Archive for the ‘Television’ Category
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Breaking Bad Season Five Premiere to Stream Free Online
AMC has announced that this Sunday's season five premiere of Breaking Bad will stream simultaneously online that same night.  Those who sign up in advance beginning on Friday at this website will get access - all that is required is free registration. This action comes in response to Dish Network dropping AMC from their programming lineup. Just this week DirecTV lost Viacom programming including MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, and VH1 - so satellite providers are struggling to del...
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Blu-ray/DVD for Week of July 10
•American Reunion In the comedy American Reunion, all the American Pie characters we met a little more than a decade ago return to East Great Falls for their high-school reunion. In one long-overdue weekend, they will discover what has changed, who hasn't and that time and distance can't break the bonds of friendship. It was summer 1999 when four small-town Michigan boys began a quest to lose their virginity. In the years that have passed, Jim and Michelle married while Kevin and Vick...
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Eastbound & Down Returning for Fourth Season
Despite statements that the third season of the HBO series Eastbound & Down would be the last - and what was received as a fairly satisfying resolution to the arc of main character Kenny Powers - the comedy series starring Danny McBride will be returning for a fourth run with eight new episodes on the slate. While I loved the first season the second really seemed to hit a wall creatively and characters became more grating than amusing. At that point I was looking towards the end witho...
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DVD/Blu-ray for Week of June 26
A strong week of Blu-ray and DVD releases include the hilarious 21 Jump Street, Academy Award Best Picture Winner The Artist, a decent action-fantasy film in Wrath of the Titans, and a special collection of five Christopher Nolan films . •21 Jump Street In the action-comedy 21 Jump Street, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful...
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DVD/Blu-ray for Week of June 19
•Project X 3 high school seniors throw a birthday party to make a name for themselves. As the night progresses, things spiral out of control as word of the party spreads. •Big Miracle Inspired by the true story that captured the hearts of people across the world, the rescue adventure Big Miracle tells the amazing tale of a small town news reporter (John Krasinski) and an animal-loving volunteer (Drew Barrymore) who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family...
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DVD/Blu-ray for Week of June 12
•Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) has always been the smartest man in the room...until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large-Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris)-and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective. When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade...
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Starz Announces Final Season of Spartacus
What amounts to the fourth and final season of Spartacus - when counting the prequel Gods of the Arena in with Blood and Sand (S1) and Vengeance (S2) - will debut in January 2013. The 10 episode run will go by the name War of the Damned. “Spartacus: War of the Damned,” currently in production in New Zealand, takes place following the defeat of Roman commander Gaius Claudius Glaber. Spartacus and his men have amassed major victories against the Romans after the Battle of Vesuvius...
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DVD/Blu-ray For Week of June 5
A huge week of releases on Blu-ray and DVD featuring some big action and adventure films and a bunch of really excellent seasons of TV. •John Carter From filmmaker Andrew Stanton comes John Carter-a sweeping action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars). John Carter is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many filmmakers, both past and present. The film tells the story of war-...
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