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Movie Review: THE FIFTH ESTATE

THE FIFTH ESTATE movie poster | ©2013 Touchstone Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Bruhl, Alicia Vikander, Anthony Mackie, Peter Capaldi, David Thewlis, Laura Linney, Stanley Tucci, Carice Van Houten, Alexander Siddig Writer: Josh Singer, based on the books INSIDE WIKILEAKS: MY TIME WITH JULIAN ASSANGE AT THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS WEBSITE by Daniel Domscheit-Berg and WIKILEAKS: INSIDE JULIAN ASSANGE’S WAR ON SECRECY by David Leigh & Luke Harding Director: Bill Condon Distributor: Walt Disney/Touchstone Pictures Release Date: October 18, 2013 Whenever there’s a film where the action is largely propelled by what’s happening via computers, the fear is that we’re mostly going to be watching people typing. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: CARRIE

CARRIE 2013 Theatrical Poster | ©2013 Screen Gems

Rating: R Stars: Chloe Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde, Portia Doubleday, Alex Russell, Zoe Belkin, Ansel Elgort, Judy Greer Writers: Lawrence D. Cohen and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, based on the novel by Stephen King Director: Kimberly Peirce Distributor: Screen Gems/Sony Release Date: October 18, 2013 Most horror movie and/or pop culture fans can tell you that, decades before there was the Red Wedding, there was the Red Prom. Stephen King’s novel CARRIE was adapted in 1976 by director Brian De Palma and screenwriter Lawrence D. Cohen into a movie that earned Oscar nominations for actresses Sissy Spacey, as the title […]Read On »


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PACIFIC RIM Highlights this week in Blu-ray, DVD and VOD Releases

PACIFIC RIM | (c) 2013 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: PACIFIC RIM – This is a really great film. What’s not to like about giant robots fighting ginormous monsters that want to destroy our world? Absolutely nothing. PACIFIC RIM isn’t complicated film, the premise I’ve already described. But what it doesn’t say about this film is the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: KILL YOUR DARLINGS

KILL YOUR DARLINGS movie poster | ©2013 Sony Pictures Classic

Rating: R Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston, Ben Foster, David Cross, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Elizabeth Olsen, Kyra Sedgwick, John Cullum, David Rasche Writers: John Krokidas & Austin Bunn, story by Austin Bunn, based on biographical material by Allen Ginsberg Director: John Krokidas Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics Release Date: October 16, 2013 KILL YOUR DARLINGS is advice that essentially means a writer should remove any elements that he or she feels particularly precious about or identifies with too much. In this fact-based film, it also has a more literal interpretation. It turns out that Allen Ginsberg […]Read On »


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Movie Review: 12 YEARS A SLAVE

12 YEARS A SLAVE movie poster | ©2013 Fox Searchlight

Rating: R Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong’o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, Paul Giamatti, Alfre Woodard Writer: John Ridley, based on the book by Solomon Northup Director: Steve McQueen Distributor: Fox Searchlight Release Date: October 18, 2013 For anybody who is now or has ever been soft on the Confederacy, 12 YEARS A SLAVE is here to beat such sympathies into the ground. Based on an extraordinary but evidently true story, the film is set in the pre-Civil War U.S. Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a well-respected, successful black musician living in Saratoga, New […]Read On »


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TV Review: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST – Season 2 – “Who Am I?” – Season Premiere

Jay Ryan and Kristin Kreuk in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - Season 2 | ©2013 The CW/Frank Ockenfels

Stars: Kristin Kreuk, Jay Ryan, Austin Basis, Nina Lisandrello, Sendhil Ramamurthy Writers: Brad Kern, series created by Ron Koslow Director: Stuart Gillard Network: The CW, Monday @ 9 PM Original Airdate: October 7, 2013 It’s been three months since Vincent Keller was kidnapped in “Never Turn Back,” last episode of season 1 of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. He was taken away in a net by Muirfield, or so we thought it was Muirfield. As the net is pulled up with Catherine looking up a man with a gun is about to shoot her and the other man tells him “do […]Read On »


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DANCING WITH THE STARS Season 17 – Week 5 Recap Shocker: Christina Milian is out!

Christina Milian in DANCING WITH THE STARS - Season 17 | ©2013 ABC/Craig Sjodin

Stars: Leah Remini, Elizabeth Berkley, Corbin Bleu, Brant Daugherty, Bill Engvall, Amber Riley, Jack Osbourne, Nicole Polizzi, Christina Milian Network: ABC, airs Mondays Original Telecast: October 14th, 2013 Wow! This was the most surprising elimination in many seasons past. Christina Milian and her partner Mark Ballas were ousted off the dance floor tonight on week five on DANCING WITH THE STARS. The bigger shock was that Leah Remini & Tony Dovolani and Bill Engvall & Emma Slater made it through to week six. No one would have predicted Milian’s exit so soon in the competition. She, along with Ballas, tied […]Read On »


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TV Review: THE WALKING DEAD – Season 4 – “30 Days Without An Accident” – Season Premiere

THE WALKING DEAD - Season 4 Key Art | ©2013 AMC

Stars: Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Lauren Cohan, Chandler Riggs, Danai Gurira, Steven Yeun, Melissa McBride, Scott Wilson Writer: Scott M. Gimple Director: Greg Nicotero Network: AMC, airs Sunday nights Original Telecast: October 13, 2013 With a show like THE WALKING DEAD, change is expected and almost necessary in order to keep a show fresh and interesting. After last year’s exceptional storyline involving the competing communities of Woodbury and the Prison, it would make sense that the series would move forward. It’s done that almost with the Season 4 premiere “30 Days Without An Accident”, but it also feels more of […]Read On »


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THE HANGOVER PART III Highlights this week in Blu-ray, DVD and VOD Releases

THE HANGOVER PART III | (c) 2013 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 HANGOVER PART III – Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong and crew are back for a third time in what is presumed to be the final movie in the HANGOVER franchise. This time, however, there is no drugging or any recounting of the night […]Read On »


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CD Review: PAIN & GAIN soundtrack

PAIN & GAIN soundtrack | ©2013 Varese Sarabande Records

Michael Bay’s career has been based on brain-frying excess, mainlining images of sweaty biceps, barely-fitting bikinis and joyful violence upon the popcorn eating masses. In the process, he’s encouraged his composers to pump the volume to 11 with rampaging walls of muscular rock-fueled orchestras. But where Bay has often been righteously lambasted for being lame-brained in his stylistic choices, the multiplex king now reveals his over-the-top fetishes as the ultimate act of artistic subversion as he plays the amped energy of murderous adrenalin junkies in PAIN & GAIN and in the process encourages his musical confidant Steve Jablonsky to deliver […]Read On »


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