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Restless Virgins: Movie of my Lifetime

By Sarah Bennett

March 21, 2013

Restless Virgins's depiction of wealthy New England society is mostly science fiction.

Thanks, Marshmallows: Now, Pass the Baton to the Browncoats

By Sarah Bennett

March 15, 2013

Okay, so it takes a few million to make a Veronica Mars movie. But what about Firefly Season 2?

I Will Watch Anything: Ripper Street

By Sarah Bennett

March 14, 2013

Ripper Street is about a police detective who works in Whitechapel in East London in the late 1800s, when it was basically a Dickensian slum.

Woody Allen, Aaron Sorkin & The Patriarchal Parallel Universe

By Sarah Bennett

March 08, 2013

How Aaron Sorkin became Woody Allen, and why The Newsroom sucks.

Reject The Remake

By Sarah Bennett

March 06, 2013

Why UK shows often lose the charm in translation.
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I Will Watch Anything: Banshee

By Sarah Bennett

March 05, 2013

I will even watch Banshee. (I know, I know, you've never heard of Banshee.)

TV Methadone: Bunheads For Gilmore Girls

By Sarah Bennett

March 04, 2013

When a great show gets cancelled, we consider the replacement fix-- will former Gilmore Girls fans get a enough of a buzz from Bunheads?

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Eat Prey Drug: Summerland

Escaping a catastrophic blizzard to take peyote in the Arizona desert, Paul Kwiatkowski concludes his investigation into alternate perceptions of consciousness.

The Biggest Little-Known Influence on H. P. Lovecraft

M. R. James was an English author, scholar and inspiration to Lovecraft, though the world may have forgotten it.

The Sun Don't Shine on a Moonshine Still

Get a bleary-eyed view of moonshining from a modern day bootlegger.