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Which Star Wars Character Are You? Take the Test!

With the excitement and anticipation of new Star Wars movies, animated TV series and theme-park rides just around the corner, the hype for the classic sci-fi saga is rapidly growing again. With a whole new generation of fans behind it, now, a site called ZIMBIO is offering an on-line survey to find out, “What Star […]

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“Shadow Recruit” A Compelling Spy Thriller (Film Review)

  Filled with intrigue and mystery one of novelist Tom Clancy’s more ambitious books “The Teeth of the Tiger” comes to the screen as Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.  The film turns the clock back on the main character to his college days where he gets pressed into service by the CIA.  It’s a fairly complicated […]

Holy Bat News! The Batman TV Series is Coming to DVD and my Inner Child is Going Crazy!

 ANNOUNCER:  Midnight in Gotham City…the very dead of night.   Executives from Fox and Warner, outside the studio?  Something must be very much amiss inside the studio for them to be discussing Batman and Robin.   A Mexican stand off?  A plot?  A deal?  Oh, what tangled webs we weave.   Then in the rosy-fingered […]

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“Ride Along” A Wacky Comedy (Film Review)

  Getting very goofy and wacky comes natural to Kevin Hart and with Ice Cube as his partner in Ride Along he does it well.  The story may be a little hackneyed and predictable, but it’s their comedic performances that make the movie fun.  Whether you are a Kevin Hart fan or just like a […]

MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. Episode 12: Seeds (T.V. review)

Nothing makes one feel like it’s wintertime in Los Angeles quite like unseasonably hot weather.  Today it’s a record-breaking 89 degrees in the Valley where it should be 60-something this time of year.  Unlike my snowbound relatives back east who think I’m rubbing it in every time they ask what the temperature is out here, […]

Watch Lindalee and Dan “Strax” Starkey from Doctor Who, recite Shakespeare in “Romeo & WHO’liet”

5 1/2 year old Whovian, Lindalee Rose, puts her own spin on a Shakespearean classic when she gets Doctor Who’s own Dan Starkey (aka Strax the Sontaran) to read a scene from Romeo and Juliet with her. If you’ve never heard a Sontaran Soldier recite lines from the Baird, you’re in for a real treat! Be […]

The Screens Have It: How Mobile Phones Changed Television Viewership

If there’s anything the average American loves more than their television entertainment, it’s their smart phones. Our time spent in front of a screen has increased by leaps and bounds since the invention of the Internet and mobile computing, to the point where eMarketer notes that the average person invests more hours of their day […]

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