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John’s top 10 movies of 2010

I’d like to see “Somewhere” and “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” before making my top 10 movies list, but such is life in a small town, and I

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 3

Classic Christmas TV episodes: ‘Amends’ (‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’)

Show: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (Season 3, episode 10) Airdate: Dec. 15, 1998 Overview: This episode is the structural midpoint of the franchise; it’s sort of

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Classic Christmas TV episodes: ‘Xmas Story’ (‘Futurama’)

Show: “Futurama” (Season 2, episode 8) Airdate: Dec. 19, 1999 Overview: In the year 3000, Christmas is known as Xmas and Robot Santa Claus has

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Classic Christmas TV episodes: ‘So-Called Angels’ (‘My So-Called Life’)

Show: “My So-Called Life” (Episode 15) Airdate: Dec. 22, 1994 Overview: Rickie’s getting beat up at home, Angela wants to help him and a homeless guitar-playing

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Classic Christmas TV episodes: ‘Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire’ (‘The Simpsons’)

Show: “The Simpsons” (Season 1, episode 1) Airdate: Dec. 17, 1989 Overview: This is a classic not only because it’s a Christmas episode, but also

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These were the catchiest singles of 2010 — for better or worse (Music commentary)

I don’t actively seek out mainstream pop hits like I used to, so when two songs are bouncing around my brain at the end of

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John’s top 5 albums of 2010 (Music commentary)

1. Jenny and Johnny, “I’m Having Fun Now” — When two musicians in a relationship make an album together, it rarely results in good music; at least

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‘Family Guy’ writers run out of inspiration as they wrap up ‘Star Wars’ trilogy (DVD review)

Seth MacFarlane probably had the idea for “Blue Harvest” kicking around in his head for a while, and when it became an actual episode of “Family

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John’s top 10 TV shows of 2010

This was the year when TV changed from low-definition to high-definition and from squares to rectangles (I still have a square, and I know I’m

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X-Files Season 4

All 24 episodes of ‘The X-Files’ Season 4 (1996-97), ranked

Ideally for the business people behind the networks, TV series would be written in such a way that they could stay on the air forever.

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