Month: November 2014
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Watch and Listen: New Trailer for Homesman and a Listen to the Music
The Homesman starts this weekend in theaters. It’s a film about women, but the title talks about a man. Go figure. The film stars Tommy Lee Jones and Hillary Swank. Tommy Lee Jones is also the director and wrote the screenplay. I’m thinking Mary Bee Cuddy might turn out to be one of the more…
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Watch This: New Trailer for Annie
Annie in her latest incarnation stars Quvenzhané Wallis and Jamie Foxx. Miss Hannigan is played by Cameron Diaz. The final trailer for the film shows off the relationship between the characters while some of the famous music plays almost as background. This musical should brighten up your holidays. It will release on December 19, 2014.…
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Watch This: Trailer for Into the Woods
Into the Woods opens on Christmas Day. The prospect of seeing another musical directed by Rob Marshall, who directed Chicago, makes me quite excited. And this one has music by Stephen Sondheim! Into the Woods is based on a Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. It stars Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna…
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Brain Dump: Stalker, Covert Affairs, Bones, Cristela and some Good Books
Time for a brain dump. It’s a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Stalker In the “Love is a Battlefield” episode of Stalker, which is the 6th episode of the season, we finally get a female stalker, played with convincing intensity by Jessica Tuck. One of my concerns with this show…
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Review: Liberal Arts
Liberal Arts is a charming indie written and directed by Josh Radnor. It looks like a straightforward love story in the trailer below, but it’s not exactly that. It’s a love story, but there’s no sex, hardly any kissing, and lots of moral choice involved in deciding who to love. Liberal Arts is also a…
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Sharon Stone will star in Agent X on TNT
A 10 episode season of Agent X on TNT will star Sharon Stone as Vice President Natalie Maccabee. Here’s the plot setup. Vice President Maccabee moves into the Veep’s mansion and discovers from her Chief Steward (Gerald McRaney) that she is responsible for deploying secret agent John Case (Jeff Hephner) to do things beyond the…
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No Stunt Woman Involved!!!!!
I’ve watched the preview for Last Tango in Halifax season 3 about 50 times so far. It got me thinking about stunt players. Watching Caroline dive off that wrench in the #lasttangoinhalifax preview. Does she have the same stunt woman as in #HappyValley? — OldAintDead (@OldAintDead) November 1, 2014 Karen Lewis, who is a producer…
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Lost Girl Season 5 Teaser
The first teaser for Lost Girl season 5 is really a teaser. Less than a minute long and revealing no characters but Bo (Anna Silk) and her mystery dad. We’ll take any little moment of Lost Girl we can get. This has been everywhere all weekend. Any genuine Lost Girl fan probably saw it already. I’m…
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Watch This: Hunger Games: The Mockingjay Pt. 1 Final Trailer
It’s November! That means The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 will be in theaters soon. Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is going to draw a line in the scorched sand and take on President Snow (Donald Sutherland) and all the evil. It’s worth a trip to IMDB to scroll through the photos for the film…