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One Love
 
By Aaron 11/14/2007


Let’s step things up a notch – you either saw the episode or you didn’t. The episode’s mockumentary format was executed in a far better way than when Entourage tried to pull it off. More importantly, House faced an existential crisis. He senses his diagnostic skills are being put on tilt by the hot female doctors he has surrounded himself with – Michael Michelle’s CIA doctor and Olivia Wilde’s Thirteen. Wilson thinks this is hysterical and House struggles to understand why Cameron did not distract him. Wilson comes up with the theory that House forces attractive women to work under him because he does not know how to start (and maintain) relationships with them. For once, House completely agrees and how he follows Wilson’s advice might determine the course of the next few episodes.

This is a major spoiler but like I said in the beginning, you have either scene it, or not. Michael Michelle’s CIA doctor gets fired at the end, at which point House promptly asks her out. This amuses most of the other doctors but House gets the cold shoulder. I think House fired her because her suggestions were not as good as Thirteen’s. At the same time, since House followed Wilson’s advice would it also follow that House fired the doctor he was most interested in having a relationship with? That seems mildly unlikely because the people House had previously been attracted to, Stacy, Cameron and Cuddy, were all intelligent AND hot.

Meanwhile there is some hint that Olivia Wilde’s Thirteen is jealous (even if it is the smallest of green monsters) of the attention House is obviously bestowing on Michael Michelle. We already know, from the episode with the impersonator, that Thirteen knows House thinks she is hot. She does her best to impress him and occasionally, flirt with him. And she had a smile on her face when Michael Michelle hit the road. I think a House-Thirteen relationship would be pretty interesting – something that could start soon and end in the season finale when the new wannabes are sent packing when the old term returns. Maybe I’m a little biased because I think Olivia Wilde is GORGEOUS, but who knows.

Caught on camera is Cameron who flubs some answers and blurts out, “I loved House. Wait, I love house.” Or something like that. While we already knew Cameron HAD loved House, we were led to believe that was in the past. Her serious relationship with Chase and her exclamations that she had moved on from House seemed convincing enough. But she certainly second-guessed herself and her admission of undying love sounded very convincing. Is Cameron going to return to her star-crossed-in-love-House phase? I have to say, I would be fine with that.

So, what is going to happen? Probably nothing. Now that Michael Michelle is gone – and House’s easiest shot at a one-night stand, he probably is not going to get anything. It is increasingly unlikely as episodes go on that House is going to get anywhere with Cuddy, and House has never been ready to jump Jennifer Morrison (something I would do in a second). So that makes the Olivia Wilde option slightly more probable than the others, but that does not say a hell of a lot.

   

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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