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DVDs: "12 Years A Slave," "Gravity," "Nebraska," "Hunger Games" & More Arrive...
A flood of Oscar winners and hopefuls come flooding into BluRay, DVD, VOD and other venues. Let's get started! 12 YEARS A SLAVE ($39.99 BluRay combo; Fox) GRAVITY ($35.99 BluRay combo; Warner Bros.)...
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Ann Druyan On Returning to Carl Sagan's Cosmos
Carl Sagan famously said the cosmos was "all that is or ever was or ever will be," but the same could be said about the TV show Cosmos, the rockstar astrophysicist's 1980 science series. Along with...
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The Oldies Station
Recently I heard a story on the radio saying that the music that is most important to you, that will stick with you for the rest of your life, is the music you were listening to from the ages of 10 to...
View ArticleOn Making Harmontown
Neil Berkeley's documentary Harmontown, about Community creator and show runner Dan Harmon, premieres tomorrow night at the SXSW Film Festival. Halfway through shooting, the subject of my new movie...
View ArticleSports Betting Has a Chance to Step Into the Sunlight
Sports betting is booming. Reuters estimates one trillion dollars is bet annually on sports worldwide. Yes, trillion with a T! It's estimated that half of adult Americans bet something on this year's...
View ArticleCatherine Deneuve Kicks Off Rendez-vous With French Cinema
"You're stunning," an admirer shouted out at the Paris Theater on Thursday night, when Catherine Deneuve, the undisputed queen of international cinema took the stage. In bulk-enhancing horizontal...
View ArticleRachel Canning: Her Parents Should Be Fighting to Bring Her Home
I know my opinion is not going to be popular, but here goes -- Sean and Elizabeth Canning are the adults and the parents in this relationship. They need to work harder than an 18-year-old to mend their...
View ArticleLeo vs. Matthew -- Two Guys Defining What it Means to Be an American Man
By now, all the Leo/Matthew memes have made several rounds on the web and people have divided themselves a la Team Edward vs. Team Jacob. And while I find myself solidly on Team Leo, I have to admit...
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300: Rise of Empires -- The Rest of the Story
The much-anticipated sequel to 300 has finally come to theaters, bringing with it a deluge of slow-mo kills, story, and naval tactics. As with any film, there are good and bad elements and as such, I...
View ArticleKenny vs. Spenny Versus Netflix
If you are Canadian, you most likely remember a fairly low budget TV show that ran for several seasons called Kenny vs. Spenny. Two friends who challenged each other to complete some simple, yet...
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"Tim's Vermeer:" An Adventure Film for Culturally Astute People
Even before Michael Moore appeared on the scene with "Roger and Me," the documentary genre had been corrupted. Most of the documentaries I have seen since "Hoop Dreams" have been some form of...
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Music Making and Motherhood: Sara Evans in Perfect Pitch
If juggling the schedules of seven children, a wildly successful music career, a husband and a huge annual fundraiser for the local Children's Hospital sounds like your "sweet spot" then you and Sara...
View ArticleBryan Cranston Is LBJ in Broadway's Fabulous All the Way
"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: President can't swim," fumed Lyndon Johnson. •THE massed crowd outside the theater on 52nd...
View ArticleThe Current State of 'Real Housewife' Affairs
It's not easy being one of the 67 Real Housewives (68 as of this Tuesday, but this is just paragraph one; let's ease into it). Beyond the public scrutiny, the Twitter warfare, and the very real divorce...
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Was 2013 the Best Year for Movies in Decades?
This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Ken Miyamoto, Produced screenwriter, former Sony Pictures script reader/story analyst, former Sony Studios liaison It was an outstanding year for...
View ArticleHere's to a Night Out With Veronica Mars, The Hero Within
Friday on Video on Demand and in theaters across the country, the crowd-funded Veronica Mars movie will finally be available for all fans to see. Three seasons, one $5.7 million Kickstarter campaign,...
View ArticleOscars Afterglow: Anne Thompson's Book "The $11 Billion Year"
As last week's Oscar ceremony fades from memory, it is useful to consider, as Marlon Brando's character in Last Tango in Paris says, when it's over it begins again. The "it" here is the Hollywood cycle...
View ArticleA-Sides with Jon Chattman: Gedeon Luke Keeps the Soul Train Moving ; Viv and...
We live in a self-absorbed, selfie-obsessed world, but I still believe music still has the power to breakthrough no matter how self-involved or how communication-reliant we've become. It can inspire,...
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Janelle Monáe Rocks the Embarcadero!
The Electric Lady Gives a High-Voltage Gig Monáe, belting out her opening number in downtown San Francisco. [Paul Iorio] Workers in downtown San Francisco got a pleasant surprise during their lunch...
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The World's Sexiest "Rocklesque" Show is Back on Stage
Emerging from the Pyramid Club scene in NYC in the early 80s, she has been called "the Queen Bee of Seattle Burlesque" by The Village Voice and named as one of the "Best Reasons to Live in Seattle" by...
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