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3-D Rarities is an amazing history of films in the third-dimension
3D. The notion of seeing a movie in 3D is heaven for some and hell for others. Granted, some movies are suited to 3D and some are not. Recently, Hollywood has taken to using a conversion process to create 3D ...
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The Blues Brothers ignited a passion in my soul that’s never ebbed away
There are probably many reasons just as valid as the next as to why I’m in my thirties, still single and looking for love (sometimes in all the wrong places). Perhaps I already gave my heart to two special characters ...
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Scream comes to TV with little to scream about
The hit horror franchise Scream has come to television courtesy of MTV, and the first episode featured a lot of exposition but few chills. Of course, that is to be expected when you have to introduce at least a dozen ...
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Broadway’s It Shoulda Been You to close
Broadway's wedding-themed musical It Shoulda Been You, starring Lisa Howard, Tyne Daly, Harriet Harris, Sierra Boggess and David Burtka, will be closing on August 9. Despite a showstopping appearance by Howard on this year's Tony Awards, the show failed to ...
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NBC orders second season for David Duchovny drama Aquarius
From NBC Press Release:NBC has given a second-season renewal for its 1960’s-themed drama Aquarius, starring David Duchovny as an LAPD cop on the hunt for Charles Manson, it was announced today by Jennifer Salke, President, NBC Entertainment.The critically acclaimed drama ...
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A Little Chaos :: Great actors can’t save this boring period drama
Sometimes it seems like everyone in Hollywood wants to be more than they are. Actors want to sing, to direct, to produce. Writers want to act. Singers and models want to be taken seriously. I mean I get it. There ...
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Inside Amy Schumer :: Some killer insights and some decent laughs
Inside Amy Schumer returns with new and old ways of looking at things, and sometimes, just stuff Amy and her writers find funny. Take the first sketch, for example, "Dye Another Day." You could make some sort of point about ...
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Pine and Quinto sign on for Star Trek 4
With production delays behind them after JJ Abrams jumped ship and Roberto Orci took and then relinquished the directorial reins, the third installment of the rebooted Star Trek movie franchise has begun filming in Vancouver this week. And Paramount is ...
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Ted 2 captures comedic lightning a second time for Seth MacFarlane’s ‘Thunder Buddies’
In 2012, Seth MacFarlane did something that really surprised me. He wrote, directed and starred in a film that unexpectedly had a lot of heart. I didn’t anticipate loving the characters in Ted as much as I did. Who knew ...
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Chase a Crooked Shadow is beautiful, haunting and sinister
When several rainy days emerge in a row without so much as a glimmer of sunlight on the horizon, it’s perfectly natural for one to try to find other things to occupy a restless mind. I was sitting in my ...
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Pippin spreads its magic across the country
In 1972, a new musical burst onto the Broadway stage written by an upstart pretty much fresh out of college, Stephen Schwartz, and directed and choreographed by the legendary Bob Fosse. Pippin ran for 1,977 performances before closing in 1977 and ...
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Misery comes to Broadway
Broadway's long-running musical hit Mamma Mia! is set to close up shop on Labor Day and the Broadhurst Theatre will go dark for a brief period. Moving into the space beginning October 22 will be the stage version of the ...
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