JOHN RAMBO

WARNING: some violent scenes

TRAILER OF THE WEEK

THE GOLDEN COMPASS

James Bond and dueling Polar bears.. I'm there.

LOST - FINALE finally.

If you have yet to see this one stop reading and go watch. I mean it. Go NOW!!

‘Through the Looking Glass’ is the best episode of this season and one of the best over all 3 seasons. It answered a couple more questions, confirmed a suspicion and threw a whole bunch more in our face. And a end twist that now leaves us with a painful wait until 2008.

Here are the highlights and questions (BEWARE SPOILERS):

1. DEATHS:
Oh my god!! A big body count for these two hours. 7 nameless Others were killed in the Losties surprise attack. Then Ryan, Tom and another other killed by Hurley, Sawyer and Sayid respectively. The two women Others that held Charlie captive in ‘The Looking Glass’ are killed by Mikhael on the orders of Ben. Then, as predicted by Desmond, Charlie drowns after turning off the signal blocker when Mikhael sets off a grenade outside the viewing window, apparently killing himself in the process. Finally new girl Naomi is killed by Locke as he tries to prevent her from contacting her ship.
2. WHERE’S WALT?:
A great brief appearance from Walt. Is he really off the island contacting Locke?
3. TRUTH ABOUT NAOMI:
Ben tries to convince Jack that contacting Naomi’s ship is a mistake and she isn’t who she claims to be. That the arrival of her so called rescue team could mean the end of the island. Jack doesn’t believe him, but unbeknownst to him on board TLG station as Charlie turns off the system he makes contact with Penelope and she says she doesn’t know Naomi. So is Ben telling the truth?
4. AWWWWW:
I love you – Jack to Kate.
This is your mother – Ben to Alex about Danielle.
Do you want to get us killed? - Sawyer to Hurley
5. FLASH FORWARD??:
The flash backs are not what they seem. The final scene of the episode opens up questions and a need to rewatch what has gone before. We see a Jack who is a suicidal drunk and addict. It turns out the flashbacks are really flash forwards, we are seeing a Jack who was rescued from the island, a man who needs to go back. If this is the future of Jack, is his father alive, he mentions him a couple of times during the episode as if he were there, but is Jack just dillusional. Who was in the casket? Whoever it is they were mentioned in the newspaper and a seeming catalyst in Jack’s interuppted sucide attempt. Who does Kate have to get back too? Sawyer?
6. WHERE NOW?:
Where is Season 4 going to begin? Back on the island as they are rescued or not. Is the whole Jack flashforward a red herring, the show will return to the island and they will do battle with whoever is coming. Will that only be step forward toward the real rescue team coming later. Actually after all that do we want to see them get saved if that is what it is going to do to Jack. It pains me to see our hero the way he is after time on the island.


Did I miss anything? Probably. But isn’t that what rewatching the episode is for.

Blog Resurrected: The Death of Mars

Phew.. okay it's been over 6 months since I posted last on here. And now as I can't get on my Flixster pages at work, blocked by websense, whatever. Maybe i'll go back to posting movie reviews on here first.

It seems it is official Veronica Mars has been killed by the CW. And they didn't make it quick and painless did they? Now this was a long drawn out death rattle. The network has succeded in destroying one of the best shows on TV by mis-representing it. The only reason it did as well as it did was through word of mouth. Even I was skeptical at first, but hearing good things from friends me and the wife rented the first season and got hooked.

Based on commercials during the show and promos that run for episodes the CW was aiming the show at a younger audience, these tweens are the ones who aren't going to the get the hilarious pop culture references that litter Veronica's mythos, especially the Big Lebowksi. A movie, that like Veronica Mars is a homage to the great noir works by writers Chandler.

We can only hope enough of a fuss is raised that like Family Guy on FOX someone will realise the error of their ways and bring back this great show.