Movies and TV (1188)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Dr Mark Kermode is film critic for the BBC, and is known to have honest and sttaightforward opinions on many films. What follows is hsi review of the above film.
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" SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK " Thread .
In the naaammee ooff $65 million buck$ , the SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK Broadway musical , now fully de-Traynored , opens tonite on The Gaudy White Way .
Yes , the " another OPENIN'..." part of a certain Cole Porter song finally comes thru !
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The Rifleman
I mentioned this in my " Ratings " post , but I saw about $&1/2 episodes of 50s TV series " THE RIFLEMAN " , with Chuck Connors , on AMC this weekend .
It was one of those old TV series I was aware from , but had never seen .
Now I have :-) .
I
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2011 Tony Awards
"Brotherhood of Man" -- probably my favorite number from one of my favorite musical comedies -- a sure fire showstopper if it's done right -- flopped around like a dying fish on the stage last night.
But this, my friends ... THIS is how you win a T
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James Arness
I never was a big fan of Westerns, so I'll leave it to others - the Commander, most likely - to talk about his role on Gunsmoke. As for myself, I'll always remember the man for his parts in two of my favorite sci-fi films.
Arness played
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Hoorah for Bernard Cribbins!
I don't know how much getting something like really means to folks these days, but I'm pleased to see Mr. Cribbins get the recognition. Of the characters created for the new series of Doctor Who, Wilfred Mott is my favorite,
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Transformers: Dark Of The Moon Non-Spoiler Line
I would like to see TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON but I missed Transformers II , though I saw and liked the first one .
" Big-Time " movies cost about $11.50 for " regular " - flat , I mean - admission here in San Francisco and I am EXTREMELY mone
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Subtitled movies ?
What's your opinion of subtitled movies and TV shows , anyway ?
As I mentioned , a subbe'd movie was one of the movies I saw recently...Some people have absolute " No ! I EILL NOT watch subtitles ! " reactions to them , I obviously , don't , but I
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Green Lantern - The Box Office
Okay, here's something I don't understand. The first X-Men movie opened with a $55 million weekend and all the news said that was good.
Green Lantern opens with $52 million and they're acting like it's the biggest bomb since Gigli! What's up with tha
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Let's talk film (a movie discussion group)
You may have seen my thread stirring up interest for a movie discussion group. I said I would create the actual thread for the discussion on Friday. Well a day early, here it is!
The rules are simple. Those you have joined have picked a film. We ta
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Amanda Waller has a blog now
http://drwaller.net/ It's in association with the upcoming Green Lantern film where she'll be played by Angela Bassett.
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Grant Morrison goes to Hollywood?
It'll be a graphic novel first then a movie. What do you think? It's an interesting concept for a story.
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Alphas
Did anyone else catch the first episode of this new SyFy original series on Monday nights? The 90-minute debut was July 11, but it’s being repeated (and it's probably online, too). We caught it last night. It’s about a clandestine yet dysfunctional g
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Falling Skies
Is anyone else watching this show? Remember the "War of the Worlds" TV series in the 80s? This show reminds me of that one, but, where the 80s series was a follow-up to the 1953 movie, this one looks more like a follow-up to the Tom Cruise "War of th
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"The Twilight Zone" ( original ) reseen
( spoilers-ish ) These last 2 nites , I saw , on SyFy , their marathon of the original B&W THE TWILIGHT ZONE series .
Something like 40 hours taken up , so 80 episodes , 1/2 of the half-hour episodes ? ( Towards the end of the series it went to a
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X-Men First Class (SPOILERS, I'm sure)
Kinda surprised there wasn't a thread for this--at least not one that I could find-.
So, just watched this, and surprisingly, I liked it.
Certainly it wasn't without fault, but as a reboot of the franchise, I didn't find the plot holes I've seen
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The Baron Watches "The Munsters"
So, for my next trick "project", I decided to try re-watching The Munsters, which is another show I loved when I was a kid, but haven't looked at in a long time.
My intention is to re-watch the original series, and the film Munster, Go Home!. Thes
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