Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Riveting. Stunning. Surprising. Curves are thrown at you at unsuspected moments. A great plot is filled with hair pin turns and witty one liners. Laughter erupts at unpredictable moments. In the very...
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Playing The Ponos: A Conversation With Neil Young, Chatting with Linda...
A Conversation with Neil Young Mike Ragogna: Neil, you've always been an archivist and audiophile, so your delivery system for higher quality sound--PonoMusic through the PonoPlayer--must be the...
View ArticleEntertainment Video News Producer HitFix Finds Big Audience
HitFix, a Los Angeles-based producer of entertainment news and reviews, editorially positioned somewhere between Variety and TMZ, has found an enormous audience for its videos with 90 million monthly...
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Andy Garcia Finds Love at Middleton
Since making a splash as crack shot George Stone in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, Andy Garcia has become one of the cinema's most prolific and diverse actors. The Cuban-born Garcia boasts over...
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How I Met Your Mother... and All My Polyamorous Friends
Truth is, I was never much of a How I Met Your Mother fan. I always saw it as a diet version of Friends, which was never that good to begin with. I really didn't care who these kids' mother was, and I...
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10 Movies This Child of the '80s Wants Her Kids to Learn From
Somehow, I am 39. I am 39, even though I still feel like I am maybe 17 and I still look around for the real "grown-ups." As I stare down 40 and gear up for another phase of life, I find myself going...
View ArticleMy Take on All the Way
After an agonizingly slow ride on the local train to New York, through a string of Connecticut towns, some blighted, some not, with the detritus alongside the track piling up more and more as we...
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Lee Marvin at 90: Marvin Biographer Dwayne Epstein On Late Actor's Titanic...
Lee Marvin's life was detailed in the quintessential biography. A laptop in the hands of the right cinephile can yield something important -- something to be enjoyed by film scholars and fans,...
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Exiting the Porn Star Pity Party
"Poor little porn star," his somber, dark gaze seemed to covey, though in my mind I suddenly imagined I was seated at the head of a garishly decorated room, noise makers filling the air, the guest of...
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Dave -- A Fan's Notes
This is about Jessie. Jessie and Dave. A lovely person named Jessie Dobson died two years ago at the age of 89 in Washington, D.C. She worked for our family and helped raise me, my sister and brother...
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For Imagineer Joe Lanzisero, Hong Kong Disneyland's Mystic Manor Is a High...
You know what they say: If you want to get something done, ask a busy person to do it. Back in 2007, it's arguable that no one person was busier at The Walt Disney Company than Joe Lanzisero. As a...
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A-Sides with Jon Chattman: Rob Zombie Discusses Touring, Film, and - Wait for...
height="379" /> Do you remember those old school ads of a "hot" new item that "slices and dices?" It's not necessarily important that you do or not, but it's the first thought that entered my mind...
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Artists Band Together to Celebrate Beloved Magical Girl Characters
The magical girl trope -- that is, stories involving young girls with magical powers -- has been around since the 1960s. Though most commonly found fluttering around Japanese anime (cartoons) and...
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Kbit's Orbital Space Flight
Artwork by Chad Drake The unearthliness of Un Boombox Symphonique might have you wondering if the end of the NASA's manned space projects of the past finds us today more interested in the cosmos....
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Ethics of 'Noah': Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Aronofsky
Photo used with permission. If you march into a theater to see Noah and expect a pleasant Bible story for the whole family, you obviously don't realize how deadly serious Darren Aronofsky takes this...
View Article10 Foreign TV Shows to Watch Now
TV has never been better than it is now. Shows like House of Cards, True Detective and Mad Men have raised the bar by miles and managed to attract millions of viewers without pandering or sacrificing...
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The Geography of Justin Bieber Fever in North America
When deciding where to live, there's no shortage of considerations, particularly when it comes to the musical tastes of your neighbors. Before moving, ask yourself whether you want to live among...
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Petty Fest
There's something special about your first time. That memory stays with you forever, and it's often the basis for a lot of comparison the rest of your life. Did it live up to everything you thought it...
View ArticleMickey Rooney, Up Close and Personal
I wouldn't tell my parents where I was taking them. That would have spoiled the surprise. It was my mother's birthday, and I wanted to do something special. So after dinner we walked to the Irish...
View Article'You're Not a True Fan': The Modern Fangirl
You see that girl walking down the street? The one wearing the Justin Bieber shirt, carrying the Justin Bieber backpack, with the Justin Bieber buttons on it? The one whose Twitter handle is...
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