December 22, 2006 Archive

Video

• Movie Review: The Dead Girl

  No need to cremate The Dead Girl.

  Review in Video — by El Bicho — on Dec 22, 2006

• DVD Review: Ocean Odyssey

  This one goes on the Fumo's "Very Highly Recommended" list.

  Review in Video — by El Bicho — on Dec 22, 2006

• MeeVee Interviews Veronica Mars/Gilmore Girls Star Krysten Ritter

  Interview in Video — by TV with MeeVee — on Dec 22, 2006

• Movie Review: We Are Marshall

  Matthew McConaughey does his best impression of a football coach who wears really tight pants.

  Review in Video — by Neil Miller — on Dec 22, 2006

• DVD Review: Superman Returns

  Superman Returns never quite takes off the way you wish it would, but is still an entertaining film.

  Review in Video — by Cameron Graham — on Dec 22, 2006

• DVD Review: Ice Age: The Meltdown

  It's a downright chilly world, and a cold attempt at a sequel.

  Review in Video — by Josh Lasser — on Dec 22, 2006

• Movie Review: Dead or Alive

  Speechless. I'm a critic, and I'm speechless. And not in a good speechless way.

  Review in Video — by Matt Paprocki — on Dec 22, 2006

• MeeVee Picks the Top Ten TeeVee Christmas Clichés of All Time

  A recent scientific study at some highly reputable university or other has determined that there are only ten possible Christmas episode plot lines.

  Opinion in Video — by TV with MeeVee — on Dec 22, 2006

• MeeVee Primetime Weekend Picks: Dec. 22-24

  News in Video — by TV with MeeVee — on Dec 22, 2006

• Reality TV Casting Call: SPLIT!

  News in Video — by TV with MeeVee — on Dec 22, 2006

• New Movies and Box Office Predictions: The Good Shepherd, Night at the Museum, We Are Marshall, Rocky Balboa, Black Christmas

  There's a chill in the air and a movie on the screen.

  News in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Dec 22, 2006

• PBS Primetime Programming for The Week of 12/24

  Christmas and PBS. Perfect together.

  News in Video — by Josh Lasser — on Dec 22, 2006

• Holiday Television Programming - This Weekend - December 23 - 24

  The weather outside is frightful, but the holiday television viewing is so delightful.

  News in Video — by Jackie — on Dec 22, 2006

• Movie Review: Rocky Balboa

  This is a needed and brilliant sequel, regardless of pre-release opinions.

  Review in Video — by Matt Paprocki — on Dec 22, 2006

Music

• Blogcritics Goodie Bag: Mary Mary, Dave Stryker, The Beatles, Trainwreck Riders, and Bow Wow

  Digital media music and video downloads and streams.

  News in Music — by Anna Creech — on Dec 22, 2006

• Music Review: Celtic Woman - A Christmas Celebration

  If you are looking for a Christmas album with dramatic orchestration and dulcet vocals, then you have found it.

  Review in Music — by Anna Creech — on Dec 22, 2006

• Hip-Hop Regional Report: Here Comes the "New West"

  It is the dawn of a new era for West Coast hip-hop, with a host of up and coming stars set to emerge.

  Opinion in Music — by Adam Hoff — on Dec 22, 2006

• The Friday Morning Listen: Aimee Mann - One More Drifter in the Snow

  Merry Christmas everybody.

  Review in Music — by Mark Saleski — on Dec 22, 2006

• Music Review: Jay-Z - Kingdom Come

  Jay's comeback attempt has been roundly criticized, but is the criticism fair?

  Review in Music — by Adam Hoff — on Dec 22, 2006

Culture

• Love In The Afternoon

  Young lovers in the country can face unexpected intrusions.

  Opinion in Culture — by Donnie Marler — on Dec 22, 2006

• Ellen vs. Rosie

  Rosie is a lesbian circus act while Ellen is a brilliant comic and host who is openly gay.

  Opinion in Culture — by Richard Rothstein — on Dec 22, 2006

• Q: Did Germany’s Most Well-Known Theologian Conspire To Assassinate Hitler?

  mental_floss question of the day.

  News in Culture — by Mental_Floss — on Dec 22, 2006

• Day By Day for December 22, 2006

  Chris Muir's excellent Day By Day cartoon, for December 22, 2006

  Satire in Culture — by Chris Muir — on Dec 22, 2006

• A Very Jewish Christmas

  To me, Jesus was the ultimate Jew -- the chosen one of the Chosen People.

  Opinion in Culture — by Elvira Black — on Dec 22, 2006

Sports

• Soccer Needs to Modernize

  By introducing video replay, soccer would help referees out.

  Opinion in Sports — by Alessandro Nicolo — on Dec 22, 2006

• Fantasy College Football All-Americans: The QBs

  Three sophomores are in our top five quarterbacks, a result highly unusual versus years past in fantasy college football.

  News in Sports — by Vince Mullins — on Dec 22, 2006

Tastes

• The Wines of New Zealand

  Perhaps it was the winemakers' perseverance, or the zeal that partly makes up the nation’s name, but something kept the New Zealand wine industry going.

  Opinion in Tastes — by Jenn Jordan — on Dec 22, 2006

Books

• Audio Book Review: The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips

  A spanking good mystery expertly narrated and easily enjoyed.

  Review in Books — by C. Michael Bailey — on Dec 22, 2006

• Audio Book Review - Brother Odd by Dean Koontz – Read by David Aaron Baker

  Odd Thomas returns! This time to a abbey in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and yes, he still sees dead people.

  Review in Books — by T. Michael Testi — on Dec 22, 2006

• Book Review: Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay

  ...one of his best works yet.

  Review in Books — by Richard Marcus — on Dec 22, 2006

• Politics, Real Life, and the Crime Novel: An Interview with Author John Baker

  Crime writer John Baker talks about his work and his early influences.

  Interview in Books — by Ambrose Musiyiwa — on Dec 22, 2006

Politics

• Al Qaeda's Economic War and Online Identity Theft: A Perfect Storm

  Al Qaeda is thinking about economic warfare and identity theft. Are we?

  Opinion in Politics — by John Bambenek — on Dec 22, 2006

• Why Did Our Tax Dollars Send Kerry to Damascus?

  I noticed that Sen. John Kerry (and Sen. Christopher Dodd D-Conn) used military aircraft to travel to Damascus, Syria...

  Opinion in Politics — by Bird of Paradise — on Dec 22, 2006

• Copyright Competition

  The cheaper and less controlled the RIAA members make their legitimate legal products, the less motivated fans will be to circumvent them.

  News in Politics — by Al Barger — on Dec 22, 2006

• The Media Mob: "Written by partisans to be read by the naïve"

  Blogs are the bastard child of a media that failed to meet consumer needs. As much as journalists want to complain, they were the ones who made blogs relevant.

  Opinion in Politics — by John Bambenek — on Dec 22, 2006

Gaming

• Friday Flash: Twelve Days Of Christmas Edition

  Twelve, count them, twelve different games to play, making this the merriest Christmas since the first one.

  Opinion in Gaming — by Phillip Winn — on Dec 22, 2006