Worldwide economic collapse, totalitarian U.S. government and televised gladiatorial killing are not new to The Hunger Games. Now with that film’s enormous success, chances are good that we will be seeing many more futuristic, blood-sport-centric films hitting the cinemas in the…
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As true cinephiles, we’re glad to see silent films making a small, but significant comeback with the 2011 Academy Award winner for Best Picture, The Artist, a French-American production that has already won a number of accolades and looks poised to pick up a few Academy Awards…
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There are many things to celebrate this year — among other things, 2012 will bring us the 500th episode of The Simpsons and the 25th anniversary of the Simpson characters’ introduction on the Tracey Ullman Show. Unless you don’t own a television, chances are good that you can…
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So it’s nowhere near Halloween, but I just finished reading the third book, The Night Eternal, in the vampire series from Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan. (It started with The Strain.) It got me thinking about how much I love a good vampire book (or movie), and how I love the…
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“Hi, I’m Bob.” This was the opening to my short-lived, recurring segment on Ha! (the cable TV station that eventually merged with The Comedy Channel to form Comedy Central).That series of short sketches was called “Bob, the Video Guy” and in 30 seconds I would review an entire…
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