GREY MATTERS (Ian Grey)
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GREY MATTERS: PERSON OF INTEREST A Noir for the New Depression
Person of Interest isn’t the sole new scripted television show in the Top Five because it’s a gold standard procedural mystery. Or because it’s a terrific grown-up look at living with regret that also finds time to explore post 9-11 hot topics of class and morality in the...
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GREY MATTERS: Cabin in the Woods, Horror in the Dumps
If we’re lucky, "The Cabin in the Woods" will shut down the debased American horror movie machine for a good long while.
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GREY MATTERS: One Soul Separated: THE BALLAD OF GENESIS P-ORRIDGE AND LADY JAYE
Like high romantics everywhere, the lovebirds named Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye felt as if they were really one soul separated into two bodies. Unlike everyone else, they did something about it.
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GREY MATTERS: More Room for Rockstars!
Sometimes a terrible music movie isn’t such a bad thing.
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GREY MATTERS: A Defense of BATTLE: LOS ANGELES
After the first time my interest felt forbidden, something to not share in smart company. But with my second viewing three months later, I realized my reaction wasn’t just a quirk of mood or contrarian impulse, or the film version of one of those inexplicable crushes that make your friends smile pol...
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GREY MATTERS: The Dark Turn of JUSTIFIED
Maybe I’m just touchy, or prone to over-reaction. But I’m thinking there’s something about Quarles, Justified’s bleach-blond, Oxy-popping, batshit, gay-teen-torturing, Motor City gangster and all-around homosexual kill-freak that rubs me the wrong way.
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GREY MATTERS: The lunatics are in the hall! It's the top 10 films about mental illness
It’s been a good few years for crazy. "Homeland’s" made bipolar disorder a household ailment yet again. Sean Durkin’s "Martha Marcy May Marlene" located the goal posts between delusion and reality in its brainwashed hero’s mind and promptly moved them repeatedly (just like in real life!). And whi...
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GREY MATTERS: LOST GIRL is goofy, sexy entertainment, in a BUFFY vein
"Lost Girl" is no big deal, and yet, for me, on sheer level of affection, it’s up there with the ludicrously better "Luck," and I can barely wait for each episode to air. So WTF, right? Looked at on paper (or screen) my affection becomes even more baffling. It’s yet another televisual offering wh...
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GREY MATTERS: WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN is disjointed and brilliant and baffling
Nothing gets a horror fan more ticked off than a director with airs claiming her new film isn’t "really" horror but actually a character study exploring the deep psychological recesses of blah blah blah. In the case of "We Need to Talk About Kevin" director Lynne Ramsay, you’ve got a fancy Scot arth...
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GREY MATTERS: DOCTOR WHO's sublime study of grief, death and transfiguration continues to captivate its viewers
On a recent episode of "The Graham Norton Show," the genial goofball host was plainly delighted to have Karen Gillan—known worldwide as Amy Pond, the spirited, ginger-haired companion of The Doctor on "Doctor Who"—on his guest couch. Of course, Norton couldn’t pass up commenting on a rumor that ...
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