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Posted Oct. 11, 2007,
Ken Burns' The War on PBS (Reality Check Two Three)
By Ann Magnuson
Sorry to interrupt our little campfest with a brutal dose of reality but... God. Words completely fail me in trying describe the experience of watching the Ken Burns' PBS series on WWII called simply The War. You could say War is Hell but Hell has nothing on this War. (Or any war.) I rarely turn on the TV anymore but happened upon the last episodes (and now, thankfully, the second airing ) of this series when I switched on the set to watch the latest finds from the Hollywood vault. I've ignored all the escapist DVDs that have piled up ever since because I can't stop watching The War.
Posted Mar. 9, 2007,
300 Certain to Kick Cinematic Ass
By Ann Magnuson
I caught the 300 special on The History Channel the other night and the 11-year-old in me is gonna drag my middle-aged carcass to the movie theater to see this Sci-fi-Ray-Harryhausen-meets-ancient-Greek-beefcake-in-hell cinematic blockbuster! (It was the same 11-year-old who dragged me out of the house to see Apocalypto... and my chakras are STILL shredded!)
I think there are gonna be a lot of 11-year-old boys citing this movie in about ten years time as the defining moment when they realized they were gay. YOWSER! The homoerotica on display in 300 beats the hell out of those '60s era bodybuilder magazines!
