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DVD Reviews

Beautiful Creatures, The Last Stand

Posted // May 20,2013  - New DVD/VOD Tuesday, May 21 If you loved Twilight, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, Hemlock Grove and Buffy the Vampir ...

DVD Reviews

Liz & Dick, Cloud Atlas

Posted // May 13,2013  - New DVD/VOD Tuesday, May 14 Lindsay Lohan and Grant Bowler portray/desecrate Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in th ...

DVD Reviews

Jack Reacher, 30 Rock

Posted // May 6,2013  - New DVD/VOD Tuesday, May 7 A former military investigator (Tom Cruise) attempts to exonerate a man accused of a mass ...

DVD Reviews

Silver Linings Playbook, Broken City

Posted // April 29,2013  - New DVD/VOD Tuesday, April 30 Two emotionally-crippled-but-scruffily-gorgeous mental cases (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer ...

DVD Reviews

Gangster Squad, Assassin's Run

Posted // April 22,2013  - New DVD/VOD Tuesday, April 23 Pretty (Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Josh Brolin) and not-so-pretty (Sean Penn, Nick Nolte) a ...

DVD Reviews

Django Unchained, Save the Date

Posted // April 15,2013  - New DVD/VOD Tuesday, April 16 Django UnchainedA former slave (Jamie Foxx) and a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) k ...

DVD Reviews

Sexy Evil Genius, Boss

Posted // April 8,2013  - New DVD/VOD Tuesday, April 9 Bad Kids Go to HellSix rich private-school teens stuck in Saturday detention suddenly begi ...

DVD Reviews

Baytown Outlaws, The Bible

Posted // April 1,2013  - New DVD/VOD Tuesday, April 2 The Baytown Outlaws When her crime-lord ex-husband (Billy Bob Thornton) shoots her and tak ...

DVD Reviews

Veep, The Borgias

Posted // March 25,2013  - New DVD/VOD Tuesday, March 26 Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars as the hapless vice president in the hysterical West Wing/Arrest ...

DVD Reviews

Bachelorette, Zero Dark Thirty

Posted // March 18,2013  - New DVD/VOD Tuesday, March 19 Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan, Isla Fisher and Rebel Wilson star in the hilariously twisted ...

Film Festival

Austenland

Posted // January 22,2013  - Locally developed rom-com hits Sundance During the Q&A following the Sundance Film Festival premiere of Austenland, Salt Lake City ...

Film Festival

Sundance 2011 Wrap-Up

Posted // January 28,2011  - The optimism during the opening of Sundance 2011 matched the weather. There was something in the air in Park City as the 2011 Sundance Film Festival rolled thro ...

Film Festival

Latest Sundance Film Reviews

Posted // January 24,2011  -   The latest reviews of films now playing at the Sundance Film Festival from City Weekly fil ...

Film Festival

Sundance Showdowns

Posted // January 19,2011  - How to pick a winning movie when you have to make a choice. The Sundance Film Festival—running Jan. 20-30 this year in Park City and other Utah ...

Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival’s Sloan Foundation prize

Posted // January 18,2011  - The Science of Cinema: The Sundance Film Festival’s Sloan Foundation prize captures the link between movies and technology. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation—a nonprofit organization devoted to scientific advanc ...

Film Festival

Sundance Survival Manual

Posted // January 20,2010  - From movie buffs to star watchers: How to navigate the Sundance Film Festival. You`ve seen Sundance film-festival guides before — the ones that tell you where to g ...

Film Festival

Sundance: Wisest Walks

Posted // January 20,2010  - How to get from Point A to Theater B. The shuttle bus map on the festival catalog´s last page includes approximate walking ...

Film Festival

Sundance: Resources

Posted // January 20,2010  -   Helpful links to Sundance, Park City and Salt Lake City festival, transportation, emergenc ...

Film Festival

Sundance Music Guide

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Film Festival

Music at Sundance

Posted // January 20,2010  - Audio Visual: Music at Sundance is as independent as the movies. Music and film have major history together, their relationship preceding the period when & ...

Film Reviews

Fast & Furious 6

Posted // May 24,2013  - The idea of action without the execution We couldn’t have seen this franchise coming—not this way, not the thing it has ...

Film Reviews

The Hangover Part III

Posted // May 23,2013  - Wolf Pack it in, already When The Hangover Part II was released two years ago and turned out to be virtually a note ...

Film Reviews

Star Trek Into Darkness

Posted // May 15,2013  - A different vision of the future There’s a thing that makes me very sad about Star Trek Into Darkness. It’s not ...

Film Reviews

The Great Gatsby

Posted // May 10,2013  - Baz Luhrmann's problem is more than not showing proper respect What if Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby didn’t have to carry the burden of &ld ...

Film Reviews

Iron Man 3

Posted // May 3,2013  - Man inside the armor takes center stage The least interesting thing about the otherwise hugely entertaining Iron Man movies is, ir ...

Film Reviews

To the Wonder

Posted // May 3,2013  - Emotionally ambitious but diffuse Somewhere, somewhen, our culture became openly antagonistic to poetry. And that’s ma ...

