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TV Review: TOUCH – Season 1 Finale – “Gyre” – Pt. 1 and 2

By ANNE LOUISE BANNON | 06/02/2012

Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Mazouz Writer: Part 1: Teleplay by Carol Barbee & Robert Levine, Story by Jonathan I. Kidd and Sonya Wilson; Part 2: Tim Kring and Rob Fresco Director: Part 1: Nelson McCormick; Part 2: Greg Beeman Network: Fox, airs Thursday nights Original Telecast: May 31, 2012 The thing about TOUCH is that you get the feeling that this is the show HEROES could have been if Tim Kring (and/or his writers) hadn’t hooked into their darker sides. There’s a dark side to this show, what with the big, bad conspiracy by Aster Corps. to use Jake for its own purposes […]Read On »


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DVD Review: THE RIVER – THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON

By CARL CORTEZ | 06/01/2012
THE RIVER - THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON | ©2012 ABC Studios

Stars: Bruce Greenwood, Joe Anderson, Leslie Hope, Eloise Mumford, Paul Blackthorne, Thomas Kretschmann, Daniel Zacapa, Shaun Parkes, Paulina Gaitan, Jeff Galfer Distributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment Suggested Retail Price: $29.99 Release Date: May 22, 2012 ABC took a big chance on the found footage series THE RIVER. With only eight episodes, it was a perfect amount of time to create a mythology and tell a story without too much filler. Of course, the format didn’t hook audiences, but I suspect that had more to do with the need to see the whole series in one big eight-hour chunk. Now, THE […]Read On »


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Blu-ray Review: LETHAL WEAPON COLLECTION

By CARL CORTEZ |
LETHAL WEAPON COLLECTION | ©2012 Warner Home Video

Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Jet Li Writers: Part 1 – Shane Black, Part 2 – Jeffrey Boam from a story by Black & Warren Murphy, Part 3 – Jeffrey Boam & Robert Mark Kamen from a story by Boam, Part 4 – Channing Gibson from a story by Jonathan Lemkin and Alfred Gough & Miles Millar Director: Richard Donner Suggested Retail Price: $79.98 Release Date: May 22, 2012 One of the most successful action movie franchises in history is the LETHAL WEAPON series starring Mel Gibson as suicidal cop Martin Riggs and his “I’m too […]Read On »


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TV Review: DUETS – Season 1 – “Classic Duets”

By CARL CORTEZ |
Jennifer Nettles and J Rome perform on DUETS - Season 1 - "Classic Duets" | ©2012 ABC/Kelsey McNeal

Cast: Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Nettles, John Legend, Robin Thicke Network: ABC, Thursday nights Original Telecast: June 1, 2012 In week two of ABC’s singing reality show DUETS, which pits four pros with eight amateurs for weekly duets and the chance to win a recording contract, we’re treated to more of the same which marred last week’s uneven debut. With Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Nettles (of Sugarland), John Legend and Robin Thicke – there are some great pros that are nurturing the talent. The problem still remains is the voting system. The judges give points for performance and presentation which places people […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: TOUCH creator Tim Kring chats about Season 1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/31/2012
David Mazouz in TOUCH - Season 1 - "Gyre" | ©2012 Fox/Isabella Vosmikov

TOUCH creator/writer/producer Tim Kring has a fundamental attraction to storylines about things that bring people together. In Kring’s HEROES, which ran for four seasons on NBC, people from all over the world discovered they had different abilities that caused them to seek one another out and join forces. In Fox’s TOUCH, which has its first-season finale tonight, young Jake Bohm, played by David Mazouz, has the ability to see hidden patterns and probabilities that are unknown to most people. Jake’s father Martin, played by Kiefer Sutherland (a producer on the series), tries to follow the clues given him by his […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Bodhi Elfman has the TOUCH

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Bodhi Elfman in TOUCH - Season 1 - "Tessellations" | ©2012 Fox/Isabella Vosmikova

In TOUCH, the series created by Tim King which has its first-season two-hour finale tonight on Fox, Kiefer Sutherland (who is also one of the show’s producers, plays Martin Baum, the father of eleven-year-old Jake (David Mazouz), an extraordinarily gifted child who does not speak and cannot bear to be touched. However, Jake sees crucial connections between seemingly unrelated events. Most actors get roles and then research their characters. In a serendipitous twist that echoes the themes of inevitable outcomes arising from apparent random happenstance, actor Bodhi Elfman researched his character before he even knew the series TOUCH existed, much […]Read On »


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Five New Avengers Heroes We Want to See in AVENGERS 2 and 3

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG |
THE AVENGERS trade paperback | ©Marvel Comics

When you look at the history of Marvel Comics, just about everyone – even members of other long-standing teams and dedicated loners – have called themselves Avengers at one time or another. So the field is wide open for AVENGERS 2 and 3, but there is the ‘critical mass’ element; some of the team from the first film might have to sit one out to give others their screen time. After all, how many Avengers can you cram into one movie? But given the heroes we’ve already seen assemble, there are some obvious core members that really should turn up […]Read On »


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CD Review: Joey Ramone – …YA KNOW?

By CARL CORTEZ |
Joey Ramone - ...YA KNOW? | ©2012 BMG

Distributor: BMG Suggested Retail Price: $9.90 When Joey Ramone, the frontman of the groundbreaking punk pop band Ramones passed away in 2001, 11 unreleased songs found their way on the posthumous release DON’T WORRY ABOUT ME. While the songs weren’t as perfect as his days with the Ramones, they still were fun little ditties and allowed us to mourn, through music, the legacy Joey Ramone left behind. Now, almost eleven years after his death, his second posthumous release is here. Titled …YA KNOW? (because Ramone always ended his sentences with those two words), the tracks consist of demos and other […]Read On »


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TV Review: MAD MEN – Season 5 – “The Other Woman”

By SEAN ELLIOTT |
Jon Hamm as Don Draper and Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson in MAD MEN - Season 5 - "The Other Woman" | ©2012 AMC

Stars: John Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, Christina Hendricks, Jared Harris, John Slattery, January Jones, Jessica Pare, Robert Morse, Aaron Staton, Rich Sommer, Kiernan Shipka Writer: Matthew Wiener& Semi Chellas, Series created by Matthew Wiener Director: Phil Abraham    Network: AMC, airs Sunday nights Original Telecast: May 27, 2012 This fifth season of MAD MEN is all about game changing. This can happen in subtle ways, or it can be something that strikes the audience over the head. “The Other Woman” is one of the best episodes  this season. The degradation of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce Campbell has been inching its […]Read On »


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CD Review: Best Coast – THE ONLY PLACE

By CARL CORTEZ | 05/30/2012
The Best Coast - THE ONLY PLACE | ©2012 Mexican Summer

Distributor: Mexican Summer Suggested Retail Price: $7.99 While I heard nothing but raves about the Southern California buzz band Best Coast when they release their 2010 debut CRAZY FOR YOU, I found the 1990s inspired alt-music thin and the echoy vocals hard to get my head around. The vibe was there, the songs weren’t. With the Best Coast duo of Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno back for their sophomore effort THE ONLY PLACE, I suspected it would be more of the same. Yet here’s an excellent follow-up record that lives up to the promise of CRAZY FOR YOU and then […]Read On »


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