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Saturday, September 21, 2013

2013 Emmy Week: Best Television Show

DRAMA

ACTUAL NOMINEES:

- Breaking Bad (Season 5.1) (AMC)
- Downton Abbey (Season 3) (PBS)
- Game Of Thrones (Season 3) (HBO)
- Homeland (Season 2) (Showtime)
- House of Cards (Season 1) (Netflix)
- Mad Men (Season 6) (AMC)

SURPRISE IT'S NOT NOMINATED: Boardwalk Empire (Season 3) (HBO)

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Justified (Season 4) (FX)

2013 Emmy Week: Best Actors

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ACTUAL NOMINEES:

- Hugh Bonneville as Robert Crawley (Downton Abbey)
- Bryan Cranston as Walter White (Breaking Bad)
- Jeff Daniels as Will McAvoy (The Newsroom)
- Jon Hamm as Don Draper (Mad Men)
- Damian Lewis as Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Homeland)
- Kevin Spacey as Rep. Frank Underwood (House Of Cards)

SURPRISED HE'S NOT NOMINATED: Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson (Boardwalk Empire)

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Timothy Olyphant as Raylan Givens (Justified)

2013 Emmy Week: Best Actresses

DRAMA

ACTUAL NOMINEES:

- Connie Britton as Rayna James (Nashville)
- Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison (Homeland)
- Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary Crawley (Downton Abbey)
- Vera Farmiga as Norma Louise Bates (Bates Motel)
- Elizabeth Moss as Peggy Olson (Mad Men)
- Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope (Scandal)
- Robin Wright as Claire Underwood (House of Cards)

SURPRISED SHE'S NOT NOMINATED: Juliana Marguiles (The Good Wife)

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Keri Russell (The Americans)

Thursday, September 19, 2013

2013 Emmy Week: Best Supporting Actors

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ACTUAL NOMINEES:

- Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantrout (Breaking Bad)
- Bobby Cannavale as Gyp Rosetti (Boardwalk Empire)
- Jim Carter as Charles Carson (Downton Abbey)
- Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones)
- Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman (Breaking Bad)
- Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson (Homeland)

SURPRISED HE'S NOT NOMINATED: Dan Stevens as Matthew Crawley (Downton Abbey)

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Corey Stoll as Rep. Peter Russo (House of Cards)

Monday, September 16, 2013

2013 Emmy Week: Best Supporting Actresses

DRAMA

ACTUAL NOMINEES:

- Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart (The Good Wife)
- Morena Baccarin as Jessica Brody (Homeland)
- Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen (Game Of Thrones)
- Anna Gunn as Skylar White (Breaking Bad)
- Christina Hendricks as Joan Harris (Mad Men)
- Dame Maggie Smith as Violet Crawley (Downton Abbey)

SURPRISED SHE'S NOT NOMINATED: Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma (The Good Wife)

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Kate Mara as Zoe Barnes (House Of Cards)

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Time Machine Movie Reviews

Time Machine Movie Reviews are going to be movies I review that have been out for a while. Movies that you can only watch through a steaming services or by renting a DVD or Blu-Ray. 

Why do these movie reviews? Well, that's simple. In this On Demand digital age we're living in, it's never been easier to catch up on old movies you missed the first time around. Between your television providers On Demand service, Netlfix, Hulu Plus, Amazon, and Crackle, you have an almost unlimited amount of movies at your fingertips. With all of these movies, how do you know which ones to watch? That's where Time Machine Movie Reviews come in.

I have the Netflix streaming service and very limited, so I've starred at that red screen more times than I care to admit. I have been able and lucky enough to see so many  more movies than I would have been able to with just places like Blockbuster around. 

I'd like to bring this wonderful benefit to you. So when you're flipping through different movies for the 80 billionth time, you can use these reviews as a guide to help you determine what to watch.