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Review of The Mechanic
By Ryan Matthews For the New Year, Hollywood is doing its best to make up for the lackluster that was 2010. One of the first films is The Mechanic starring Jason Statham, Ben Foster, and Donald Sutherland. It is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name. It centers on a man named ...
Review of No Strings Attached
By Adam Miller Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher are friends with benefits. What if you could be intimate with your best friend and yet be in a non committed relationship. That is what Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher are doing in the new comedy “No Strings Attached” They are two best friends who in one ...
2010 Oscar Predictions
By Adam Miller The 2010 Oscars It is that time of year again for the 83rd time: the time when Hollywood awards its directors and actors and movies for their accomplishments. This year’s nominations brought some surprises and some disappointments. Nonetheless, it is still going to be worth to see what this ceremony holds for ...
Review of USA’s Fairly Legal
By Ryan Matthews The term “legal drama” has been overdone lately, but just when you thought you’ve seen it all, you haven’t. On USA, they seem to have it all. From Burn Notice to Royal Pains , they entertain millions of viewers a week. However, they have one more trick up their sleeve: it’s called ...
Updates
As everyone knows, we have been writing articles on Hubpages, and every article belongs on this site. Well, unfortunately, we have been publishing them on Hubpages but not mirroring them on our website. Mike went through and found all the articles that were not mirrored on our site and published them on our site, and ...
Review of SyFy’s Being Human
By Ryan Matthews We don’t hear too much about the SyFy network, but, this season they may have another hit on their hands. Based on the British series of the same name, SyFy has their own version of Being Human, starring Sam Witwer from Smallville and Sam Huntington from Superman Returns . Now, we have ...
Review of NBC’s Harry’s Law
By Ryan Matthews We are about mid-way through the TV season and NBC has a new legal drama from David E. Kelley called Harry’s Law . Kelley is the creator of The Practice , Boston Legal , and Ally McBeal . Kathy Bates stars as patent attorney Harriet Korn who is fired from her law ...
Review of NBC’s The Cape
By Ryan Matthews It’s a new year now, and with that comes new pilots. NBC kicks off 2011 with the premiere of their new drama The Cape starring David Lyons, Summer Glau, and Keith David. It’s about a cop named Vince Faraday played by Lyons, who is framed for the murder of the Chief of ...
Review of True Grit (2010)
By Ryan Matthews It is the last few weeks of 2010, a year where Hollywood made more mistakes than we can count. As far as movies go, there have been a select few that became hits. True Grit is one of them. True Grit is based on the novel of the same name by Charles ...
Review of Black Swan
By Ryan Matthews Very few films have been considered “talked-about movies” in 2010, but one of the few exceptions is Black Swan . It’s about a talented ballet dancer named Nina Sayers, played by Natalie Portman, who is trying to get the part of the swan queen in a production of Swan Lake. She believes ...
TRON: Legacy Review
By Adam Miller TRON: Legacy – A sequel that is does what it is meant to do, “to entertain”. In 1982, the Walt Disney studios released a movie called Tron, which told the story of a computer hacker who gets sweeped into the world of the computer program that he created. The hacker named Kevin ...
Review of Due Date
By Adam Miller “Due Date is a successful and hysterically funny road trip” Todd Phillips got his big break as a filmmaker with the success of the 2000 comedy “Road Trip”. Ten years later he returns to that formula with this new comedy with Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis, who starred in Phillip’s 2009 ...
Review of Unstoppable
By Ryan Matthews The year of 2010 has not been good for Hollywood. Most of the movies that have come out were not a big success. However, this fall there is one film that has lived up to the hype. It’s called Unstoppable starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. It is directed by Tony Scott, ...
Review for Paranormal Activity 2
By Adam Miller Sequel to last year’s surprise horror hit is a major success. Last year moviegoers helped make a small indie horror movie called “Paranormal Activity ” a theatrical sensation. The film itself carried a mere $11,000 budget, an entirely unknown cast and crew, and went on to earn a collective $200 million in ...
