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TV Review: BEING HUMAN – Season 4 – “There Goes the Neighborhood 3” – Series Finale

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 04/15/2014
Sam Huntington as Josh Levison, Sam Witwer as Aidan Waite, Kristen Hager as Nora Sergeant in BEING HUMAN - Season 4 | ©2014 Syfy/Pana Pantazidis

Stars: Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath, Sam Huntington, Kristen Hager, Helen Colliander, Sergio DeZio Writer: Anna Fricke, adapted for U.S. television by Jeremy Carver & Anna Fricke, created for U.K. television by Toby Whithouse Director: Stefan Pleczynski Network: Syfy, Mondays @ 9 PM Airdate: April 7, 2014 When the U.S./Syfy Channel version of BEING HUMAN premiered in 2011 with “There Goes the Neighborhood 1 & 2,” it seemed almost a photocopy of its U.K./BBC predecessor – a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost are roommates. Additionally, the U.S. version seemed to have less humor and more self-pity and sulking among its […]Read On »


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CD Review: CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS soundtrack | ©2013 Activision

Gaining some major percussive action chops under Harry Gregson-Williams’ command with THE NUMBER 23, GONE BABY GONE and THE TOWN, David Buckley has emerged in his own, rhythmically exciting right by layering down alternately suspenseful and exciting groove scores as FROM PARIS WITH LOVE, GONE and PARKER. But it’s the video game arena that’s now given Buckley his most expansive, and explosive opportunity with CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS. With the guts and glory franchise taken to its apocalyptic, sci-fi extremes for a Latin American attack that essentially wipes out North America, Buckley brings on guts and glory Armageddon that benefits […]Read On »


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DANCING WITH THE STARS Season 18 Recap: Disney Night and Cody Simpson elimination

By PAMELA HARLAND
Cody Simpson and Witney Carson in DANCING WITH THE STARS - Season 18 | ©2014 ABC/Craig Sjodin

Stars: Nene Leakes, James Maslow, Danica McKellar,  Meryl Davis, Candace Cameron Bure, Cody Simpson, Drew Carey, Amy Purdy, Charlie White Network: ABC, airs Mondays Original Telecast: April 14h, 2014 In a stunning coup de grace Disney took self promotion to a whole new level tonight with Disney Night on DANCING WITH THE STARS. The couples danced to famous songs from such classics as MARY POPPINS to FROZEN, now available on DVD convenienty. While the challenges to look Disney-esque might be bigger for some – yes, you Maks, others relished in the opportunity to be charming, crabby, beastly or princessy. And […]Read On »


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CD Reviews: COLETTE and A SINGLE SHOT soundtracks

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 04/14/2014
COLETTE soundtrack | ©2013 Movie Score Media

While he’s not busy re-animating ghouls, killing hags and battling demons in such ragingly entertaining genre scores as HANSEL AND GRETEL WITCH HUNTERS and THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS,  Icelandic composer Atli Orvarsson is doing his thing for the arthouse, and revealing even more impressive layers to his talent in the bargain. Indeed, COLETTE counts as one of his most evocative works for this Holocaust-themed score about impossible survival at Auschwitz. While sorrow is very much a part of the powerful emotions that flood COLETTE‘s love story between two inmates, the score, like the film’s characters, isn’t about to give in to […]Read On »


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CD Review: I, FRANKENSTEIN soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 04/13/2014
I, FRANKENSTEIN soundtrack | ©2014 Lakeshore Records

Don’t except anything remotely bucolic in the second Frankenstein’s monster score of note this month. But that being said, the aching violins that hint of his creation a few centuries ago do give pathos to the far more buff personage of Aaron Eckhart, not to mention his character’s isolated soul. And that comes in musically handy indeed when your mad doctor-made monster is swinging a sword at stone gargoyles, demons and archangels. Cut from the same flesh as the hip UNDERWORLD creature-mash series, “I, Frankenstein” revels in rhythmic propulsion to give this Shelley-meets-Satan’s minions spin its furious energy, taking the […]Read On »


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CD Review: FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND soundtrack | ©2013 Buysoundtrax

After directing over 50 movies that encompassed every exploitable subject from drag racing to drug trips and race baiting, Roger Corman retired from filmmaking with a classy bang in the horror genre that arguably brought him his greatest artistic rewards – especially when dealing with the work of such famed authors as Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. For FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND, Corman took on Mary Shelley’s seminal work, but ingeniously time-twisted it via Brian Aldiss’ novel to have a future inventor meet an 17th century blend of factual and fictional characters – let alone the era’s most notorious stitched-together monster. […]Read On »


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THE HOBBIT THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG Highlights this week in Blu-ray, DVD and VOD Releases

By PETER BROWN 04/12/2014
HOBBIT THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG | © 2014 Warner Home Video

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG – Much like the first trilogy from the LORD OF THE RINGS mythology, director Peter Jackson ramps up the action and stakes in the second part of the HOBBIT trilogy, the very wordy THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG. Once again, Jackson makes […]Read On »


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Movie Review: RIO 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
RIO 2 | © 2014 Twentieth Century Fox

Rating: G Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Jamie Fox, will.i.am, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro, George Lopez, Tracy Morgan, Andy Garcia, Bruno Mars, Kristin Chenoweth, Rita Moreno Writers: Don Rhymer, Carlos Kotkin, Jenny Bicks, Yoni Brenner, story by Carlos Saldanha Director: Carlos Saldanha Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Release Date: April 11, 2014 RIO 2 is a pleasing film. It has heart, a sense of humor, is very appealing to the eye and knows exactly how hard to try. In 2011’s RIO, we were introduced to rare Amazon blue macaw Blu (voiced by Jesse Eisenberg), who was birdnapped and fell […]Read On »


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CD Review: JOHN WAYNE AT FOX: THE WESTERNS soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
JOHN WAYNE AT FOX: THE WESTERNS soundtrack | ©2013 Kritzerland Records

The Duke was an icon who meant manliness – and his musical accompaniment was no less rambunctiously muscular, especially when it came to the genre that he made into his own Monument Valley. But while his western scores left no doubt as to The Duke’s vitality, they each did their part to dig out even more unexpected charisma from this drawling hunk of granite, three terrifically entertaining chisels of which are presented on this Kritzerland collection. First up is a score by the composer who proved to be Wayne’s most unlikely saddle mate at strengthening his All-American image, an elfin […]Read On »


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CD Review: SHARKY’S MACHINE soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 04/11/2014
SHARKY'S MACHINE soundtrack | ©2013 Varese Sarabande Records

It’s rare when a soundtrack specialty label gives love to what are essentially an all-song albums, a genre that ruled during the 1980s with such releases as BAND OF THE HAND, TUFF TURF and CRUISING. Let’s hope these are but some of the titles that Varese Sarabande might put on their radar, as they’ve recently put out such welcome, song-filled releases out under it like THE IDOLMAKER, ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN and HONKYTONK MAN. But with no offense to those latter two movies’ that featured a star-director known for his love of jazz, perhaps no film used that music […]Read On »


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