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It Takes a Village to Raise a House With ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 17:34:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - This past week, my hometown of Erie has had quite a bit of excitement. That's because the crew of the television show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition came to fix up the house of a very deserving woman for the second episode of its seventh season...

Mount Doom Sam Declares, "I Can't Carry It For You, But I Can Carry You!"

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:13:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - The Return of the King, the final installment in Peter Jackson's epic film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, is filled with moments that took my breath away. Many of them involve innocent young Pippin: his traumatic...

Michael Jackson Encourages Everyone to "Heal the World, Make It a Better Place"

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:42:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - There are many things I will remember about Michael Jackson, but first and foremost, I will recall his humanitarianism. He always struck me a man who was profoundly concerned about the welfare of the disenfranchised,...

The Proposal Shines a Light on Alaskan Wilderness and Family Togetherness

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:17:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - My friend Libbie and I have a mixed track record when it comes to Sandra Bullock movies. On the one hand, Miss Congeniality was one of the first movies we saw together in the theater, and...

Michael Jackson's You Are Not Alone - A Plea For and Promise of Companionship

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:32:43 GMT

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If Bad Is Good, Michael Jackson Was the Baddest

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:44:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - I grew up in the 1980s, when Michael Jackson was king, though I never paid much attention to the contemporary music scene, and it wasn't until the early '90s that I got to be really familiar with...

Remembering Michael Jackson With the Aching, Inspiring Will You Be There?

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:22:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - I went to the movies with my friend Libbie today, and on our way out of the theater, we overhead a woman remark to her friend that she'd heard Michael Jackson had died. I was startled, but as I'd heard a rumor to that effect last week, I thought perhaps...

Cormac McCarthy Infuses Bleak Dystopia With Faint Hope in The Road

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:30:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - During my recent long (yet all-too-short) weekend in Massachusetts with my friends Erica and Art, the subject of movies came up often. As all three of us consider...

Become Bewitched in Witch City! Which City? Witch City! Which City? Salem!

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:45:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - Next summer, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter will open in Orlando, and throngs of Harry Potter fans will flock to Florida to see larger-than-life...

From Walden Pond to Sleepy Hollow, Live Deliberately in Concord, Massachusetts

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:12:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. And see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." This iconic thought by Henry David...

Whether You're a Pirate, a Patriot or a Bar-Hopper, Boston Is Tops

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:46:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - I am a Pirate Who Doesn't Do Anything, or so I have been claiming for years. As any die-hard VeggieTales fan will tell you, the most important criterion for being a member of this exclusive club is that one can...

Dewey Will Make You Wish Your Library Had a Cat

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:36:16 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - When I was in elementary school, a cat with several newborn kittens turned up in the storm well one night. One of the employees took her in, and while the kittens eventually moved on to other homes, the mother, dubbed Stormy, stayed. She spent most of...

Smallville's Shortened Seventh Season Piles on the Fun With Kryptonian Kara

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:12:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - Back in 2006, my brother Nathan, then a senior in high school, got me hooked on Smallville on DVD. In the months leading up to his departure for college, we watched the first three seasons. Over the course of his freshman year we watched two...

In Bruges Rises Above Profane Brutality to Be Profound

Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:01:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - Last night, my friend Dan and I had a media marathon which started with Bolt, the recent computer-animated Disney flick starring Miley Cyrus and John Travolta. Despite a few theatrical explosions, the PG-rated film stayed firmly in...

Go On Safari With Tompkinson and Company in Wild at Heart

Thu, 28 May 2009 21:12:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - Back in March, I discovered Ballykissangel, a series set in Ireland and on the air for the second half of the 90s. The only English character is Father Peter Clifford (Stephen...

Get to Know a Lighter Version of the 4077th with MAS*H - Season 1

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:09:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - I grew up on M*A*S*H. It's been one of my favorite TV shows for as long as I can remember. It used to be in reruns almost constantly, so I watched quite a bit of it, though I don't think it was until high school that I got to know the first wave...

Before Lord of the Rings and LOST, There Was Hetty Wainthropp Investigates...

Thu, 21 May 2009 14:49:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - Like most people in the U.S., I'd never heard of Dominic Monaghan before Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. After playing valiant hobbit Merry, he went on to portray Charlie Pace...

Good Twins Prevail Over Impracticalities in The Parent Trap

Wed, 20 May 2009 17:22:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - Yesterday, I finished reading the LOST tie-in novel Bad Twin, so I have had twins on the brain, which led me naturally to The Parent Trap, the Nancy...

Bats at the Library Offers a New Perspective on Classic Literature

Wed, 20 May 2009 16:20:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - Three years ago, my dad bought me Brian Lies' Bats at the Beach, a delightful picture book he'd heard discussed on National Public Radio. Last week, while perusing the...

LOST's First Casualty Speaks, Sort Of, in Bad Twin

Wed, 20 May 2009 11:43:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - On May 13, season five of LOST came to a spectacular conclusion, leaving all of its devoted fans with about eight months stretching before us before we can get any real answers. An apparent Alternate Reality Game rooted in Twitter may drop a hint...

The 2009 LOST Calendar is Rather Generic But Lovely Nonetheless

Sat, 16 May 2009 14:54:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - The first time the television show LOST released a calendar, it was a Big Deal at the kiosk where I worked. Every year there seems to be a calendar or two that just flies off the shelves, and in 2005, that was it. I was glad, as I had a gut...

Celebrate Star Trek With Bobblehead Spock

Fri, 15 May 2009 11:53:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - Last week, Star Trek, probably the one movie this year I was most looking forward to, came out in theaters. I've been a Star Trek fan for as long as I can remember and have...

Beam Aboard the Starship Enterprise With Zachary Quinto and Company

Fri, 8 May 2009 06:14:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - This weekend, two of my all-time favorite televisions shows are united on the big screen. LOST creator J. J. Abrams helmed the 2009 theatrical reboot of...

Michael Giacchino Scores a Hit With LOST's Season One Soundrack

Wed, 6 May 2009 17:54:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - I don't usually pay great deal of attention to music on television shows. Aside from a catchy theme song (increasingly rare these days) or a well-placed pop song that captures the mood of an especially powerful scene, the score tends not to be a big...

Get LOST on Gilligan's Island with Season One

Tue, 5 May 2009 12:18:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - One of the fun things about LOST is the rich array of influences that can be identified throughout the series. The drama has made reference to everything from Watership Down and The Chronicles of...