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Nostalgia Critic is an American comedy webseries created, written, edited, directed and performed by Doug Walker. The series initially launched on YouTube in July 2007 before moving to Walker's own site That Guy with the Glasses, then to Channel Awesome. The show follows Walker as the titular Nostalgia Critic, a bitter and sarcastic film critic who reviews films and television shows from his childhood and recent past, usually with comically exaggerated rage. The show often alternates the Critic's angry rants and juvenile humor with legitimate analysis of the episode's subject.
Walker briefly retired the series in August 2012 to work on other projects, even writing the character out of existence in the Channel Awesome film To Boldly Flee. However, on January 23, 2013, Walker announced the show's imminent return in a narrative video called "The Review Must Go On". The show subsequently returned with a more narrative and sketch-driven sixth season, beginning on February 5, 2013 with a review of The Odd Life of Timothy Green.
Nostalgia Critic is a web review series hosted by Doug Walker. The series began in July 2007 on YouTube, but after the website removed several episodes due to alleged copyright violations, the series was moved in April 2008 to Walker's own humor website, That Guy with the Glasses, where it was hosted until late 2014, when it was moved to ChannelAwesome.com. Most episodes center on comedic bashings of movies and serials that Walker finds to be poorly written, badly acted, and typically panned by critics—particularly Siskel and Ebert, whom Doug openly acknowledges as his favorite critics. Not all of his reviews are negative, as he sometimes finds positive aspects and even praises some films and TV shows (sometimes for their hamminess/bad production). The series also features several "Top 11 Countdown" segments, which Doug does as opposed to the traditional "Top 10" because he, in his own words, "Like(s) to go one step beyond", as well as a series of "Old vs. New" segments, where The Critic compares iconic films like Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, True Grit, Batman, The Karate Kid, King Kong, and Spider-Man with their respective modern-day reboots/remakes and levies to discover which is the better film.
Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. The word nostalgia is a learned formation of a Greek compound, consisting of νόστος (nóstos), meaning "homecoming", a Homeric word, and ἄλγος (álgos), meaning "pain, ache", and was coined by a 17th-century medical student to describe the anxieties displayed by Swiss mercenaries fighting away from home. Described as a medical condition—a form of melancholy—in the Early Modern period, it became an important trope in Romanticism.
Nostalgia can refer to a general interest in the past, its personalities, and events, especially the "good old days" from one's earlier life.
The scientific literature on nostalgia usually refers to nostalgia regarding the personal life and has mainly studied the effects of nostalgia induced during the studies.Smell and touch are strong evokers of nostalgia due to the processing of these stimuli first passing through the amygdala, the emotional seat of the brain. These recollections of one's past are usually important events, people one cares about, and places where one has spent time. Music and weather can also be strong triggers of nostalgia. Nostalgic preferences, the belief that the past was better than is the present, has been linked to biases in memory.
A critic is a professional who communicates an assessment and an opinion of various forms of creative works such as art, literature, music, cinema, theater, fashion, architecture and food. Critical judgments, whether derived from critical thinking or not, weigh up a range of factors, including an assessment of the extent to which the item under review achieves its purpose and its creator's intention and a knowledge of its context. They may also include a positive or negative personal response. Cultural critic Clement Greenberg wrote that a good critic excels through "insights into the evidence ... and by ... loyalty to the relevant"; poet and critic T.S. Eliot wrote "a critic must have a very highly developed sense of fact". Other characteristics of a good critic are articulateness, preferably having the ability to use language with a high level of appeal and skill. Sympathy, sensitivity and insight are important too. Form, style and medium are all considered by the critic. In architecture and food criticism, the item's function, value and cost may be added components.
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A television program is a segment of content intended for broadcast on vision, other than a commercial, trailer, or any other segment of content not serving as attraction for viewership. It may be a single production, or more commonly, a series of related productions (also called a television series).
A television series that is intended to comprise a limited number of episodes may be called a miniseries or serial. Series without a fixed length are usually divided into seasons or series, yearly or semiannual sets of new episodes. While there is no defined length, US industry practice tends to favor longer seasons than those of some other countries.
