TV

Interviews

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• Judah Friedlander

• The hat-wearing dude from 30 Rock wants a wife, not a blogger.

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• Johnny Galecki

• Oak Park-bred Big Bang Theory nerd on public school, Roseanne and acting gay.

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• Tahmoh Penikett

• The Dollhouse star talks Battlestar and sci-fi geekdom.

DVDs

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• Woodstock

• Wow, the epoch-defining concert is turning the big 4-0? Far out, man….

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• The Wrestler

• Can a movie as modest as this one, wrapped up in spandex, sweat and a stolen kiss, be last year's best?

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• Frost/Nixon

• Frost and Nixon shared a thirst for media vitality—that’s the theme of the play and this terrific, wonky film version that improves upon it.

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• Pillow Talk

• A sexually retrograde affair even in 1959, this camp object operates on a series of brittle, candy-colored lies.

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• The Reader

• What was once a literary exercise in dubious morality has become a demonstration in shouted themes.

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• The Spirit

• It’s no surprise that the flat-out genius of Will Eisner’s 1940s-era comic would get lost in translation.

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• No Country for Old Men

• Two great directors return to the kind of bare-bones, money-murder-payback story on which they made their name.

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• Doubt

• Credit Meryl Streep for keeping the fires raging; her performance stops the film from becoming another trapped-in-amber adaptation.

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• Slumdog Millionaire

• Expect Slumdog to survive the current backlash and gain in stature: the DVD's picture transfer is knockout stunning.