The second Friday of 2017 is Friday the 13th, a date synonymous with movie history. The original Friday the 13th film, released in 1980, was such a blockbuster that dozens, if not hundreds, followed the woodsy trail blazed by hockey-masked maniac Jason Voorhees. Here are...
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A new article on VideoNuze by Will Richmond shows how much SVOD has changed the dynamics of TV and tracks just how fast their influence is growing. For instance, in 2013 SVOD accounted for 6.9% of all scripted programming, and in 2016 that number tripled to...
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Two legendary actors from the GODFATHER saga, Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton, celebrate birthdays on January 5. They were both on career upswings when they first appeared as members of the doomed Corleone family, but the film's massive success turned them both into superstars, leading...
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Actor, writer, princess, general: Carrie Fisher was a beloved icon to multiple generations of film fans. Always brutally, hilariously honest, the galaxy is a less interesting place without her in it. STAR WARS THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK RETURN OF THE JEDI STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS THE BLUES BROTHERS THE BURBS POSTCARDS...
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Denzel Washington stars and directs FENCES, an adaptation of the Tony Award-winning play. This isn't the actor's first film as director, but it's certainly his most ambitious. Actors have been going behind the camera since the silent era sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Other...
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Movie mega-stars Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt star in PASSENGERS, playing two interstellar deep space travelers who accidentally(?) wake up decades before arriving at their destination. Nowadays, big time movie stars appear in sci-fi films all the time, but it wasn't always this way: for...
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A new chapter in the Star Wars saga is written with ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY, which travels back to the events that took place just before that now-iconic crawl made its way up the screen in the very first STAR WARS. Here are...
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Quite possibly the last man standing from the Golden Age of Hollywood, Kirk Douglas, who turns 100 on December 9, is a screen icon with a career almost unmatched in its breadth, depth, and quality. Not content to just being a handsome face, Douglas turned...
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Review by Rebecca Horovitz, Acquisitions Coordinator, Games Candle by Teku Studios came out early this month and I got the chance to play through it with my friend, each of us working on the puzzles together. Candle is a wonderfully beautiful hand painted challenging point and...
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One of the original American art forms, the musical, makes a splashy return to the big screen in LA LA LAND, starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as two star-crossed lovers who fall in love on the lonely streets of Los Angeles. Director Damien Chazelle's...
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