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Find Time for This Time Travel Film: Hour of the Wolf Movie Review of...
It's January Mysteries time! Usually it's no secret why a film gets given a January release date. The month's largely a dumping ground, a catch-all for films that, for one reason or another, have been...
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Making Sense of Selma
This year the Oscar nominees were announced on January 15, which happens to be the actual birth date of Martin Luther King Jr., so what could be more appropriate than a Best Picture nod for Selma, the...
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Guy Maddin's Forbidden Room
The Forbidden Room. Here's on-set pictures I took just about three years ago in Paris while working on what would become Guy Maddin's The Forbidden Room (co-directed by Evan Johnson) soon to be seen...
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Assassins & Teamwork: Filmmaking (and Break-Making) for Cooper Brothers' Film...
Sometimes, feeling useless can feel quite nice--particularly on a movie set. Hurry-up-and-wait sums it up, of course. But if you're just lurking like I tend to do, watching former students do their...
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New Artist Reviews: RxGF
Seattle has always had a finger on the pulse of alternative music. From Bing Crosby to Jimi Hendrix to Nirvana (although technically from Aberdeen but more significantly connected to Seattle), the...
View ArticleDon't Blame Oscar, He Just Works Here: Hollywood's All-White Problem
If you have been following the blogs in the wake of the Oscar nomination announcements, you should be well aware that this is the first time no person of color has been nominated in any acting category...
View Article5 Hollywood Blockbusters Too Freakin' Bloated for Their Own Good
Quality filmmaking isn't just about what footage you put up on the screen -- it's what you choose not to put up there. Sometimes too much of a good thing can be just as frustrating as too little. Which...
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Final Tour? Chatting With Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil, Jim Ed Brown and Jim...
A Conversation with Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil Mike Ragogna: A final tour? Say it isn't so! Vince Neil: I know, but it's just about time. It'll be thirty five years; that's enough. MR: Your final show...
View ArticleOscarnomics 2015: What Awards Can Do for Your Brand and Bottom Line
The Golden Globes recently kicked off the Hollywood awards season. Some believe that the big winners -- Boyhood and The Grand Budapest Hotel -- are unlikely to get a significant boost in box office...
View ArticleYes, Billy Crystal DID Just Make A Homophobic Statement (And Here's Why It...
On Sunday, while promoting his new FX show "The Comedians" at a Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour panel, Billy Crystal was asked about playing a gay role on the ABC show "Soap" in the...
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Animal Lives for Cosmetics? The Price is Wrong.
It's probably impossible to find any adult in the United States who isn't familiar with the television game show, The Price is Right and longtime host Bob Barker's signature sign off, "Help control the...
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Please Insult Me, Don Rickles
The stars came out Saturday night in Los Angeles -- not for another superfluous awards ceremony, but rather to watch a comic icon perform. "Mr. Warmth," Don Rickles, played the Saban Theatre in Beverly...
View ArticleZaki's Review: American Sniper
In the days leading up to and out of the release of director Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, there's been a lot of conversation -- some hagiographic, some just plain graphic -- about Chris Kyle, the...
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TV Shows That Need a Chef's Advice
Recently, I was working on broths. This means intense bone browning, followed by long slow cooking in water with aromatics. At the same time, I was smoking meats. Both projects required my presence,...
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CD Review: Big Apple Blues
Artist: Tomas Doncker Band Album: Big Apple Blues Release Date: October 21, 2014 Reviewed by: Christopher Zoukis and Randy Radic What do you get when you put a Pulitzer prize-winning poet and a famous...
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This Thing of Ours, Scandinavian Style: Netflix Series Lilyhammer Deserves...
There is no doubt that video streaming platforms have considerably leveled the playing field with regard to episodic series. These interlopers (Netflix and Amazon most prominently, at least for now)...
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Globes Turned Serious? Try the Dorians!
Dorian "Timeless" Award Winner George Takei The January 2015 ceremony of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Awards by all accounts was more serious, less, well, fun. As someone who...
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CD Review: 'Arisen Upon Oblivion' by Unfathomed Abyss
Artist: Unfathomed Abyss Album: Arisen Upon Oblivion Released: October 2014 Reviewed by: Christopher Zoukis and Randy Radic Black metal music is usually grouped under the umbrella heading of heavy...
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Stephen Hawking's Love Life Inspired The Theory of Everything Producer
Over the years, I have on occasion written about Lucy Hawking, the daughter of famed theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking. Inevitably, people are shocked when they hear that Stephen...
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Movie Review: The Boy Next Door -- Get a Fence
How can J-Lo ignore The Boy Next Door? She can't, obviously, because he's a blazing wackjob with an erotic obsession for his new neighbor. In this low-voltage thriller by Rob Cohen, she's Claire...
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