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ReviewThe Vampire Diaries' - We'll Always Have Bourbon Street

It may be a trip to New Orleans, but it's anything but easy

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Damon and Elena's newfound happiness is short-lived, as the news breaks; Elena is "sired" to Damon, and so all her actions and emotions towards him are suspect. When Stefan confronts Damon with this fact, Damon is at first dismissive. But, in the face of Elena now being able to drink from a blo ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - My Brother's Keeper

Damon: 'Do the math: emo teen, open bar ...'

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Ah, Mystic Falls ostentation, how we've missed you! Hard to believe, but between the excitement of Elena's transformation, the Hunter plot and the continuing intrigues of Klaus, we've made it to Episode 7 without a gala. Not to worry, because this episode brings the return of the "Miss Mystic Falls" ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - We All Go A Little Mad Sometimes

If you believe it, does that make it true?

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The fallout from killing Connor Jordan arrives, in the form of his spectre haunting Elena and urging her to kill herself. Klaus offers up the info that killing a Hunter drives you mad through a series of delusions and visions designed to make the vampire responsible end his or her own life. Klaus, h ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - The Killer

How much is a cure worth?

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This week's episode finds Jeremy, Matt and April held hostage by Connor Jordan. While Jordan simultaneously seeks to continue his recruitment of Jeremy to the Hunter's life and lure Stefan into easy killing distance to add another section to Jordan's tattoo, Klaus is excavating for the buried sword ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - The Five

It's all about love, loss and poor life choices

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Scene opens: flashback, 1110 A.D., a nondescript forest at night. The camera pans in and out, and we see five people in a circle around a woman chanting and holding a cauldron. Between the repetition of the word "immortalis," the spontaneously combusting fire, and the subsequent flame arms that fan ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - The Rager

Damon: 'It's a kitten -- an adorable, exploding kitten'

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The season's third episode kicks off with the fall-out from last week's funeral shooting. Tyler is in the hospital "recuperating," guarded by a deputy. In typical tv-trope fashion the guard is lured away from his post by a noise, leaving Tyler open to an attack by Connor Jordan. The battle is s ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - Memorial

Damon: 'Vampires eat people; it's part of the natural food pyramid'

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The opening of "Memorial" offers another recap-style voice over, this time culminating in the fact that Elena is now a vampire. The intro also gives Stefan the chance to declare he will go to any lengths to make sure Elena survives. Now that Elena has completed her transition to vampire, it's tim ...

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Review'Paranormal Activity 4'

Film's repetitive nature, near total lack of new story derails scares

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While the fourth film in the Paranormal Activity series hasn't quite yet jumped the shark, the producers should think strongly about moving the story significantly forward for 5 if they want to keep milking this cash cow. Basically, "Paranormal Activity 4" is a remake of 3 but with a different fa ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - Growing Pains

As Season 4 premieres, they're taking things 'one day at a time'

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This review contains spoilers. Now in its fourth season, "The Vampire Diaries" has demonstrated it has the staying power to remain a cornerstone of CW programming. In deference to potential new viewers, the season premiere kicked off with a character driven montage and voice-over that recappe ...

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Review'Dredd 3D'

A yummy package of ultra-violence

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What can I say besides that I loved it -- "Dredd 3D" is "Dirty Harry"/"Magnum Force" and "Bladerunner" all wrapped up into one yummy package of ultra-violence. "Dredd 3D" takes place in some post-apocalyptic future where there is only one massive city left, and that city is (barely) kept sane ...

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Review'House At The End Of The Street'

A fun thriller aimed primarily at teens

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This review may contain spoilers. "House at the End of the Street" (or HATE) is a fun thriller aimed primarily at teens. The plot is pretty standard fare -- a teenager girl (Jennifer Lawrence) and her bitchy mom (Elisabeth Shue) move to an upscale neighborhood populated by uptight douches (in the ...

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Review'V/H/S'

Anthology film only manages three effective segments

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This review may contain spoilers. "V/H/S" is the latest first-person, found-footage style film that is dominating the horror genre right now. This film is billed as the scariest thing ever of all time. Let me put that rumor to rest right now -- while there are a few effective segments, most are ...

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Review'The Possession'

An ultimately misguided effort offering lukewarm chills

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This review may contain spoilers. One of the key elements of a truly scary movie is the inability to escape from whatever is threatening life and limb, but being unable to do so -- even when acting intelligently. It's pretty much the first thing any one thinking of making a horror film must under ...

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Review'Teen Wolf' - Shape Shifted

It seems broken teens make the best werewolves

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This review contains spoilers. "I seriously don't understand how you survive without me sometimes." Derek (Tyler Hoechlin) is an alpha without a pack. He bit Jackson (Colton Haynes) and was rejected. He has asked Scott (Tyler Posey) to join him more than once and has been rejected. So what ...

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Review'Teen Wolf' - Omega

The werewolves are back, but they're not alone

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"The lone wolf … Possibly kicked out of his own pack … or the survivor of a pack that was hunted down, maybe even murdered … and possibly alone by his own choice. Certainly not a wise choice." The Season 2 premiere of "Teen Wolf" got off to a howling good start (yea, I went there). It's onl ...

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