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THE LEGEND OF HERCULES Highlights this week in Blu-ray, DVD and VOD Releases

By PETER BROWN 04/29/2014
THE LEGEND OF HERCULES | © 2014 Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: THE LEGEND OF HERCULES – Obviously there are a lot of Hercules movies coming down the pike of late. I suppose it is a follow up to all of the superhero and God type movies that have come along of late. So why not take one of […]Read On »


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DANCING WITH THE STARS Season 18 Recap: Latin Night and NeNe Leakes eliminated

By PAMELA HARLAND
Tony Dovolani and NeNe Leakes in DANCING WITH THE STARS - Season 18 | ©2014 ABC/Craig Sjodin

Stars: NeNe Leakes, James Maslow, Danica McKellar,  Meryl Davis, Candace Cameron Bure, Amy Purdy, Charlie White Network: ABC, airs Mondays Original Telecast: April 28th, 2014 “Livin’ la vida loca” on DANCING WITH THE STARS as Ricky Martin guest judges the show on the appropriately themed “Latin Night.” Not so crazy was the elimination of NeNe Leakes who, with her partner Tony Dovolani, ended her run on the show on week seven. Meryl Davis & Maks Chmerkovskiy continue to head the leader board with a total of 78 out of a possible 80 points. Right behind them, again, is Amy Purdy […]Read On »


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CD Review: WAVELENGTH soundtrack (1,500 edition)

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
WAVELENGTH soundtrack | ©2014 La La Land Records

The same year that E.T. crash-landed on earth to gigantic global success, three boyish aliens were marooned in L.A. to a near-invisible ripple of recognition (unless you count how STARMAN copied their silver sphere mothership). Perhaps the most notable memento of this unassuming little sci-fi movie (which was actually made in 1981) would be its neo-futuristic score by Tangerine Dream, the German progressive group then truly taking off in Hollywood with their far more notorious 1982 soundtrack to RISKY BUSINESS. Yet that film’s alternatively meditative and rhythmic sound is also very much an identifying factor to “Wavelength,” its alien vibrations […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Susan Sullivan on CASTLE Season 6

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/28/2014
Susan Sullivan in CASTLE - Season 6 | ©2014 ABC/Bob D'Amico

On CASTLE, now in its sixth season and renewed for a seventh on ABC, Mondays at 10, successful novelist Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) has gotten engaged to his lover and muse NYPD homicide detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic). Castle’s college student daughter Alexis, played by Molly C. Quinn, likes Kate and is okay with the match. Castle’s actress mother Martha, played by Susan Sullivan, is delighted. Earlier this season, Martha had a brief reunion with Castle’s superspy father Jackson Hunt, played by James Brolin – their first since Castle was conceived.Jackson left Martha and Castle both convinced that he’d used […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 9 – “Meta Fiction”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF
Misha Collins in SUPERNATURAL - Season 9 - "Meta Fiction" | ©2014 The CW/Katie Yu

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Curtis Armstrong, Tahmoh Penikett, Richard Speight Jr. Writer: Robbie Thompson, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Thomas J. Wright Network: The CW, Tuesdays @ 9 PM Original Airdate: April 15, 2014 We know right away that the “Meta Fiction” episode of SUPERNATURAL is no ordinary hour of television; not that most episodes of SUPERNATURAL could be described as “ordinary,” but even by this show’s standards, we are cruising into the Straits of Gonzo. The treacherous but genial angel Metatron (Curtis Armstrong), erstwhile scribe of Heaven, clad in a fancy smoking jacket, looks up […]Read On »


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CD Review: AFTER THE DARK (THE PHILOSOPHERS) soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
AFTER THE DARK soundtrack | ©2014 Varese Sarabande Records

A group of handsomely fresh-scrubbed western students gather in a Jakarta classroom to play mental doomsday games about which few of them will get to squeeze into an imaginary bunker. Heady stuff indeed for a surreal apocalypse film as it were, mind games that are given a creepily meditative, futuristic pulse by co-composers Nicholas O’Toole (HOW TO BE A SERIAL KILLER) and Jonathan Davis, here contributing his first score since 2002s QUEEN OF THE DAMNED (then done alongside Richard Gibbs). Better known among concertgoers for being front and center with the group Korn, Davis also gets additional music assistance from […]Read On »


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CD Review: CASTLEVANIA: LORDS OF SHADOW 2 soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 04/27/2014
CASTLEVANIA: LORDS OF SHADOW 2 soundtrack | ©2014 Sumthing Else Music Works

If you want proof that video game scores can scale epically dark heights, then Spanish composer Oscar Araujo’s latest sojourn into the nightmarishly heroic world of CASTLEVANIA is a thrilling, and resounding answer to the affirmative. Having scored an animated version of his country’s legendary knight El Cid, Araujo knows about the kind of religious fortitude necessary to wield a sword against the forces of darkness, a conviction that takes on hell-blazing power when given the armor of Dracula himself. Having musically done battle with the demonic opponents of LORDS OF SHADOW and its follow-up MIRROR OF FATE, Araujo unleashes […]Read On »


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CD Review: THE BEAUTIFUL SPY soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
THE BEAUTIFUL SPY soundtrack | ©2014 Movie Score Media

Besides his yeoman work conducting new versions of classic soundtracks (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, THE ALAMO) and orchestrating (ALEXANDER, CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT), Nic Raine is a more-than-accomplished composer in his own right, a talent last heard on Tadlow’s release to SHORES OF HOPE. Now the English musician gives another German production a remarkable score with THE BEAUTIFUL SPY, where a looker for sale during the Nazi’s rise gets bounced between the Axis and Allies for her espionage favors. Raine’s music is a suspenseful valentine to John Barry, a composer whose suspenseful stylings he certainly knows his way around after de-coding […]Read On »


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TV Review: BONES – Season 9 – “The Cold in the Case”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 04/26/2014
TJ Thyne in BONES - Season 9 - "The Cold in the Case" ©2014 Fox/Ray Mickshaw

Stars: David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Michaela Conlin, Tamara Taylor, TJ Thyne, John Francis Daley, Pej Vahdat, Shohreh Agdashloo, Chris McGarry, Kate Orsini, Braeden Marcott, Myk Watford, David Dean Bottrell Writer: Emily Silver, series created by Hart Hanson, based on the life and writings of Kathy Reichs Director: Milan Cheylov Network: Fox, Mondays @ 8 PM Airdate: April 14, 2014 There’s a lot going on in the BONES episode “The Cold in the Case,” starting with the twist that provides the title. When the remains of a young woman are found and entomologist Hodgins (TJ Thyne) sees insect activity that indicate […]Read On »


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CD Review: JOSEPH ANDREWS soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
JOSEPH ANDREWS soundtrack | ©2014 Kritzerland Records

Director Tony Richardson ushered in a new era for bawdy costume comedies with his 1963 Best Picture winner TOM JONES, which also nabbed its composer John Addison a Best Score Oscar for his “substantially original” music. A rollicking pastiche of 17th century stylings that treated pompous classical music clichés with all the delightful disrespect of Mozart on a drunken night out, TOM JONES re-invigorated the costume drama soundtrack with bawdy delight. Having released Addison’s clowning masterwork several years back to a sold-out reception, Kritzerland has now put out the director-composer’s 1977 follow-up with their adaptation of “Tom” author Henry Fielding’s […]Read On »


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