It Starts with a Bang

  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Complete First Season
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“I think that you have as much of a chance of having a sexual relationship with Penny as the Hubble telescope does of discovering at the center of every black hole is a little man with a flashlight searching for a circuit breaker.”

Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon (Jim Parsons) are nerds.  The pair’s apartment is filled with all range of comic, fantasy and sci-fi merchandise.  They work as physicists and spend their spare time with fellow geeks Raj (Kunal Nayyar) and Howard (Simon Helberg) in a variety of activities guaranteed to keep the ladies in galaxies far, far away.  Their universe is changed by the arrival of a beautiful new neighbor, Penny (Kaley Cuoco), to whom Leonard instantly develops a crush.

Their universe, much to Sheldon’s dismay, is changed by Penny’s arrival, but whether anything romantic will develop between Leonard and Penny will have to wait until season two.

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Shout Out

It’s been awhile since we’ve given out an old fashioned RF Shout Out, but here’s a performance worthy.  On last week’s Real Time with Bill Maher, actress Kerry Washington did more than hold her own against Republican panelists Scott McClellan and Lt. Gov. Michael Steele.  Smart, well-informed, funny, articulate, sexy as hell, and always bringing the argument back to the issue at hand; she owned that stage Friday night and just knocked my socks off!  Check out a little of the video from the episode inside along with some more love for the lovely Miss Washington.

Real Time – On the RNC and “Community Organizer”

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This Week in Independent Film

  • Title: Burn After Reading
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The Coen Brothers follow-up to No Country for Old Men involves two gym employees (Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand) who get their hands on the memoirs of a CIA agent (John Malkovich) and decide to use it for blackmail.  George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, J.K. Simmons, Richard Jenkins and Sledge Hammer also star.  The fun begins everywhere on Friday.

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This Week in Film

  • Title: The Women
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Mary (Meg Ryan) is the last to learn of her husband’s affair with a shopgirl (Eva Mendes) in this remake of the 1939 film updated by Murphy Brown creator Diane EnglishAnnette Bening, Candice Bergen, Debra Messing, Bette Midler, Carrie Fisher, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Cloris Leachman also star in this all-woman cast.  Check out the official site.  We’ve seen it and we’ll have the review for you when the film hits theaters on Friday.

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This Week in Documentary Film

  • Title: Flow – For Love of Water
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The new documentary by Irena Salina examines the growing global water crisis caused by privitization of this important resoucrce including a look a solutions and possible new technologies currently being developed to combat the problem.  Check out the official site.  The film opens exclusively in New York and Los Angeles on Friday.

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