Stephen Hawking's Wisdom: Quotes From the Man Who Inspired The Theory of...
On January 15th, The Theory of Everything earned 5 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. The film tells the extraordinary story of renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and Jane Wilde,...
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Welcome To The Silly Season Of Award 'Shocks and Snubs'
As I watch and read the usual spate of "shocks and snubs" features that can't seem to help themselves after the Oscar nominees are announced, I am once again reminded of how skewed and silly this...
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Julianne Moore, who won the Golden Globe award for best actress in a drama motion picture and is considered the leading contender for her first Oscar this year, gives an epic, outstanding, tour de...
View ArticleSelma: It Sears... Sings... and Soars!
Selma delivers. Yes, it does. From the opening scene involving four black girls in a church in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, to the end after a successful third try of a historic civil rights march...
View ArticleThe People's Legs Are Not Praying - Why Selma Is Not the Interfaith Movie I...
The movie Selma has been praised as the first major movie on the history of the civil rights movement. Most critics agree that Selma is powerful and impressive, nothing short of a cinematic...
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New to Netflix: January 2015
Ready for some nostalgia to the face? Watching the 1994 Friends pilot is the perfect lazy Sunday activity, and this month Netflix has released it, along with some serious rom-com throwbacks, for your...
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The Weeding Ringer
In a now infamously leaked email, Screen Gems President Clint Culpepper called comedian Kevin Hart a "whore" because he wanted him to use his huge social media following to promote Think Like A Man...
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Exclusive Photos From the Set of DIG
Every series has its own behind-the-scenes technical challenges and drama, but not many get to film at iconic sites that date back over 2,000 years, amidst rocket attacks that bring a halt to filming....
View ArticleWho Would Win If All of the Animated Disney Villains Fought Hunger Games Style?
Who would win if all the animated Disney villains (classic and CGI) fought Hunger Games style?: originally appeared on Quora: The best answer to any question. Ask a question, get a great answer. Learn...
View ArticleYoung People Must Know Their Own History
Do our young people know about our own nation's history, particularly how our society has responded to marginalized groups? This question has been coming up consistently for me in recent months. It...
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Brooklyn Band Forges Prog-Jazz, Goes Big and Brash on Debut Album
If I ask you to picture a big band, chances are you close your eyes and see Bono or Chris Martin or Donald Fagen (just me?). Give that first word a little more, though, lean on that "big" and you get...
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Des Doyle and Ryan Patrick McGuffey Learn the Ropes With Showrunners
Left to right: Ryan Patrick McGuffey, Damon Lindelof and Des Doyle. J.J. Abrams (Lost, Fringe), Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire), Shawn Ryan (The Shield),...
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Podcast Review: The Bugle #263: #JeSuisCharlie
In the light of last week's tragic massacre in the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, I wanted to see how a news-oriented comedy podcast would handle the event. My go-to in such...
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Selma's Missing Rabbi
Marching from Selma: John Lewis of SNCC, an unidentified nun, Rev. Ralph Abernathy; Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Bunche (former U.S. Ambassador to the UN), Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, and...
View ArticleStar Trek's Troubling 50th Anniversary
There was some heartening news over the holidays for those of us who are longtime Star Trek fans. And there was some alarming news, none of which has been mitigated since. The next Star Trek film in...
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First Lady of Arab Cinema, Faten Hamama, RIP
They don't make them like that anymore. The First Lady of Arab cinema and its Golden Age, legend Faten Hamama, is gone, leaving a rich heritage that helped turn her country, Egypt, into a Hollywood on...
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Andraé Crouch: An Artist for the Ages
"Now he belongs to the ages," was my first thought when I got the call that my friend Andraé Crouch had succumbed to the heart attack that felled him the week before. That most famous epitaph in...
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Real Music, Real Country, And What's Important to Mo Pitney
Mo Pitney knows a couple of really important things about being Country, real Country. For that matter, Mo Pitney knows a lot about a lot of things Country, not least of all about Country Music. It's...
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The Real Best Rapper Alive: Hopsin
Photo Credit:Funk Volume The undisputed king of underground hip-hop is a man by the name of Marcus Hopson, better known as Hopsin. Many truly believe he is the best rapper out. As an independent...
View ArticleWhy Young People Need to See Selma
This past weekend I went with friends to see Selma, a new film which chronicles the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., during the Civil Rights movement in 1964, which prompted President...
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