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CD Review: TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER | 12/02/2012
TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE soundtrack | ©2012 Varese Sarabande Records

Though primarily scaring the daylights out of listeners with the likes of the SCREAM series and THE WOMAN IN BLACK, Marco Beltrami can be just as capable of emotional Americana when given the shot. And for a grizzled icon whose last several self-directed pictures have suffered from his own truly horrific scores, it’s welcome indeed to have Beltrami step up to the plate for TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE. There’s no doubt that Eastwood’s longtime second A.D. Robert Lorenz can be thanked for bringing in a musical pinch hitter for his first time up at directing plate. And Beltrami shines with […]Read On »


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CD Review: WORLD OF WARCRAFT – MISTS OF PANDARIA soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
WORLD OF WARCRAFT: MISTS OF PANDARIA soundtrack | ©2012 Blizzard Entertainment

While there’s no doubt that what’s left of my life would be gone if I fully ventured into the WORLD OF WARCRAFT, the scores for these games are certainly a journey well worth taking for listeners who want to submerge themselves into fantasy music environments. Like such mythic cinematic score quests as Howard Shore’s LORD OF THE RINGS, these various extensions of WARCRAFT keep adding to the complexity of what will likely be an eternally expanding tapestry of dungeons and dragons. Now the landscape goes beyond the “ethnic” qualities of fantastical good and evil characters to encompass a real-world land […]Read On »


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CD Review: FOR GREATER GLORY: THE TRUE STORY OF CRISTIADA soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
FOR GREATER GLORY soundtrack | ©2012 Varese Sarabande Records

In an age when so many hypercritical film music fans rant about how every movie score sounds exactly the same, it’s to a composer’s credit if they have a musical signature that makes them stand out from the pack. But then, said golden age soundtrack devotees who are often the people mouthing these crotchety good old days generalities could easily say the same thing about their idols in a time when one could have easily interchanged the undeniably brilliant work of Erich Wolfgang Korngold with Max Steiner, or Dmitri Tiomkin with Victor Young for that matter. But there was certainly […]Read On »


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TV Review: ARROW – Season 1 – “Muse of Fire”

By EGAN BRUMLEY | 12/01/2012
Stephen Amell in ARROW - Season 1 - "Muse of Fire" | ©2012 The CW/Jack Rowand

Stars:  Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Paul Blackthorne, Colin Donnell, Susanna Thompson, Colin Salmon, Willa Holland Writers:  Teleplay by Geoff Johns & Marc Guggenheim, story by Andrew Kreisberg Director: David Grossman Network: The CW, airs Wednesday Nights Original Telecast: November 28, 2012 This week’s episode of ARROW reveals that there are families in Starling City far more dysfunctional than the Queens.  In the opening sequence, Moira Queen, (Susanna Thompson), the Queen family’s sturdy matriarch, finds herself caught in the crossfire of another family’s internal dissention, and narrowly escapes being gunned down outside her office building.  The business associate she was arguing […]Read On »


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TV Review: GLEE – Season 4 – “Thanksgiving”

By CARL CORTEZ |
Dianna Agron, Mark Salling and Jacob Artist in GLEE - Season 4 - "Thanksgiving" | ©2012 Fox/Jordin Althaus

Stars: Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Jane Lynch, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Heather Morris, Matthew Morrison, Chord Overstreet, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera, Mark Salling, Harry Shum Jr., Jenna Ushkowitz, Whoopi Goldberg, Kate Hudson Writer: Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner Director: Bradley Buecker Network: Fox, airs Thursdays Original Telecast: November 29, 2012 In a weird bit of scheduling, the latest episode of GLEE is called “Thanksgiving” and is airing a week after Thanksgiving. Huh? Couldn’t they have found a way to schedule the thing so it landed on Thanksgiving day? That said, “Thanksgiving” is actually another strong episode augmented by […]Read On »


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MEN IN BLACK III Highlights this week in Blu-ray and DVD Releases

