I finally got my internet fixed last Monday. The Time Warner dude came and discovered after climbing up a telephone pole that someone had disconnected our wires and stuck their own in instead. Awesome.

Why Customer Service couldn't just tell me I was disconnected after calling about it three times is not a big mystery: the only thing Customer Service ever tells you to do is unplug your modem and then plug it back in. If that doesn't work, they're utterly useless.

Anyway, last weekend I avoided staring longingly at my modem by going away for the weekend for my birthday. Now things are back to normal, so let's get down to business:

THECINEMASOURCE:

• Wanted review
• The Love Guru review
• Get Smart review
• James McAvoy interview for Wanted
• Romany Malco interview for The Love Guru
• Chris O'Donnell video for Kit Kittredge:

MOVIEZEN:

• The Top 5 Stoner Movies - because Pineapple Express looks really good
  
• The Rise and Pseudo-Success of Viral Marketing - does it work or not?
• Wanted Explodes in a Surprising Summer - a look at the summer box office so far
  

DAILYLOST:

• Lost is an Emmy semifinalist
• More with CQC and Dominic Monaghan
• A bit more about Octagon Global Recruiting
• Another Casting Rumor
• Nestor Carbonell a Season 5 regular?
• Present Time
• When you gotta go...
• The Libby/Annie Dust-Up

For the past ten days, I haven't been able to connect to the Internet at my apartment. Six days in, I called the cable company. They said it was an outage in the area and would be back up ASAP. I said it'd been out since Saturday. They said, "Wow, that's a long time. Bye," and hung up.

Since 100% of the stuff I need to do requires being online, it's been a rough week as I've suddenly found myself frantically trying to do everything conceivable during work hours. Then when I get home, I find myself with absolutely nothing to do. I spent the weekend watching Degrassi: The Next Generation marathons and actually - gasp - reading a book. (Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke, which so far is quite good.)

Anyway, I'll stop lamenting to let y'all know what I have been able to pump out over the last two weeks:

THECINEMASOURCE:

• The Incredible Hulk review
• The Happening review
• You Don't Mess with the Zohan review
• Kung Fu Panda review

• Interviews with the cast & director at The Happening premiere:

• Exclusive interview with Quid Pro Quo star Vera Farmiga:

MOVIEZEN:

• Embarking Down 'The Road' - a preview of a cool upcoming movie

DAILYLOST:

• The People Speak
• Lost writer becomes a Middleman
• Cynthia Watros talks Lost
• Candid interview with Naveen Andrews
• My attempt to piece together next season's timeline
• Watch Hurley sing
• Ranking the Season 4 episodes
• Charlotte's past and future
• Sawyer's secret: a moot point, but cool anyway
• Boone! Charlie! Libby! How did I miss this?
• When fanfic and theories collide
• Underground polar bears and a revived Locke?
• Television Critics Associations loves Lost
• The reluctant viewer
• Spoiler: Jin's Fate
• Lost on The Daily Show: Hilarious
• Taller Walt spotted once again
• Overall season ratings
• Claire downgraded for now
• Harold Perrineau clarifies comments (and lands a pilot)
• Sun: Villain?
• Finale ratings

I haven't updated in two weeks, so let's get right to it...oh yeah, after I obsess about the Lost season finale. The more I think about it, the more I like it. There was so much going on, it was like Christmas. Each cool part was like an expensive gift. Keamy dying twice: thanks, Santa! The Desmond and Penny reunion: wow, what an expensive-looking gift! "Checkmate, Mr. Eko" - ooh, a nice surprise in the stocking!

All right, that metaphor went way too far. Among the DailyLost links, click "The Finale" for my full commentary on the two-hour episode. Plenty of other good stuff here too, including a new video.

THECINEMASOURCE:

• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull review
• Bigger, Stronger, Faster review (It's a documentary about steroids, hence the title of this post. I was in no way implying Harrison Ford juices.)
  
• War, Inc. review
• The Children of Huang Shi review
• Exclusive Video Interview with Bigger, Stronger, Faster director Chris Bell:

MOVIEZEN:

• No! Anywhere but the Front!: An argument for sitting in the front row in movie theaters, 'cause it's really not as bad as you think
• Perfect Adventure Scenes: I wax nostalgic about Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Back to the Future

DAILYLOST:

• Michael Dawson is really dead. And pissed.
• The Finale
• Reviewing the Previews for Tonight's Finale
• Finale Day has arrived!
• More Clips from the Finale!
• Clips from the Finale!
• EW weighs in on the coffin
• Uh oh, more Lost copycats
• Keamy Speaks!
• One More Fanvid
• Cast & crew predictably cryptic about the finale
• Rediff Entertainment Bureau fails to realize Lost has two more seasons
• Ben could destroy Guy of Gisborne with one finger
• The TIME is Ticking
• Extended Promo for the Two-Hour Finale
• Talk Show Circuit Mania, Part 2
• Fairly Major Season Finale Spoilage
• Theory on Sun's "controlling interest" in Paik's company
• Lots of theories, the jist being that the Orchid is a time machine
• Last Thursday's Ratings