Heath Ledger.
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Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes

December 28, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Lauren Kalal
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Guy Ritchie, jude law, movies-, rachel mcadams, Reviews, robert downey jr, Sherlock Holmes
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to posit a query: Is it possible for a contemporary director, best known for edge-of-your-seat action movies with a deep black humor streak to actually do justice to the famed detective, making the legend accessible to a
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Movie Review: The Road

November 27, 2009 at 11:00 am
Lauren Kalal
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Charlize Theron, movies-, Reviews, Robert Duvall, the road, viggo mortensen
The Road, based on the 2006 novel by Cormac McCarthy, directed by John Hillcoat, and starring Viggo Mortenson (as a postmodern Strider) and Kodi Smit-McPhee, is the anathema to the glossy Hollywood apocalypse; it is a tone poem, a character study, a
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TV Review: The Vampire Diaries 1.09 – “History Repeating” and 1.10 – “The Turning Point”

November 23, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Lauren Kalal
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Reviews, the vampire diaries, tv-
Once again, The Vampire Diaries proves itself to be more than just your typical CW teenage fare. In many way, it fills the void that Buffy has left in my little sci-fi pop heart. This arc both illuminates the past and clouds the future, taking the
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TV Review: The Vampire Diaries 1.08 – “162 Candles”

November 9, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Lauren Kalal
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Reviews, the cw, the vampire diaries, tv-
Not only is this a vampire show, but it's also a teenage melodrama, and honey, this ain't no Twilight. While this episode didn't throw down the gauntlet in the way last week's did, the show is definitely starting to lead us down a darker, more morally
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TV Review: The Vampire Diaries 1.07 – “Haunted”

November 2, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Lauren Kalal
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Reviews, the cw, the vampire diaries, tv-, vampires
After a week off, Vampire Diaries comes back with a bite. Halloween is a time for sci-fi and horror shows to bring it with all they have, and Vampire Diaries, much in the tradition of Buffy, celebrates Halloween with gusto.
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TV Review: Vampire Diaries 1.06 – “Lost Girls”

October 22, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Lauren Kalal
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Reviews, the cw, the vampire diaries, tv-, vampires
What a great episode to leave us with before a two-week hiatus — a little historical exposition to tide us over until the super awesome Halloween episode. Vampire Diaries does juicy Civil War-era teenage vampire drama just as well as it handles the
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TV Review: Vampire Diaries 1.05 – “You’re Undead to Me”

October 21, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Lauren Kalal
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Reviews, the cw, the vampire diaries, tv-, vampires
We all have to grow up sometime... that is, unless you are a Salvatore. More specifically, unless you're Damon Salvatore. Is it just me, or has this Johnny the Homicidal Maniac meets Spike Season 4 thing with Damon already been starting to get old
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Movie Review: Where the Wild Things Are

October 20, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Lauren Kalal
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movies-, Reviews, Where the Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are, the new Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers venture based on the classic 1963 children's book by Maurice Sendak, who also gave his blessing to the project, had a lot of hype, hope, and hipsters to live up to. My friends, it is lovely.
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TV Review: The Vampire Diaries 1.03 – “Friday Night Bites” and 1.04 – “Family Ties”

October 7, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Lauren Kalal
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Reviews, the cw, the vampire diaries, tv-, vampires
I think we can all agree that Vampire Diaries is no True Blood, but summer is over, and we must make do with what we can now that we know winter is around the corner. If you forgive the bad metaphor, if True Blood is a real suntan, then Vampire Diaries
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