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Movie review: ‘Horrible Bosses’ brings the laughs, despite weak, unmemorable characters
If comedies exist to make us laugh, "Horrible Bosses" is entirely effective. It delivers steady laughs beginning to end, escalates when it needs to and restrains itself enough to not lose the audience, a la most Will Ferrell movies.
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Video games: EA Sports gains ground with improvements in ‘NCAA Football 12’
EA Sports' college football franchise "NCAA Football" has never really been an easy game to fairly assess. Each year, it makes a little bit of progress. The game gets better with each new title. But in the big picture, a lot of key things were missing from last year's game.
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TV review: Breaking Bad’s finest hour
After a yearlong hiatus, AMC's Breaking Bad returns for its much-anticipated fourth season this Sunday, and with it comes a fresh batch of shocking moments for the series' Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).
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Column: Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC no longer a laughing matter
Stephen Colbert has made headlines in recent weeks for his creation of the Colbert Super Political Action Committee, or the Colbert Super PAC for short.
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Book review: Without Fleming, new Bond book fails to capture essence of 007
This could be forgiven if the hero at the heart of these scenes were at all interesting. But Deaver's take on Bond manages to be both overly reverent and overly generic.
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Video games: “Trenched” immerses you in alternate post-war reality
Double Fine Studios' newest release "Trenched" takes a historic time of peace and prosperity and turns it into a chaotic scene of soldiers and robotic monsters in an alternate realty. "Trenched" is a new take on the classic tower defense game familiar to most iPhone gamers.
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Movie Review: ‘Horrible Bosses’
“Horrible Bosses” should be titled “Criminally Insane Bosses.” Played by Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell and Jennifer Aniston, the title characters are so cartoonish in their venomous and freakish behavior that they tamper with the movie’s ability to establish a coherent storyline.
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Book Review: Furious Love
“Since I was a little girl, I believed I was a child of destiny, and if that is true, Richard Burton was surely my fate.” – Elizabeth Taylor I’ve never been the voyeuristic type.
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Final ‘Harry Potter’ film to hit theaters next week
“It all ends here.” Thus states the tagline for the next and final installment of Harry Potter films: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II. For many of us in our late teens and early 20s who have grown up with the Harry Potter story, however, this line rings especially true.