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...couple of ground rules. At upfronts, networks don't show entire episodes of new programs, just selected clips reels. It's like reviewing a movie on the basis of the trailer - you can often get a good sense of what will absolutely stink and you can guess at what's interesting enough to deserve a look later. Otherwise, any critical opinions here are strictly half-baked, knee-jerk judgments that I reserve to right to reverse entirely once I've actually watched the shows. Having said that, let the half-baked, knee-jerk judgment begin...
...rebellious souls to the tune of Motown, the repressed Betty Crocker mom and authoritarian dad (with a sweet streak, of course) and - there's an FCC regulation requiring this, I think - the Kennedy assassination playing a major role. "Boomtown," a cop show set in LA -sorry, according to the trailer, "the phrase 'cop show' doesn't apply" - is an enigma so far. It has a strong cast (Donnie Wahlberg from "Band of Brothers," Mykelti Williamson, Jason Gedrick), but despite its claims of a novel approach to storytelling, the clips played pretty much like a new "Law and Order" spinoff...
...brothers are currently in residence at the Fox studios in Sydney, Australia, simultaneously shooting Matrix Reloaded (part two) and Matrix Revolutions (part three). The movies won't come out until 2003 (Reloaded in May, Revolutions in either August or November), but the hype has already begun. This month a trailer for Reloaded hits theaters, and not since the Star Wars movies has a film inspired so much breathless anticipation on the Internet...
Across the stage, in front of the cameras and under the lights, we find Reeves in his familiar uniform (long black coat, dark shades) at the bottom of a crater being drenched by a rainstorm manufactured by overhead sprinklers. Later, drying off in his trailer, Reeves won't elaborate on that particular shot (it takes place in a climactic battle scene in part three), but he does give the following overview of the trilogy: "The first one is about birth," says Reeves. "The second one is life; the third is death." Thanks, Keanu...
...that Spider-Man is going to kick some serious ass today. We know the movie will rock the box office and, for various reasons, its sheer success will leave filmmakers, audiences and oblivious film executives breathless, clinging to their armrests, with all the power of an angry storm. The trailer alone, with its eye-popping effects, sleek and postmodern world and hot-as-hell, upside-down kiss between Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man/Peter Parker and Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson, is enough to leave us all drooling for more. What the trailer establishes from the outset is that...