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Review'The Lords Of Salem'

In the end, it's not a home run -- but it's damned close

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Part art house, part grind and part bad acid trip, Rob Zombie's latest film "The Lords of Salem" swings for the fences with potential to be one of the all-time great horror films, but comes up just a bit short. The film starts off decently strong -- shot in the actual town of Salem, we immediate ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - Pictures Of You

Oh, what a night!

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Amidst the jockeying for the cure, Elena's trip to the dark-side and the looming threat of Silas, the denizens of Mystic Falls take time for that adolescent rite of passage known as Senior Prom. Caroline, as always, has outdone herself in decorating for the event; it seems that high school is a ...

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Review'Evil Dead'

A gritty, fun Halloween party movie

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Stephen King once wrote that if a horror writer knows he can't scare the reader, then they should go for the gross out. In "Evil Dead," essentially the fifth version of this film from producer Sam Raimi, director Fede Alvarez takes that advice to heart and foregoes any real scares and instead goes f ...

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Review'The Walking Dead' - Welcome To The Tombs

Should a massive continuity error ruin an entire show?

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Season 3 of "The Walking Dead” took a step back, despite some very fine individual episodes. A few weeks back in my earlier "Has 'The Walking Dead' Jumped the Shark" rant, I explained why the show had spent too long on the town and its Governor. Simply too much time spent on what ultimately i ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - American Gothic

What's in a soul?

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Can you save someone who doesn't want your help? That's the question Damon and Stefan should be asking themselves as Elena continues on her humanity-free, emotion-less ways. As the brothers Salvatore race to secure the cure for Elena, she is equally determined to find it first and foil their at ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - Bring It On; Because The Night

It's pom-poms and double-crosses in this two-episode arc

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The one-two punch of the last two episodes provides a nice kick-start to the spring story arc. While "Bring It On" finds Elena, newly humanity free, reveling in the thrill of competition and an all-you-can-eat buffet of cheerleaders, "Because the Night" shows a more calculating side to the vamp ...

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Review'Dark Skies'

Watchable, but ultimately not very satisfying tale of alien hanky-panky

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Essentially "Paranormal Activity" but with aliens, "Dark Skies" tries its best deliver scares, but falls flat. The film starts off calmly enough in anywhere U.S.A. just before the 4th of July (not naming the town is one of the many missed opportunities for just a bit more realism), with director ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - Stand By Me

It's time to burn down the house

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As the curtain rises, it seems the Littlest Gilbert may have met his final death. Although Elena is insistent that they take Jeremy's body home so that he will be in familiar surroundings when his ring revives him, Stefan isn't so sure a resurrection is in Jeremy's future since he was a Hunter and t ...

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Review'The Walking Dead' Season 3 Goes Astray

Rick's madness, Governor's development miss the mark

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After Sunday's episode of AMC's "The Walking Dead," I'm pretty well convinced that AMC needs to get either Glen Mazzara or Frank Darabont back pronto because while "Home" was a decent episode, it also highlighted just how badly the third season has gone astray.  After an incredible start, with ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - Down The Rabbit Hole

This is not your parents' Wonderland

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As Shane, Bonnie and Jeremy draw closer to Silas, Caroline and Tyler appeal to Klaus for help deciphering the codex on the hilt of the Hunter's sword. Klause begrudgingly grants them aid, but there's a spark of mischief to the whole proceeding that suggests Klaus (as always) knows more than he ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - Into The Woods

There's no trail of breadcrumbs to lead them back home

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Can Shane be trusted? Is Bonnie's fate an effective point of leverage to control Damon's impulses? Is Elena realistic about who does and doesn't desire to restore their humanity if the "cure" is found? Is Jeremy the only Hunter on the island? Does Bonnie realize how dangerous her powers have become? ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - A View To A Kill

Music and fashion from the '80s never seemed so ominous

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We pick up with the continuation of Elena's master plan to have Jeremy kill Kol. While this still seems very ill-advised (given the fact that knowing Kol isn't the sire of her particular vampire line depends entirely on how completely you are willing to trust the word of the Mikaelsons), Jeremy and ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - Catch Me If You Can

Run, run, as fast as you can

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This week finds Jeremy still reluctant to kill the newly-made vamps Klaus so thoughtfully provided to complete Jeremy's Hunter's Mark. To add a little incentive, Klaus compels them all to hunt Matt, leaving Jeremy to either get over his moral objection or lose a friend (and, in the process, sacrific ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - After School Special

Rebekah's back, and she's looking for trouble

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Another assembly, another memorial -- must be Mystic Falls. We open with the service for Carol Lockwood, drowned by Klaus before the winter-hiatus. The students gathered in the gym to light candles one by one as Sheriff Forbes gives the eulogy, looking somewhat apprehensive; perhaps because of the b ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - O Come, All Ye Faithful

It's just another quiet holiday in the world of vampires, werewolves, hybrids and witches

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Another sun-drenched morning, another scene of Damon and Elena lying in bed together. Clothed this time, so it's clear that although Damon may not have sire-compelled Elena to leave him, they spent the night doing nothing more than occupying the same mattress. They leave together for the Gilber ...

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