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This all-new web series for Geekweek — featuring me, Todd Gilchrist, Damon Houx, and Jen Yamato — will air online live, most Mondays at 4pm Pacific Time. You can watch live at http://www.justin.tv/geekweek. But today’s episode is embedded below, if you missed it.

Fast Food Review: Jack in the Box Pastrami!

LYT — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:46:23 +0000

Teaming with Batman! Also, movie reviews

LYT — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:08:14 +0000

Speaks for itself.

Meanwhile, if you still care, I reviewed SALT:

The crux of the entire thing is that we don’t know what’s going on inside our main character’s head, which makes her impossible to identify with or relate to. This can work if the folks opposing her are compelling and identifiable, but they are neither: Chiwetel Ejiofor turns in an uncharacteristically generic and lazy performance as the skeptical Peabody, while Schreiber only serves to remind us that he was in a more official Manchurian Candidate remake.

More fun than that was LIFE DURING WARTIME:

There is, however, more going on here than just dirty humor. The complete recasting of every major player gives a unique cinematic shorthand for the ways in which people change over the course of a decade…and in more ways than one might realize at first. Coming out of the movie, for example, I was convinced that Allison Janney’s Trish Jordan and Michael Lerner’s Harvey Wiener were the only major characters not to be recast, as a way of showing that these individuals had not moved on sufficiently with their lives. Then I went to imdb, and I was completely wrong: Cynthia Stevenson had originally played Trish, with Bill Buell the first Harvey. Already, and possibly without even trying, the movie has taught me a quick lesson in questioning memory and perception.

In case you missed this…

LYT — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:26:02 +0000

Previously posted at Geekweek.