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On The Boob Tube: Week of Oct 3 to Oct 9

By On October 10, 2009 · 10 Comments · In On the Boob Tube, Popgeekery

This Saturday, and every Saturday for the duration of the TV season, we bring you On The Boob Tube with The Book Smugglers:

In which we talk about all those water cooler moments of the past week’s episodes, raving about the good, ranting about the bad.

For the Week of October [...]

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On The Boob Tube: Week of Sep 28 to Oct 2

By On October 3, 2009 · 4 Comments · In On the Boob Tube, Popgeekery

This Saturday, and every Saturday for the duration of the TV season, we bring you On The Boob Tube with The Book Smugglers:

In which we talk about all those water cooler moments of the past week’s episodes, raving about the good, ranting about the bad.

For the Week of September [...]

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On the Boob Tube

By On September 26, 2009 · 13 Comments · In On the Boob Tube, Popgeekery

You may have noticed by now how much we love books and reading. What you probably don’t know is that we love TV shows about just as much. We are both huge couch potatoes and each of us follow quite a few shows each. So, we thought why not a new feature, in which we [...]

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Fall Preview: TV Shows

By On August 31, 2009 · 22 Comments · In Popgeekery

We showed you the movies we’re looking forward to this fall, but hows about some TV?! With a whole slew of hopeful new pilots airing this month, we had to take the time to sort ‘em out. Here are the shows we are looking forward to…

I. New Shows We Cannot Wait to Watch:

Glee [...]

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Fall Preview: Movies (September & October)

By On August 29, 2009 · 11 Comments · In Popgeekery

So, summer is just about over (though at 90-plus degree weather here in LA, it sure as crap doesn’t feel like it). It’s always a little sad, but hey! We’ve got some sweet movies and fall tv shows on the horizon. Today we take a look at a few movies that we Book Smugglers are [...]

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Nonsensical Weekend Poll

By On July 18, 2009 · 25 Comments · In Popgeekery, Weekend Poll

It’s been a while since we’ve had one of these! But in honor of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and our upcoming Young Adult Appreciation Month, we thought it would be a good time to spark the tradition once more. (And yes, we will definitely try to have our joint review of HP6 tonight/early [...]

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Movies, Movies, Movies

By On May 27, 2009 · 10 Comments · In Miscellaneous, Popgeekery

So, even though Terminator: Salvation was a total bust, blockbuster season is far from being over. Here are a few films Ana and I cannot wait to check out:

Up
Release Date: May 29, 2009

I don’t care what Pixar does, I will watch any of their films. The trailer for Up [...]

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Lost Finale Recap- AKA WTF was that?!

By On May 23, 2009 · 9 Comments · In Popgeekery

Hello there! This is our recap/review (or rant as the case may be) of the season finale of Lost. We kick-off with a Flash-recap (25 caps or less!) of the 2-part finale followed by a discussion between us where we go mental with all the WTF?! and HOLY CRAPs and with our theories for next [...]

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Movie Review: Terminator Salvation

By On May 22, 2009 · 16 Comments · In 3 Rated Books, Popgeekery

Title: Terminator Salvation

Movie directed by MCG; screenplay by John D. Brancato and Michael Ferris; starring Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Moon Bloodgood

Review:

I think I speak for much of my generation when I say that the Terminator movies played a major, influential role in our formative years. The [...]

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Lost Recap: 05 x 15 – Follow the Leader

By On May 16, 2009 · 4 Comments · In Popgeekery

Recap of Lost, Season 5, Episode 15, Follow the Leader.

I start the episode wondering WHO the leader the title refers to: is it Jack, Locke, Sawyer? All of the above?

The episode starts right after the previous one ended – with Faraday’s death, but from Jack and Kate’s point of view. Just before Faraday’s [...]

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