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Filmmaker Ravi Patel is the director and star of the documentary Meet the Patels in which he chronicles the cultural tradition of matchmaking that united his parents, and that his parents want for him to embrace after breaking up with ...
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We've been seeing the previews for months now with an overweight Dwayne Johnson dancing in the shower to En Vogue's "My Loving (You're Never Gonna Get It)" and his transformation into the Johnson we know and love. And now we ...
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Thirteen years ago (yes, thirteen!), Pixar touched hearts and made a boatload of money with its family adventure tale Finding Nemo, the story of a child clown fish separated from his father and the lengths his dad and fish friends ...
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Show Biz Friends Monologue For the third week of Maya & Marty, the hosts got right to work with a little patter and a pretty humorous song about how the two are friends ... show biz friends, that is. The best ...
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I thought I'd ruminate mainly on last night's Preacher ("The Possibilities") inconsistencies. Really, they're not just whiny whims of mine. There are reasons for my concerns. Bear with me ...Time Warp: Now, I don't know about you but it took Tulip ...
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The Cure. You're such a strange band ... I think you come from another world. And I think I'm falling in love with you. More and more each day, as I discover more of your complex, varied discography and the ...
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People always talk about various "Golden Ages" of entertainment, whether it be movies or television. 1939 is always cited as an amazing year for movies, while the 1950s is often seen as television's "Golden Age." Jumping ahead in time, you ...
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Director James Wan knows how to do horror films. After his big break with the original Saw, he followed that up with the not-well-received Dead Silence, the pretty good Insidious, and the excellent The Conjuring which harkened back to the ...
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It's good to be Lead Actor #1.Find out the budget breakdown of a hypothetical Hollywood blockbuster. In using the budgets of actual +200MM blockbuster movies as references, this video excludes non-human costs, and reflects an approximation of the take home ...
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Maya & Marty's second week was a little more balanced as far as the writing goes, with more consistent humor and few laugh out loud moments, and a willingness to go into some odd and bizarre territory. Let's look at ...
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The end of another theatrical season has come to an end at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre, and the season generally ends with a big Broadway-style, all-singing, all-danding musical extravaganza. This year was different ... very different, with a presentation of the ...
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Movies come and movies go, studios pour millions of dollars into production and promotion on the hopes of making most of that back ... and more. Studios can bank on certain properties (like comic book movies and sequels), stars and ...
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