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Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the directors of 2006’s ‘Little Miss Sunshine‘, have finally returned to the big screen with ‘Ruby Sparks’, an intriguing, entertaining and downright charming little...
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the directors of 2006’s ‘Little Miss Sunshine‘, have finally returned to the big screen with ‘Ruby Sparks’, an intriguing, entertaining and downright charming little...
How many flops will it take for studios and filmmakers to realize that Will Ferrell’s star has faded? I used to love the guy, but how many times can he play the same character? Ferrell has proven that he’s capable of a...
Matt Damon is Jason Bourne. He’s the face of the franchise, and even influenced the major tone and style shift of the James Bond franchise. ‘The Bourne Legacy’ doesn’t reboot or erase Damon’s three pr...
Every now and again, I’ll pull up the guide on my DVR, see a show listed and think to myself, “Does anybody actually watch that? I don’t know anybody who watches that. Why the hell is that still on?” Most o...
I’ve written before about how the writers of ‘True Blood’ often have a frustrating disregard for narrative structure or crafting storylines that will play out over season-long story arcs. That trend continues to ...
While Daniel Craig’s Bond plays dead and tries to stop a terrorist organization led by another madman, Liam Neeson finds himself having to rescue another of his family members in a foreign country.
EGOT-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch passed away on Monday at the age of 68. In a career spanning four decades and over 40 movies, Hamlisch scored everything from Woody to Barbra to Bond.
Do you ever purchase streaming versions of your favorite TV shows? If so, which service is best for owning TV content? iTunes? Amazon? VUDU? Something else?
While writing an article about Olympics-related movies, I recently discovered a gem. Did you know that Dolph Lundgren starred in a fantastically cheesy movie called ‘Pentathlon’? He plays a German Olympic athlete who d...
As the summer builds to the inevitable throng of AAA videogame releases this fall, Atlus brings forth a new kind of ‘Persona’ to the two big consoles. Meanwhile, smaller releases include what may be Sony’s most i...
This week brings us quite an eclectic grab-bag of new titles on Blu-ray, from a preachy environmental fable for children to a cult classic comedy about a neurotic hitman. Is there anything in this huge, messy assortment of discs t...
After the dark and uncompromising vision of ‘Blue Velvet’ saved his career (perhaps just in the nick of time), avant-garde filmmaker David Lynch decided parlay that success by doing the unthinkable: He took a job worki...