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Review'Smallville' - Booster

What could have been comic book gold turns out to be fools gold

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This review may contain spoilers. "Smallville" but only for a matter of weeks before Clark Kent (Tom Welling) finally takes to the skies and becomes the hero he was destined to become. Last week's episode, "Kent," was a mixed offering which simply didn't have the emotional impact is should hav ...

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Review'Chuck' - Versus The Wedding Planner

You can't con a con artist ... or can you?

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This review may contain spoilers. Sarah and Chuck have given a huge amount of money to a wedding planner and she’s vanished with that tidy sum. There are some twists and turns in this story but the main reason for it to play out is to let us see Sarah feeling better about her con artist dad and ...

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Review'Judas Kiss' Might Be An Indie, But It'll Surprise You

Michael Hinman gives a spoiler-free review of new film from J.T. Tepnapa, Carlos Pedraza

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As science-fiction fans, the concept is classic: What if you really did have a chance to fix the mistakes of your past. Would you do it? Could you do it? Hell, would you even recognize that you actually made mistakes in the first place? Those are the questions Carlos Pedraza posed in his scre ...

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Review'Stargate: Universe' - Common Descent

The crew of Destiny comes face to face with their ancestors

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This review may contain spoilers. Having to survive is the main goal for everyone on Destiny. Each episode gives the viewers a new challenge to overcome. But "Common Descent" gave us twice the number of Destiny's crew having to survive. It turns out that in a time traveling twist, when the cr ...

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Review'Game Of Thrones' - Winter Is Coming

HBO redefines the fantasy genre, meets expectations with its latest epic series

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This review may contain spoilers. HBO has slipped into the seat of author George R.R. Martin’s coveted iron throne and smartly proved that its the king of redefining genres and expectations. "Game of Thrones" is another jewel in the network's prestigious crown. Martin's books are ripe materi ...

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Review'Chuck' - Versus The Family Volkoff

Secrets kept, secrets revealed, new secrets ...

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This review may contain spoilers. There seem to be two strategies in television regarding the approaching ratings sweeps. One is to throw reruns on until the counting begins and the other is to ramp up the action so the viewer is anxious to find out how things will work out for his favorite chara ...

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Review'No Ordinary Family' - No Ordinary Animal

The Powell family meets a rebel with claws

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This review may contain spoilers. The situation is getting dire for the Powell family. A vicious creature is hunting super-beings, and he is coming after them next. The string of guest stars continues this week. Eric Balfour returns as Lucas, the superhuman with claws and teeth, who is hunting ...

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Review'Chuck'- Versus The Muuurder

Who knew that a pig called Kevin Bacon could be so cute?

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In this week’s episode, we have not one but two locked room mysteries to be solved. One involves the murder of three spies that Chuck has chosen for possible recruitment to the Intersect team. The other involves a pig named Kevin Bacon. If those facts, especially the second one, don’t make yo ...

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Review'Fringe' - Stowaway

Compassionate soul vampires: a national concern

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This review may contain spoilers. Last week, Walter Bishop (John Noble) rang a bell, and Olivia's (Anna Torv) body was taken over by the soul of the deceased William Bell. It's weird how that's one of the strangest things to happen on this show, isn't it? Even stranger were the characters r ...

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Review'Chuck' - Versus The A-Team

At first look, this seems like a filler episode but it's really not

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This review may contain spoilers. Casey is always a slightly mysterious character and a new mystery has formed around him. He’s been running here and there without cluing Chuck and Sarah into his actions. Now, they have found out that he’s playing for another team and it’s what Chuck calls ...

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Review'Outcasts' - The Complete Series

If only it hadn't distanced itself from science-fiction on day one maybe the series would have rocketed to the stars

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This review may contain spoilers. "Outcasts" wasn't the massive success that BBC hoped it would be when they commissioned the series. Its initial launch pulled in a respectable 4.4 million viewers (a figure which is pretty good for a weekday terrestrial broadcast) but it was all downhill from ...

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Review'Fringe' - Os

Spoiler alert: a father goes to extremes for his son

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This review may contain spoilers. The "Fringe" writers should look into a way to make money every time they have a moment where a character takes his fatherly duties to such extremes that he makes a lot of really, really bad things happen. Or there should at least be a drinking game for when ...

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Review'V' - Devil in the Blue Dress

A Fifth Column plan reveals blue energy's destructive qualities, and sides are being chosen in the war against Anna

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This review may contain spoilers. The new "V" series has a distinctly different flavour to the original series, but in "Devil in the Blue Dress" the show returns to the core concepts from the original "V" with fear of a large-scale invasion Although viewers have not had to be fluent in the o ...

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Review'The Event'- And Then There Were More/Inostranka

A refreshed style and two-hour episode shows this troubled drama has changed ... but is it enough?

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This review may contain spoilers. When NBC took an extended hiatus to "re-launch" the drama, a lot of changes were going on behind the scenes. In a two-hour episode, NBC decided to highlight some of the show's strong points and not repeat the criticisms that had been following the show since the ...

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Review'Stargate: Universe' - Deliverance

The crew of Destiny attempts to survive an attack from aliens

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This review may contain spoilers. Survival seems a great theme to apply to "Deliverance," and a possible desire from fans of "Stargate: Universe" as the show episode launched Season 2.5 and the beginning of the end to the series. After leaving the viewers with a cliffhanger of being attacked ...

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