Wednesday, October 26,2011
October 27. 7:30 p.m. Fathom Thriller Thursdays. Brassfield Cinema, 2101 New Garden Rd., and Grande Stadium 16, 3205 Northline Ave., Greensboro..
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Wednesday, January 26,2011
1. Bruno Mars Grenade 2. Katy Perry Firework 3. Rihanna feat. Drake Whats My Name? 4. Ke$ha We R Who We R 5. Pink Raise Your Glass 6. Enrique Iglesias feat. Ludacris & DJ Frank E Tonight (Im Lovin You) 7. Wiz Khalifa Black and Yellow 8. The Black Eyed Peas The Time (Dirty Bit) 9.
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Wednesday, January 26,2011
Its tempting to say that singer/songwriter Jon Foxs latest release Crooked Wheels.
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Wednesday, November 18,2009
DVD PICK OF THE WEEK DOWNHILL RACER (The Criterion Collection): This 1969 drama is widely regarded as one of the best movies ever made about skiing. Indeed, the skiing footage is excellent - and at the time, revolutionary - but there's more to this movie than the sport it dramatizes.
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Wednesday, November 18,2009
I could spill a lot of ink trashing 2012 - and I intend to - but if you want to save a little time, here's all you really need to know: At by Glen Baity one crucial movie junkie moment in this film, a tsunami hurls an aircraft carrier into the White House.
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Wednesday, November 11,2009
A buff, tough Michael Jai White (also a co-producer) is front and center as Isaiah Bone, a mysterious ex-con who muscles his way into the underground (and underworld) fight circuit, with the further intent of bringing down the crime ring behind it -...
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Wednesday, November 11,2009
If you love Donnie Darko, you almost certainly have one thing in common with your fellow Darko fans: You've dedicated hours to watching and discussing it.
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Wednesday, November 4,2009
DVD PICK OF THE WEEK NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Warner Home Video): For its 50th anniversary, one of Alfred Hitchcock's best films returns in a two-disc specialedition DVD ($24.98 retail) or a Blu-ray Book ($34.99 retail), replete with a bevy of behind-the-scenes extras.
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Wednesday, November 4,2009
Say you live an interesting life. You're the first human to set foot on Mars, maybe. Or you solve the world's energy crisis, or eradicate poverty, or become the first person to travel from New York to Los Angeles in a flying car. You thumb your nose at the doubters on your way into the history books.
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Wednesday, October 28,2009
DVD PICK OF THE WEEK HARDWARE (Severin Films): For a grisly, grungy, highly stylized brand of Halloween fright, screenwriter/director Richard Stanley's award-winning 1990 sci-fi shocker comes to DVD ($29.95 retail) and Blu-ray ($34.99) in an unrated version more explicit than the one released to theaters.
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Wednesday, October 28,2009
Before it has even dispensed with the opening credits, Saw VI treats its audience to the sight of two characters forced to cut away at the meatiest parts of their own bodies.
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Wednesday, October 21,2009
DVD PICK OF THE WEEK NIGHT OF THE CREEPS (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment): This freewheeling, cult-friendly gem was one of the unsung sci-fi/horror classics of the '80s - a fond throwback to the drive-in B-movie era (replete with nods and in-jokes) that never quite found its audience.
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Wednesday, October 21,2009
For the past several years, if you wanted to see a scary movie in a movie theater, you couldn't hope for much beyond one of the seeming dozens of Saw sequels.
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Wednesday, October 14,2009
DVD PICK OF THE WEEK THE STEPFATHER (Shout! Factory): At long last, one of the true suspense classics of the 1980s makes its DVD debut in time for the Halloween season. Directed by Joseph Ruben and loosely inspired by the actual case of serial killer John List, this knockout 1987 thriller stars Terry OQuinn in the title role, that of a deranged killer obsessed with establishing the perfect family.
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Wednesday, October 14,2009
Thirteen years ago, Vince Vaughn and John Favreau turned the word money into an adjective in Swingers. In Couples Retreat, they pull a similar trick by turning actual money yours, specifically into pure, distilled regret.
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Wednesday, October 7,2009
KARLOFF LUGOSI HORROR CLASSICS (Warner Home Video): What would Halloween be without Boris Karloff (1887-1969) and Bela Lugosi (1882-1956), two of the undisputed kings of screen horror? A lot less entertaining and a lot more boring, I daresay. This four-film boxed set ($26.
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Wednesday, October 7,2009
The story of - what else? - a group of survivors navigating the apocalypse, the film picks up with Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), whose voluminous neuroses have kept him alive since the undead disease started spreading a few months back.
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Wednesday, September 30,2009
DVD PICK OF THE WEEK JOHN CARPENTER: MASTER OF FEAR COLLECTION (Universal Studios Home Entertainment): Universal gets the jump on the Halloween season with a four-film boxed set devoted to the works of filmmaker John Carpenter, whose 1978 classic Halloween is one of the touchstones of the horror genre
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Wednesday, September 30,2009
Combining horror with humor -- and vice-versa -- is risky business, but Zombieland, which marks the debut feature of director Ruben Fleischer, beats the odds and offers a wry, winning Halloween treat.
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Wednesday, September 23,2009
(LionsGate Home Entertainment): Robert Downey Jr.'s dazzling performance as the silentfilm pioneer, which earned him a 1992 Academy Award nomination as Best Actor, is the centerpiece of producer/ director Richard Attenborough's ambitious, episodic show-biz drama, based on David Robinson's biography and Chaplin's own autobiography.
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