Author: coolpapae
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The Office: Episode 27 – Conflict Resolution
The Writer – Greg Daniels Director – Charles McDougall A brief synopsis – Badge picture day at the office is interrupted when Michael decides to intercede with Toby’s conflict resolutions efforts between Angela and Oscar. This accelerates into an office wide crisis when Michael grabs the rest of Toby’s complaints, eventually resulting in Pam discovering…
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The Losers strives to reach mediocrity
The Losers Director – Sylvain White Starring – Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Jason Patric, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, Óscar Jaenada, Holt MaCallany Screenplay by – Peter Berg, James Vanderbilt Zoe Saldana is on a roll now, as the Star Trek reboot and Avatar have shown. She figured prominently in the ad campaign for…
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The Office: Episode 26 – Drug Testing
The Writer – Jennifer Celotta Director – Greg Daniels A brief synopsis – Dwight found a half a joint in the parking lot, now everyone must pay. He commences an investigation, in his “duty” as volunteer sheriff’s deputy. Michael tries to joke it off, leading Dwight to work within the rules to get urine testing…
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Millennium Trilogy, Part 2: The Girl Who Played With Fire continues a fearless journey
The Girl Who Played With Fire Directed by Daniel Alfredson Written by Jonas Frykberg based on a story by Stieg Larsson Starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist There is a moment 27 minutes into The Girl Who Played With Fire when Mikael Blomkvist, working on a sex trafficking investigation, gets a ride from his sister over…
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The Office: Episode 25 – Michael’s Birthday
The Writers – Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg Director – Ken Whittingham A brief synopsis – Michael’s favorite day, his birthday is threatened by news that Kevin might have cancer. The rest of the staff is very apprehensive, waiting on news. Meanwhile, Dwight is doing what he can to help salvage the day for Michael.…
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Sex and The City 2 presses all hot buttons very routinely
Sex and The City 2 Written and Directed by Michael Patrick King Starring – Sara Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Chris Noth, John Corbett One gets the feeling, watching 4 very distinctive, yet alternately shallow (at the beginning) and unconvincingly deep (always just before credits roll) women, that Michael Patrick King must…
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CPE’s Prometheus / Predator / Alien Universe Chronological Timeline Reviews
With the release of the first good Predator film in almost 25 years, and the making (by Ridley Scott) of an Alien prequel, Prometheus, now is a great time to review the two series as a whole. Both series have gone to hell and back (sometimes together), but overall, the entire series has provided many intense,…
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The Office: Episode 24 – Take Your Daughter To Work Day
The Writer – Mindy Kaling Director – Victor Nelli, Jr. A brief synopsis – The staff (Toby, Meredith, Stanley, Kevin) get to bring their kids to work and Pam is excited to try to make (just) one of them her friend. Everyone has ideas as to how to entertain (or be entertained) by them. Meredith…
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These Predators hardly take anyone out like chumps…
Predators Directed by Nimród Antal Starring Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Laurence Fishburne, Danny Trejo, Walton Goggins, Oleg Taktarov, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Louis Ozawa Changchien Screenplay story by Robert Rodriguez adapted by Michael Finch and Alex Litvak When I heard that Robert Rodriguez was involved with the making of the new Predators movie, I was thrilled.…
Ebert Did It Better: Gasbag Reviews 