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  • The Handmaiden (2016) Adam's movie review
    Adam got to check out this South Korean erotic psychological thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook. With help from an orphaned pickpocket (Kim Tae-ri), a Korean con man (Ha Jung-woo) devises an elaborate plot to seduce and bilk a Japanese woman (Kim Min-hee) out of her inheritance.
    4 min
  • Actress Florence Henderson passes away (2016) news
    One of America's true moms, a television icon that spanned generations. Florence Henderson, who played Carol Brady on "The Brady Bunch," passed away of heart failure at the age of 82. The 10th child of a tobacco sharecropper of Irish descent, Florence was a 19-year-old drama student in New York when she landed a one-line role in the play Wish You Were Here. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were so impressed they made her the female lead in "Oklahoma!." As her TV career blossomed with The Brady Bunch, Henderson also made frequent TV guest appearances, becoming the first woman to host The Tonight Show for the vacationing Johnny Carson. In later years she made guest appearances on such shows as Roseanne, Ally McBeal and The King of Queens. We give a fond farewell and discuss some of her influence on the industry and ourselves.
    5 min
  • WWE Survivor Series (2016) JM's report
    JM gives the hard-hitting facts about the hits that were hard and the misses that were hilarious. Goldberg destroyed Brock Lesnar in a matter of seconds, Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton solidified a moment of brand supremacy for SmackDown LIVE, Kalisto that the vindictive Lone Wolf interfered in The King of Flight’s WWE Cruiserweight Championship Match, and the ever-quarreling Sheamus & Cesaro brought home a huge victory for Team Raw
    14 min
  • 'March book 3' comic wins National Book Award (2016) news
    "March: Book 3" becomes the first ever comic book to win a US National Book Award. Known as "the Oscars of literature," the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of great writing in America. March: Book 3 is the latest volume of an autobiographical series that recounts Congressman John Lewis' life during the Civil Rights Movement in 1960s America. Congressman Lewis from Georgia, helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, at which the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. The book accounts the March's evens from Lewis' point of view, and is now a Trilogy of Lewis' stories surrounding the movement. Co-writer Andrew Aydin, who originally pitched the idea, expressed an ideal take-away from the award, "Let the prejudice against comic books be buried once and for all.”
    13 min
  • "Hamilton" cast delivers a message to Mike Pence (2016) news
    The cast of Broadway show "Hamilton" deliver a message to Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Abridged, it went “We are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us ... we truly hope this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and work on behalf of all of us..." Since the event the backlash from GOP supporters has been overwhelming. Twitter responses fell into two camps: Those who cheered the cast for voicing their concerns so directly and those who found the exchange inappropriate. Loudest was President-elect Donald Trump, who said that the cast members had “harassed” Pence with “cameras blazing” and demanded they apologize. “The Theater must always be a safe and special place,” Ironically the one seemingly LEAST upset is the VP-elect himself. Pence said afterwards he was not offended by the events and declined to ask for an apology as the President-elect demanded.
    10 min
  • I Am not Your Negro (2016) JM's movie review
    I Am Not Your Negro." In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his new endeavour: the writing of his final book, Remember This House, recounting the lives and successive assassinations of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Baldwin was not able to complete the book in his lifetime. The unfinished manuscript was entrusted to director Raoul Peck who presents this imagined completion narrated by Samuel L. Jackson
    5 min
  • Manchester By the Sea (2016) Adam's movie review
    Adam gives what may very well be his most positive review... EVER! Manchester By the Sea, Casey Affleck's grand opus seems to be warming hearts left and right. Lee Chandler is a brooding, irritable loner who works as a handyman for a Boston apartment block. One damp winter day he gets a call summoning him to his hometown, north of the city. His brother's heart has given out suddenly, and he's been named guardian to his 16-year-old nephew. As if losing his only sibling and doubts about raising a teenager weren't enough, his return to the past re-opens an unspeakable tragedy.
    7 min
  • Androids (2016) Pat's comic review
    In 2545, humanity has become infertile. No one on earth has conceived children for the last 500 years. If the Microcorp company had not invented the Blue Pill, the Earth would be today uninhabited. Thanks to their formula, eternal life and youth is guaranteed. There are no diseases, there is no old age, nothing but eternity for humanity....
    4 min
  • Anthony Michael Hall Faces Jailtime For Neighbor Beatdown (2016) news
    'Breakfast Club' actor Anthony Michael Hall is facing 7 years for delivering a neighborly beatdown. Allegedly Hall shoved a neighbor to the ground and broke his wrist during an altercation. The neighbor obtained a temporary restraining order against Hall after the incident but did not seek a permanent injunction, according to court records. The neighbor alleges that he and the actor have had several run-ins in their gated community in the past.
    9 min

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