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For Love of the Game: Talking With Kurt Russell About The Battered Bastards...
It's the kind of thing you probably missed over Thanksgiving dinner, while gnawing on a turkey leg, bickering with your uncle, or falling asleep during a Detroit Lions game: The Miami Marlins just...
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A-Sides with Jon Chattman: Deploying The Belle Brigade and Unleashing the...
2014 is winding down, but The Belle Brigade will likely feel it, love it, and live it long after the ball drops in Time Square. The folky-rock duo of Barbara Gruska and her younger brother Ethan...
View ArticleBest Health-Themed Movie of 2014: The Nominees Are Announced
Awards shows are coming, and everyone is watching to see which films will be considered the best. For two years I have been awarding Dr. Cary's "Academy Award" for the best health-themed movie of the...
View ArticleMy Conversation With Bryan Stevenson
Tonight on PBS I'm joined by Bryan Stevenson, activist, attorney, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. This McArthur Genius Grant recipient has dedicated his life to...
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Interview: Jeremy Irons at the Marrakech Film Festival
Jeremy Irons reclines in a hidden corner of a restaurant on the grounds of Marrakech's lavish La Mamounia hotel, sipping a warm glass of sweet mint tea. The sun is sinking, and there's a nip in the...
View ArticleFlesh and Blood Thrills and Disturbs... Nina Simone Documented... More Barbra...
"THERE are two kinds of people who sit around all day thinking about killing people...mystery writers and serial killers," said Richard Castle. •WHAT successful author Patricia Cornwell has shown us...
View ArticleTheater: Plays With Prisoners, Prestidigitation and Puppets
THE INVISIBLE HAND ** out of **** THE ILLUSIONISTS ** out of **** SWAMP JUICE ** 1/2 out of **** THE INVISIBLE HAND ** out of **** NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP I have the sinking feeling I will remain in...
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Live from the Marrakech Film Festival: Dec. 8
Here's the best thing about attending an event like the Marrakech International Film Festival: It's one of the rare opportunities that a critic has to truly walk into a screening knowing absolutely...
View ArticlePopcorn Preview: The Babadook
The Babadook (2014) Cast includes: Essie Davis (The Matrix Revolutions), Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall (These Final Hours) Writer/Director: Jennifer Kent (Babe: Pig in the City) Genre: Horror | Drama |...
View ArticlePopcorn Preview: Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014) Director: Chuck Workman Genre: Documentary (94 minutes) "A magician is just an actor." --Orson Welles. The chubby little boy was...
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Paladino: An Inside Look at the Upcoming Film
Currently in pre-production, Paladino is a Mob film about a man who goes to prison for a crime that he didn't commit. Written and directed by two time Cannes Film Festival Showcase selected Chasen...
View ArticleGirlfriends' Guide to Divorce: Realistic? Maybe. Worth Watching? Definitely!
My gut reaction to hearing about the new Bravo scripted series, Girlfriends' Guide To Divorce was to slam my fist down on my desk in exasperation that I wasn't hired to be one of the writers of the...
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Live From Marrakech: Saar Klein Talks the American Dream
Saar Klein's family moved from Jerusalem to the Bronx in 1978 when he was 9, he says, because the American dream was something exported regularly overseas. "Living outside the U.S., you thought there...
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Mickey Boardman on Art Basel, Miami and Paper magazine cover girl Kim Kardashian
Mickey Boardman and swans Cleo Wade, Mia Moretti and Margot Moretti at the Paper Magazine Break The Internet party at 1111 Lincoln Road during Art Basel. Photo credit: Seth Browarnik/WorldRedEye.com...
View ArticleBering Sea Gold Reality TV Star Arrested in Nome Heroin Investigation
One of the people arrested Thursday as part of a yearlong effort to combat heroin in Nome is a Discovery Channel reality TV star. Yvonne Adkison, 22, is a dive tender on the Wild Ranger, a gold dredge...
View ArticleNo, The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Isn't Bad for Teen Girls
"Wait, you WATCH that?" Last night was the 2014 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in London, where 47 models, including the famed Victoria's Secret Angels, strutted the runway in a immense spread of...
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Second Star to the Right and Straight On to Disappointing
I clapped and I clapped and I wanted to believe in more TV musicals and I still do. I still felt very let down by NBC's latest live musical outing, this year's long-awaited revival of the 1954 classic...
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The MovieFilm Podcast: The Star Wars Trailer Awakens!
It's been a week-and-a-half since the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens hit the web, racking up a record 100 million global views in the process, and while it's generated plenty of commentary,...
View ArticleMy Conversation With Steve Ballmer
Tonight I'm joined by Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft and one of the primary architects of that tech giant's phenomenal success, who is now the new owner of the LA Clippers. He took over that...
View Article15 Minutes With AnnaLynne McCord
I'm walking home, following a night of overpriced drinks in a Los Angeles bar. It's late. It's cold. It's Christmastime. I pass a homeless man, bedding down for the night on a cement bus stop bench. We...
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