Review of The Social Network
By Adam Miller The story of facebook comes to the big screen with ‘Social Network’ In 2003, a Harvard undergrad named Mark Zuckerberg started an empire from his dorm room. That empire would soon become a huge phenomenon that as of today has over 500 million members. A website known as facebook has become a ...
Review of Law & Order: Los Angeles
By Ryan Matthews No one likes to hear the word “change,” but when NBC cancelled the mother ship Law and Order, fans were outraged. It was one season away from breaking the record of the longest running television drama. The 21st season was not to be, which led creator Dick Wolf to go back to ...
Review of ABC’s My Generation
By Ryan Matthews A new pilot for ABC this fall with a unique premise is My Generation. It is based on a Swedish series called God’s Highway. It tells the story of nine high school classmates in Austin, Texas who are being filmed for a documentary series just before they graduate. Then, ten years later ...
Review of CBS’s Blue Bloods
By Ryan Matthews In nine times out of ten, a new CBS show becomes a hit, and they got it with Blue Bloods. It’s about a family of cops and lawyers who have always been loyal to their jobs and families. It stars Tom Selleck as New York police commissioner Frank Reagan, Donnie Wahlberg as ...
Review of ABC’s The Whole Truth
When it comes to ABC during the fall season, there’s bound to be some hits and misses with new pilots. I am not sure what to call this one: It’s called The Whole Truth, starring Rob Morrow and Maura Tierney as Jimmy Brogan and Kathryn Peale. Morrow is a defense attorney while Tierney is a ...
Review of NBC’s Undercovers
By Ryan Matthews NBC has got quite the lineup this fall. From Creator J.J. Abrams who gave us LOST and Alias, comes his next television drama, Undercovers. It’s about a married couple named Steven and Samantha Boom who used to be spies, but have now been retired for five years. They own a successful catering ...
Review of Detroit 1-8-7
By Ryan Matthews Some of the best shows in recent years have been cancelled by ABC, but, now with some new pilots this fall I hope they stick with this one. It’s called Detroit 1-8-7, and it tells the story of how the cops serve and protect in one of the most dangerous cities in ...
Review of Hawaii Five-O
In the last few years, networks have tried to reboot such classic television shows and failed. Perfect examples are NBC’s Bionic Woman and Knight Rider that only lasted one season. Now CBS is trying their hand at it and I think they got it right. Hawaii Five-O is back after the original ended more than ...
Review of The Defenders
By Ryan Matthews With enough legal dramas on television, you might ask yourself why we even need another one. This time it comes from CBS, and as you know CBS is the most successful network on television today. From executive producer Carol Mendelsohn, who helped make CSI, comes a new legal drama called TheDefenders. It ...
Review of NBC’s Chase
By Ryan Matthews Jerry Bruckheimer has developed a lot of television shows over the past decade. From all three CSI’s, to Cold Case, to The Forgotten, he has done it all, but for NBC he’s not done yet. With Bruckheimer as executive producer, NBC brings us his next cop drama, Chase. It stars Kelli Giddish ...
Review of FOX’s Lone Star
By Ryan Matthews Now that 24 is gone, FOX needed another big hit for Mondays, and they found one with Lone Star. Newcomer James Wolk stars as Bob Allen, who is a con-man living in Texas with two different lives. On one side, he lives in Midland, Texas with his girlfriend Lindsey. While on the ...
Review of NBC’s The Event
By Ryan Matthews The fall season is now under way and for the NBC network it’s time to go big or go home. For Monday nights, they may have struck gold with The Event. It tells the story of Sean Walker played by Jason Ritter from CBS’s Joan of Arcadia and NBC’s Parenthood. He and ...
