How to Spend $20
Most sites will be reminding you that Iron Man is out today. Since this is BOP, we're here to tell you that Sports Night's tenth anniversary collection is a must buy.
Watch What We Say
We take a break from new shows to evaluate BOP's first love. Think of this as kindly deeds and they're done for free.
Monday Morning Quarterback
A few surprisingly strong performances makes for a fun weekend.
Movie of the Day: Valkyrie
TiVoPlex
Godzilla makes an appearance in this week's TiVoPlex. What more do you need to know?
Review: Choke
Choke is a most unusual comedy. It's about sex and exploitation but somehow avoids being sexual and exploitative.
How Well Do You Know: The Office, Season 2 Episode 17: Dwight's Speech
After winning the title of top Dunder-Mifflin salesman, Dwight must struggle with writing and delivering a speech.
How Well Do You Know: The Sting
When it comes to pairing legendary cinema figures, you can't do much better than Newman and Redford. George Roy Hill's Oscar winning The Sting marked the second time the actors worked together. A story of con upon con, the movie
delights with its style and its complicated scheme of revenge. You may know Kid Twist from the Erie Kid, but how well do you know The Sting?
Review: Battle in Seattle
In a dramatization and re-telling of factual events based on the protests of the World Trade Organization coming to Seattle in 1999, Battle in Seattle presents a struggle that poses a dilemma for all involved.
Survivor Recap
This episode picks up right after Tribal as Fang is returning to camp.
Friday Box Office Analysis
This weekend, Shia LaBeouf continues to show his box office prowess, a repairing of Richard Gere and Diane Lane gets decent attention, and an unknown quantity makes an impressive showing.
Movie of the Day: Sci-Fi Movie
Stealth Entertainment
This week, Scott reviewed The Chronicles of Riddick. We're not sure why he did that, but he did it anyways
MMQB
In the process of working on a couple of upcoming updates, we somehow forgot to post Monday Morning Quarterback this week. Err, sorry about that.
Weekend Forecast
There's a subtle shift in this weekend's new releases, with a lot more limited and prestige-type runs entering the market, along with some films that pass for what we'd call an early fall blockbuster.
This is So Last Week: 9/19/08-9/25/08
Celebrities have their coming out parties, the Emmys are awarded, and a presidential candidate suspends his campaign. It's been a strange, glorious and exciting week to be alive. We hope you were paying attention.
How Well Do You Know: The Office, Season 2 Episode 15: Boys and Girls
The office females attend a Women in the Workplace seminar. In response, Michael descends upon the warehouse, bringing untold devastation with him.
How to Spend $20
This week: Godfather fans jump with glee, four special ladies take the box office by storm and Christina Applegate forgets who she is.
Review: Righteous Kill
Over the past couple months, there's been a lot of hype and secrecy surrounding Righteous Kill. Why? Because it marks only the third time Robert De Niro and Al Pacino have appeared in the same film.
Review: The Duchess
On the surface, Saul Dibb's The Duchess appears romantic and glorified, but underneath it's a story of high dramatic tension, one that's raw, sad and indignant.
TiVoPlex
From the obscure to the obscurest to the merely overlooked or underappreciated; they all have a home in the TiVoPlex!
How Well Do You Know: Thunderball
Connery came to play Bond for the fourth time in Thunderball, which took the formula made so successful in Goldfinger and took it over the top, with even more impressive gadgets, longer battle sequences that took place underwater and more beautiful women. It was the biggest Bond of all! Until they made another one, that is. How Well Do You Know... Thunderball?
How Well Do You Know: The Office, Season 2 Episode 13: The Secret
It's an important day in the office, but someone is mysteriously absent. Meanwhile, Michael betrays a confidence.
How Well Do You Know: The Office, Season 2 Episode 12: The Injury
We are hard pressed to think of another fictional character that could undergo the injury that Michael suffers in this episode.
Movie of the Day: Quarantine
Weekend Wrap-Up
This weekend, things don't change at all, and moviegoers have another four new releases to choose from, as studios are using the ‘see what sticks' approach to releasing movies.
Friday Box Office Analysis
The Samuel L. Jackson thriller with a title that really sounds more like a movie that should star Sandra Bullock is the top performer on Friday, earning $5.1 million.
Review: Hamlet 2
It's a comedy that, at times, revels in its own preposterousness – and, oddly, confusingly, even frustratingly, succeeds in coming off as charming and occasionally hilarious.
Stealth Entertainment
Apparently, Bridge to Terabithia means 'Bait and Switch'. Scott explains what the heck that means in this week's Stealth Entertainment.
Big Brother Recap
For the first time in Big Brother history, this season's winning HouseGuest won the $500,000 grand prize by a unanimous Jury of Seven vote, 7-0.
How Well Do You Know: The Office, Season 2 Episode 10: Christmas Party
Michael ruins the staff Christmas party in ways that only he can.
This is So Last Week: 9/12/08-9/18/08
SNL returns with a hilarious segment (for a change), Uwe Boll strikes again, and a slut-off takes place. We laughed, we cried, and we all learned valuable life lessons this week. We hope you were paying attention.
Friday Box Office Analysis
The only new release of the weekend leads a really sorry box office pack on Friday.
Big Brother
Having won the Head of Household competition following a double eviction week on Big Brother, 75-year-old Jerry had his heart set on evicting one HouseGuest: Dan.
Review: The House Bunny
If it takes a special skill to play ditsy, Anna Faris has it.
Movie News:
Big Brother
Big Brother this week was nothing short of absurd.
How to Spend $20
This week: Office fans, try to calm yourselves. You can now purchase season four. Also, some other stuff is released, too.
Trailer Hitch
This week: Frances Conroy smokes pot, Queen Latifah makes honey and Randy Quaid transitions from Cousin Eddie to hit man.
Watch What We Say
This fall, we'll take a look at every new show from the five broadcast networks.
Monday Morning Quarterback
This week The Dark Knight crosses the $500 million mark. Also, a bunch of movies opened. You probably didn't notice.
How Well Do You Know: The Office, Season 1 Episode 06: Hot Girl
The arrival of an attractive saleswoman brings turmoil to the Dunder-Mifflin office.
Movie News: