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TV Review: FALLING SKIES – Season 3 – “Brazil” – Season Finale

By EGAN BRUMLEY | 08/10/2013
Noah Wyle in FALLING SKIES - Season 3 - "Brazil" | ©2013 TNT/James Dittiger

Stars:  Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Drew Roy, Jessy Schram, Maxim Knight, Connor Jessup, Will Patton, Colin Cunningham, Sarah Sanguin Carter, Seychelle Gabriel, Mpho Koaho, Gloria Reuben, Robert Sean Leonard Writer: Remi Aubuchon Director: Greg Beeman Network: TNT, airs Sunday Nights Original Telecast: August 4, 2013  I could probably forgive FALLING SKIES for not being the clever, thoughtful, morally ambiguous post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi show I would prefer it to be if it were able to string together a few more purely entertaining episodes like last week’s “Journey to Xilbalba.”  But my takeaway from “Brazil,” FALLING SKIES’ Season Three finale, is that I’m […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LOVELACE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
LOVELACE movie poster | ©2013 Radius TWC

Rating: R Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Wes Bentley, Adam Brody, Bobby Cannavale, James Franco, Debi Mazar, Chris Noth, Robert Patrick, Eric Roberts, Chloe Sevigny, Sharon Stone, Juno Temple Writer: Andy Bellin, inspired by the life story of Linda Marchiano Directors: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman Distributor: Radius TWC Release Date: August 9, 2013 DEEP THROAT is a movie that everyone of a certain age, and many younger people, have heard of, whether they’ve actually seen it, not seen it or would rather die than see it. Its star Linda Goreman, who went by the screen name of […]Read On »


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CD review: AFTER EARTH soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
AFTER EARTH soundtrack | ©2013 Sony Music

They may have started off with the THE SIXTH SENSE. But with one godawful M. Night Shyamalan movie after the next, the one thing you can be assured of is a very good score by his musical enabler James Newton Howard. His scoring always manages to make the absurdity that the director’s fallen into just a bit less goofy, whether it’s using solo violins to embody killer planets for THE HAPPENING or LADY IN THE WATER‘s rapturously symphonic fairy tale. While there’s no surprise that Howard has risen to the challenge with AFTER EARTH, it’s no small help to his […]Read On »


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

By PETER BROWN | 08/09/2013
OBLIVION | (c) 2013 Universal Home Entertainment

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: OBLIVION – Despite all the lunacy surrounding Tom Cruise off-camera activities involving religion, he’s a great actor and especially his action films are usually right on point. OBLIVION is a pretty awesome movie. It has a lot going for it including loads of originality that hasn’t been […]Read On »


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CD review: YELLOW ROCK soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
YELLOW ROCK soundtrack | ©2013 Intrada Records

As every western from ULANZA’S GOLD to JEREMIAH JOHNSON has proven, two big no-no’s for the white man is to go crazy for precious minerals, let alone violate a sacred Indian burial ground. Both are done in spades for the indie oater YELLOW ROCK, as a well-intentioned search party spins out of control with greed to the accompaniment of a vengeful, straight-arrow score by Randy Miller. An underrated, orchestral composer for such films as HELLRAISER III, WITHOUT LIMITS and TV movie spins on DARKMAN and FIRESTARTER,  Miller has always put impressive thematic muscle into his work. His talent is especially […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Director Randall Einhorn on WILFRED Season 3

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/08/2013
Jason Gann in WILFRED - Season 3 | ©2013 FX/Frank Ockenfels

WILFRED, now in its third season on FX Thursdays at 10 PM, is the offbeat, often surreal comedy about Ryan (Elijah Wood) who is the only person who sees his neighbor’s dog Wilfred (Jason Gann) as an Australian fellow in a dog suit. Gann originally created the series with Adam Zwar as a short in their native Australia, where then was made into a television series. David Zuckerman adapted WILFRED forU.S. television. Randall Einhorn has directed the majority of WILFRED’s episodes and after a gathering of FX series directors at the Television Critics Association press tour, he takes some time […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: BROADCHURCH star Olivia Colman on the BBC America series

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
DI Alec Hardy (David Tennant) and DS Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman) in BROADCHURCH - Season 1 | ©2013 BBCAmerica/ITV

BROADCHURCH made its American debut  this week on BBC America. The eight-part series, airing Wednesday nights, previously riveted audiences in Britain. Created by Chris Chibnall, BROADCHURCH shows how the murder of an eleven-year-old boy devastates the whole community of a small English coastal town. The crime takes a personal toll on its two primary investigators, out-of-town transfer Detective Inspector Alec Hardy, played by David Tennant, and local police detective Ellie Miller, played by Olivia Colman. Olivia is livid when she finds that Alec has been handed the job she was promised, but this is nothing compared to her shock when […]Read On »


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CD review: WHAT MAISIE KNEW soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
WHAT MAISE KNEW soundtrack | ©2013 Milan Records

As a composer with a sensibility as rhythmic as it is eccentrically loopy, Devotchka’s Nick Urata has captured the ups and downs of adult relationships with such charming scores as CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE, RUBY SPARKS and ARTHUR NEWMAN. What makes WHAT MAISIE KNEW particularly striking is how gentle Urata is in his approach, but no less ironic as he evokes a children’s sensibility to depict a little girl who’s caught in a tug of war between her divorced parents and their new amours. It’s an “Alice in Wonderland” approach where a fantasia of bells, gentle pianos, halting strings and a […]Read On »


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WWE and Lionsgate Team up for horror sequel to SEE NO EVIL

By PETER BROWN | 08/07/2013
WWE Studios | (c) 2013 WWE

Nowadays, WWE is making a slew of movies every year. But back in 2006, SEE NO EVIL was one of its first forays into movie making – trying to transition its wrestlers from just in-ring performers and trying to perhaps jump-start another Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. SEE NO EVIL wasn’t too bad. It starred Glenn “Kane” Jacobs terrorizing a group of college students that were investigating some crazy hotel were stuff had gone down. Now, WWE is going back to its roots with a sequel, aptly named SEE NO EVIL 2. The interesting thing here is not that it will […]Read On »


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CD review: CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER soundtrack | ©2013 Intrada Records

Horner fans will have a field day with this complete presentation for the composer’s second stab at Jack Ryan, Intrada’s two-CD set offering a virtual checklist of everything that’s great about the composer’s unabashed symphonic sensibilities. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER offers the heroic outrage in full swing, from a valorous main theme to another mournful take on a classical piece (here reprising Aram Khachaturian’s “Gayane Ballet Suite” after ALIENS) and a organic-electronic mastery of world music – here tuned to the South American drug war. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER was a welcome change of pace after Horner accompanied America’s favorite […]Read On »


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