A one-time broadcast may be called a "special," or particularly in the UK a "special episode." A television film ("made-for-TV movie" or "television movie"), is a film that is initially broadcast on television rather than released in theaters or direct-to-video.
A program can be either recorded, as on video tape, other various electronic media forms, played with an on-demand player or viewed on live television.
Actors: Frances Eames Noland (editor), Frances Eames Noland (actress), Frances Eames Noland (writer), Frances Eames Noland (director), Frances Eames Noland (producer), Frances Eames Noland (producer), Soli Rachwal (actress), James Bradshaw (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Pedro Casablanc (actor), Juan Echanove (actor), Gabriel Yared (composer), Santiago Segura (actor), Emilie Maison (miscellaneous crew), Julie Adams (miscellaneous crew), Andrés Vicente Gómez (producer), Penélope Cruz (actress), Adrien Brody (actor), Tarak Ben Ammar (producer), Luis Hostalot (actor), Stephen Margolis (producer), Guy Collins (producer), Sonia Grande (costume designer), Sylvie Landra (editor),
Plot: "A Matador's Mistress" is a tragically eloquent dance of the cold brutality of uncommitted love and the high stakes of the Bullfight. Immerse yourself in the culture of Spain surrounding the age old traditions of the Matador. While the bullfight is controversial by today's standards, the ancient art-form is depicted with unflinching realism. The story is of man against beast, the bullfighter's zen, if you will; his nightly dance with death. A world-class lover enters his world; their code is their truth. Life being lived, edgy, relentlessly flirting with disaster, untamed, beautiful.
Keywords: 1940s, autograph, beach, bra, bull, bullfighter, bullfighting, bullring, cafe, cameraActors: Jacob Dickey (actor), Jacob Dickey (producer), Jacob Dickey (editor), Nicholas Dunn (actor), Nicholas Dunn (director), Nicholas Dunn (writer), Nick Bayne (actor), Bryan James (actor), Ehren Remal (actor), Kristen Baily (actress), Katherine Lythgoe (actress), Eb Madsen (actor), Dustin Eskelson (actor), C.P. Elliot (actor), Gordon Dunn (actor),
Genres: Short,Actors: Seán Cullen (writer), Laurie Elliott (actress), Winston Spear (actor), Ted Ludzik (actor), Ryan Belleville (actor), Teresa Pavlinek (actress), Alex Nussbaum (actor), Shannon Farr (miscellaneous crew), Mark Forward (actor), David Kitching (producer), Josh Power (miscellaneous crew), Lorne Perlmutar (producer), Lorne Perlmutar (producer), Adam Sternbergh (actor), Dylan Goodhue (actor),
Plot: In this bizarre mélange of sitcom and variety show, Canadian porkpie-wearing comic Seán Cullen weaves musically-backed standup into especially absurd (and generally quite risqué) comedic plots. Cullen shares his house with his Band who live in the living room, Betty and Sonny who live in the kitchen and Winston who dwells exclusively in the cellar. Each week Sean welcomes special guests into his home for a half hour to experience his own peculiar brand of comedy. Apparently not quite satisfied with that degree of unconventionality, Cullen has quite jarringly ripped down the fourth wall, adding studio audience participation to the mix as well as involving a pair of "critics" sitting in the crowd as an integral part of the cast.
Keywords: absurdism, actor-playing-himself, canadian-humor, character-name-in-title, comedian, irreverence, joke, monologue, parody, performer-name-in-titleActors: Renato Cortesi (actor), Cliff Makinson (actor), Richard Bond (producer), Mehr Mansuri (actress), Stephen Peter Smith (writer), Stephen Peter Smith (director), Alfredo Cifariello (actor), Juillan Edwards (actor), Lorenzo Fatichi (actor), Ezechiele Galiasso (actor), Rabhi Karim (actor), Palmiro Meacci (actor), Angelo Alberi (actor), Valerio Orlandini (actor), Galli Paolo (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Richard Roundtree (actor), Robert Harvey (actor), Terry O'Quinn (actor), Tom Wright (actor), Barry Bernardi (producer), Lin Shaye (actress), Petra Jorgensen (miscellaneous crew), David Naughton (actor), Daniel Licht (composer), Steve White (producer), Robert Rusler (actor), Julia Nickson (actress), John Murlowski (director), Ross Partridge (actor), Christopher DeFaria (writer),
Plot: Photographer Keyes is given an old mirror from an homeless person he photographs on the street, takes it home and gives it a friend. He doesn't know yet that people see horrible things happen to themselves in the mirror and later these things come true. Are these really suicides or is there a demonic force behind the mirror?
