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

Not much is going on this week because everybody was terrified to open another movie against Prince Caspian. Turns out their fears were only half-founded: the flick made $56 million this weekend, which, while not at all disastrous, didn't match The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe's $67 million. Most box office watchers expected it to surpass that number - which shows you how much they know, since they also predicted Speed Racer would hit at least the high 20s.

Anyway, few people care about box office numbers as much as I do. Onto my new material...

THECINEMASOURCE:

I've already linked to my Narnia review in the previous post, but here are the two spotlights I did:

• Anna Popplewell interview (Susan)
• Peter Dinklage interview (Trumpkin)

MOVIEZEN:

For the past few weeks I've been linking to the occasional article of mine up at a blog for a relatively new website called MovieZen. It looks like that will become a semi-regular gig for me, with about two articles a week, so I'm giving it it's own category.

• The Delusion of George Lucas - an editorial on Lucas's comments about his own fans and the expectations of the new Indiana Jones movie vs. the Star Wars prequels

DAILYLOST:

• What gives?
• Random Initial Thoughts: "There's No Place Like Home," Part 1
• Talk Show Circuit Mania
• Watch over fives minutes of "There's No Place Like Home" Finale Part 1!
• What Happened to the Women?
• Theory: Widmore preceded Ben as the Others' leader
• Next year's time slot?
• Which of these things belong to you already?

A little mini-update today:

Despite all our coverage for it, Speed Racer flopped. Resoundingly. I wrote an editorial about its performance; follow the above link to check it out.

With that flick out of the way and Iron Man now two weekends old, it's The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian full speed ahead, and the movie doesn't disappoint. I wrote my review early; you can find those three pages of in-depth raving here.

In addition to the usual, you'll also be getting a few spotlights with the Narnia cast this weekend, so watch out for those.