Name: Damian Penny
Weblog: www.damianpenny.com
Articles: 88
First Published: Thursday, August 12, 2004
Last Published: Thursday, November 6, 2008
Currently listing articles 88-51:
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Book Review: A Devil on One Shoulder and an Angel on the Other - The Story of Shannon Hoon and Blind Melon by Greg Prato— A touching and compulsively readable biography of the "No Rain" group's too-brief career.
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DVD Review: In the Name of Hezbollah: Al-Manar TV— An eye-opening look at how a terrorist organization spreads its message.
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DVD Review: Wall Street Warriors - Season 2— Reality series about the world if finance is sometimes interesting, but relatively uninformed viewers may have a hard time following the action.
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DVD Review: Clive Cussler's The Sea Hunters, Set 2— The successful author sponsors the worldwide hunt for legendary shipwrecks.
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Book Review: Headless Body in Topless Bar - The Best Headlines from America's Favorite Newspaper by the New York Post staff— The staff of America's most notorious daily paper compile its most memorable front pages.
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DVD Review: The Leaders - Breaking Racial Barriers in the NFL— How African-American players eventually made up 65% of the NFL.
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Book Review: Boeing Versus Airbus by John Newhouse— A detailed, engrossing profile of a competition between two giants.
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Movie Review: The Victim— Great-looking Thai horror film is creepy but confusing.
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Book Review: The White Book - The Beatles, the Bands, the Biz: An Insider's Look at an Era by Ken Mansfield— Beautiful-looking, occasionally interesting but slight addition to the long, long list of Beatles books.
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DVD Review: The World at War— The WW2 documentary series by which all other WW2 documentary series will be judged - with plenty of bonus material, too.
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DVD Review: Dirt - The Complete First Season— Gossip magazines get the treatment they probably deserve in Courtney Cox Arquette's FX series.
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Movie Review: Hot Rod— Can you review a movie after watching just 20 minutes?
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Movie Review: Santa Clause 3 - The Escape Clause— In the War on Christmas, I'm not sure whose side this movie is on.
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DVD Review: Happy Days - The Third Season— The classic sitcom was at its peak - but the sharks were circling.
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Music Review: Deana Carter - The Chain— If you're going to record an album of cover songs, this is the way to do it.
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Book Review: You Can Run But You Can't Hide by Duane "Dog" Chapman— The reality-show star tells his life story - before the recent unpleasantness.
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Movie Review: East My Dust - Supercharged Edition— A Roger Corman "classic" somehow manages to make non-stop car chases boring.
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Book Review: Hurricane Season - A Coach, His Team, and Their Triumph in the Time of Katrina by Neal Thompson— How football helped a small school overcome one of the worst disasters in American history.
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Movie Review: Waking Up Dead— 'Behind the Music' meets A&E's 'Intervention' in this compelling documentary about short-lived rock stardom.
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Movie Review: King Boxer— The film that started the martial arts cinema craze.
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DVD Review: Roving Mars— A spectacularly filmed and animated documentary about a successful mission to Mars.
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DVD Review: Home Improvement - The Complete Seventh Season— A particularly stale season of a stale sitcom gets a stale DVD treatment.
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Book Review: Girl Soldier - A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children by Faith J. H. McDonnell and Grace Akallo— How one woman survived Joseph Kony's reign of terror in Uganda - and what we can do about it.
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DVD Review: Classic Game Room: The Rise and Fall of the Internet's Greatest Video Game Review Show— A lighthearted look at a tongue-in-cheek video game review show.
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Book Review: Sports Illustrated - Great Football Writing, edited by Rob Fleder— The venerable sporting magazine compiles some of its best work about the sport which has overtaken baseball as America's national pastime.
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DVD Review: "CHiPs" - The Complete First Season— A late '70s guilty pleasure finally makes it to DVD.
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DVD Review: Welcome Back, Kotter - The Complete First Season— Up your nose with a rubber hose!
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TV Review: Ice Road Truckers— An interesting look at a dangerous, lonely and very, very cold job.
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The Ghost Busters - The Complete Series— Short-lived kids' series came out nine years before the movie- but isn't nearly as entertaining.
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Dear Ms. Hasselbeck... The 9/11 Conspiracy Visits The View— Some advice for The View's token conservative before the Loose Change guys appear on her show.
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DVD Review: 10 MPH— A wild, coast-to-coast road trip - on a Segway.
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Movie Review: The Challenge— Junk-cinema fans will enjoy this German martial-arts epic.
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DVD Review: Game Box 1.0— Ambitious video game fantasy is much better than you'd expect.
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DVD Review: Born to Fight— Thai version of Die Hard is nothing special until the last half-hour - but what a half-hour!
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Movie Review: They Shoot Movies, Don't They?— A fake documentary about independent Hollywood doesn't quite look convincing, but it tells a compelling story.
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Music Review: Tim McGraw - Let It Go— A surprisingly dark effort from one of country music's superstars.
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DVD Review: Full House - The Complete Sixth Season— It is what it is: a hokey, child-friendly sitcom from the makers of Family Matters and The Hogan Family.
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TV Review: Dog the Bounty Hunter— Don't mess with this Dog.
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