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Interview With Demi Lovato: Using Her Tour and Platform to Empower Others
Many popular young stars resist or rebel against the role model label. Not platinum-selling recording artist Demi Lovato, who has not only embraced it, but has taken it to a whole new level. In...
View ArticleBill Murray's Funny Moves in St. Vincent: The Premiere
Bill Murray's got some moves in St. Vincent, a big-hearted movie that had its New York premiere last night, a few days prior to opening the Hamptons International Film Festival this coming weekend....
View ArticleThe 21 Spookiest Rock Songs for the Halloween Season
As October's days grow shorter and the air chillier, the anticipation of Halloween builds -- and for a proper celebration, there needs to be a soundtrack. The fiendishly fabulous treats on this...
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Drop it Like it's Hot
Evan Richards is hot. Literally. The talented creative budding up and coming writer / director / actor with an impressive resume has just completed filming on one of SoCal's hottest days in August, in...
View ArticleWTF Happened to TV News?
If you've never seen Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom on HBO, you need to. If you don't have HBO, get it and binge watch the first two seasons and then wait patiently for season three coming this fall. I'm...
View ArticleWake Up, Taylor Swift, And Use Your Influence
"The unjust, vicious murder of a teenager, by a law enforcement agency." Sounds like a teaser for a movie. Actually, it was a movie, Fruitvale Station, but imagine this was a big budget film, with Ben...
View ArticleInherent Vice: Just How Important Is a Clear Plot?
I had a very distinct feeling after leaving the midnight screening of Inherent Vice (and not because it was 2:30 in the morning and I had been subsisting on champagne and diet coke for eight hours). It...
View ArticleWhy Jeremy Renner's Kill the Messenger Role Is Like Rock Music
Jeremy Renner co-produced and stars in Kill the Messenger, based on the story of real-life investigative reporter Gary Webb, whose articles exposed the "dark alliance" between the CIA, sales of cocaine...
View ArticleThe Affair Is Totally Addictive
TV Review Jackie K Cooper The Affair (SHOWTIME) On October 12, SHOWTIME will present the first chapter of a new series titled The Affair. The show stars Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney and...
View ArticleDaniel Franzese, Mean Girls Star, Releases Hilarious Sam Smith Spoof...
Mean Girls star (and Internet-meme master of all time) Daniel Franzese has taken his "Bye, Felicia" routine to new heights today with the release of "Please Go Home," a parody of Sam Smith's meteoric...
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An Ali Campbell Premiere, Plus Chats with Paolo Nutini, Robert Levon Been,...
ALI CAMPBELL OF UB40 TAKES ON BOB DYLAN'S "I WANT YOU" photo credit: Andy Wilshire According to Ali Campbell of UB40... "When I met Bob Dylan, he said to me he loved UB40 & his favourite track of...
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Big Hero 6 hopes to make a big splash in the Big Apple at this year's New...
To hear Don Hall tell this story, it was just weeks after The Walt Disney Company revealed that it would be acquiring Marvel Entertainment for $4.24 billion back in August of 2009 when he first came up...
View ArticleIs Hollywood Ruining Our Relationships?
It was about eight years ago on a quiet fall evening. I had been married for a few years and my two young children had uncharacteristically gone to bed at the same time and without drama. If you're a...
View ArticleMy Conversation With Jose Antonio Vargas
Tonight on PBS I'm joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas. His documentary, Documented: A Film By An Undocumented American, about his life in this...
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Courage for Sale: Oz's Cowardly Lion Costume Heads to The Auction Block
Many of us grew up watching The Wizard of Oz on its annual television outing. We were mesmerized by the terrible tornado and were awed along with Dorothy when she opened the door to her farmhouse to...
View ArticleAll About That Bass -- Or Is It?
From the time I was eight, all I wanted to do was write songs. I wrote and wrote and wrote. I wrote for years, dreaming of the day I would hear one of my songs being sung on the radio by a famous...
View ArticleJames Franco & Seth Rogan Talk Holiday Film "The Interview"
The upcoming movie, The Interview, centers around Dave Skylark (an on air talent) and Aaron Rapoport (his producer) who run the highly popular television show known as "Skylark Tonight." The two...
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There Truly Is No Place Like Homeland
Ever since Homeland premiered, fans of Showtime's extraordinary gem have been dying to say it "Jumped The Shark." This isn't really surprising -- since thanks to the internet everyone thinks their...
View ArticleMovie Review: Kill the Messenger ... a Great Film
Jeremy Renner is perfect to portray Gary Webb. Kill the Messenger is about integrity. It is a true story about the investigative journalist, Gary Webb, who exposed the corruption that nailed the CIA...
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The Judge -- Movie Review
The American Drama has become something of an anomaly, less and less a fixture of modern movie house entertainment, and more often lost within the great unwashed independent film market. The movie...
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