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Major Crimes returns to TNT for its second season on June 10. We were huge fans of The Closer (until its last season when the world came crashing down on Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) and Interim Chief of Po...
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When a completely naked Leslie Chow (Ken Jeong) jumps out of the trunk of a car and starts yelling in a strange Asian accent in The Hangover, it comes as a real shock. When Chow escapes from prison at the beginning of Hangover ...
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This fancy driving franchise has reached the point where it’s virtually impossible to up the ante. The previous flick, 2011’s Fast Five, featured a scene in which the guys dragged a vault through town behind their souped-up rid...
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You could create a drinking game around Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s art house flick What Maisie Knew. Based on a Henry James novel, the film centers on Maisie (Onata Aprile), a young girl whose feuding, self-involved paren...
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Seems like other reviewers have soured on Star Trek and we have no idea why. It is a great cosmic ride with spot-on character development and a worthy adversary. For us, director J.J. Abrams (Mission Impossible III, Super 8) di...
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When director Ariel Vromen first approached Michael Shannon about playing hit man Richard “Richie” Kuklinski in his biopic The Iceman, Shannon at first suggested he might want to find a bigger star to carry the movie. But Vrome...
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There’s no denying that Robert Downey Jr. makes a good Tony Stark/Iron Man. He’s not as steely and cold as Christian Bale’s Batman, but he doesn’t need to be. Stark is a bit of an egotistical smart-ass and that comes naturally ...
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Comedian Marc Maron, who has often provided a neurotically introspective soundtrack for my daily commute via his WTF podcast, has a new 10-episode series coming to IFC. Maron is a sitcom in many extremely traditional ways, but ...
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In Pain & Gain, the new movie from director Michael Bay (Transformers), Ken Jeong plays Jonny Wu, a motivational speaker who encourages bodybuilder Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) to head down a destructive path. It’s perfect f...
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At the start of The Company You Keep, newspaper reporter Ben Shepard (Shia LaBeouf) exposes lawyer James Grant (Robert Redford) as a fraud in the wake of the arrest of one of his fellow radicals (Susan Sarandon) and reveals his...