tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-05-08:2248823rpowellrpowellrpowell2017-06-04T17:41:41Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2014-05-08:2248823:51489Top Five Favorite Episodes Five Favorite "LOST" Season Two (2005-2006)2017-06-04T17:41:41Z2017-06-04T17:41:41Zpublic0<img src="http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/rpowell/24684155/1264275/1264275_300.jpg" alt="Lost-Cast-season-2-lost-1218321_1391_1068" title="Lost-Cast-season-2-lost-1218321_1391_1068"><br /><br />Below is a list of my top five favorite episodes from Season Two of <b>"LOST" (2004-2010)</b>. The series was created by Jeffrey Lieber, J. J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof; and produced by the latter and Carlton Cuse. <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://rpowell.dreamwidth.org/51489.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rpowell&ditemid=51489" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2014-05-08:2248823:33748"VANTAGE POINT" (2008) Review2016-05-08T07:28:14Z2016-05-08T07:28:59Zpublic0<a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/ladylavinia/pic/002at0sg/"><img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/ladylavinia/pic/002at0sg/s320x240" width="320" height="213" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><b>"VANTAGE POINT" (2008) Review</b><br /><br /><b>"VANTAGE POINT"</b> is a tightly woven thriller about eight strangers with eight different points of view of an assassination attempt on the President of the United States, during an anti-terrorism summit in Salamanca, Spain. Directed by Pete Travis and written by Barry Levy, the movie starred Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, and Forest Whitaker. <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://rpowell.dreamwidth.org/33748.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rpowell&ditemid=33748" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2014-05-08:2248823:32663"VANTAGE POINT" (2008) Photo Gallery2016-04-13T22:28:14Z2016-04-13T22:28:14Zpublic0<a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/ladylavinia/pic/002abbz9/"><img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/ladylavinia/pic/002abbz9/s320x240" width="320" height="213" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Below are images from the 2008 political thriller called <b>"VANTAGE POINT"</b>. Directed by Pete Travis, the movie starred Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox and Forest Whitaker: <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://rpowell.dreamwidth.org/32663.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rpowell&ditemid=32663" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2014-05-08:2248823:28717"LOST" RETROSPECT: (1.23-1.25) "Exodus"2016-02-04T18:41:08Z2016-02-04T18:41:08Zpublic0<a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/rpowell/pic/0025as39/"><img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/rpowell/pic/0025as39/s640x480" width="480" height="320" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>"LOST" RETROSPECT: (1.23-1.25) "Exodus"</b><br /><br />If one was to ask me what was my favorite season finale of <b>"LOST"</b>, I would be prone to answer Season Three's <i>(3.22-3.23) "Through the Looking Glass"</i>. But my second choice - and a very close one at that - would have definitely been the Season One finale, <i>(1.23-1.25) "Exodus"</i>. <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://rpowell.dreamwidth.org/28717.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rpowell&ditemid=28717" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2014-05-08:2248823:26873"SPEED RACER" (2008) Review2015-12-20T17:31:44Z2015-12-20T17:31:44Zpublic0<a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/ladylavinia/pic/002xs9rk/"><img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/ladylavinia/pic/002xs9rk/s320x240" width="320" height="135" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><b>"SPEED RACER" (2008) Review</b><br /><br />When I first saw the trailer for <b>"SPEED RACER"</b> in the spring of 2008 . . . I had simply cringed in my seat. Granted, I had been a fan of the Japanese cartoon when I was a kid. But looking at that trailer, my mind simply cried, <i>"Hell no!"</i> There was no way in the world I was going to see this movie. <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://rpowell.dreamwidth.org/26873.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rpowell&ditemid=26873" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2014-05-08:2248823:25344"SPEED RACER" (2008) Photo Gallery2015-11-09T15:26:44Z2015-11-09T15:26:44Zpublic0<a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/ladylavinia/pic/002xzchx/"><img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/ladylavinia/pic/002xzchx/s320x240" width="320" height="135" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Below are photos from the 2008 sports action movie, <b>"SPEED RACER"</b>. Directed by the Washowskis, the movie starred Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci and Matthew Fox: <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://rpowell.dreamwidth.org/25344.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rpowell&ditemid=25344" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2014-05-08:2248823:15084"LOST" RETROSPECT: (1.12) "Whatever the Case May Be"2015-04-06T15:32:00Z2015-04-06T15:32:00Zpublic0<img src="http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/ashmh/15408768/957454/957454_300.jpg" alt="thecase593" title="thecase593"><br /><br /><br /><b>"LOST" RETROSPECT: (1.12) "Whatever the Case May Be"</b><br /><br />I had never meant to write an article on <i>(1.12) "Whatever the Case May Be"</i>, the Season One episode of ABC’s <b>”LOST”</b>. Honestly. But after I recently re-watched the episode, I realized that I had to say or write something about it. <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://rpowell.dreamwidth.org/15084.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rpowell&ditemid=15084" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2014-05-08:2248823:5143Top Five Favorite "LOST" Season One (2004-2005) Episodes2014-09-22T23:11:16Z2014-09-22T23:11:16Zpublic0<img src="http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/ashmh/15408768/645710/645710_300.jpg" alt="22542" title="22542" width="300" height="224" /><br /><br />Below is a list of my top five favorite episodes from Season One of <b>"LOST" (2004-2010)</b>. The series was created by Jeffrey Lieber, J. J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof; and produced by the latter and Carlton Cuse. <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://rpowell.dreamwidth.org/5143.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rpowell&ditemid=5143" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2014-05-08:2248823:3639"LOST" RETROSPECT: (1.01-1.02) "The Pilot"2014-08-15T03:30:18Z2014-08-15T03:30:18Zpublic0<img src="http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/seldonp38/50009290/347085/347085_300.jpg" alt="more-pilotpics34" title="more-pilotpics34" width="300" height="199" /><br /><br /><br /><b>"LOST" RETROSPECT: (1.01-1.02) "The Pilot"</b><br /><br />The pilot episode of some of my favorite television series have rarely impressed me . . . if not at all. There are a few exceptions to the rule. And one of those exceptions happened to the be pilot episode for ABC-TV's <b>"LOST"</b>. <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://rpowell.dreamwidth.org/3639.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rpowell&ditemid=3639" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments