Reviews

Movie Review: THE LINCOLN LAWYER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/18/2011
THE LINCOLN LAWYER movie poster | ©2011 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe, Josh Lucas, John Leguizamo, Michael Pena, Bob Gunton, Frances Fisher, Bryan Cranston, William H. Macy Writer: John Romano, based on the novel by Michael Connelly Director: Brad Furman Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: March 18, 2011 THE LINCOLN LAWYER, adapted from L.A. noir mystery master Michael Connelly’s novel, comes to the screen as a thoroughly enjoyable courtroom drama, with plenty of twists and fake-outs. Although the movie doesn’t get maximum mileage out of the central notion that its protagonist uses the inside of his Lincoln Continental as his law office, director Brad […]Read On »


COMMENTS (0)

TV Review: BONES – Season 6 – “The Blackout in the Blizzard”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF
Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz in BONES - Season 6 - "The Blackout in the Blizzard" | ©2011 Fox/Richard Foreman

Stars: David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Michaela Conlin, T.J. Thyne, Tamara Taylor, John Francis Daley, Michael Grant Terry Writer: Karine Rosenthal Director: David Boreanaz Network: Fox, Thursdays @ 9 PM Airdate: March 17, 2011 BONES often goes back and forth between humor and drama, crime-solving and personal issues, and relationship progress and reversals. In “The Blackout in the Blizzard,” which is almost a bottle episode – there is one scene in an alley – couples get a little closer while everybody has to figure out how to get things done in the middle of a blizzard-induced power outage. While Booth (David […]Read On »


COMMENTS (0)

AMERICAN IDOL RECAP: Karen Rodriguez Given the Spicy Spanish Boot Off the Show

By PETER BROWN
Karen Rodriguez is sent home on AMERICAN IDOL - Season 10 | ©2011 Fox/Michael Becker

Cast: Ryan Seacrest, Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez, Randy Jackson Network: Fox, airs Wednesdays and Thursdays Original Telecast: March 18, 2011 An hour is way too long for these results shows on the world’s greatest karaoke competition, AMERICAN IDOL. This is nothing new, I’ve been saying it for years, but just to prove a point instead of just giving us a half hour where the results are distributed and maybe we have one performance, we have all of this crap that was given last night during the results show: A bad medley. An even worse Ford car commercial. A recap of […]Read On »


COMMENTS (0)

The visual evolution of TANGLED baddie Mother Gothel

By CARL CORTEZ
TANGLED - DVD and Blu-ray

The excellent Disney animated film TANGLED arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, and in anticipation of that release, Disney has created a very cool slideshow showing the evolution of the film’s Big Bad – Mother Gothel. Check out the slideshow below, and also read ASSIGNMENT X‘s exclusive interview with Mother Gothel voice actress Donna Murphy by CLICKING HERE.


COMMENTS (0)

CD Review: GNOMEO AND JULIET soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 03/17/2011
Gnomeo and Juliet soundtrack | ©2011 Walt Disney Records

There might not be a kitschier combination than the pairing of garden gnomes and Elton John, or in the case of GNOMEO AND JULIET, a more unexpectedly winning one. For when you add up the soothing, soulful sound of the 70’s pop-rock icon with the orchestral bells and whistles that composer James Newton Howard is duty-bound to deliver for the plaster faerie figures, you end up with a musical confection only slightly less eccentric than the classic song mash-ups of MOULIN ROUGE– made far less maddening here by the fact that it’s only Elton John’s immortal tunes that are being […]Read On »


COMMENTS (0)

CD Review: YELLOWBEARD soundtrack (1,000 edition)

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
YELLOWBEARD soundtrack | ©2011 Quartet Records

Composer John Morris has romped through the past with such comedically rousing scores as BLAZING SADDLES, THE LAST REMAKE OF BEAU GESTE and HISTORY OF THE WORLD: PART 1, but Morris’ symphonic lunacy truly hit its swashbuckling height with YELLOWBEARD. Even if this Python-esque pirate spoof displayed more fool’s gold than the comedic riches that Mel Brooks had provided him with, Morris still invests a terrific, glistening majesty to a score that plays like Erich Wolfgang Korngold chasing after Bugs Bunny. Anchoring this infectiously nostalgic score is a march theme that sounds like the start of Warner Bros. logo, with […]Read On »


COMMENTS (0)

CD Review: STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER – Limited Edition

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
STAR TREK V soundtrack | ©2010 La La Land Records

La La Land continues to show long-needed love to great soundtracks from undeservedly maligned sequels, in this case the one where William Shatner assumed both the com, and the director’s chair to have the Enterprise find the all-mighty. Though a lot of this EST-centric probing ended up having its share of goofy moments, the film more often than not did a powerful job of returning the series to its metaphoric sci-fi roots. So it only seemed right for Shatner to have composer Jerry Goldsmith come back to the series for the first time since THE MOTION PICTURE, making this FINAL […]Read On »


COMMENTS (0)

The Dork Side: Come On, Get Happy

By SONIA MANSFIELD
Donald Trump in THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE | ©NBC/Virginia Sherwood

There is a lot of bad news right now. I think we could all use a little cheering up, so I’ve composed a list of things that we can be all be happy about: There’s no law that forces us to watch CELEBRITY APPRENTICE … yet. Celebrities will always film themselves doin’ it and take naked photos of themselves, and act shocked and embarrassed when they are “leaked” to the media, giving us things to stealthily look at and read about while we pretend to work in our cubicles. Carson Daly’s LAST CALL has been renewed for an 11th season, […]Read On »


COMMENTS (3)

TV Review: AMERICAN IDOL – Season 10 – “The Top 12 Perform”

By PETER BROWN
Pia Toscano (holding Casey Abrams), James Durbin, Paul McDonald, Jacob Lusk and Scotty McCreery. Bottom Row L-R: Haley Reinhart, Karen Rodriguez, Stefano Langone, Naima Adedapo, Thia Megia and Laurn Alaina are the Top 12 on AMERICAN IDOL - Season 10 | ©2011 Fox/Michael Becker

Cast: Ryan Seacrest, Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez, Randy Jackson Network: Fox, airs on Wednesdays and Thursdays Original Telecast: March 16, 2011 We are on week two of the world’s greatest karaoke competition, AMERICAN IDOL, and after losing Ashthon Jones and having all females in the bottom three, I made the argument that once again despite all the changes in format that the tween 13-year-old girls are dominating the voting bloc. Now, obviously, it may be too early to tell but if we end up with all the chicks going first in the first few weeks, it will probably ring true […]Read On »


COMMENTS (0)

TV Review: GLEE – Season 2 – “Original Song”

By SEAN ELLIOTT 03/16/2011
New Directions perform in GLEE - Season 2 - "Original Song" | ©2011 Fox/Adam Rose

Stars: Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Jessalyn Gilsig, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Matthew Morrison, Amber Riley, Mark Salling, Darren Criss, Jenna Ushkowitz Writer: Ryan Murphy Director: Bradley Buecker Network: Fox, airs Tuesday nights Original Telecast: March 15th, 2011 “Original Song” is an interesting GLEE episode in that it really didn’t have a whole lot of plot threads running through the episode. Sure there were some revisiting of dangling threads from this seasons various plots, but the emphasis was on the music, and more often than not on the original music for the show. The one […]Read On »


COMMENTS (0)
  1. Pages:
  3. 1
  4. ...
  5. 433
  6. 434
  7. 435
  8. 436
  9. 437
  10. 438
  11. 439
  12. ...
  13. 475
Increase your website traffic with Attracta.com

Dr.5z5 Open Feed Directory

bottom round