Name: Matthew Milam
Dateline: Chicago, IL
Weblog: matmilam29.wordpress.com
Articles: 152
First Published: Monday, February 27, 2006
Last Published: Sunday, July 6, 2008
Currently listing articles 152-101:
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Music Review: Amos Lee - Last Days At The Lodge— Dylanesque or not, Last Days At The Lodge is a good because it's different vocally from Amos Lee other albums.
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DVD Review: The Invaders - The First Season— For those who are fans of cult television, rent this first before investing your money in it.
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Music Review: Chante Moore - Love The Woman— Chante Moore is one of the sexiest veterans of the R&B game. Past the looks, her albums are generally so-so.
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DVD Review: Girlfriends - The Third Season— Despite my issues with the overly dramatic storytelling this season, Girlfriends is still one of the better sitcoms of late.
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DVD Review: The Last Detective - Series 4— The Last Detective's greatest asset is its own vulnerable yet intelligent leading character, Dangerous Davies.
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YouTube and Its Community Must Fight Against The Internet Bullies It Houses— Internet bullying is real and must be talked about.
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DVD Review: Midsomer Murders - Set Ten— John Hopkins' Scott could have easily been as good as Troy, instead he was written merely as wallpaper.
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TV Review: Doctor Who - "Voyage Of The Damned"— I'm forcing my hands to type this: Russell T. Davies did a good job this time around.
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Movie Review: I Am Legend— I Am Legend is the best movie of the year, period.
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Businesses Warring With People Who Post Comic Strips in the Workplace— I don't understand the big deal of having them and would think businesses would be used to them by now.
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An Open Letter To Rapper Bow-Wow (aka Lil'Bow Wow)— I don’t pay to listen albums where little kids talk like they are grown.
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Linux, Perfect? I Think Not!— Who exactly can newly converted Windows users blame for the faults in Linux? No one!
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Attention, Pop Addicts: It's Not Too Late To Drink Water— I find that hilarious that something called Sprite Zero would need a diet flavor.
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Video Blogging: Keep It Short And Simple— It ain’t easy.
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DVD Review: Midsomer Murders - Set Nine— Set nine of Midsomer Murders is sort of the black sheep of the show's history.
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Movie Review: Georgia Rule— In terms of a film, well — it's right up there with Gigli.
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DVD Review: Two's Company - The Complete Collection— Not everything is classic about Two's Company, but there are a few shining moments.
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DVD Review: Desperate Housewives - The Complete Third Season, The Dirty Laundry Edition— Aside from Longoria and maybe Hatcher, there's nothing else about Desperate Housewives to get excited over.
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DVD Review: April Fools— April Fools fooled the hell out of me.
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DVD Review: It's Always In Sunny In Philadelphia Seasons 1 and 2— I'd rather watch The Ropers.
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DVD Review: The Hit— I hope the check Blair Underwood got from The Hit had at a one and three zeros at least.
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Flavor Of Love 2's Buckwild Needs A Reality Check, Not A Show— The more we see of soul sista Buckwild — not Becky Johnson — the more people won't know what's real.
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Jennifer Hudson Should Embrace Hip-Hop, Not Diss It— Smell the dollars, J-Hud. They could come if you give a "hip" and a "hop" to your music.
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Music Review: Kelly Clarkson - My December — Leaving the pop music safety net means Kelly Clarkson obviously has money in the bank. Right?
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Foxy Brown Leaves Def Jam For Koch Records— Def Jam probably didn't give her weave insurance.
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Tichina Arnold Deserves to Be A Star — All I know is that when you look into those seductive eyes, you can see confidence, class — a soul.
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DVD Review: Wild Hogs — When is someone going to give Tichina Arnold her own movie?
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DVD Review: The Adventures Of Super Mario Bros. 3 - The Complete Series— I remember I spent $89 dollars on a copy of this game.
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DVD Review: Disturbia — Didn't we just remake Rear Window a while back?
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DVD Review: The House Of Elliot - The Complete Collection— Clear your calendar, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
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DVD Review: The Last Detective Series 3— It's bizarre when you see an actor from a famous franchise in a completely different role.
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Movie Review: Confessions Of A Call Girl— Confessions Of A Call Girl confesses nothing except that black folks need to get it together in Hollywood.
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Movie Review: 4 Life — Avoid 4 Life at all costs. Now if you wanna see sexy ladies doing stripper dances, this movie is for you.
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If I Was Ill, The Last Place I'd Want To Be Is On Larry King Live— Would you let someone you know go on television and be interviewed if that person was that ill?
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Kelly Rowland — Even A Child Of Destiny Needs A Break— Everybody needs to breathe air and feel something different once in awhile.
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Music Review: Chrisette Michele - I Am — Chrisette Michele's voice is new, and feels new. That alone should be an attraction.
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TV Review: Doctor Who - "Human Nature"— This is the continuation of Steven Moffat's "The Girl In The Fireplace" theme in exploring whether the Doctor could love.
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What The CW's Girlfriends Needs Next Year— I can think of a few things, but I imagine some of them won't go down well.
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TV Review: The Slanted Screen - Asian Men In Film And Television— The Slanted Screen is a good point of reference to start from when researching the racism against Asian-Americans in Hollywood.
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Fox News: Give Me Back My Father!— My father, who has been ill with lupus for two years straight, has resigned his life to the Fox News Channel.
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I Miss My Friends— They didn't mind the madness that was me when I was a kid.
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The Don Imus/Rutgers University Blog Round Up: Part Two— Someone is still claiming it's the fault of the horrible left-wing and that the right-wing needs to take over.
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TV Review: Doctor Who - "Gridlock"— Unlike Gareth Roberts’ “The Shakespeare Code” but like Russell’s “Smith and Jones”, some parts work when others don't.
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Record Labels First, Artists Second— Honestly thou, what choice does an artist have when they have a label on them?
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Music Review: Deniece Williams - Love, Niecy Style— Rod Stewart and Barry Manilow have had success in re-doing classic songs of old, that success should come to Deniece Williams.
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The Don Imus/Rutgers University Blog Round Up: Part One— It’s about 1:00pm in Chicago and I’m still thinking about those comments.
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“Toothless Hick” and “Nappy-Headed Hos” Don’t Mean The Same Thing, Mr. Beck— A "toothless hick" doesn’t apply to a race of people, if anything it's geographical discrimination.
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TV Review: Doctor Who - "The Shakespeare Code"— If science fiction hopes to move beyond being a "white people" only genre, it has to learn how to diversify.
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TV Review: Doctor Who - "Smith and Jones"
— Doctor Who executive producer Russell T. Davies proves he is a good writer — when he wants to be.
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TV Review: Midsomer Murders— As with all genres in visual media, the presentation is the selling point. Midsomer Murders' presentation is great.
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Emma Watson To Leave Harry Potter? And a TomKat Update— Not many 16-year-old girls get $2 million for anything.
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Movie Review: HBO's Life Support — I couldn’t blurt out the feelings I had for HBO's Life Support mainly because the movie left me speechless.
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