Monthly Archives: December 2010

2011 TV Return/Debut Dates

Amazing Race (CBS) Feb. 20 America’s Next Great Restaurant (NBC) March 16 America’s Next Top Model (CW) Feb. 23 American Idol (Fox) Jan. 19 American Idol (Fox) Jan. 20 Archer (FX) Jan. 27 Are We There Yet? (TBS) Jan. 5 Bachelor (ABC) Jan. 3 Being Human (Syfy) Jan. 17 Better With You (ABC) Jan. 5 [...]

Categories: Features, Television

Retro Review: Love Actually

Screenwriter Richard Curtis makes his directorial debut with the holiday comedy, “Love Actually”. Curtis has been a successful comedy writer since the early 1980s in England. Curtis had his hand in such great British comedy series as “The Black Adder”, “Mr. Bean” and a personal favorite “Spitting Image”. Curtis made his motion picture screenplay debut [...]

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The Beauty of Pixar – There is really no other!

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TRAILER TO END ALL TRAILERS: THE WAY BACK

Could this be the best movie of 2010? It sure looks like it to me!

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Retro Review: Loser

Written: July 22, 2000 Amy Heckerling, writer/director of “Clueless” and “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”, tells another story through the eyes of teen. This time she focuses on Paul Tannek, played by Jason Biggs of “American Pie”. Paul is leaving his small town roots and moving to New York when he gets a scholarship. When [...]

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Retro Review: Bait

Warner Bros. sends out the hook. Will you take the bait? “Bait” stars Jamie Foxx as a petty criminal who gets mixed up in a government framing scheme. Foxx accidentally shares his holding cell with a man (Robert Pastorelli) busted for stealing 40 million in gold. Through pure coincidence, the man dies while being interrogated [...]

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Retro Review: Anything Else

Jerry (Jason Biggs) is a guy afraid of being alone. He just wants the perfect girl and the perfect writing gig. But as all writers know happily ever after only exists in fairy tales. Jerry’s latest girlfriend Amanda (Christina Ricci) is a beautiful actress who has her fair share of hang ups and ambiguous emotions. [...]

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Retro Review: Agent Cody Banks

James Bond Jr., uh, I mean Cody Banks to the rescue. TV-phenom Frankie Muniz takes to the silver screen once more as he steps into the pseudo-world of a secret agent. Muniz plays Cody Banks, teenager who was recruited by the CIA at a summer camp where he was trained with the elite abilities of [...]

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Retro Review: Auto Focus

What goes through the mind of your average TV star? Well Bob Crane, star of the successful 1960s TV series “Hogan’s Heroes”, wasn’t quite your average guy. Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) was thrust into the public eye with the help of his successful comedy series. One day after work, Bob meets an audio video salesman [...]

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Retro Review: The Family Stone

Okay, when was the last time that we had a holiday movie that didn’t involve Tim Allen, Santa Claus, an elf or something nostalgic. Well I am happy to report that the new holiday film, The Family Stone, is probably the best holiday film I have seen in years. The Stone family reunites during the [...]

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