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Weekend Roundtable: Music Bio-pics

Josh Zyber — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 17:00:00 +0000

Considering how regularly Hollywood makes bio-pics of famous musicians, it’s disheartening how few of them are actually any good. As the new Queen bio Bohemian Rhapsody tries to rock you, let’s look at some other music bio-pics that did their subjects justice. Deirdre Crimmins Music bio-pics, especially of contemporary artists, are tough to get right....

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Weekend Roundtable: Have You Ever Met a Celebrity?

Josh Zyber — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 20:00:44 +0000

Celebrities may seem so unapproachable when you see them all glammed up in their fancy dresses and tuxedos on the Oscar red carpet, but they’re ultimately real people and have lives to live like any of us. You may have even run into one in person, whether at a public publicity event or by strange...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of November 9th, 2014 – KAPOW! ZWAPP! SPLATT!

Josh Zyber — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:00:06 +0000

Holy high definition, Batman! Heaven and Earth had to get moved to bring one of this week’s new Blu-ray releases to disc. Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na… For decades, the 1960s ‘Batman‘ TV series was so entangled in a complex rights dispute that fans...

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Weekend Roundtable: Movie-to-TV Spin-Offs

Josh Zyber — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:00:49 +0000

Network executives love spinning off movies into TV shows. With a popular title comes instant brand recognition. Sometimes this works (‘M*A*S*H’). Often it doesn’t. Two of the most promising shows currently on the air (‘Bates Motel’ and ‘Hannibal’) are spun-off from movies. In this week’s Roundtable, we try to think of some other movie titles...

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Weekend Roundtable: Belated Sequels

Josh Zyber — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:00:18 +0000

Almost lost amidst all the chatter about the Disney/Lucasfilm deal, this week also brought us the unexpected news that Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed on to reprise his role as Conan the Barbarian in a new sequel that will apparently disregard last year’s attempted reboot. With that in mind, we thought that we’d use today’s Roundtable...

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One from the Vault: ‘Johnny Dangerously’

Wayne Rowe — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:00:12 +0000

This week’s flick comes pretty close to Al Capone’s vault. It’s a lost classic, the likes no Blu-ray player has ever seen, and one of the final funny performances of a funny man that I miss in funny roles. Where did the ‘Johnny Dangerously’ Michael Keaton go? After a string of successful comedic movies starring...

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