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Anna Kendrick – Fall’s Pop Culture Queen

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At the age of 12, she received a Tony nomination for her performance in “High Society”. At 24, she earned a well-deserved Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for “Up in the Air”. This Fall, “Pitch Perfect” star Anna Kendrick, now 31, is involved in several high-profile entertainment projects: She’s among the star-studded ensemble of director […]
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I Have a Gut Feeling

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I’ve been doing some pre-Awards Season examining of the categories and potential candidates. A handful of websites are already posting “Top 30” lists for most of the categories. Of course, such rankings are pure speculation at the moment, and they’ll drastically change each week between now and December. I’m going in a different direction: For […]
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Summer Box Office Hits, Misses & Bombs

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The Highs & Lows, Winners & Losers, Successes & Failures of Summer ’16 at the Box Office: Hits ANIMATION DOMINATION…AGAIN – “Finding Dory” topped the season (and is No. 1 for the year to date) with $480 million. “The Secret Life of Pets”, from “Despicable Me” studio Illumination Entertainment, earned more than $350M. And Sony’s […]
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Hanks A Lot, Once Again

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There’s only one thing you need to know heading into Fall: Tom Hanks is The Movie Man for This Season. In 2013, the two-time Oscar winner aimed to score two more nominations, in the Lead Actor category as “Captain Phillips” in the Paul Greengrass-directed thriller, and in the Supporting Actor race as the iconic Walt […]
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Summer Catch-Up

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With Summer winding down, here are mini-reviews of three films released earlier this year that I recently caught-up with: “Eye in the Sky” focuses on the popular usage of drones as high-tech military surveilance. Helen Mirren stars a British military Colonel who oversees global activities and, on this particular day, seeks the opportunity to take-out […]
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10 Best Meryl Streep Performances of the Decade

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With this weekend’s release of “Florence Foster Jenkins”, I’ve decided to rank Meryl Streep’s 10 Best Performances of The Past 10 Years – from her role as Miranda Priestly in “The Devil Wears Prada” (2006) to her work as the title Opera singer in “Florence”. The countdown also includes a witch, a rock singer, a […]
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Awards Show In-the-Know

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Summer is winding down but Awards Show buzz is heating-up. Here are the latest updates: Golden Globes – The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced that Jimmy Fallon will host the 74th Globes telecast, airing live Sunday, January 8th on NBC. Fallon has presented at the show several times before but has never hosted. However, […]
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The Summer of Game Shows

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8/4 UPDATE: ABC renews “Celebrity Family Feud”, “The $100,000 Pyramid”, “Match Game” and “To Tell the Truth”. All four game shows will return next summer. They’re some of the most popular, longest-running and highly entertaining programs on television. What are: Game Shows? And this summer, they’ve made a well-deserved comeback. In June, ABC debuted a […]
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Summer Box Office Hits, Misses & Bombs

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These are the Highs & Lows, the Winners & Losers, the Successes & Failures of the Summer 2016 Box Office: Hits ANIMATION DOMINATION…AGAIN – “Finding Dory” topped the season (and is No. 1 for 2016 to date) with $480 million. “The Secret Life of Pets”, from “Despicable Me” studio Illumination Entertainment, earned more than $350M. […]
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Gone Too Soon

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This summer, I’ve been catching-up on TV shows that have been living, in purgatory, on my DVR, including the remaining batch of episodes of two FOX comedies that have since been cancelled, “Grandathered”, starring John Stamos, and “The Grinder”, with Rob Lowe and Fred Savage. These two smart comedies got me thinking about other recent […]
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