By PETER BROWN | 11/30/2012
MEN IN BLACK 3 | (c) 2012 Sony Pictures 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: MEN IN BLACK III – While I have not been a fan of the previous two MEN IN BLACK films, mostly because I am not a fan of Will Smith at all and I thought the whole premise was just beyond stupid. The third part of the […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 8 – “Hunteri Heroici”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF |
Mike Farrell and Misha Collins in SUPERNATURAL - Season 8 - "Hunteri Heroici" | ©2012 The CW/Jack Rowand

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Mike Farrell, Liane Balaban, Amanda Tapping, Catherine Lough Haggquist, Greg Webb, Brian Markinson Writer: Andrew Dabb, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Paul Edwards Network: The CW, Wednesdays @ 9 PM Original Airdate: November 28, 2012 SUPERNATURAL has had its cartoonish moments before, but in “Hunteri Heroici,” it goes for the vibe deliberately and literally, with Acme anvils and Road Runner-style painted escape tunnels. This yields some worthy laughs, but not as many as we might expect. We also finally get an explanation for how it is that Sam (Jared Padalecki) is no […]Read On »


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TV Review: BONES – Season 8 – “The But in the Joke”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF |
Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz in BONES - Season 8 - "The But in the Joke" | ©2012 Fox/Ray Mickshaw

Stars: David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Michaela Conlin, TJ Thyne, Tamara Taylor, John Francis Daley, Joel David Moore, Jay Paulson, Stephanie Lemelin, Adam Cagley, Eva Simone Fisher Writer: Keith Fogelsong, series created by Hart Hanson, based on the life and writings of Kathy Reichs Director: Ian Toynton Network: Fox, Mondays @ 8 PM Airdate: November 26, 2012 BONES is often deliberately comedic, but in “The But in the Joke,” the script by Keith Fogelsong gets ambitious and examines the nature of comedy. It starts with an agitprop street artist – think Banksy – who goes by Zed (Jay Paulson) attempting to […]Read On »


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TV Review: THE WALKING DEAD – Season 3 – “When the Dead Come Knocking”

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG |
Chandler Riggs, Andrew Lincoln and Scott Wilson in THE WALKING DEAD - Season 3 - "When the Dead Come Knocking" | ©2012 AMC/Blake Tyers

Stars: Andrew  Lincoln, David Morrissey, Laurie Holden, Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Lauren Cohan, Chandler Riggs, Danai Gurira, Michael Rooker, Melissa Suzanne McBride, Scott Wilson, Emily Kinney, Dallas Roberts, Lew Temple, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Vincent Ward, Peter Kulas, Alex Van Writer: Frank Renzulli Director: Dan Sackheim Network: AMC, airs Sunday nights  Original Telecast: November 25, 2012 In the seventh episode of THE WALKING DEAD Season 3, “When the Dead Come Knocking,” Michonne (Danai Gurira) meets Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the gang, bringing them much-needed formula as well as dire news about the whereabouts of Glenn (Steven Yeun) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan). An expedition to Woodbury begins, […]Read On »


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TV Review: REVENGE – Season 2 – “Lineage”

By ANNE LOUISE BANNON |
Madeleine Stowe in REVENGE - Season 2 - "Lineage" | ©2012 ABC/Colleen Hayes

Stars: Emily VanCamp, Madeleine Stowe, Henry Czerny, Josh Bowman, Nick Wechsler, Gabriel Mann, Ashley Madekwe, Christa B. Allen, Connor Paolo Writer: Nikki Toscano Director: Christopher Misiano Network: ABC, Sunday nights, 9 p.m. Original Telecast: November 25, 2012 Is it my imagination or are things about blow up on REVENGE, and I mean a serious E-Ticket ride to hell in a handbasket blow up? We have that body in Jack’s (Nick Wechsler) boat from the season premiere and a load of back stories in “Linear” that are as much about what’s about to happen as they are about explaining the past. I’m going to take this storyline by storyline, since there’s a lot going […]Read On »


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