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'Pompeii', Slaves and Their Short-Lived Payback
On one hand Atticus, the most awesome slave-gladiator in Pompeii, is smart and splendidly charismatic. On the other, he's tormented.
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Net-Works: The Best TV of 2006
You won't have to look far along your television dial to discover the Top TV picks from PopMatters staff. From 20 upward, each entry represents the boob tube at its best.
10 Jan 2007
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Lost: Season Three Premiere
Squabbles over book clubs, burned muffins, and broken plumbing are not what one would expect from the marauding band of brutes who have captured and brutalized some of the island's most cuddly inhabitants.
Marisa LaScala
10 Oct 2006
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Lost / The Amazing Race
Of course, we know that Lost's producers are an international '911' call away, should anything go terribly wrong, but for the most part, the contestants are left to their own devices.
Jonathan Beebe
03 Oct 2006
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Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)
Jim Sheridan notes, 'There's no initiation anymore for young men. They just grow up and there's nowhere to put these confused feelings that they have.'"
Cynthia Fuchs
29 Mar 2006
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Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)
And where, you might ask, is 50 Cent coming from? In a word, money.
Cynthia Fuchs
08 Nov 2005
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Oz - The Complete Fourth Season
Arresting for any number of reasons -- graphic violence, extreme masculinity, harsh language -- Oz also brilliantly inventive with its percussive soundtrack.
Cynthia Fuchs
04 May 2005
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The Bourne Identity (2002)
The CIA here is an intensely low-down, sinister, and duplicitous organization.
Cynthia Fuchs
12 Jun 2002
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