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Deconstructing the decade from 'The Shield' and beyond: Zap2it Rick's favorite episodes

23 December 2009 10:43 AM, PST | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »

You can scarcely swing a dead cat lately without hitting some kind of best-of-the-decade list (even though, technically, the first decade of the 21st century doesn't end till next year).

Well, here comes another one. Rather than try to construct another best-shows-of-the-'00s list, though -- something that's already been done here, there and everywhere -- I decided to focus on individual episodes from 2000-09. Are these the flat-out "best" episodes of television over the past 10 years? Probably not. But these are the ones that stick with me, that I can still remember not just for brilliant lines or beautifully constructed plots, but for how I actually felt while watching them. They are, simply, my favorites.

Here's my list, in no particular order. What's yours?

"Final Grades" ("The Wire")

HBO sent critics the entire run of season four of "The Wire" before it premiered in 2006. I had watched the first »

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Geek Deals: Band of Brothers - $32 on DVD / $40 on Blu-ray

13 December 2009 11:05 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Amazon's 24 hour-only Gold Box Deal of the Day is Band of Brothers on DVD for only $31.99, and Blu-ray for only $39.99, 60% off the $80 Msrp! Based on the bestseller by Stephen E. Ambrose, the epic 10-part miniseries Band of Brothers tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army. Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as soldiers' journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men who knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear. They were an elete rifle company parachuting into France early on D-Day morning, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and capturing Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. They were also a unit that suffered 150 percent casualties, and whose lives became legend. As with any of Amazon's Gold Box Deals, the price will vanish at midnight. »

- Peter Sciretta

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Tom Hanks, others screen 'Beyond All Boundaries'

5 November 2009 1:14 PM, PST | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »

Actors Tom Hanks, Patricia Clarkson and James Cromwell walked the red carpet Thursday before a private screening of the Hanks-produced war film "Beyond All Boundaries" held at the World War II Museum in New Orleans.The film, which includes "4-d" elements such as props and shaking seats, opens to the public Friday and will be shown exclusively at the museum's new Victory Theater. The theater is part of the museum's $300 million expansion project that will continue through 2015.Clarkson and Cromwell were among more than a dozen celebrities who lent their voices to the documentary. Clarkson was the voice of Marguerite Higgins, a New York Herald Tribune correspondent, and Cromwell was the voices of Maj. Gen. Alexander Archer Vandegrift and Fleet Adm. William Halsey.The film includes vintage images that chronicle WWII . from Pearl Harbor to the Battle of the Bulge . and took five years to make. »

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Kevin Smith's Tweet-a-Thon: The Top 10

7 September 2009 10:08 PM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »

While shamelessly promoting his new book, director posts 700 Twitter updates over 24 hours.

By Eric Ditzian

Kevin Smith

Photo: Michael Buckner/ Getty Images

On Tuesday morning (September 8), after a 24-hour marathon stunt of constant updates to his Twitter account, Kevin Smith's Labor Day experiment in the limits of shameless self-promotion via social networking drew to a close. By his own count, the "Clerks" director posted about 700 updates starting on Monday, hitting topics both enlightening and delightfully absurd. Answering fan questions and offering up his own nuggets of raunchy wisdom, Smith tweeted about favorite movies, personal cinematic regrets, relationships, dieting, hockey, Hollywood gossip, the "Twilight" franchise and, of course, his upcoming book, "Shootin' the Sh-- With Kevin Smith."

Unlike Smith, though, most of us had neither the time nor the inclination to stay glued to Twitter for an entire day to catch every single one of his updates — curses, R-rated jokes, »

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Ken Annakin: 1914-2009 -- An Appreciation

30 April 2009 10:22 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Director Ken Annakin.

I knew there was something familiar about the name when I read it: "Deborah Annakin-Peters." I had been corresponding with Debby via email for nearly a year after she had started working for Home Video Publicity at Paramount, and handled all my DVD requests. Then one day it struck me. I wrote her a quick email: "Are you, by chance, related to the director Ken Annakin?" I got a quick reply "Sure am. He's my dad!" It just happened that Annakin's most famous film, "The Longest Day," was getting a special edition DVD release from 20th Century Fox in a few weeks. I asked Debby if her father, then in his early 90s, was up to doing an interview. The answer to that question lies in the conversation below.

I was lucky enough to get to know Ken Annakin quite well over the next year or so when my producing partner, »

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Obit: Director Ken Annakin Dies

23 April 2009 1:25 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

By Wrap Staff

Director Ken Annakin has died at the age of 94.

 

The British-born filmmaker is best known for directing the 1965 World War II epic

 

"The Battle of the Bulge" with Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Robert Shaw and Telly Savalas.

 

Annakin's daughter, Deborah Peters, says he died at his Beverly Hills home Wednesday night. Peters says her father had been in good health until February, when he had a heart attack and stroke within a day of each other.

 

Annakin's other films include "Those Magnificent Men in »

- Michael Speier

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Obit: Director Ken Annakin Dies

23 April 2009 1:25 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

By Wrap Staff

Director Ken Annakin has died at the age of 94.

 

The British-born filmmaker is best known for directing the 1965 World War II epic

 

"The Battle of the Bulge" with Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Robert Shaw and Telly Savalas.

 

Annakin's daughter, Deborah Peters, says he died at his Beverly Hills home Wednesday night. Peters says her father had been in good health until February, when he had a heart attack and stroke within a day of each other.

 

Annakin's other films include "Those Magnificent Men in »

- Michael Speier

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