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TV Review: AMERICAN IDOL – Season 10 – The Top 10 plus 1 Perform

By PETER BROWN 03/31/2011
AMERICAN IDOL - Season 10 - Final 10 + One: Clockwise from top left: James Durbin, Paul McDonald, Pia Toscano, Scotty McCreery, Jacob Lusk, Stefano Langone, Lauren Alaina, Casey Abrams, Naima Adedapo, Haley Reinhart and Thia Megia. | ©2011 Fox/Michael Becker

Cast: Ryan Seacrest, Randy Jackson, Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez Network: Fox, Airs Wednesday and Thursday Original Telecast: March 30, 2011 Last week, Casey Abrams was saved by the judges on the world’s greatest karaoke competition, AMERICAN IDOL. While that’s good for Casey, that means we are deep-sixing two this week. Hopefully the voters will get out and vote for the right person to go home. As much as some people (especially TV critics) seem to jump all over Casey for his choices, the dude is a performer and one of the better singers on the show. We got yet another […]Read On »


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CD Review: RANGO Original Soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 03/30/2011
Rango soundtrack | ©2011 Anti Records

After scoring 2-D critters in the African savannah, under the sea and bounding about the tropics of Madagascar, Hans Zimmer takes a three dimensional trip South of the Border to come up with his most delightfully hip soundtrack yet for funny animals- in this case the pistol packing cold bloods and carrion who inhabit the range of RANGO. Applying the same in-your-face zest that gave a major shot of new musical life to the warhorse of SHERLOCK HOLMES, Zimmer has his way with the old west’s movie music clichés, infusing the shoot-out trumpets, electric guitars, player pianos and every other […]Read On »


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Blu-ray Review: SCREAM

By CARL CORTEZ
SCREAM - Blu-ray | ©2011 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, Drew Barrymore Writer: Kevin Williamson Director: Wes Craven Distributor: Lionsgate Suggested Retail Price: $19.99 Back in 1996, the horror genre had died a horrible, violent death. The studios avoided it like the plague and terrible direct-to-DVD fodder was the only way a fan could get a fix. Then SCREAM arrived and turned everything on its head. Written by newcomer Kevin Williamson and directed by genre vet Wes Craven, they created a scary horror film once again  – it also poked fun at its conventions. It […]Read On »


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BLACK SWAN is one of the Blu-ray and DVD Picks this week

By PETER BROWN
BLACK SWAN Blu-ray | © 2011 Fox 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 BLACK SWAN – Natalie Portman won an Academy Award for her role in BLACK SWAN as a troubled dancer that lands the lead role in a modern day telling of SWAN LAKE. SWAN is an anomaly in Hollywood. It was billed as a thriller but there […]Read On »


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TV Review: BEING HUMAN – Season 1 – “Going Dutch”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF
Terry Kinney in BEING HUMAN - Season 1 - "Dog Eat Dog" | ©2011 Syfy/Philppe Bosse

Stars: Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath, Sam Huntington, Mark Pellegrino, Kristen Hager, Sarah Allen, Gianpaolo Venuta, Vincent Leclerc, Angela Galuppo, Terry Kinney Writer: Chris Dingess Director: Erik Canuel Network: Syfy, Mondays @ 9 PM Airdate: March 28, 2011 In BEING HUMAN’s episode “Going Dutch,” our three leads’ stories all take big jumps forward. For werewolf Josh (Sam Huntington), it’s panic time when girlfriend Nora (Kristen Hager) tells him she’s pregnant – not because he doesn’t want commitment, but because he’s afraid he’s passing along his wolf genes (which he still hasn’t told Nora about). Ghost Sally (Meaghan Rath) has an unpleasant […]Read On »


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DANCING WITH THE STARS Recap: “Psycho” Mike Catherwood is the first eliminated in Season 12

By PAMELA HARLAND 03/29/2011
"Psycho" Mike Catherwood and Lacey Schwimmer are the first couple eliminated from DANCING WITH THE STARS Results Show - Week 2 | ©2011 ABC/Adam Taylor