Review of NBC’s Outlaw
By Ryan Matthews For the network NBC, this is a rebuilding year, and one of their new pilots stars Jimmy Smits who was previously on LA Law and The West Wing. It’s called Outlaw, and it’s about a Supreme Court Justice named Cyrus Garza, played by Smits. He decides to resign from the bench and ...
Reaction to NCIS Season 8 Premiere
By Adam Miller Once again the hit CBS show NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service), has begun another season on the network. And once again they continue the tradition of taking care of cliffhangers they leave us on at the end of every season. I credit the beginning of that tradition to the finale of Season ...
Review of The Town
By Adam Miller Ben Affleck proves he is the new Eastwood with The Town Ben Affleck has had a very noteworthy career since his beginnings as an actor. He won an Oscar for writing the year’s best screenplay along with Matt Damon for the 1997 film Good Will Hunting. Then he became a huge box-office ...
Review of Devil
By Adam Miller Shyamalan returns to his roots with “Devil” In 1999, a rookie young director by the name of M. Night Shyamalan released a movie called The Sixth Sense . The success of that film made him a household name but it also introduced his style of storytelling. That style involves the use major ...
The Return of The Vampire Diaries
By Ryan Matthews One of the biggest hits of last year returns for its second season: The Vampire Diaries on The CW. It is based on the series of books by L.J. Smith about a young girl who falls in love with a boy named Stefan who later reveals that he is a 150 year ...
Review of The Wolfman
By Adam Miller “Even a man who is pure at heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf, when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is full and bright.” That proverb is an old saying in the legend that says he who is bitten by a werewolf will become one himself ...
Review of The CW’s Hellcats
By Ryan Matthews It’s that time of year again: the month of September where television shows premiere. This year, the major networks are pulling out all the stops for pilots, and the CW is the first network to kick off the fall season. This time around they have two new pilots and one of them ...
Review of The CW’s Nikita
By Ryan Matthews This fall, The CW has brought back one of television’s biggest action stars. It’s based on a 1990 French film, remake of the 1993 movie Point of No Return, and the 1997 television series La Femme Nikita. In this case it’s Nikita and it stars Maggie Q as the title character. The ...
Review of Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief
By Ryan Matthews A few weeks ago, I saw the movie Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. This is based off a series of novels written by Rick Riordan. In the movie, some aspects of the book have been changed. It tells the story of 17 year old Percy Jackson struggling with his ...
New Television Show: White Collar on USA
By Ryan Matthews A lot of new shows have premiered this season, but one of them that stand out is White Collar. It’s the story of a con artist named Neal Caffrey who gets caught by the FBI not once but twice. While he is in jail he makes a deal with the agent that ...
Law & Order SVU Going Strong
By Ryan Matthews Things are not looking so good at NBC right now. The good news is one TV show can be a silver lining. Law and Order SVU has been on the air for over a decade on NBC. It centers on the Special Victims Unit of the police department that deals with sexually ...
ABC’s The Forgotten
By Ryan Matthews The fall season of 2009 has come and gone. We have seen new TV shows come and go. But one of the best new shows is considered a dark horse. It’s one of those dramas that you know it’s on but you just don’t hear about it. From executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer ...
The RPM Show Exclusive: Fall 2010 TV Report Card
Posted on January 9, 2011 Original Recording Date: October 13, 2010 We discussed all the prime time network pilots from the fall 2010 season, including the ones that were canceled and removed from the air. We discussed what is rocking and rolling and what is all washed up and dying. On The CW, we discussed ...
December 2010 Movie Wrap-Up, 2011 Golden Globe Nomination Announcements, and Review of The Tourist and Chronicles of Narnia
Original recording date: December 15, 2010 This broadcast contains: -The movies coming out December 17-31, 2010: Yogi Bear, How Do You Know, Little Fockers, True Grit remake, and Gulliver’s Travels. The Fighter is also expanding from limited release to wide release. -All your top Hollywood Headlines from the end of December 2010, including: Golden Globe ...
