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Wonderfalls Coming This Week
The new Fox series Wonderfalls debuts this Friday, March 12, at 9pm ET. It’s another “what if freaky weird stuff happened in everyday life” kind of thing: What if one day inanimate animal objects began talking to you? If that seems crazy, just imagine how Jaye Tyler feels! Set against …
Read More »The Beast that Killed Women
Nudists + Guy in A Gorilla Suit = Fun!
Read More »Bubba Ho-Tep
1,000,000 cowboy mummy fans can't be wrong. . .
Read More »Another Prize for Lost In Translation
The U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in festive Aspen concluded on Saturday: Sofia Coppola’s observation of two Americans marooned in Tokyo won the audience, performance (Bill Murray), first-time director and screenplay prizes at the festival’s second annual Comedy Film Honors. Last Sunday, Coppola won the Academy Award for her original screenplay. …
Read More »NAACP Image Awards
The NAACP “honors projects and individuals who have demonstrated exemplary works by and for people of color” with the annual Image Awards. The 35th annual awards were handed out Saturday night in Los Angeles: [Luther] Vandross is recovering from a stroke and was not at Universal Amphitheatre to pick up …
Read More »Tom Hanks Double Feature: Thick and Deadly Serious
Tom Hanks really is an amazing actor: after building a career on goofy romantic comedy, Hanks has gone on to successfully play an array of roles and genres so wide, and his portrayals are so convincing and embodying, that it is easy to forget it was actually HIM in Philadelphia, …
Read More »Is It Right For Velma to Be Hot?
I have to admit I liked the first live action Scooby-Doo movie far more than was reasonable, or certainly predictable. While the plot was arcane and preposterous, the cast was terrific and their interaction funny and even touching. Now the same cast is back for Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, coming …
Read More »Goodbye, Lenin
Directed by Wolfgang Becker Written by Wolfgang Becker & Bernd Lichtenberg The review for Goodbye, Lenin! fell into my lap because another reviewer was put off by the synopsis. Admittedly, the premise sounds very odd and a tad corny, reminiscent of an episode of Three’s Company. The year is 1989 …
Read More »Elisa Peimer, “Transparent”
Elisa Peimer has stuck by her muse and finally produced a CD that sounds as good as her talent deserves. Knowing what kind of music she wants to master – shimmering, straight-ahead pop-rock, heavy on the pop – and devoting all her energy to it has paid off. “Take the …
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