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KRAMPUS: Composer Douglas Pipes unleashes music for the anti-Claus – Interview

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER | 12/14/2015
KRAMPUS soundtrack | ©2015 Back Lot Music

If Douglas Pipes comes knocking at your door with a bag begging for candy, or drops into your chimney with a sack of toys to give, it’s best to run the other way from a composer with a knack for turning child-friendly holidays into hell. But for those Scrooges who delight in hearing merriment tuned to the key of frenzied misery, Pipes’ seditious way of playing two of the year’s most beloved days as humorously black-hearted apocalypses is music to the ears – no more so than on the happiest eve of all as he twists all that is musically […]Read On »


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Blu-ray and DVD reviews this week – December 8, 2015

By PETER BROWN | 12/12/2015
ANT MAN | © 2015 Disney 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: ANT-MAN – It is hard to believe that this film ever got made. I mean ANT-MAN? Sure he’s the founder of the AVENGERS in the comics but outside of that what’s he famous for? Beating his wife? Being an abusive husband and gigantic jerk? But it proves […]Read On »


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TRUTH BE TOLD: Tone Bell on balancing comedic work – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/11/2015
Tone Bell stars as Russell on NBC's TRUTH BE TOLD | © 2015 Colleen Hayes/NBC

In NBC’s freshman half-hour comedy TRUTH BE TOLD, Fridays at 8:30 PM, Tone Bell stars as Russell, married to Angie (Bresha Webb) and best friends with next-door neighbor Mitch (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), who’s married to Tracy (Vanessa Lachey). Russell is black, Mitch is white, and a lot of their interaction revolves around what it’s okay to say privately or publicly – or ever – regarding race and other potentially provocative issues. Bell is a stand-up comic, originally from Atlanta, who has previously had series regular gigs on WHITNEY and BAD JUDGE. He has a special on Comedy Central and has just […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE BIG SHORT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE BIG SHORT | © 2015 Paramount Pictures

Stars: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt Writers: Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, based on the book by Michael Lewis Director: Adam McKay Distributor: Paramount Release Date (theatrical): December 11, 2015 For many of us who are neither economists nor involved in the financial industry, the details of the 2007-2008 mortgage crisis that also decimated a lot of banks and a notable chunk of Wall Street remain a bit blurry. THE BIG SHORT is now here to bring much of that into sharper focus, and if the film doesn’t answer every single question, it still makes a lot […]Read On »


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FARGO: Jean Smart talks about the fun in Floyd’s look – interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/10/2015
Jean Smart as Floyd Gerhardt in FARGO | © 2015 Chris Large/FX

Actress Jean Smart can still be seen in reruns in her five-season stint as sweet Southern interior decorator Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the comedy DESIGNING WOMEN, won a Supporting Emmy for her work on SAMANTHA WHO?, earned another two Emmys for her guest work on FRASIER and was nominated twice more for her dramatic work on 24 as troubled U.S. First Lady Martha Logan. Now Smart is playing a very different sort of character in Season 2 of FX Network’s FARGO, Mondays at 10. Criminal matriarch Floyd Gerhardt is perhaps the least glamorous role Smart has undertaken. “Hours and hours […]Read On »


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AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL: Chloe Sevigny on her role on the new season – interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/09/2015
Chloe Sevigny stars as Alex Low in AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL | © 2015 Doug Hyun/FX

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL, on FX Network, Wednesdays at 10 PM, is actress Chloe Sevigny’s second season with the scary repertory series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Sevigny previously costarred in Season 2, AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM as Shelley, a young woman wrongly institutionalized and eventually mutilated at the hands of the asylum’s chief doctor. Sevigny, originally from Springfield, Massachusetts, won a Golden Globe for her work on the HBO series BIG LOVE, where she played sister-wife Nicolette Grant for five seasons. Sevigny was also nominated for an Oscar for her work in BOYS DON’T CRY. She’s also […]Read On »


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HOT GIRLS WANTED: Jill Bauer discusses the Netflix adult film documentary – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
HOT GIRLS WANTED | © 2015 Netflix

HOT GIRLS WANTED, currently available on Netflix, was nominated for an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, as well as for the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Documentary Prize. The film deals with young women who are drawn by online advertising into the world of pornographic movies. Jill Bauer, who with filmmaking partner Ronna Gradus directed and produced HOT GIRLS WANTED, talks about the documentary. AX: How did you come to work on this topic? Did you encounter people who did this, or did you encounter pornography and say, “Why would someone appear in this?” JILL BAUER: We [Bauer […]Read On »


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SCREAM QUEENS: Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan on Season 1 – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/07/2015
The Red Devil in SCREAM QUEENS -Season 1 - "Dorkus"/"The FInal Girls" | ©2015 Fox/Patti Perret

SCREAM QUEENS, which has its two-huor first-season finale Tuesday at 8 PM on Fox Network, is brought to you by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, the same creative team behind GLEE. Unlike Falchuk and Murphy’s relatively serious other joint horror creation, FX’s AMERICAN HORROR STORY, now in its fifth season, SCREAM QUEENS is simultaneously an homage to and send-up of the slasher flick genre. Set in an upscale university, SCREAM QUEENS conflates the arrival of a devil-masked murderer with the order of the school’s Dean Munch – played by horror-movie icon Jamie Lee Curtis – that the most […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 11 – “Plush”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF |
Jensen Ackles as Dean in SUPERNATURAL - Season 11 | ©2015 The CW/Liane Hentscher

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Briana Buckmaster, Brigid Brannagh, Brendan Taylor, Adrian Glynn McMorran, Logan Williams Writers: Eric Charmelo & Nicole Snyder, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Tim Andrew Network: The CW, Wednesdays @ 9 PM Original Airdate: November 18, 2015 On most shows, not every episode is a masterpiece. Sometimes there are procedural grinders, and so it is with the SUPERNATURAL Season 11 episode “Plush.” Writers Eric Charmelo & Nicole Snyder and director Tim Andrew have devised a forum for some wonderfully creepy imagery that provides the requisite dose of horror, but as far as plots go, this […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 11 – “Our Little World”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF | 12/06/2015
Jared Padalecki as Sam in SUPERNATURAL - Season 11 - "Our Little World" | ©2015 The CW/Katie Yu

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Mark A. Sheppard, Curtis Armstrong, Samantha Isler Writer: Robert Berens, series created by Eric Kripke Director: John F. Showalter Network: The CW, Wednesdays @ 9 PM Original Airdate: November 11, 2015 After the relative indecisiveness of the previous SUPERNATURAL Season 11 episode, “Thin Lizzie,” there was no reason to expect anything mythically huge in “Our Little World.” However, it’s as if someone said to the creative staff, “Go big or go home.” Hint: they have not gone home. “Our Little World” takes on nothing less than Creation and makes the stakes as mighty […]Read On »


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