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Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp :: Welcome to Camp Firewood
Join us July 31 for Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, a limited 8-episode series coming to Netflix. Elizabeth Banks, Michael Ian Black, Bradley Cooper, Judah Friedlander, Janeane Garofalo, Joe Lo Truglio, Ken Marino, Christopher Meloni, Marguerite Moreau, ...
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Bombshell shifts from screen to stage
From NBC Press Release:Following the explosive and well-received Actors Fund benefit that featured the music of Bombshell from the NBC television series Smash, Universal Stage Productions has begun development on Bombshell as a musical for the stage.The announcement was made ...
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The Run All Night Blu-ray brings Liam Neeson’s noir action to your living room
Run All Night is yet another one of those Liam Neeson action/crime/revenge type of movies, although this one has a bit more of the complexity of a noir style. Liam plays a former mob enforcer named Jimmy Conlon, who's estranged ...
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Denis O’Hare checking in to the (non-musical) AHS: Hotel
From the beginning, Denis O'Hare has been a presence in the American Horror Story franchise, and he will continue to be seen in season five's Hotel. Ryan Murphy stated that they are finalizing O'Hare's deal now, but did not elaborate ...
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Zordon of Eltar :: A Power Rangers Fan Film by Cisco Davis Jr
Former CliqueClack contributor (and hopefully HOTCHKA newcomer) Cisco Davis Jr. has spent the last 18 months working on his passion project, a fan film reimagining of the origins of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers universe, Zordon of Eltar. The film ...
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Infinitely Polar Bear is a realistic look at mental illness, life, love and parenting
Bipolar disorder affects 5.7 million Americans with symptoms usually beginning between 14 and 25 years old can but can occur in children as well as older adults. The National Institute of Mental Health states: “bipolar disorder, also known as manic ...
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Pixar’s Inside Out shows a range of emotions
You can almost always count on Pixar to give us a great animated film, even when parent company Disney blew them out of the water with Frozen and Pixar's own forays into Cars and Planes sequels were met with less ...
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Too Young to Kiss is enough of a rom-com train wreck that it’s not to be missed
I grew up watching classic romantic comedies … they were practically my bread and butter for many lonely adolescent years spent watching the charming Clark Gables of the world fall in love with the effervescent Doris Days of the world ...
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Veep :: Fourth Season ends with another hilarious cliffhanger
I've been saying to people for a while that Veep is one of the purest human comedies on television. It has a madcap energy that it's all about words bouncing between supremely talented comedic performers. When it started, there was Anna Chlumsky as ...
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The Leftovers :: Season 2 Tease
Why did Kevin and company take off for a small town in Texas? It's the only place on earth that didn't lose a single person to The Sudden Departure. The question now is, why?The story overhaul resulted in the show ...
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Jurassic World’s dinosaurs may have evolved, but mankind and the subplots have not
As the giant wooden gates creaked open and the familiar strains of John Williams’ Jurassic Park theme song came on, it was as if I’d been transported back in time. Not only did I have the giddy feeling like I ...
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The Wonder Years is television and adolescence at its wittiest
Please read this in Daniel Stern’s voice: As I lay there on my couch in a NyQuil-induced haze with tissues (with Vicks actually inside them – the future is now!) and cough drops by my side, the mantra I kept ...
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