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Director Richard Linklater can't ever be accused of being lazy, churning out a remarkable number of films over the past twenty-five years but with his critical success, he still resides in a sort of niche for his mostly small, intelligently ...
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Disney has just a vast collection of animated classics in its vaults that it was at one time unthinkable that anyone could ever try to remake them as cartoons, and even more outlandish that someone would try to pick one ...
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Sometimes I see that a thriller is trying to make me think, and it doesn’t always work. Sometimes they have heady themes but the script is struggling with conveying them. Sometimes the actors are great and convey them without need ...
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The denizens of Bikini Bottom are coming to life -- and Broadway -- in a new musical appropriately titled The SpongeBob Musical. Rehearsals will begin April 11 as the show looks toward its world premiere in Chicago.Virtual unknown Ethan Slater ...
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I don’t see a lot of foreign films, and I see even fewer animated foreign films. I have seen my share of Miyazaki of course, but other than those, it’s rare. I still haven’t seen Persepolis, if you can believe ...
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I think Melissa McCarthy is a very talented comedienne, wowing movie audiences with her supporting role in Bridesmaids and her first appearance on Saturday Night Live as well as in her supporting role on Gilmore Girls and lead role on ...
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With their ex-hubbies now married to each other and their clans more integrated than ever, Grace and Frankie continue to struggle to make sense of the brave new world that is their lives. Frankie copes by getting more involved in ...
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From Syfy press release:Syfy and The Asylum have revealed that the official title of the next SHARKNADO movie is ... SHARKNADO: THE 4TH AWAKENS! The two hour original movie will premiere four months from now on a TV very, very ...
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Something got loose. We don't know how.Preacher is the story of Jesse Custer, a conflicted preacher in a small Texas town who is inhabited by a mysterious entity that allows him to develop a highly unconventional power. Jesse embarks on ...
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In 1991, an action flick starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze was released to some fairly decent reviews (Roger Ebert even liked it!) and box office. Since then, Point Break has become a cult classic spawning a live stage show ...
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Prank shows are nothing new. The format didn't even start with the advent of television. Pioneering prankster Allen Funt founded the genre in 1947 with The Candid Microphone and moved to television in 1948 as the long-running hidden camera show ...
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A night at the theatre generally requires some "theatrical magic" to bring a show to life -- costumes, lights, sets, props, music -- but now there is some real magic taking to the stage as The Illusionists Live From Broadway ...
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