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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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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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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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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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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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