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Interview: Joss Whedon chats about THE AVENGERS, S.H.I.E.L.D. and BUFFY at a special event screening Q&A

By A.C. FERRANTE 12/19/2012
Joss Whedon on the set of THE AVENGERS | (c) 2012 Marvel

Last night, a special screening of MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS was held at the Director’s Guild in Hollywood which featured a special Q&A hosted by moderator Jeff Goldsmith. During the nearly 45-minute conversation Whedon spoke about BUFFY, THE AVENGERS and FIREFLY and the fact that the Wasp was originally included in an original draft of the screenplay. He also talked briefly about S.H.I.E.L.D., the new ABC TV series that is a spin-off from THE AVENGERS. Here are some highlights. On what Marvel wanted from an AVENGERS movie … “Marvel was very clear what they wanted to do and they knew it […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ANY DAY NOW

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
ANY DAY NOW poster | ©2012 Music Box Films

Rating: Unrated Stars: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva Writers: Travis Fine and George Arthur Bloom Director: Travis Fine Distributor: Music Box Films Release Date: December 14, 2012 It should be said upfront that this reviewer agrees completely with the underlying premise of ANY DAY NOW, which is that parentally fit gay people should be able to adopt children. In California, at least, the law seems to have caught up with this notion since the time the film takes place, which is 1979 through the early 1980s. Furthermore – and here the law has not caught up, though common sense […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/15/2012
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY - Bilbo poster | ©2012 Warner Bros./New Line/MGM

Stars: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Andy Serkis Writers: Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson & Guillermo Del Toro, based on the novel THE HOBBIT by J.R.R. Tolkien Director: Peter Jackson Distributor: Warner Bros./New Line/M-G-M Release Date: December 14, 2012 There’s a lot to love about THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, particularly for fans of director Peter Jackson’s LORD OF THE RINGS films. Like that astounding fantasy trilogy, THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY is based on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien – THE HOBBIT actually came before LORD OF THE RINGS in Tolkien’s work, but it was […]Read On »


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TV Review: ARROW – Season 1 – “Year’s End”

By EGAN BRUMLEY 12/14/2012
Colin Salmon in ARROW - Season 1 - "Year's End" | ©2012 The CW/Cate Cameron

Stars:  Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Paul Blackthorne, Colin Donnell, Susanna Thompson, Colin Salmon, Willa Holland Teleplay: Andrew Kreisberg & Marc Guggenheim Writer:  Greg Berlanti & Marc Guggenheim Director: John Dahl Network: The CW, airs Wednesday Nights Original Telecast: December 12, 2012 I was worried when “Year’s End” began with Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) spending most of the first quarter of the episode asking his family members why they stopped celebrating Christmas after he and his father were lost at sea and presumed dead.  I was worried because A) the answer was bleeding obvious, (family gatherings were suddenly kind of a […]Read On »


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TV Review: ARROW – Season 1 – “Vendetta”

By EGAN BRUMLEY 12/07/2012
Jessica De Gouw as Huntress in ARROW - Season 1 - "Vendetta" | ©2012 The CW/Diyah Pera

Stars:  Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Paul Blackthorne, Colin Donnell, Susanna Thompson, Colin Salmon, Willa Holland Writer:  Beth Schwartz & Andrew Kreisberg Director: Ken Fink Network: The CW, airs Wednesday Nights Original Telecast: December 5, 2012 This week’s episode of ARROW focuses on the love life of Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell).  Now that Laurel Lance, (Katie Cassidy), the ex-girlfriend Oliver is not-so-secretly still in love with, is dating his best friend Tommy Merlyn, (Colin Donnell), the path is clear for him to start dating Helena Bertenelli, (Jessica De Gouw) the damaged daughter of a mob boss who’s also a gun-wielding vigilante […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Morena Baccarin on HOMELAND

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/05/2012
Morena Baccarin in HOMELAND - Season 2 - "The Clearing" | ©2012 Showtime/Kent Smith

The first season of Showtime’s HOMELAND received six Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama, Outstanding Actress for Claire Danes and Outstanding Actor for Damien Lewis. Now in its second season, Sundays at 10 PM, HOMELAND, adapted and produced for American television by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, keeps up its breakneck pace. Danes’ CIA agent Carrie Mathison is more worried than ever about a terrorist attack onU.S. soil, due in part to her complicated relationship with Lewis’ Congressman Nicholas Brody. Brody was a U.S. Marine who was captured and spent eight years in the hands of a terrorist; when Brody was […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2 – The Fans

By SUE SCHNEIDER 12/04/2012
The Fans at the World Premiere of THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 2 | ©2012 Sue Schneider

November 12th, SUMMIT Entertainment held the World Premiere of THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2 at the Nokia Theater at L.A. Live in Downtown Los Angeles. As over the past years fans have camped out days in advance to be sure that they got a wristband to get into the premiere and the fan sections. They screamed, had signs for their favorite TWILIGHT star. Some were lucky enough to have the stars pose with them for photos and had memorabilia with them for the stars to sign and they were not disappointed. Since 2008 a lot of these […]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: DEXTER – Season 7 – “Helter Skelter”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 11/28/2012
Yvonne Strahovski in DEXTER - Season 7 - "Helter Skelter" | ©2012 Showtime/Randy Tepper

Stars: Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Desmond Harrington, Lauren Velez, C.S. Lee, David Zayas, James Remar, Aimee Garcia, Ray Stevenson, Yvonne Strahovski, Geoff Pierson, Jason Gedrick, Katia Winter, Andrew Kirsanov Writer: Tim Schlattmann, series developed for television by James Manos Jr., based on the books by Jeff Lindsay Director: Steve Shill Network: Showtime, Sundays @ 9 PM Original Airdate: November 25, 2012 Remember when vengeful Ukrainian mobster Isaak Sirko (Ray Stevenson) told Dexter (Michael C. Hall) that under other circumstances, they could have been good friends? Well, welcome to those circumstances. In the best tradition of DEXTER, “Helter Skelter” surprises […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2 – The Guests

By SUE SCHNEIDER 11/26/2012
THE HOST cast - Jake Abel, Saoirse Ronan and Max Irons at the World Premiere of THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 2 | ©2012 Sue Schneider

November 12th, SUMMIT Entertainment held the World Premiere of THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2 at the Nokia Theater at L.A. Live in Downtown Los Angeles. Now the guests that walked the black carpet and joined the stars on this special night: Bella Thorne, Alexa Vega, DJ Qualls, Paul McDonald, Molly Sims, Justine Wachsberger, The Boom Circuits, Sterling Beaumon, Nancy O’Dell, Frank Marshall, Brent Smith, Sarah Habel, Jared Kusnitz, Mayim Bialik, Max Burkholder, Willow Shields, Olivia Holt, Luke Benward, Inbar Levi, Shar Jackson, Brandon and Savannah, Aramis Knight, Amanda Stenberg, Jaleel White, Jacqueline Emerson, Shaun Robinson, A Boy […]Read On »


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