Everything Wrong with Cold Case JFK in 1 Post

Today we're going to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy by doing something we generally don't do here at Raving Reviews - getting serious. We decided to do this after watching the PBS Nova documentary; Cold Case JFK (you can watch it at that link). Now, generally we have nothing but the highest respect for both Nova as a series and PBS in general, but this show was downright awful and we're going to document just...

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Apocalypse Then

What can we say about Apocalypse Now - well, quite a lot actually - which is why we bothered to write this post. We were watching Apocalypse Now Redux last night on AMC and it reminded us of what an incredible movie it really is (well, two movies as the Redux version adds a lot of content and makes some plot changes from the original). Movie poster for Apocalypse Now with Brando head Where do we start? Apocalypse Now was one of...

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White House Down vs. Olympus Has Fallen

Every few years or so we're treated to a unique Hollywood phenomenon - total movie plagiarism - with one film coming out a nearly complete replica of another within a year or so.  Now, this doesn't include films produced by the Asylum, which bases their entire business model on copycat productions (you might recall Abraham Lincoln versus the Zombies [an Aslyum pic] coming out just after Abraham Lincoln Vampire Killer which by the way came out...

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A Tribute to Tom Lehrer

Before Steve Martin or Richard Pryor, before George Carlin, before Bob Newhart and yes even before Lenny Bruce, there was Tom Lehrer. Lehrer began releasing comedy albums all the way back in 1953, even before the concept of the comedy album had really been established. But Tom wasn't your ordinary stand up comic - he was something so unique that quite frankly no one like him has ever appeared on the stage since. Tom Lehrer was a comedian, a musician,...

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Homeland Insecurity

To say the United States has lived in a cocoon of paranoid over-reaction for the past decade or so is perhaps an understatement. What 9/11 really seemed to accomplish more than anything was to give credence and deference to media-fueled mass hysteria. There was no logic or reason to how this country reacted to that tragedy. On the one hand we launched several ill-considered wars which when combined now represent the longest conflict in American history....

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