Michael Bay and Me: Prologue
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Fun at the International Box Office
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Roundtable Discussion: The Changing Face of Cinema
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Welcome to the Solute
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THE SHIELD, season 6, eps. 9-10: “Recoil”/”Spanish Practices”
“Is there a problem?” “I don’t know yet.” This is the weakest ending of all…
THE SHIELD, season 6, eps. 7-8: “Exiled”/”The Math of the Wrath”
“Is it connected?” “Exiled” picks up on something we saw in “Haunts”: Shane and Mara…
THE SHIELD, season 6, eps. 3-4: “Back to One”/”The New Guy”
“Send these to me wherever I land.” Lem’s gone, but his presence and the consequence…
THE SHIELD, season 6, eps. 1-2: “On the Jones”/”Baptism by Fire”
And then it came to me just what I had done. . . These first…
THE SHIELD, season 5, eps. 7-8: “Man Inside”/”Kavanaugh”
“No.” Ask to see a hero and I’ll show you Claudette Wyms. For everything else…
THE SHIELD, season 5, eps. 5-6: “Trophy”/”Rap Payback”
“Sorry for the inconvenience.” Shawn Ryan and Forest Whitaker made this the key to Kavanaugh’s…