Movies & TV Shows

  • I’m A Sleepyhead

    Before I begin writing about the Sleepy Hollow panel I attended at this year’s New York Comic Con, I’d like everyone to know Orlando Jones is great with his fans. I didn’t stay after the panel but as I was walking out I heard a loud collective squeal and glanced back to see that Orlando

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  • Emma Lives!

    I swear I heard TV Guide’s Damian Holbrook utter the word “atonement” during The Following panel he moderated at this year’s New York Comic Con. I have to swear because the mention was so brief and the notion never really picked up. Kevin Bacon did sort of say something about the personal consequences his character,

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  • Bowie is Documentary

    There were two pieces of Bowie memorabilia I brought with me my freshman year of college and my first time away from home. One was a white t-shirt with a silhouetted image of Bowie with his jacket slung over one shoulder and the other was a Black & White door poster of him in an

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  • Ip Men

    Right now on Netflix you have your choice of four “Ip men”: extra fancy, fancy, regular, and plain. Wong Kar Wai’s controversial US version of The Grandmaster would be the extra fancy version of the Ip Man story. In the film, the eternally youthful Tony Leung dons the mantle of Bruce Lee’s real life situ

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  • The Croods

    A clip from Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams Watching The Croods on Netflix I couldn’t help thinking about what the scientist said in Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams. He said something to the effect of how fascinating it was to think that at one point in history there were two species of man

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  • The New Classic Doctor

    Alphaville. I don’t consider myself a Whovian. When the words, “Doctor” and “Who”, are uttered in close proximity, I am more likely to think of Cindy-Lou Who from the timeless Dr. Seuss classic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, than the now 50-year old BBC Time Lord.    However, I like to think of myself as

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  • The Thursday after the 4th, they shot scenes for the movie, Can A Song Save Your Life? in my neighborhood. I haven’t been able to find out much about the film online but according to the Bowery Boogie: The film focuses on an aspiring singer-songwriter (Knightley) who moves to the city with fellow musician and

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  • The risk of any sequel is that it could potentially denigrate the original that inspired it. Like when Paramount, MTV, and Nickelodeon joined together to attack the Asian American community and Airbender fans by insisting on casting all White actors as lead characters in the Asian influenced story (Learn the full story at racebending.com). OK,

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