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Movie Review: THE LONE RANGER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 07/07/2013
THE LONE RANGER movie poster | ©2013 Walt Disney Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, Tom Wilkinson, Ruth Wilson, William Fichtner, James Badge Dale, Barry Pepper, Helena Bonham Carter Writers: Justin Haythe and Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio, story by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio and Justin Haythe Director: Gore Verbinski Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures Release Date: July 3, 2013 THE LONE RANGER is a strange movie. It’s not that it defies big-budget tent-pole movie conventions. Indeed, it has all sorts of set-pieces that are indebted to previous films, including but not limited to the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN series that so gainfully employed star Johnny Depp, director […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from THE 39th ANNUAL SATURN AWARDS

By SUE SCHNEIDER | 07/06/2013
J. August Richards, Amy Acker and Joss Whedon at the 39th Saturns Awards | ©2013 Sue Schneider

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films recently held the 39th Annual Saturn Awards at The Castaway Starlight Ballroom in Burbank. It was a beautiful day and night high in the hills of Burbank. This award show is not televised, and honors a genre that the main award shows generally overlook. The host for the awards was Lance Reddick (FRINGE) and the awards were dedicated to Ray Harryhausen, who passed away May 7, 2013.  Richard Matheson who was to receive The Visionary Award this night, also passed away June 23, 2013. Jonathan Frakes who was being honored with […]Read On »


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TV Review: DEXTER – Season 8 – “A Beautiful Day” – Season Premiere

By RACHEL REITSLEFF |
Michael C. Hall in DEXTER - Season 8 | ©2013 Showtime

Rating: TV-MA Stars: Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Desmond Harrington, C.S. Lee, David Zayas, James Remar, Aimee Garcia, Charlotte Rampling, Geoff Pierson, Sean Patrick Flaherty, Rhys Coiro Writer: Scott Buck, series developed for television by James Manos Jr., based on the books by Jeff Lindsay Director: Keith Gordon Network: Showtime, Sundays @ 9 PM Original Airdate: June 30, 2013 In story time, six months have passed since the “Holy !!!!” climax of DEXTER’s seventh season. The eighth and (sob) final season doesn’t start with anything quite so shocking as Deb (Jennifer Carpenter) shooting LaGuerta (Lauren Velez) in order to save […]Read On »


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Fresh Clip: Brand New SHARKNADO destruction clip is up

By TANYA ANN FLETCHER | 07/05/2013
A gruesome sharknado attack in SHARKNADO | ©2013 Syfy

As SHARKNADO continues it forthcoming assault to the small screen courtesy of Syfy making its debut July 11 (check local listings), the interest, for better or worse, continues to expand towards pop culture world domination. The latest tease comes from Hulu which just unleashed a sequence from the film of the Santa Monica Pier being destroyed by the oncoming Sharknado. The film stars Ian Ziering of 90210 fame as he tries to save his family from a tornado of sharks destroying Los Angeles. Tara Reid is his ex-wife, Aubrey Peeples his daughter. Joining along for the ride is best friend […]Read On »


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CD Review: TO THE WONDER soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER | 07/04/2013
TO THE WONDER soundtrack | ©2013 Lakeshore Records

Mea culpa, but forgive me if I have yet to see Terence Malick’s TO THE WONDER, having been perhaps permanently scared off from his visually striking miasmas after the stupefyingly boring and pretentious movie-as-art instillation that was TREE OF LIFE. That being said, the truly wondrous, and always-entrancing score that Hanan Townshend has created for Malick’s latest existential outing just might get me to watch it. As a New Zealand expatriate based in Malick’s Austin digs, Townshend captures a universal feeling of longing in his concert piece-cum-film score, one of those few soundtracks that captures the melodic potential of what […]Read On »


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CD review: DARK SKIES soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
DARK SKIES soundtrack | ©2013 Void Recordings

If Blumhouse Productions is literally going to set every one of their movies in a house, then it’s likely their economically advantageous location choices won’t get creepier than the alien home invasion that rains down from DARK SKIES. Infinitely scarier in every respect than the far more notoriously successful THE PURGE, DARK SKIES gains no small share of its effectivenes from Joseph Bishara’s surprisingly restrained, but no less imaginative score. Taking a completely different direction from the violent demonic antics he’d conjured for INSIDIOUS (in which he played one such creature), DARK SKIES is the semi-musical approximation of the evil […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DESPICABLE ME 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
DESPICABLE ME 2 movie poster | ©2013 Universal Pictures

Rating: PG Stars (voices): Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Benjamin Bratt, Miranda Cosgrove, Russell Brand Writers: Ken Daurio & Cinco Paul Directors: Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud Distributor: Universal Release Date: July 3, 2013 Between the 2010 release of the original DESPICABLE ME and its new sequel, DESPICABLE ME 2, the filmmakers seem to have figured out that their primary selling point is not their main character Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), now a reformed villain and not the, well, despicable figure he was in the original. It’s not even the trio of cute little girls he adopted last time around. […]Read On »


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TV Review: WILFRED – Season 3 – “Suspicion”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF | 07/03/2013
Barry Watson and Elijah Wood in WILFRED - Season 3 - "Suspicion" | ©2013 FX/Prashant Gupta

Stars: Elijah Wood, Jason Gann, Dorian Brown, Barry Watson Writer: David Baldy, series created by Jason Gann & Adam Zwar, adapted for American television by David Zuckerman Director: Randall Einhorn. Network: FX, Thursdays @ 10 PM Airdate: June 27, 2013 “Suspicion” is one of WILFRED’s frequent forays into subject matter so weird and so not-to-be-found-anywhere-else that the question is less a matter of whether it’s funny or not than where it’s going. As is often the case when the show suits up and jumps out of the plane into the wild topical yonder, we get a bit more structured closure […]Read On »


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TV Review: UNDER THE DOME – Season 1 – “The Fire”

By PETER BROWN | 07/02/2013
Linda (Natalie Martinez) tries to save a life in UNDER THE DOME "The Fire" | (c) 2013 CBS

Cast: Dean Norris, Rachelle Lefevre, Alexander Koch, Mike Vogel, Natalie Martinez, Aisha Hinds, Jolene Purdy, Britt Robinson Writer: Rick Cleveland Director: Jack Bender Network: CBS, airs Mondays @ 10 p.m. Original Telecast: July 1, 2013 “It means (long dramatic pause) … we’re all gonna die in here.”  – Norrie (Mackenzie Lintz) on UNDER THE DOME “The Fire” The thing that cracks me up most about Stephen King made-for-TV specials has always been the acting. Or lack of it. While UNDER THE DOME may be interesting from a pure storyline point-of-view, the acting and dialogue in the first two episodes is […]Read On »


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TV Review: SIBERIA – SEASON 1 – “Pilot” – Season Premiere

By PETER BROWN |
Jonathon Buckley stars as the host on SIBERIA "Pilot" | (c) 2013 NBC

Cast: Joyce Giraud, Johnny Wactor, Neeko Skervin, Natalie Scheetz, Sam Dobbins, Esther Anderson, Anne-Marie Mueschke, Jonathon Buckley, Victoria Emilie Hill Writer: Matthew Arnold Director: Matthew Arnold Network: NBC, airs Mondays @ 10 p.m. Original Telecast: July 1, 2013 I am a self-confessed reality show junkie. I am also a fan of horror, science fiction and action films and television. So naturally, I was über excited about the whole idea of SIBERIA. The show is a blend of reality show backdrop with a twist that there is something sinister going on that is not part of the show. There is no […]Read On »


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