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Interview: BEHIND THE CANDELABRA director Steven Soderbergh on the Liberace bio-pic

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/26/2013
Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon in BEHIND THE CANDELABRA | ©2013 HBO/Claudette Barius

Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has long been interested in the late pianist Liberace as a potential subject for a film. When Scott Thorson, who was Liberace’s lover for six years, wrote a book (with Alex Thorliefson) about their relationship, Soderbergh felt he had the spine of his story. The result is BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, which premieres Sunday night, May 26, on HBO at 9 PM. Directed by Soderbergh from a screenplay by Richard LaGravenese and produced by Jerry Weintraub, the film stars Michael Douglas (who previously worked with Soderbergh in TRAFFIC) as Liberace and Matt Damon (who has costarred in Soderbergh’s […]Read On »


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Movie Review: EPIC

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
EPIC movie poster | (c) 2013 20th Century Fox/Blur Sky

Rating: PG Stars (voices): Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfriend, Christoph Waltz, Beyonce Knowles, Aziz Ansari, Chris O’Dowd, Pitbull, Jason Sudeikis, Steven Tyler Writers: James V. Hart & William Joyce and Dan Shere and Tom J. Astle & Matt Ember, based on Joyce’s book THE LEAFMEN AND THE BRAVE GOOD BUGS Director: Chris Wedge Distributor: 20th Century Fox/Blue Sky Release Date: May 24, 2013 The word “epic” implies a sense of grandeur and a sense of history – either we’re witness to incidents that have their roots in a complex series of events stretching back years, even centuries and/or we’re […]Read On »


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Interview: STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS composer MIchael Giacchino pilots The Enterprise

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER | 05/25/2013
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS soundtrack | ©2013 Varese Sarabande Records

Sure man, not to mention Hollywood, had boldly gone before in turning a TV show’s five-year mission into an ongoing cinematic voyage- the first 27 years of which involved its original “classic” cast before the com was handed over to a new generation. But just when that film future seemed to have grown a bit stale, a hotshot named J.J. Abrams leaped into the captain’s chair to reboot the franchise in a way that was as audacious as it was winningly nostalgic with 2009s STAR TREK. Taking the beloved crewmates back to their beginnings with a surfeit of style and […]Read On »


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Movie Review: FAST & FURIOUS 6

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
FAST AND FURIOUS 6 | (c) 2013 Universal Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Luke Evans, Tyrene Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Sung Kang, Gina Carano Writer: Chris Morgan, based on characters created by Gary Scott Thompson Director: Justin Lin Distributor:Universal Release Date: May 24, 2013 THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS film franchise has always been about outlaws. In FAST & FURIOUS 6, more than ever before, our heroes break not only the laws of property and speed, but also gravity, physics and frequently plausibility. And hey, why not? When the characters start talking about the differences between one motor and another, […]Read On »


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THE LAST STAND Highlights this week in Blu-ray and DVD Releases

By PETER BROWN | 05/24/2013
THE LAST STAND | (c) 2013 Lionsgate 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: THE LAST STAND – Before Arnold Schwarzenegger went off to become the Governator, he was racking up a pretty long list of bad movies. Long gone were the RUNNING MAN, TOTAL RECALL, RAW DEAL, COMMANDO, PREDATOR days instead we got END OF DAYS, THE 6TH DAY, LAST […]Read On »


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TV Review: ARROW – Season 1 – “Sacrifice” – Season Finale

By EGAN BRUMLEY |
THE CW logo | ©The CW

Stars:  Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Paul Blackthorne, Colin Donnell, Susanna Thompson, Colin Salmon, Willa Holland, David Ramsey, Emily Bett Rickards, John Barrowman, Manu Bennett Teleplay: Marc Guggenheim & Andrew Kreisberg Story: Greg Berlanti Director: David Barrett Network: The CW, airs Wednesday Nights Original Telecast: May 15, 2013 As season finales go, “Sacrifice” was satisfying enough.  The scope and scale of the episode was larger, and everything in it moved faster than what we’ve seen before.  Compared to any of the 22 ARROW episodes that preceded it, the lighting was starker, the camera moved more fluidly, and the action sequences were […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 8 – “Clip Show”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF |
THE CW logo | ©The CW

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Mark Sheppard, Curtis Armstrong, Alaina Huffman, Taylor Cole, Graham Wardle, Donnelly Rhodes Writer: Andrew Dabb, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Thomas J. Wright Network: The CW, Wednesdays @ 9 PM Original Airdate: May 8, 2013 The term “clip show” generally refers to an episode of a (usually long-running) television series that uses clips from older shows to back up a story told in less-than-usual new footage. Well, credit SUPERNATURAL for doing things differently in an episode entitled “Clip Show.” There are brief clips of older episodes (check out Sam’s hair!), but they […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE HANGOVER PART III

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE HANGOVER III movie poster | ©2013 Warner Bros.

Rating: R Stars: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong, Justin Bartha, John Goodman, Melissa McCarthy Writers: Todd Phillips & Craig Mazin, based on characters created by Jon Lucas & Scott Moore Director: Todd Phillips Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: May 23, 2013 Back in 2009, THE HANGOVER – a comedy about a Vegas bachelor party gone astoundingly wrong – was a surprise hit. The movie was actually hysterically funny, because two of the main characters were desperately trying to figure out how they got into such dire straits, and the third had levels of strangeness that were only […]Read On »


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TV Review: SAVE ME – Season 1 – “Pilot” – Series Premiere

By CARL CORTEZ |
SAVE ME poster | ©2013 NBC

Stars: Anne Heche, Madison Davenport, Michael Landes, Alexandra Breckenridge Writer: John Scott Shepherd Director: Scott Winant Network: NBC, airs Thursdays Original Telecast: May 23, 2013 In the last couple of years, NBC has had the bad habit of greenlighting comedies that unfortunately never air as part of the regular season and are unceremoniously burned off in the summer months. LOVE BITES and FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS were part of this trend and now you can add the high profile Anne Heche starring vehicle SAVE ME to the growing list. Feeling more like a cable comedy than anything on network TV, SAVE […]Read On »


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CD Review: FROZEN PLANET soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER | 05/23/2013
FROZEN PLANET soundtrack | ©2013 Silva Screen Records

Englishman George Fenton seems to have conquered the market on scoring every nook and cranny of the globe with a series of sweeping nature documentaries that have included EARTH, LIFE, PLANET EARTH and THE BLUE PLANET. And while the genre has technically evolved in light years from the dinosaur-age days of MUTUAL OF OMAHA’S WILD KINGDOM, the basic spectacle of watching animals being cute, or killing each other certainly hasn’t. That age-old struggle for survival is often mirrored in the artist’s challenge of going for the uncondescending beauty of God’s ice-covered earth, or choosing to play it with the family-friendly […]Read On »


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