Keywords: evil, hanged-girl, independent-film, mirror, overalls, photographer, place-name-in-title, sequel, seventh-part, shotgunActors: Ennio Antonelli (actor), Nanni Moretti (actor), Nicola Piovani (actor), Remo Remotti (actor), Vincenzo Salemme (actor), Claudio Spadaro (actor), Piera Degli Esposti (actress), Laura Morante (actress), Renzo Rossellini (producer), Nanni Moretti (writer), Franco Piersanti (composer), Lia Francesca Morandini (costume designer), Nanni Moretti (director), Roberto Perpignani (editor), Nicola Di Pinto (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music,Actors: Robert Cornthwaite (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Herbert Heyes (actor), Don Dillaway (actor), Marcel De la Brosse (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), King Donovan (actor), Edward Biby (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Sayre Dearing (actor), Douglas Carter (actor), Maurice Cass (actor), Tom Coleman (actor), Jerry James (actor), John Indrisano (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: John Kellogg (actor), George Anderson (actor), Teddy Infuhr (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), George Eldredge (actor), James Bush (actor), George Chandler (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Gus Glassmire (actor), Wilton Graff (actor), Charles Halton (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Stuart Holmes (actor), Robert Homans (actor), Charles Laughton (actor),
Plot: A beautiful young woman, an aspiring actress, trick a famous stage star into signing a letter recommending her talents to a producer friend, with amusing results.
Keywords: actor, actress, attempted-suicide, autograph-seeker, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, cinderella-story, deception, fame, friendship, hotelActors: Colin Campbell (actor), Fritz Feld (actor), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Whit Bissell (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Matthew Boulton (actor), William Austin (actor), Billy Bevan (actor), Edward Cooper (actor), Melville Cooper (actor), Alec Craig (actor), Eric Blore (actor), Cyril Delevanti (actor), Leslie Denison (actor), Arthur Gould-Porter (actor),
Plot: From Arnold Bennett's novel "Buried Alive". An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet to escape the attentions of the press.
Keywords: artist, assumed-identity, based-on-novel, based-on-play, butler, double-life, mistaken-identity, remake, spinster, valetFind out what went into the making of the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story review. Go to our Store for Awesome Stuff - https://theawesomestore.com Get some Nostalgia Critic T-Shirts here - http://shrsl.com/?~96c0 See more at our Site: http://channelawesome.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/channelawesome Twitter: http://twitter.com/channelawesome Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/channelawesome/ Like Doug on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Doug-Walker/127127037353766 The ONLY Official Youtube channel for the Nostalgia Critic and Channel Awesome. New Nostalgia Critic episodes every Wednesday at 5PM CST. New Awesome Comics episodes every Monday at 5PM CST. New Top 5 Best/Worst every Tuesday at 5PM CST New Real Thoughts On episodes every Thursday at 5PM CST. New Tamara's N...
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this is the full episode from an earlier upload
all is calm, and all is right
you took the call, you took the fight
i'm finished here, i'm on to the next
this time, this time, this time, this time, you call
all you are, is all you are
all is cold, and all is dead
it's time, it's time, i need, i need you
mora
help me end my nights in here
and help me get this water clear
all is calm and all is lost
you call, you call, you call, you call me
mora
critic... you're the critic... you're the critic
in the night i lay awake
i know it's cheating baby,
but i know i have a right
and in the dawn i see the question
a bleeding wrong forcing right
sometimes night i can't stop thinking