Film Reviews

The Company You Keep

Posted // April 26,2013  - Making the morality of activism a snooze Robert Redford hasn’t exactly been shy about his passionate, progressive political c ...

Film Reviews

Oblivion

Posted // April 19,2013  - Deja viewing with Tom Cruise Go on! Indulge in the very best movie-promo tie-in ever: the Oblivion-branded Mandatory Me ...

Film Reviews

Upstream Color

Posted // April 19,2013  - Bizarre elements can't obstruct human drama For all those who found themselves perplexed beyond measure by Shane Carruth’s 2004 ...

Film Reviews

42

Posted // April 12,2013  - A string of feel-good homilies At a pivotal moment in the new Jackie Robinson biopic 42, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch R ...

True TV

Arrested Development, Save Me

Posted // May 23,2013  - Plus: Showville, Behind the Candelabra Return/Season Premiere: TV critics are whining that Netflix wouldn’t make the reviva ...

True TV

The Office, Goodwin Games

Posted // May 16,2013  - Plus: Rectify, Motive Series Finale: Hang in there—the longest goodbye on television is almost over. Like ...

True TV

Small Town Security, Bob Saget

Posted // May 9,2013  - Plus: Dangerous Intuition, Breaking Amish Season Premiere: When it premiered in 2012, Small Town Security (a reality-show tag-along ...

True TV

Parks & Recreation, Maron

Posted // May 2,2013  - Plus: Big Time Rush, Splash Season Finale: Yes, already—NBC has to get Parks & Recreation out of the way so the ...

True TV

Hemlock Grove, Inside Amy Schumer

Posted // April 25,2013  - Plus: Happy Endings, The Big C New Series: Says Netflix, original series House of Cards was a hit; says logic, the May 26 ...

True TV

Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell

Posted // April 18,2013  - Plus: Guntucky, Ice Cold Gold Series Debut: If “real” TV reviewers wrote about Adult Swim shows, there would ...

True TV

Louis CK, Defiance

Posted // April 11,2013  - Plus: Veep, Nurse Jackie Stand-up Special: Sorry, you can’t download this one—not yet, anyway. Oh My Go ...

True TV

Mad Men, Hannibal

Posted // April 4,2013  - Plus: Smash, Ready for Love Season Premiere: This year’s Off Limits list from Mad Men showrunner Matthew Weiner: ...

True TV

Game of Thrones, Happy Endings

Posted // March 29,2013  - Plus: Doctor Who, The Walking Dead Season Premiere: Think you’re having a bad endless winter-spring? Wait till you see ...

True TV

Revolution, Chupacabra vs. Alamo

Posted // March 21,2013  - Plus: Phil Spector, Bomb Girls Spring Premiere: This was a hit four months ago—anybody remember Revolution? That po ...

Video Games

Rockstar Games: L.A. Noire

Posted // April 20,2011  - Rockstar Games reaches for a new sophistication in cerebral gaming. As a frequent player and fan of titles from Rockstar Games, I’ve pretty much kicked, ...

Video Games

Video Game Bits

Posted // February 28,2011  - Random nuggets of headlines from the gaming world. The new DC Universe massive multi-player game didn’t arrive in time for my deadline ...

Video Games

Tea Party Games

Posted // December 6,2010  - The shift to the right could mean a shift in rights for gamers. As I sat watching CNN’s election map turn redder by the minute on election night, my ...

Video Games

Addicted to Video Games

Posted // September 29,2010  - What do video game makers owe you for using their product? Finally, after years of labor, I won’t need to work ever again, and I’ll be fi ...

Video Games

Video Game Summer

Posted // July 21,2010  - How I Spent My Summer Game-cation: Tips for beating the summer video-game doldrums. Summertime may be great for those who enjoy swimming, baseball, picnics, fireworks and goi ...

Video Games

Boy Scout Video Game Merit Badge

Posted // June 9,2010  - Wii Prepared: Joystick prowess rewarded by youth organization. Playing video games is no longer a waste of time. It’s apparently a thrifty, brave a ...

Video Games

Nintendo's Competition

Posted // March 10,2010  - Yes, Wii Can: Can Nintendo fight off the new generation of motion-sensing systems? When you hear the cliché about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, it's ...

Video Games

Video Game Industry Is Not Recession-Proof

Posted // February 3,2010  - Slumping sales could be good news for hardcore players. Companies like Electronic Arts, UBIsoft and Game Stop had such lousy 2009s that they&rsquo ...

Video Games

Video Games for Christmas

Posted // December 2,2009  - Reindeer Games: A look at what’s ahead to fill a video-gamer’s holiday stocking. If you’re a video gamer who still has a job, a home and money to spend on games, the ...

Video Games

Guitar Hero 5

Posted // September 16,2009  - This version finds Nirvana’s revered frontman singing— shudder—Bush. But as you make your way through the platter of nirvana, you see it sitting there, streami ...

 
 
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