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CD Review: SHE-DEVIL soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER | 06/07/2014
SHE-DEVIL soundtrack | ©2014 Music Box Records

Before Howard Shore became the thunderous orchestral king of serial killers, fantasy epics and heavy duty drama, the Canadian composer (and former SNL music director) did indeed have a funny bone to his body early in his Hollywood career, as can be evidenced by AFTER HOURS, BIG and even MOVING.  Sure these scores might have been sandwiched between the Cronenbergian likes of THE BROOD and THE FLY, but humor has always provided Shore with some of his most purely enjoyable scores, especially when taking on the harlot-housefrau battle between Meryl Streep and Roseanne Barr in 1989s SHE-DEVIL. DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN director […]Read On »


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CD Review: LAIR soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER | 06/06/2014
LAIR soundtrack | ©2014 La La Land Records

2007’s LAIR stands as a videogame that simultaneously allowed the booming industry to take off and crash to the ground. The big downdraft came from a “Sxixaxis” PS3 control system that was supposed to allow you fly giant lizards with the ease of a dragon rider from Pern. However, it ended up being so frustratingly faulty that thousands of users let fly their controllers towards their television screens (mine included). While players would have to wait for an analog update to truly enjoy the game’s graphic virtues, the one area that immediately met LAIR‘s grand ambitions, and then some, was […]Read On »


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TV Review: 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY – Season 9 – “4:00PM to 5:00PM”

By PETER BROWN |
Agent Morgan (Yvonne Strahovski) gets tortured on on 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY | © 2014 Daniel Smith/FOX

Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Yvonne Strahovski, Tate Donovan, Mary Lynn Rajskub, William Devane, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Giles Matthey, Michael Wincott, Benjamin Bratt, Kim Raver Writers: David Fury Director: Omar Madha Network: Fox, airs Monday nights @ 9 p.m. Original Telecast: June 2, 2014 This was a damn good episode of 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY. Action packed from start to finish with some pretty good tense moments where even though we knew the outcome was still nail biting in some sense. We also got to see Yvonne Strahovski’s Agent Kate Morgan finally be the badass that we pretty thought she was going into […]Read On »


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Car Review 2014 MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER

By A.C. FERRANTE |
2014 Mitsubishi Outlander | ©2014 Mitsubishi

Car Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Model: 2014 Mitshubishi Outlander Suggested Retail Price: Starting at $22,995 Family cars have advanced in major ways over the last ten years accommodating changing lifestyles, needs and trying to make the classic family SUV into something more stylish, hip and functionable. The 2014 MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER is one of these next generation vehicles that is packed with gadgets, gizmos and technology galore. It understands families want space (there are seven seats in the car), but the ability to reconfigure the car easily to transport heavy items (hence, seats that fold back down in many different combinations). We test […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Fran Kranz on THE LORD OF CATAN and more – PART 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 06/05/2014
Fran Kranz at the Los Angeles Premiere Screening of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | ©2013 Sue Schneider

In addition to THE LORD OF CATAN, Kranz worked with more of his DOLLHOUSE friends on the feature film LUST FOR LOVE, which recurs on VoD and is currently available on iTunes. Kranz stars opposite Dichen Lachman (DOLLHOUSE, LAST RESORT), who also produced, in the low-budget independent romantic comedy. Other DOLLHOUSE personnel appearing in the film include Enver Gjokaj, Miracle Laurie, Felicia Day and Maurissa Tancharoen. ASSIGNMENT X: At one point did Dichen Lachman come to you and say, “Would you like to do a movie where the budget is a buck-ninety-five?” FRAN KRANZ: My God, is it that much? […]Read On »


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CD Review: THE RAILWAY MAN soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
THE RAILWAY MAN soundtrack | ©2014 Varese Sarabande Records

David Hirschfelder has long shown his talent for playing the sweep of historical drama from the darkly regal ELIZABETH to the epic saga of his homeland in AUSTRALIA. But he’s just as capable of hauntingly intimate, character-oriented scores, whether it’s solving the murder mystery behind THE WEIGHT OF WATER to helping a mentally drained pianist unlock the greatness within himself for SHINE. Hirschfelder’s abilities join like never before in tracking the path from atrocity to forgiveness with THE RAILWAY MAN, a devastatingly powerful, true-life film about a WW2 POW coming to terms with the atrocities visited on him and his […]Read On »


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CD Review: ROSWELL and COMMUNION soundtracks

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER | 06/04/2014
ROSWELL and COMMUNION soundtracks | ©2014 Buysoundtrax

After respectably re-performing John Carpenter and Ennio Morricone’s THE THING,  Buysoundtrax now breaks the ice on two lesser-known “true life” alien scores, one involving the human probing done on some accidental visitors to ROSWELL, then playing a writer’s metaphysical close encounter for COMMUNION. Yet despite the role-reversals, both scores are tried together by a lyrical approach steeped in mystery, and a sense for peaceful understanding, even if that might not be the government’s aim for the first 1994 Showtime movie, which continued composer Elliot Goldenthal’s streak of memorable genre scores following PET SEMETARY, ALIEN 3 and DEMOLITION MAN. While taking […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 9 – “Do You Believe in Miracles?” – Season Finale

By RACHEL REITSLEFF | 06/03/2014
Mark Sheppard in SUPERNATURAL - Season 9 - "Do You Believe in Miracles?" | ©2014 The CW/Cate Cameron

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Mark A. Sheppard, Curtis Armstrong, Tahmoh Penikett, Erica Carroll, Shayn Solberg Writer: Jeremy Carver, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Thomas J. Wright Network: The CW, Tuesdays @ 9 PM Original Airdate: May 20, 2014 SUPERNATURAL arguably hasn’t had a season finale quite as startling as Season 9’s “Do You Believe in Miracles?” since Castiel temporarily became a god and perhaps not since Sam (Jared Padalecki) got locked in Hell. Now, we should have seen this coming, but in all the chaos with trying to get Heaven out of the grasp of Metatron […]Read On »


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CD Review: THE RUNNER STUMBLES soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
THE RUNNER STUMBLES soundtrack | ©2014 Buysoundtrax

Funnily enough, the eleven film collaboration between Stanley Kramer and Ernest Gold will likely be most popularly remembered for their one-shot laugh fest IT’S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD as opposed to the far more serious music that was otherwise conjured by the likes of THE DEFIANT ONES, ON THE BEACH and INHERIT THE WIND. But even among these sweepingly somber scores, the one film, and soundtrack that’s completely flown under the radar is Kramer’s 1979 swan song THE RUNNER STUMBLES, in which had the audacity to dramatically cast the ever-loveable Dick Van Dyke as a priest accused of […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Howie Mandel on AMERICA’S GOT TALENT Season 9

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 06/02/2014
Howie Mandel is a judge on AMERICA'S GOT TALENT - Season 9 | ©2014 NBC/Justin Stephens

AMERICA’S GOT TALENT, NBC’s summer variety show, is back for its ninth season, and comedian/actor/producer Howie Mandel is back as one of its judges, along with Mel B (aka Melanie Brown), Heidi Klum and Howard Stern. Mandel is present at a Q&A session that NBC holds for TALENT, which airs Tuesdays at 8 PM. Following the panel, Mandel comes to the edge of the stage to answer some follow-up questions. ASSIGNMENT X: Is the performer in you satisfied with your judging duties here, or does watching other people perform make you want to perform more, or …? HOWIE MANDEL: My […]Read On »


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