Archive | Arts & Entertainment
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TV review: ‘Breaking Bad’ delivers
After keeping viewers at the edges of their seats for four straight seasons, the fifth and final season of "Breaking Bad" is under way. One episode remains in the first half of this season, and the continuing saga of Walter White (Bryan Cranston) does not let up.
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Jimmy Kimmel moves ahead
Late night television has become oversaturated in the past two decades. For 30 years- from 1962 to 1992- no one had ever successfully toppled the king of late night, Tonight Show host Johnny Carson, from his perch as the most successful late night TV host.
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Book review: ‘Paterno’ presents the former coach as human, not ‘good’ or ‘bad’
In the opening pages of Joe Posnanski's biography of Joe Paterno ("Paterno"), the writer reveals the late coach "admired" U.S. Army General George S. Patton, who led his forces to heroic victories against Nazi Germany from North Africa to Europe during World War II.
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Movie review: ‘Premium Rush’ delivers more than packages
What happens when a fearless bike messenger, a crooked cop and cut throat Chinese gangsters are all thrown into the labyrinth that is New York City? “Premium Rush.
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Column: Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne are going to destroy music
Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne are engaged. Take a moment to recover from the shock you’re invariably feeling, and consider the previous statement and its implications for music.
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Movie review: The Expendables 2 delivers classic action movie punch
Simon West’s “The Expendables 2” is every bit of the macho, ass kicking movie one can expect from a flick featuring some of the biggest action movie heroes of all time.
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Movie review: ‘Hit & Run’ hits the spot
As a mixture of Bradley Cooper in dreadlocks, an unconventional road trip and ex-bank robbers, “Hit & Run” is quite the romantic comedy cocktail. Dax Shepard’s new film is an ode to awesome cars, guns and his fiancee Kristen Bell.
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Movie review: Jeremy Renner of “The Bourne Legacy” deserves his own legacy
I admit I hadn’t taken much notice to the Bourne franchise until lately and as far as I can tell “The Bourne Legacy” is not a Bourne movie. Now, don’t take this as an initial slam.
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Movie review: Latest Disney offering suffers from farfetched idea, long run time
It’s supremely ironic when a movie that heavily relies on the visual machinery of trees and foliage turns out to be quite sappy. Walt Disney Pictures’ “The Odd Life of Timothy Green” suffers from having a plot and premise so implausible that it fails to reserve human understanding.