Articles tagged "friday night lights"

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‘Friday Night Lights’ outshines latest Blu-ray releases

by Doug Nye [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[6.Jan.09] :. The absorbing high school football drama “Friday Night Lights” (Universal, 2004, $29.98) easily tops this week’s list of new Blu-ray titles. Billy Bob Thornton is outstanding as...

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Friday Night Lights: The Second Season

by J.M. Suarez

[2.Jul.08] :. Even with such an obvious misstep as the murder storyline in the second season, this is still one of the most well-executed series on television.

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How they capture that ‘Friday Night Lights’ magic

by Ellen Gray [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)]

[12.Oct.07] :. You might not think that actors, accustomed to putting their best features forward under the best possible lighting, would take to being filmed on the run, from angles they can’t possibly...

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Friday Night Lights

by Lesley Smith

[8.Oct.07] :. The series abjures the usual primetime penchant for suburban gloss or metropolitan grit. Instead, it claimed as its territory lower middle class life in the America of vanishing jobs and diminishing horizons.

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Executive producers give a `Friday Night’ preview

by Maureen Ryan [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[20.Jul.07] :. For those of you who have a lot of love for “Friday Night Lights” and don’t want to know a thing about what happens in the show’s upcoming second season, which starts Oct. 5,...

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TV Review

Friday Night Lights

by Lee Wang

[19.Apr.07] :. In the mundane, in the small and sometimes sad realities of small-town life, the heroic can be found.

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‘Friday Night Lights’ hopes for a comeback

by Robert Philpot [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[10.Apr.07] :. IRVING, Texas - It’s a pleasant spring afternoon, and football is in the air at Texas Stadium. Not the usual time of year for it, but this isn’t the usual practice session. It’s the...

 

A Hammock and a Brook: An Interview With Explosions in the Sky

by John Kenyon

[27.Mar.07] :. After getting on the big screen and the small one, Explosions in the Sky learn how to relax even as they grow.

 

Friday Night Lights

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Oct.06] :. Once the football game started in last week's premiere episode of Friday Night Lights, the clichés came fast and hard, but still, compelling.

 

Friday Night Lights (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Oct.04] :. It's mostly about how football -- in this place, at this time -- overwhelms its adherents, apparently giving them something to live for but also sucking their lives from them.