Cast: Kirstie Alley, Chelsea Kane, Petra Nemcova, Ralph Macchio, Hines Ward, Chris Jericho, Wendy Williams, Sugar Ray Leonard, Romeo, Kendra Wilkinson. Mike Catherwood Network: ABC, airs Mondays and Tuesdays Original Telecast: March 29th, 2011 For the twelfth season premiere results show, DANCING WITH THE STARS has been much better. The opening number with six new dancers dubbed the “DANCING WITH THE STARS” Dance Troupe was a bit baffling. Who are these people? There was no mention as to what they were exactly going to be doing throughout the season except host Tom Bergeron said they would be popping up every […]Read On »


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DVD Movie Review: THE RESIDENT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN

Rating: R Stars: Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lee Pace, Christopher Lee, Aunjanue Ellis Writers: Antti Jokinen & Robert Orr Director: Antti Jokinen Distributor: Image Entertainment Release Date: March 29, 2011 Hammer Films is back in business, and THE RESIDENT is true to that venerable studio’s old form, even including a supporting turn from that company’s biggest star, Christopher Lee. These are probably good reasons to see THE RESIDENT, which hews a little too closely to the old days in style. What was deemed terrifying in the ‘50s and ‘60s is now a bit tame, and what was accepted as […]Read On »


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TV Review: CASTLE – Season 3 – “Law & Murder”

By ANNE LOUISE BANNON
Stana Katic and Nathan Fillion in CASTLE - Season 3 - "Law & Order" | ©2011 ABC/Karen Neal

Stars: Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Susan Sullivan, Molly C. Quinn, Jon Huertas, Seamus Dever, Tamala Jones Writer: Terence Paul Winter Director: Jeff Blecker Network: ABC, airs Monday nights Original Telecast: March 28, 2011 It’s the big dramatic moment in the courtroom in the CASTLE episode “Law & Murder”.  District Attorney Lou Karnacki (Bruce Davison) is making his closing argument, when one of the jurors starts convulsing, then bursts out of the jury box and collapses. Meanwhile, Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) is saying good-bye to his daughter Alexis (Molly Quinn). Only Castle gets the inkling that Alexis is not telling the […]Read On »


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TV Review: DANCING WITH THE STARS – Season 12 – “11 Couples Perform – Week 2”

By PAMELA HARLAND
Ralph Macchio and Karina Smirnoff in DANCING WITH THE STARS - Season 12 - Week 2 | ©2011 ABC/Adam Taylor

Stars: Chelsea Kane, Kirstie Alley, Wendy Williams, Hines Ward, Petra Nemcova, Romeo, Sugar Ray Leonard, Kendra Wilkinson, Ralph Macchio, Chris Jericho, Mike Catherwood Network: ABC, airs Mondays, Tuesdays Original Telecast: March 28, 2011 They listened! They actually listened to what the judges had to tell them last week on DANCING WITH THE STARS. And the result – much improvement! Many celebs upped their game this week, making it a much closer competition than last week. Top scorer last week Ralph Macchio held his title this week by a thread. Wrestler Chris Jericho made some serious moves on Macchio’s lead with […]Read On »


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CD Review: THE WAY BACK

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
THE WAY BACK soundtrack | ©2011 Varese Sarabande Records

It’s been a twelve-year trek for Burkhard Dallwitz to re-unite with director Peter Weir since THE TRUMAN SHOW. And while Dallwitz certainly didn’t undergo the trans-continental travails of THE WAY BACK, the stirring empathy that he gives to his second, and long overdue collaboration with Weir certainly pays tribute to the need for freedom, one that drove the film’s characters from Siberia to India. As the soundtrack starts out with an eerie mix between dark orchestral sustains, gnarled chords, subdued ethnic percussion and an overall aura of unknowable doom, you might think you’re listening to a soundtrack about Gulag escapees […]Read On »


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