The Deadbolt - Reviews

ABCFamily’s critically acclaimed hit, Greek has been riding high on its season three success and this week’s Monday, November 2 mid-season finale, “Friend or Foe,” just might be the baddest episode yet. Everyone has a score to settle and there will be more than ruins left in the Greek society as fraternities and sororities, friends and enemies fight to the metaphorical Greek death to redeem and recapture their former glory. It’s a no-holds barred battle of Greek wills as Omega Chi Delta and Kappa Tau Gamma have more at stake than just the newly reformed friendship between their presidents, Evan and Cappie.

Legend of the Seeker takes after other Raimi produced projects, which include Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. However, Legend of the Seeker differs from Raimi’s earlier projects in the development of the scripts and the characters. The series is not as humour based although a few quips from Zed do keep Richard in line when his curiosity needs to be kept in check. However, where the series excels is in its character development. Horner and Regan have brilliant on-screen chemistry as Richard and Kahlan. The discovery of a Seeker is much needed good news to the Midlands where Rahl’s tyranny and oppression have diminished almost any hope of salvation.

Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock make a fantastic comedic duo in The Proposal, a charming romantic comedy now out on DVD that pits two people who were never supposed to fall in love against each other. The story begins with Margaret Tate (Bullock), a high-strung editor-in-chief of a prestigious publishing house in New York City who finds herself in hot water with American immigration and must return to her native Canada and lose her job.

After spending time with the October 6 release of "The Cricket’s Orchestra," Meaghan Smith is certainly one of the finest hidden gems to come out of the east coast music scene. One of four daughters within a musical family, Smith found solace on the piano as a young girl while also exposed to the melodies of old musicals. Drawing from personal experience to find her way as an artist, the past and present converge for Meaghan Smith as a wonderful foundation on her debut album, "The Cricket’s Orchestra". A self-proclaimed shy girl when it comes to expressing love, the tracks of "Cricket’s Orchestra" provide a porthole into an artist in bloom as Meaghan Smith invites new fans into a world of love lost and love never gained.

After spending more time with a variety of new and returning Food Network shows over the past few months, I came to appreciate how there's something extra special about The Next Iron Chef that puts the series on a higher level than other weekly culinary competitions. Not only is The Next Iron Chef steeped in a legacy of success from The Iron Chef but also the Food Network series delivers quality on two levels of Chef competitors and the fine dishes in the game. Unlike some of the competing chef based reality shows working with everyday people and familiar comfort foods, The Next Iron Chef puts professional, high caliber chefs to the test to use their food education and expert culinary skills to create dishes on par with the best in the world.

Starring a cast that includes Robert Carlyle, Justin Louis, David Blue, Louis Ferreira, Brian J. Smith, Jamil Walker Smith, Alaina Huffman, Elyse Levesque, Ming-Na and Lou Diamond Phillips, Stargate Universe brings a new level of quality to the Stargate franchise in a more real, grounded, and relatable way. Although I've been a fan of each Stargate series, the characters of SG-U feel a lot more real within a futuristic setting very similar to how at the time the characters of Galactica appeared as though they were the crew of a submarine rather than a space vessel. At the same time, there's palpable immediacy of conflict established at the outset of Stargate Universe that doesn't let you have the answers to some of the questions that may run through your mind.

The 10 episode Season 5 DVD set of The Hills begins with LC’s birthday as Audrina Patridge and Lauren "Lo" Bosworth arrange a surprise birthday party with all of LC’s friends on board a yacht. Everything goes off without a hitch until the arrival of Heidi who crashes the party and brings more drama than anyone would have wanted when her boyfriend, Spencer Pratt, ends up in a bar fight with his sister, Stephanie’s, ex-boyfriend. And the drama doesn’t stop there as viewers get to witness more than a few shocking twists on The Hills.

The most recent episode of House, "Epic Fail," tackles the topic of online medical reliance of information for self-diagnosis when a video game developer turns to cyberspace for help after coming down with a mysterious ailment. With a laptop in his hospital bed, he races to formulate various hypotheses based on internet research and suggestions from the open opinions of internet surfers. Needless to say, his compulsive computer use interferes with the House doctors and their professional attempts to help him.

After a premiere season full of surprises, Myka and Pete have lured in viewers with the help of a colourful array of misfits in Artie ( Saul Rubinek), Leena (Genelle Williams), and Claudia (Allison Scagliotti) while under the direction of Mrs. Frederic (CCH Pounder). As the race against the clock to recover stolen artifacts from Warehouse 13 comes to a close, fans get even more surprises in the two-part season finale. Picking up for Part Two and the mystery behind the missing objects, which include Edgar Allen Poe’s pen, one of the recovered supernatural objects from last week’s episode, "Nevermore", Myka and Pete need all the help they can get as Claudia and Artie attempt to crack the code.