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NBC reveals newcomer to play Tracy Turnblad on Hairspray Live!
From NBC press release:Newcomer Maddie Baillio has been cast as teenager Tracy Turnblad in NBC’s Hairspray Live!, which will air Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, executive produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.Baillio, an accomplished singer and dancer ...
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Temptation and Revelation on Preacher
So you saw the premiere of Preacher a couple weeks ago. Or you missed it and caught it on the rebound or finally got to it when recorded. Or you stumbled on it, completely forgetting it was even on (and ...
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One From the Vaults :: Every Little Crook and Nanny
You gotta love the Warner Archive for their impressive collection of great classics from Hitchcock to Bogart, popular films that somehow never made their way to DVD, and really odd movies that few people remember outside of the original theatrical ...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows could’ve stayed in the shadows
When the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were brought back to the big screen in 2014, I rather enjoyed the new take on the "Heroes in a Half-Shell." It was silly, but action-packed and generally a fun spectacle. And now the ...
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping delivers memorable cameos and laughs
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the bar for musical mockumentaries was set high with offerings such as All You Need Is Cash and This Is Spinal Tap. Former Saturday Night Live favorite Andy Samberg has decided to tap ...
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Maya & Marty debuts with a mixed bag of comedy and music
With Saturday Night Live in reruns for the summer and the failure of last fall's Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris, NBC is attempting to get back into the primetime variety show arena to bridge that gap until SNL ...
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Michael Moore asks Where To Invade Next
You either love Michael Moore (if you're a liberal) or hate Michael Moore (if you're a conservative). The filmmaker has been turning out his own brand of provocative documentaries that speak to a specific audience (i.e. preaching to the choir) ...
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Return to Wonderland with Alice Through the Looking Glass
There are movies out there that are just not going to get a fair shake from the critics, no matter how good it may be. It could be because of the star, the director or the genre. Some critics just ...
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Is How to Be Single indicative of a shallow, uninteresting generation of millennials?
I’m usually not a hard person to please when it comes to movies. I can appreciate something representing just about all genres, eras and themes. However, when it came to How to Be Single, I had difficulty finding anything about ...
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AMC’s Preacher Doesn’t Disappoint
Well ... how do you put a synopsis of that down in black and white?If you watched Preacher on AMC last night, and you know nothing whatsoever about the cult comic series, your head has to be reeling from what ...
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Death Becomes Her gets a Blu-ray upgrade
In the annals of black comedies, Robert Zemeckis' Death Becomes Her is right up there with the blackest of the black. It may seem like a frothy, special effects fantasy-comedy because of its many hilarious moments and lines of dialog, ...
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Win an Angry Birds prize package
To celebrate the release of The Angry Birds Movie, HOTCHKA and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment want to award two readers with a spectacular Angry Birds prize package.
✦ The Angry Birds prize package includes:Angry Birds Toons Season Two, Volume ...
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