Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category
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Weekly Take 1: September 19, 2010
This week's included a couple of movie reviews, the television lineups for this week, and a couple of trailers. Review: The Town. Excellent movie worthy of Best Picture consideration. Review: The Social Network. Another that will likely be in the Oscar running. Spartacus Star's Cancer Returns. Won't be back for season two. Fox Nabs Alcatraz. New JJ Abrams show will once again have mystery angle. Trailer for The Fighter. Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in "Irish" Mi...
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Shows Premiering Week of 9/20
This is the biggest week of the fall television season as the majority of network series return and several high profile new series premiere. Hits such as House, Glee, Modern Family, The Office, and Dexter are back. Anticipated series premieres include NBC's The Event and Undercovers and CBS' Hawaii Five-0. Monday The Event (NBC) NEW SHOW Sci-fi conspiracy thriller starring Jason Ritter, Laura Innes and Blair Underwood has gotten a big marketing push. (9PM) Lone Star (FOX) NEW SHOW Dr...
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Andy Whitfield Has To Leave Spartacus
Some sad news to report as Spartacus star Andy Whitfield has been forced to bow out of the show due to a recurrence of his cancer. Production on season two had been delayed as he faced treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma and this summer he was in remission everything was looking really good. He even showed up to Comic-Con and said he was feeling better than ever and was in full training for the upcoming season. Unfortunately the cancer is back and doctors have recommended he begin treatment aga...
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Review: The Town
The Town, represented by the Boston suburb of Charleston, introduces itself immediately as almost a character in its own right. It is considered to be the world's capital for armed robberies amongst many other violent crimes. With this knowledge the film leads into following a group of armored car and bank robbers who start to feel the lynch tightening following their latest holdup. (more…)...
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Fox Picks Up New JJ Abrams Show
Several networks were making a play for the new JJ Abrams series to be known as Alcatraz and today we learned that Fox has come away the winner. The network already houses his project Fringe which is entering its third season while NBC is launching Undercovers next week. The new show is being described as about "mysteries, secrets and the most infamous prison of all time: Alcatraz". So yeah it sounds a little bit like one of his prior shows Lost, but who isn't looking for a replacement for ...
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Trailer for The Fighter
Paramount has released the first trailer for the highly anticipated film The Fighter. Starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale the story centers on the early years of boxer "Irish" Mickey Ward (Wahlberg) and his unlikely road to the world light welterweight title while being guided by his half-brother and trainer Dickie Eklund (Bale). The Fighter is slated to arrive in limited release on December 10th and go wide on the 17th. ...
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Kevin James Takes On Mixed Martial Arts
Deadline is reporting that Sony will be releasing a new movie starring Kevin James. The film will center around James becoming an MMA fighter and eventually trying to fight in the UFC. Sounds exciting doesn't it? James is attached to play a physics teacher whose school faces drastic cutbacks. In an attempt to save his best friend's job and the music program his students love, he moonlights in the octagon as a mixed martial arts fighter, ultimately leading to brawling in the UFC. The fil...
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Trailer for The Tourist
The first trailer for the Johnny Depp-Angelina Jolie film The Tourist has arrived. The film focuses on Depp's character Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart, where he meets Jolie's character Elise. Frank pursues a potential romance but soon finds himself being pursued as the two are caught in a whirlwind of intrigue and danger. The Tourist is slated to release on December 10th. ...
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