Friday , March 29 2024

Gordon S. Miller

Gordon S. Miller is the artist formerly known as El Bicho, the nom de plume he used when he first began reviewing movies online for The Masked Movie Snobs in 2003. Before the year was out, he became that site's publisher. Over the years, he has also contributed to a number of other sites as a writer and editor, such as FilmRadar, Film School Rejects, High Def Digest, and Blogcritics. He is the Founder and Publisher of Cinema Sentries. Some of his random thoughts can be found at twitter.com/GordonMiller_CS

Peter Murphy – Concert Review 5/28/05

Peter Murphy House of Blues Anaheim 5/28/05 Peter Murphy and his band came through Anaheim on the U.S. leg of the tour supporting his latest release, Unshattered. Murphy is an impressive performer who is very theatrical and flamboyant. He has a wonderful, deep voice that he augments by moving his …

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System of a Down – Mezmerize

System of a Down returns with a new album Mezmerize, or maybe that should read “part of a new album” since this is the first disc in a two-disc set that will be completed when the Hypnotize disc comes out this fall. The sound of Mezmerize is slightly different from …

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Kinsey

Written and Directed by Bill Condon Bill Condon presents a biography about Alfred Kinsey, a professor of entomology at Indiana University who created controversy when he became the first person to create a serious study of human sexuality. Kinsey began teaching at Indiana University in 1920. He studied gall wasps …

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Umphrey’s McGee – Concert Review 05/05/05

Umphrey’s McGee Key Club, West Hollywood, California 05/05/05 Umphrey’s McGee returned to Los Angeles on their West Coast spring swing. They are one of the few bands that have been predicted to pick up the baton from Phish, who previously picked up the baton from the Grateful Dead. One major …

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Cinderella Man

Directed by Ron Howard Story by Cliff Hollingsworth Screenplay by Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsman The team behind the very mediocre, factually inaccurate biography, A Beautiful Mind has reformed to tell the true-life tale of boxer Jim Braddock. After the distortions and mistruths that were represented as the life and …

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Saving Face

Written and Directed by Alice Wu Saving Face is a story set in a tight-knit Chinese community in the neighborhoods of New York City about a family dealing with the issues of love and family responsibility. Wil (Michelle Krusiec) is an attractive, twenty-something doctor who has to frequent social functions …

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Come On Get Happy!: The Very Best of the Partridge Family

This CD set was released in conjunction with the DVD set of the first season of The Partridge Family which celebrates its 35th anniversary this fall. The show is about a widow, Shirley Jones, and her children forming a band and traveling around the country in a school bus that …

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Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train

Directed by Deb Ellis & Denis Mueller This film is a documentary about an American patriot, Howard Zinn, historian, activist and author of the book A People’s History of the United States. The film is made up of archival news clips, interviews with colleagues and former students, and footage of …

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