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The Big Bang

For a review in a few hundred more, read on. Private dick Ned (Antonio Banderas) is hired by a 7-foot Russian ex-con (wrassler Robert Malliet, “Sherlock Holmes”) to locate Lexie Persimmon (Guillory), a to-die-for stripper who’s been pledging her undying love to the prisoner as a pen pal. Strange thing is, her return address is […]

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Covert Affairs: Season One

What it’s not, however, judging from its first season, is appointment television. It might be if it started anyone other than Piper Perabo. As mid-20s CIA newbie Annie Walker, she’s fine in the role, but ever since Hollywood tried to shove her down our throats in 2000 with the execrable “Coyote Ugly,” she’s never clicked […]

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