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The Hateful Eight is precisely the violent, wordy brilliant mess you’re expecting
Quentin Tarantino is one my favorite directors, because he does it like nobody else. He has a kind of twisted genius combining pastiche, homage, and spectacle to make some of the best movies of the last two decades. My feeling ...
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The Revenant is a brutal tale of survival … and revenge
revenant
- noun
- a person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead.At a time in TV and movie entertainment when the landscape is ripe with zombies, there has been a sub-genre of storytelling involving folks who have been dead for ...
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How to have fun watching The Bachelor
One of the things I like to do at the beginning of a new season of The Bachelor is play a little guessing game. I call it "Who's Going Home Right Out Of The Gate."Now ... I understand Monday's premiere ...
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There’s more to FOX’s Bordertown than meets the eye
Sometimes, the mark of a good television show is its ability to sit there, be broadcast and let the controversy roll in.If you're on board that train of thinking, you'll be merrily rolling down the track because, in many ways, ...
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The Good Dinosaur is Pixar by the numbers, heartwarming but predictable
By this point it’s probably already known that Pixar had their first “failure” with this movie, at least financially. But was it a really a failure otherwise?The Good Dinosaur is the latest Pixar movie in a year where we’ve already ...
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Sisters is the female equivalent of Step Brothers, and it’s crudely hilarious
I’ve never had a sister, but I always wanted one when I was a little girl. You know, someone to have tea parties with and to share in the fun of class sleepovers. What I got instead were two much ...
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Brad and Janet cast on Fox’s Rocky Horror remake
From Fox press release:Actress and recording artist Victoria Justice (Victorious) and Ryan McCarten (Liv & Maddie, Heathers the Musical) have been cast as “Janet Weiss” and “Brad Majors” in THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, which is set to shoot this ...
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Boston :: Win Scenes of Anomalisa: A Film by Charlie Kaufman
HOTCHKA has partnered with Paramount Pictures and Rizzoli New York to offer readers in the Boston area a chance to win a copy of the new book Scenes of Anomalisa to tie in with the limited release of the new ...
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Macbeth is a bloody, brutal, and balefully beautifully take on the Bard
So about Shakespeare ... do I really need to say anything? He’s been adapted more than any other author. Movies like Anonymous do a (terrible) job of commenting on the authorship question. And as for the play Macbeth, that has ...
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Carol has a slow, aching, painful path of a love that dares not speak its name
Is it controversial to have movie where the central relationship is between two women? What if it’s about two women attracted to each other when life is making it difficult for them? What if all this is in the 1950s? ...
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Syfy’s Twilight Zone marathon begins December 30
From Syfy press release:Syfy will take viewers into a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity during its 21st annual New Year’s Eve The Twilight Zone marathon, which will air all 156 episodes of Rod Serling’s legendary ...
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Television Tidbits
With the holiday season keeping many of us busy with shopping, wrapping, cooking and traveling, you may have missed some of the notable entertainment news from the past week. To bring you up to speed going into the new year, ...
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