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TV Review: HELL ON WHEELS – Season 2 – “Scabs”

By SEAN ELLIOTT 09/05/2012
Anson Mount in HELL ON WHEELS - Season 2 - "Scabs" | ©2012 AMC/Chris Large

Stars: Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Common, Dominique McElligott, Tom Noonan, Christopher Heyerdahl Writer:  Chris Mundi Director: Catherine Hardwicke     Network: AMC, airs Sunday nights Original Telecast: September 2, 2012 HELL ON WHEELS has some surprising character study in the latest episode, “Scabs”. There’s a lot going on that with certain characters that I was honestly amazed by, simply because of who the characters have been up to this point in the first and now second seasons of the show. So the big stink of this episode is that the Sioux are threatening the continued building of the railroad as it is […]Read On »


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TV Review: HELL ON WHEELS – Season 2 – “Slaughterhouse”

By SEAN ELLIOTT
Anson Mount in HELL ON WHEELS - Season 2 - "Slaughterhouse" | ©2012 AMC/Chris Large

Stars: Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Common, Dominique McElligott, Tom Noonan, Christopher Heyerdahl Writer:  Jami O’Brien & Bruce Marshall Romans   Director: Sergio Mimica-Gezzan    Network: AMC, airs Sunday nights Original Telecast: August 26, 2012 So I’ve compared HELL ON WHEELS to DEADWOOD in the past, as have many people. The two series are very tonally similar and they both take place in rugged, rustic western settings. So, it was only a matter of time until someone gets fed to pigs on this show. It seems like a natural thing. In DEADWOOD, Woo’s pigs were a constant place for body disposal, so it’s […]Read On »


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TV Review: BREAKING BAD – Season 5 – “Gliding Over All” – Midseason finale

By EGAN BRUMLEY 09/04/2012
Anna Gunn and Bryan Cranston in BREAKING BAD - Season 5 - "Gliding All Over" | ©2012 AMC/Lewis Jacobs

Stars:  Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn Writer: Moira Walley-Beckett Director: Michelle MacLaren Network: AMC, airs Sunday Nights Original Telecast: September 2, 2012 “Gliding Over All” wraps up the first half of Season 5 of BREAKING BAD, and sends us into the (suddenly all too long) break between the Season’s first and second halves asking questions we thought we’d reasonably be asking at this point anyway.  In the past 8 episodes Walter White (Bryan Cranston) has successfully risen to the top of criminal underworld in the Southwest, become a ruthless killer, and eliminated or neutralized anyone who could stop him […]Read On »


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TV Review: COMA Miniseries – Part 1

By CARL CORTEZ
COMA - miniseries poster | ©2012 A&E

Stars: Lauren Ambrose, Steven Pasquale, Joe Morton, Ellen Burstyn, James Woods, Richard Dreyfuss, Geena Davis Writer: John J. McLaughlin based on the book by Robin Cook Director: Mikael Salomon Network: A&E Original Telecast: August 3, 2012 When you name your mini-series COMA, you better deliver a suspenseful, taut thriller, otherwise, puns from journalists reviewing it will be aplenty. So yes, here’s one coming now – COMA puts you to sleep. Yes, the first two hours of this mini-series airing on A&E is a complete bore. The script is sluggish, the scenarios ridiculous and the pay-off (which finally happens during the […]Read On »


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TV Review: DOCTOR WHO – Series 7 – “Asylum of the Daleks” – Season Premiere

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG 09/02/2012
DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - "Asylum of the Daleks" poster | ©2012 BBC

Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Anamaria Marinca, Naomi Ryan, David Gyasi, Zac Fox, Nicholas Briggs, Barnaby Edwards, Nicholas Pegg, Jenna-Louise Coleman  Writer: Steven Moffat Director:  Nick Hurran  Network: BBC America, airs Saturday night  Original Telecast: September 1, 2012 In the first episode of DOCTOR WHO Series 7, “Asylum of the Daleks,” things are not well with Amy and Rory Williams (Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill) since they last saw the Doctor (Matt Smith). Divorce papers are signed and the two are about to go their separate ways. But when creepy human agents of the Daleks abduct them and throw them […]Read On »


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CD Review: TED soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
TED soundtrack | ©2012 Universal Pictures

Nothing represents cuddly innocence like a child’s teddy bear, an image that brings to ear the honeyed sounds of orchestral happiness. And playing just that is the key to what might be the most brilliantly subversive talking “animal” score of all time, given the beautifully lush stylings of Seth MacFarlane’s pet composer Walter Murphy. In TED, he makes his master’s crude humor all the more hilarious, and emotionally affecting, as if this music was actually accompanying the real, non pot-smoking, slut-screwing deal. As a vet TV composer with such credits as WISEGUY, BUFFY and PROFIT, Murphy’s most prolific, and popular […]Read On »


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CD Review: USED CARS (2,000 edition)

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
USED CARS soundtrack | ©2012 La La Land Records

It’s a movie that’s anything but a lemon, even if the picture got treated like an Edsel upon its initial release. But with the director-writer team of Robert Zemeckis and Ed Gale (I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND) in the drivers’ seats, USED CARS has endured as a cult comedy classic, one whose case of musical buyers’ remorse is now revealed in a limo-quality La La Land release that not only offers Patrick Williams’ funkily energetic score, but its first, puttering (if well-intended) ignition by Ernest Gold.  The idea of getting the composer behind the greatest cinematic demolition derby of all […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE POSSESSION

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/01/2012
THE POSSESSION movie poster | ©2012 Lionsgate

Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, Madison Davenport, Natasha Calis, Grant Show, Matisyahu Writers: Juliet Snowden & Stiles White, based on the article “Jinx in a Box” by Leslie Gornstein Director: Ole Bornedal Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: August 29, 2012 As movies about demonic possession/exorcism go, THE POSSESSION is pretty good. It has strong leads in Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick, a persuasive child actress in Natasha Calis, characters who generally don’t do anything illogical in the screenplay by Juliet Snowden & Stiles White and a pretty deft touch by director Ole Bornedal, who knows how to make things […]Read On »


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CD Review: TOTAL RECALL soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
TOTAL RECALL soundtrack | ©2012 Madison Gate Music

If an old school score fan visited Rekall, it’s likely their fantasy would be to go back to the days when Jerry Goldsmith plied a roaringly thematic score for Arnie’s trip to Mars. But then, you can’t go home again to that kind of unabashedly melodic action sound. And to be fair, this isn’t your generation’s TOTAL RECALL, a time that Hollywood’s effects capabilities, and musical tastes have long since surpassed, for better and worse. Yet while there’s no surpassing the original film in every category (red cheesiness and all), this revisionist RECALL turns out to be a way more […]Read On »


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CD Review: THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN soundtrack | ©2012 Walt Disney Records

For what could be described as the kinder, gentler Disney version of PET SEMATARY, a couple longing for a child bury their wishes in a box, only to have a magical kid pop out to teach them some invaluable life lessons, as opposed to rampaging through the neighborhood. And there’s certainly no reason to fear otherwise in Geoff Zanelli’s sweetly magical score. But while heavily adorned with bells, voices, accordions and unstrung guitars, Zanelli’s deft emotional touch makes the music lyrical as opposed to being cloying. Though an orchestra is there for the necessary handkerchief heartstrings, Zanelli’s approach is mostly […]Read On »


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