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CD Review: BEYONCE – 4

By CARL CORTEZ 07/05/2011
BEYONCE - 4 | ©2011 Sony Music

Distributor: Sony Music Suggested Retail Price: $9.99 If I had my choice of soaking in a new Elvis Costello album or checking out the new Beyonce release 4, I would probably go for Costello. However, considering there isn’t a new Costello release, there’s no harm in evaluating Beyonce’s latest. To be honest, I thought her last release, I AM … SASHA FIERCE, was an impressive, groundbreaking album for the artist. She experimented with her sound and conjured up some very powerful ballads that transcended the Diva genre. With 4 (her fourth solo release), she plays it somewhat safe. There are […]Read On »


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TV Review: TEEN WOLF – Season 1 – “Heart Monitor”

By DON E. PETERSON
Tyler Posey and Tyler Hoechlin in TEEN WOLF - Season 1 - "Heart Monitor" | ©2011 MTV

Stars: Tyler Posey, Crystal Reed, Dylan O’Brien, Tyler Hoechlin, Holland Roden, Colton Haynes, Linden Ashby, JR Bourne Writer: Daniel Sinclair Director: Toby Wilkins Network: MTV, airs Monday nights Original Telecast: July 4, 2011 It’s clear that “Heart Monitor”, the latest episode of MTV’s great new genre series TEEN WOLF is just the set-up for some major badass-ness going into next week. And it’s about time. With the full moon on the horizon, and the Alpha Wolf wanting Scott (Tyler Posey) to become part of his pack, time is of essence for Scott to understand and control being a werewolf. On […]Read On »


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TV Review: LEVERAGE – Season 4 – “The 10 Li’l Grifters Job”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 07/04/2011
Aldis Hodge and Beth Riesgraf in LEVERAGE - Season 4 - "The 10 L'il Indians Job" | ©2011 TNT/Erik Heinila

Stars: Timothy Hutton, Gina Bellman, Aldis Hodge, Christian Kane, Beth Riesgraf, William Russ Writers: Geoffrey Thorne Director: Arvin Brown Network: TNT, Sundays @ 9 PM Airdate: July 3, 2011 The LEVERAGE episode “The 10 Li’l Grifters Job” feels like it wanted to be a telefilm. It certainly has all the elements – an Agatha Christie set-up, schemes within schemes and Nate (Timothy Hutton) having a whole new worry about what his friends think of him. However, in a one-hour time slot (with plenty of commercials), there simply isn’t time to do justice to what’s here. In “Grifters,” Nate and the […]Read On »


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TV Review: FALLING SKIES – Season 1 – “Grace”

By CARL CORTEZ
Noah Wyle and his platoon on FALLING SKIES - Season One - "Grace" | ©2011 TNT/Ken Woroner

Stars: Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Will Patton, Drew Roy, Maxim Knight, Connor Jessup, Sechelle Gabriel, Mpho Koaho, Peter Shinkoda, Colin Cunningham and Sarah Sanguin Carter Writer: Melinda Hsu Taylor Director: Fred Toye Network: TNT, Sunday nights Original Telecast: July 3, 2011 Okay, so three episodes is the limit for me on how a new series can take a limited story structure and milk it until it’s unbearable. FALLING SKIES has finally exceeded my limit. With “Grace” we’re stuck with another episode where Tom Mason (Noah Wyle) has to go on some sort of mission, avoid Skitters (the aliens), deal with […]Read On »


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TV Review: OUTCASTS – Series 1 – “Episode Three”

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG 07/03/2011
Amy Manson in OUTCASTS - Series 1 - Episode 3 | ©2010 Kudos/BBC

Stars: Liam Cunningham, Hermione Norris, Daniel Mays, Amy Manson, Ashley Walters, Eric Mabius, Langley Kirkwood, Michael Legge, Jeanne Kietzmann, Jamie Sives, Conrad Kemp, Fiona Button Writer: Ben Richards and Simon Block Director:  Omar Madha Network: BBC America, airs Saturday nights Original Telecast: July 2, 2011 Once again OUTCASTS delivers on a nice balance of character and story arc development while upping the ante with a spectacular effects sequence that illustrates just how dangerous it is for humanity’s last hope, the Forthaven community, on the storm-ravaged surface of Carpathia. As Fleur (Amy Manson) takes the baby back to Rudi (Langley Kirkwood) […]Read On »


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TV Review: WILFRED – Season 1 – “Trust”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF
Elijah Wood, Jason Gann and Fiona Gubelmann in WILFRED - Season 1 - "Trust" | ©2011 FX/Ray Mickshaw

Stars: Elijah Wood, Jason Gann, Dorian Brown, Fiona Gubelmann Writer: David Zuckerman Director: Randall Einhorn Network: FX, Thursdays @ 10 PM Airdate: June 30, 2011 The second episode of WILFRED revolves in large part around the endless credulity of main character Ryan (Elijah Wood). While a lot of this is funny, given Ryan’s previous experience with the duplicity of the canine Wilfred (Jason Gann), it seems like our human boy should now have a sense of when his leash is being yanked. Trying to get into the good graces of Jenna (Fiona Gubelmann), Ryan promises to take Wilfred to the […]Read On »


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TV Review: SMALLVILLE – Season 10 – “Harvest”

By DON E. PETERSON 07/02/2011
Erica Durance in SMALLVILLE - Season 10 | ©2010 the CW/JSquared Photography

Stars: Tom Welling, Erica Durance, Justin Hartley, Cassidy Freeman Writer: Al Septian & Turi Meyer Director: Turi Meyer Network: The CW, airs Friday nights Original Telecast:  October 29, 2010 EDITOR’S NOTE: Even though SMALLVILLE is over, ASSIGNMENT X missed a few episodes during Season 10 and will be filling in the reviews during the summer as The CW re-airs the show. CHILDREN OF THE CORN meets SMALLVILLE in this strange little episode called “Harvest.” The episode finds Clark (Tom Welling) and Lois (Erica Durance) on a deserted road in the middle of nowhere where they get a flat tire (because […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LARRY CROWNE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/01/2011
LARRY CROWNE movie poster | ©2011 Universal Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Cedric the Entertainer, George Takei, Bryan Cranston Writers: Tom Hanks & Nia Vardalos Director: Tom Hanks Distributor: Universal Pictures Release Date: July 1, 2011 There are some movies that are perfectly sound in premise and execution, yet they can only get major studio production/release if they have powerhouses at the wheel. Happily for LARRY CROWNE, Tom Hanks as co-writer/director/star is as powerful as they come in the film industry, which is why this modest, genial comedy with dramatic elements comes to us well-produced (so it looks good without being unduly slick) […]Read On »


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CD Review: MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS soundtrack | ©2011 Varese Sarabande Records

Ever since Mark Waters launched Rolfe Kent as the king of comedy scoring quirk with HOUSE OF YES, the two have oft-times been rumbling in the jungle with FREAKY FRIDAY, JUST LIKE HEAVEN, GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST and MEAN GIRLS. Even when the subject didn’t seem to call for it, Kent’s uniquely eccentric love of ethnic instruments and seemingly incompatible musical approaches have always added new layers of subtext to his movies, especially when it came to chants and drums turning high schoolers into vicious predators prowling the cafeteria savannah. Now Waters and Kent get the real, feathered deal as […]Read On »


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