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I see dead people!
 
By Aaron 10/23/2007

The show starts off when a woman who works at a morgue sees dead people – and they attack her! For some reason Cameron – working out of the E.R. – convinces House to take the case. Bored with his Survivor antics, House chooses another TV show – Charlie’s Angels – communicating with his team by phone and dubbing one member, the old guy (Carmen Agenziano) Bosley. Dissent seizes the team when the sourpuss (Peter Jacobson) finds out Bosley is the team member who is not a real doctor. The two fight constantly the rest of the episode with Bosley winning the most skirmishes.

Olivia Wilde continues to be my favorite potential team member, and that could be because she is gorgeous. But it is also because her character is probably the best and has received the most time. This episode she harbors guilt about “killing” the last patient and things do not get better when the patient who sees dead people starts asking why the team killed the nice man in the wheelchair’s dog.

Partly egged on by Cameron and the $100 bet he makes with her, and partly encouraged by his mean streak, House does everything he can to humiliate The Mormon (Edi Gathegi). At first the only thing this reveals is that The Mormon is a single father. But Cameron adds some fuel to the fire and when House’s insults start to bring things to a head…well, you will have to see what happens(ed) for yourself.

Foreman knows he has been backed into a corner, as no one will hire him after his short stint at New York Mercy. One doctor who wants to hire him admits he cannot because he could never get it past the board, while another tells Foreman he has become too much like House. Which Foreman loves to hear of course. Will he have to come back and work at Princeton Plainsboro?

We pleasantly get to see a lot of Cameron in this episode as she pushes all of House’s buttons. The blonde hair is starting to grow on me, as is Cameron’s newfound drive and independence. BUT, it is becoming evident she misses House – and the team.

The episode ends with someone having to get a flower (is this what they do on The Bachelor?) Yet another reality show pun made more humorous by the fact that House brings too many flowers into the room, and has to throw some away. The banter before a team member gets cut is great (the lines in this episode were especially good throughout). The bitch, Amber (Anne Dudek) reminds everyone how she solved the case. The sourpuss complains that House always agreed with Bosley while #13 (Olivia Wilde) does her best look-at-me-I’m-Cameron-except-you-want-me routine.

Will all of the old team come back? How many of the new ones will stick around? Would they bring back only some of the team and some of the new people? Will all the new people go? You will have to wait until next Tuesday….

   

Bob’s October Movie Preview

By Bob 10/2/2008

Now that we have gotten through the sludge of September movies, it’s time for some Oscar contenders, and movies that think they’re good but not. Halloween is also this month so there is bound to be a lot of random horror movies going on and of course a Saw film to soak in. Whatever happens though, I’m gonna guess that at least one of the following gets some nods come Oscar time. With that, my October Movie Preview:

Cops, Robbers, and Blah

10) Pride and Glory: October 24th

From the director of Miracle comes one of the most clichéd trailers of ALL TIME. Edward Norton as A COP. Colin Farrell as HIMSELF. What more could we want from a movie? I don’t know, and I will likely never find out because this is not one flick I will be seeing.

9) Max Payne: October 17th

As I feverishly go through my mind trying to think of a video game adaptation that has actually been a good movie, I’m also reminded of all of the bad movies Marky Mark has made over the past ever (excluding The Departed and Boogie Nights of course). I would be shocked if there is anybody who is actually excited for this, as anybody who actually played the game has probably outgrown the genre.

8) Body of Lies: October 10th

Leonardo Dicaprio. Russell Crowe. Ridley Scott. Something about spies. The trailers really tell us nothing about this film except, “How am I supposed to run an operation when you’re running a side operation.” I don’t really know what that means, but Leo says it in the trailer. This film looks like another lame attempt by Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe to win Oscars. I’m not buying it.

7) Flash of Genius: October 3rd

Greg Kinnear stars as an man who invents the intermittent windshield wiper, and then has it stolen from him buy the major auto manufacturers. This just looks like a boring film that will get a lukewarm response. For some reason, however, it has been getting a huge level of marketing with television and even radio advertisements. I doubt people will buy it.

6) RocknRolla: October 10th

Guy Ritchie is back in the genre he knows best, and this appears to be an English gangster film much in the mold of Lock Stock and Snatch. We’ll see if he still has his stuff, but for now, I’ll just pop in my DVDs of the older films that I can trust, and look to be almost identical in plot to this one.

Movies that Intrigue Me

5) Changeling: October 24th

Angelina Jolie stars in this Clint Eastwood film about a woman whose son goes missing and is returned with something different. Any film that Eastwood directs (that’s not Flags of our Fathers of course) is worth checking out, and this looks to be no different. It got solid reviews with it premiered at Cannes, and Angelina Jolie is ready for a solid role.

4) W.: October 17th

A film that is certain to be the years most controversial, Oliver Stone directs this biopic about our current president. While I am sure Stone will exaggerate many of the details, there is no denying that he has put together an awesome cast including Josh Broling (as Bush), Elizibeth Banks (as First Lady Laura), James Cromwell (as his father H. W.), Richard Dreyfuss (as Cheney), Thadie Newton (as Condoleezza Rice) and others as the rest of his cabinet. Whatever happens in this film, it will certainly be interesting.

3) Synecdoche, New York: October 24th

A film that I have been awaiting since last year, this is Charlie Kauffman’s directorial debut. I have loved the films he has written (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and Adaptation. ) and this should prove to be equally compelling. It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a playwright who attempts to put on a production in a warehouse that includes a scale model of New York. It will probably boggle our minds, but that is Kauffman, isn’t it?

2) Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist: October 3rd

Michael Cera and Kat Dennings star as the eponymous Nick and Norah who meet each other one night in New York and have adventures. Something about the trailer really brought this movie to my attention, probably the indie style that I love. Cera is always great, and Dennings was really cool in Charlie Bartlett, so I might make my way to a cinema this week to check it out.

1) Zach and Miri Make a Porno: October 31st

Seth Rogen and Elizibeth Banks star as two best friends who decide to make a porno together. This is Kevin Smith’s first film since Clerks 2, and I can only hope that it matches that film in hilarity. The only thing I don’t understand, is why are they releasing this film on Halloween? I guess there is probably a Saw film being released anyways.

   

   


   


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