Articles tagged "kal penn"

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Actor trades ‘House’ role for White House job

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[8.Apr.09] :. The end came quickly for Kal Penn’s character on the popular Fox drama “House” on Monday night. Early in the episode, viewers learned that Dr. Lawrence Kutner had committed...

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Viewers tend to stick with the predictable

by Neal Justin [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[23.Feb.09] :. On the surface, Gregory House and Patrick Jane have little in common. One is a pill-popping, emotionally crippled doctor with the worst bedside manner since Typhoid Mary. The other is a sly,...

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TV Review

House: 100th Episode

by Marisa LaScala

[2.Feb.09] :. Dr. Miller's decision to choose selfish fulfillment over the greater good somehow instigates small epiphanies for the rest of House's team.

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Celulloid Culpability - Top 10 Film Guilty Pleasures of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Like comedy or music, one's choice in cinematic pleasure can be very personal - and very peculiar. Take this tantalizing list of shameful indulgences. You can argue over their artistic value, but their individuals rewards definitely speak to those who champion them.

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Kal ‘Kumar’ Penn is one of the newest doctors in the ‘House’

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[17.Nov.08] :. SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Kal Penn’s character of Dr. Lawrence Kutner on “House” was introduced last season through a game of elimination. Dr. House (Hugh Laurie) needed to pick a new...

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TV Review

House

by Brendon Bouzard

[16.Sep.08] :. House has proven an unusually zeitgeisty phenomenon: in an era of milky American evangelism, it is unquestioningly anti-religious.

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Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantánamo Bay

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Apr.08] :. As before, the adventures of Harold and Kumar are essentially an illogical, sometimes funny, and most often dead-on tour of U.S. race relations.

 

‘Harold & Kumar’ make an encore appearance, at… Guantanamo Bay

by Cary Darling [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[18.Apr.08] :. John Cho and Kal Penn, who portray the troublemaking twosome at the heart of the 2004 cult hit “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle,” admit they were just a little jumpy about the...

 

The Namesake

by Josh Timmermann

[28.Nov.07] :. Whatever else you get out of this movie -- a give-take equation that depends largely on your willingness to follow Nair’s lead -- it’s worth watching for Tabu’s superlative turn alone, which would earn her an Oscar if there were any justice in the First World.

 

Epic Movie (2007)

by Matthew A. Stern

[25.May.07] :. It's possible that in its brazen stupidity, Epic Movie might be able to tell us something about our cultural landscape that encourages us to get excited about the images with which we're inundated, regardless of their artistic merit.

 

Unbridled with Life: Interview with Mira Nair

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Mar.07] :. With The Namesake, based on Jhumpa Lahiri's popular novel, Mira Nair has found an ideal subject -- a family full of complex characters who spend their lives traversing traditions and expectations.

 
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Film Review

The Namesake (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Mar.07] :. Attentive to surfaces as well as nuances, Mira Nair's adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, The Namesake, is about legacies and responsibilities, ambitions and dislocations.

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24: Day Six

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Jan.07] :. As 24's sixth day takes shape, it looks as though moral certainty isn't what it used to be.

 

A Lot Like Love (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Aug.05] :. The Ashton Kutcher vehicle tries to make use of its stars' appeals, structuring a regular romantic comedy out of charmingly imperfect, well-performed moments.

 

A Lot Like Love (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Apr.05] :. Any movie that engineers a comic hijinksy highlight around Amanda Peet smacking herself into a glass door is not thinking too far beyond surfaces.

 

Son of the Mask (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Feb.05] :. The baby is endowed with awesome powers to shape-shift and abuse every living creature that comes within reach of his chubby little hands.

 

Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)

by Oliver Wang

[30.Jul.04] :. Harold and Kumar isn't pushing a political polemic, yet it still manages to be an odd achievement.