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Crossing Over with John Edward (2001)
One wonders...
...just how exactly the Sci-Fi channel chose to broadcast this series, completely devoid of Science and entirely devoted to Fiction. If you're interested in seeing a definition of the phrase "Cold Reading", sit through an episode, but apart from that don't waste your time. Contacting the dead may be somehow possible in this world, but as any skeptical eye can see, Mr. Edwards does nothing but tell grieving families exactly what they want to hear, in exactly the right way, all the while "discovering" details about the dead from either private conversations during non-taped breaks, recorded conversations among the audience before the show, and off-hand comments TAPED ON THE SHOW AND BROADCAST, all restated to imply that rather than clarifying, he's discovering.
Office Space (1999)
Amusing at times, mediocre at most.
"Rebel Without a Cause" for our generation this isn't, Mike Judge's attempt at a live-action version of his "Milton" series of cartoons starts well, then degenerates with far too many cliched plots, failed anachronisms (look, they're white and they like rap! It's funny!), mediocre performances (please get the Friends stars off the screen. Please), and what were probably studio-encouraged product placements (check out the scene where Aniston hears about the plan.. the cup is framed more carefully than any character in the whole picture). A subplot with a girlfriend that probably made sense in an early draft, minor characters who drive the film more than the leads, and of course, gratuitous "f***s" complete this basically average film. The writing betrays this as a movie which had so much more potential... kill both girlfriend subplots, get more hateful, and this would've been a classic... 6.5/10