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Sci-Fest LA returns for a third year
SCI-FEST L.A., the Los Angeles Science Fiction One-Act Play Festival, the first of its kind worldwide, returns for the third year to Hollywood’s Acme Theatre (135 N. LaBrea Ave) from May 5 - 29.Co-founded by veteran theatre producers, Michael Blaha ...
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Celebrate 30 years of Top Gun on Blu-ray
The action-packed thrill-ride that helped define a generation celebrates its 30th anniversary as TOP GUN arrives in a Limited Edition Blu-ray Combo Steelbook on May 3, 2016 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. The pop culture touchstone will also be available ...
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Love was in the air on The Muppets’ season one finale
I think The Muppets’ producers made the right decision to air the final two episodes of the season (“Generally Inhospitable” and “Because … Love”) on the same night. The first episode was largely unremarkable except for the appearance of guest ...
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CBS renews NCIS for two more seasons
CBS announced today that it has renewed NCIS, the #1 television drama series in the U.S. and worldwide, for two more seasons, and that series star and executive producer Mark Harmon has signed a new two-year deal.“It’s extraordinary that in ...
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Derek Hough heads to Broadway
Derek Hough made a splash, literally, in New York last year as he performed a dazzling Singin' in the Rain number as part of the Radio City Music Hall's New York Spring Spectacular, produced by Harvey Weinstein.The producer made an ...
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The Leftovers Season 2 asks more questions
So The Leftovers is a weird show. The conceit is sort of an inverse Left Behind: one day 2% of the entire world population suddenly disappears. And all the drama in the aftermath is ridiculous, but the show focuses on ...
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Triple 9 is a decent thriller with an above average cast
Ben Kingsley. Julianne Moore. Eddie Redmayne. These are all award winning actors guilty of “slumming it”. Some more egregiously than others (really, The Love Guru, Ben Kingsley?), but it’s also understandable. Actors need to work, and sometimes they can be ...
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Eddie the Eagle is an Olympics fairy tale set in the magical 1980s
“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.” – Pierre de Coubertin (one of those primarily responsible for reviving the Olympic Games in ...
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TABOO on FX :: Trailer
Set in 1814, Taboo follows James Keziah Delaney, a man who has been to the ends of the earth and comes back irrevocably changed. Believed to be long dead, he returns home to London from Africa to inherit what is ...
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Maybe a little green lie on The Muppets isn’t the end of the world
We’re all guilty of telling little white lies on occasion. Sometimes it’s out of mercy or kindness. Sometimes it seems like it’s in our best interest when we’re backed into a corner by somebody whom we truly love that we ...
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The Sound of Gaga by the cast of the musical The Sound of Music
At the 2015 Oscars, Lady Gaga performed a medley of songs from The Sound of Music to mark the 50th Anniversary of the classic movie. In return, the cast of The Sound of Music pay their thanks to the 'Mother ...
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99 Homes brings the housing crash of 2008 into perspective
What would you be willing to do to try to save your family’s home? Could you put aside all of your moral convictions, roll up your sleeves, shovel shit and work for the devil himself? I was left pondering these ...
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