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What happens when you mix DJ Snake & Lil Jon with motion-stabilized Star...
One reason why I used to like glimpsing behind-the-scenes footage of Star Trek: The Next Generation on entertainment news shows in the '90s was because I got to see--from the news cameraman's point of...
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Tip-Top Quotables: "George R.R. Martin would make a terrible pet sitter,"...
My favorite monthly section in old Source magazine issues was "Hip-Hop Quotables," in which the Source editors printed out their favorite new rap verse (or two) of the month, from the first bar to the...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Rick and Morty, "Rick Potion #9"...
"'Brokedown Merry-Go-Round' Show of the Week" is in reruns all this June. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original score tracks from animated shows or movies, airs weekdays at 2pm...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Rick and Morty, "Rixty Minutes"
Every Friday in "'Brokedown Merry-Go-Round' Show of the Week," I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original score tracks...
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The Trip, Sex and Lucia and Juice are among Netflix Instant's current...
If you want to be taught the proper way to do a Sir Michael Caine impression, go stream:The Trip (2010)The first time I took notice of Steve Coogan was on a Comedy Central stand-up show in 1991. The...
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Tip-Top Quotables: "It's like she's walking on a carpet of mice," plus a few...
My favorite monthly section in old Source magazine issues was "Hip-Hop Quotables," in which the Source editors printed out their favorite new rap verse of the month, from the first bar to the last....
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Dragons: Riders of Berk, "How to...
(Photo source: Berk's Grapevine)"'Brokedown Merry-Go-Round' Show of the Week" is in reruns all this June. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original score tracks from animated shows or...
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Costume drama comes to "The Whitest Block Ever" and "AFOS Prime" in the...
I haven't seen Belle yet, but I intend to do so either soon or via Netflix when it hits Blu-ray because it received mostly positive reviews. Jane Austen-type material usually makes my eyes glaze over....
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A fan-made Star Trek: The Motion Picture trailer from 2013 does a better job...
(Photo source: My Star Trek Scrapbook)Mission Log is an excellent Star Trek podcast I've previously written about here and more recently here. Hosts Ken Ray and John Champion have undertaken an...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Rick and Morty, "Close...
"'Brokedown Merry-Go-Round' Show of the Week" is in reruns all this June. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original score tracks from animated shows or movies, airs weekdays at 2pm...
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Tip-Top Quotables: Special World Cup 2014 Edition
My favorite monthly section in old Source magazine issues was "Hip-Hop Quotables," in which the Source editors printed out their favorite new rap verse of the month, from the first bar to the last....
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Rick and Morty, "Ricksy...
(Photo source: Collectors Quest)"'Brokedown Merry-Go-Round' Show of the Week" is in reruns all this June. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original score tracks from animated shows or...
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"Motherfuck him and John Wayne!": Do the Right Thing turns 25
Illustration by Xavier Payne"We as filmgoers are so accustomed to movies where there's a definitive beginning, definitive middle and decisive end. I think that Do the Right Thing threw a lot of people...
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"Bobby, you would be unbelievable if you would read more": Excerpts from the...
The following recent articles related to film and TV music are must-reads."Bobby Womack is a thread that runs through soul music" by Travis Atria (first published in 2011; reposted on June 27, 2014 due...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Space Dandy, "Even Vacuum...
"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original score tracks from animated shows or movies, airs weekdays at 2pm Pacific on AFOS. "'Brokedown Merry-Go-Round' Show of the Week" will return next...
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes has a lot to live up to, like a grand...
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which opens tomorrow night, currently has a 97% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes (over on Metacritic, it's received a 90% approval rating). The new prequel's Tomatoes...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Knights of Sidonia, season 1
Every Friday in "'Brokedown Merry-Go-Round' Show of the Week," I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. This week, there were a dozen of them instead of just one. "Brokedown...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: How It Should Have Ended, "How...
Every Friday in "'Brokedown Merry-Go-Round' Show of the Week," I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. By "the week," I mean from late Thursday at midnight to the following...
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Why I, a latecomer to The Rockford Files, became a fan of the classic P.I....
The legendary James Garner died yesterday at the age of 86. The following is a repost of "Watch The Rockford Files and call to see if Paul can score some weed," from January 16, 2009. In the '09 piece,...
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So about that night when Sony Korea accidentally posted all of The Amazing...
(Photo source: Gamma Squad; photo by Russell McGovern)Someone at Sony Korea is definitely getting both a J. Jonah Jameson-style tongue-lashing and their walking papers for this.On Saturday night,...
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