Anybody know any good movies this weekend?Actually, I overheard an industry insider mention Star Wars pre-sale tickets for opening weekend topped $100 million yesterday. (I have not verified that information). According to Deadline, Disney expected to hit that number by...
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Thanksgiving Freebies at Amazon Include Movies, Music
For a limited time, Amazon is giving away free movies, music, apps, and ebooks from a selection listed on their site. One standout is The End of the Tour, a refreshingly straightforward, yet amusingly cerebral retelling of a week...
Lookout James! Someone’s Lurking in the Shadows in Spectre
Daniel Craig suits up for his fourth mission as Great Britain's most famous secret agent in Spectre. Synopsis: A cryptic message from Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation. While M battles political forces to...
Second Time’s The Charm? Michael Fassbender Intense As Steve Jobs
Two years ago, endowed with a remarkable innate likeness, Ashton Kutcher made an uncharacteristically ambitious attempt at portraying one of the most iconic figures of our time. Despite a who's who cast of appropriately x-gen actors supporting him in...
Jane Lewis’ Effervescent Beatles Cover Wins At Independent Music Awards
Who's Jane Lewis? Nobody knows. But her cover of The Beatles' Come Together is transcendent - and you need to hear it. Presenting your happy, loungey, delightful Come Together, by Jane Lewis... How can this be? Covers...
Brad Bird, Vin Diesel Classic ‘The Iron Giant’ Back In Theaters Wednesday
As an avowed animation skeptic, an endorsement from me is a little like a blessing from the Pope. (New Pope, which in this case is better than Old Pope.) So it isn't something to take lightly when I say...
Candy & Cigarettes: Jason Segel And Jessie Eisenberg’s Impressive Dramatic Turn In ‘The End of the Tour’
Here's the best advice for watching director James Ponsoldt's newest film The End of the Tour: Sit up-close. Another gem from A24 films, Tour is a thoroughly compelling depiction of the 1996 five day road-trip interview of Infinite Jest...
Critical Hit ‘Me & Earl & The Dying Girl’ Thursday
It's summer again, and free screenings are around every corner. This Thursday, Fox Searchlight's critical smash Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is showing at Crossgates, at 7:30pm. You can grab a pair of passes here. Based on...
Firefly’s Alan Tudyk Reads Fan Fiction. Oh, Also, New Show…
Actually, it's all related to a vimeo project Alan and Firefly's Captain Mal are crowdfunding. A week and a half ago, Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion asked people to support their vimeo project with a 30 day campaign goal of...
Superheroes Do The Darndest Things
Marvel's superheroes seem almost as competitive off screen as on, at least when it comes to their charity work. With coordination through Microsoft's Collective Project, Robert Downey lends his support to Hand-a-Thon volunteers who design, assemble and donate prosthetic arms...