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September 11, 2014

The Riff Report: New Music This Week

The Riff Report: New Music This Week

PopMatters.com September 10, 2014

PopMatters.com (MCT) Interpol – “El Pintor” If you’re still waiting for another “Turn on the Bright Lights,” you’ll most likely be waiting for some time, but you might as well take “El...

Ed Sheeran Defies Categorization But Still Fills Arenas - Alone

Ed Sheeran Defies Categorization But Still Fills Arenas – Alone

Jonathan Takiff September 10, 2014

By Jonathan Takiff Philadelphia Daily News (MCT) A ginger-haired, scruffy and increasingly tattooed "misfit" from Britain, Ed Sheeran plays guitar, beatboxes and, occasionally, fiddles. He also writes...

Quality May Be Casualty Of Film Fest War

Quality May Be Casualty Of Film Fest War

September 9, 2014

By Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune (MCT) TORONTO — Has TIFF, North America’s largest film festival, become the middlebrow blob that ate cinema? It’s ungracious, I suppose, to ask. But has the...

‘Young Frankenstein’ Has New Life On 40th Anniversary

‘Young Frankenstein’ Has New Life On 40th Anniversary

September 9, 2014

By Susan King Los Angeles Times (MCT) Director Mel Brooks spent a lot of money on white handkerchiefs while making his 1974 tour de farce, “Young Frankenstein.” “I gave everybody in the crew...

Jon Stewart’s Debut Was The Feel-Good Film Of Telluride; Now It’s Headed To Canada

Jon Stewart’s Debut Was The Feel-Good Film Of Telluride; Now It’s Headed To Canada

September 5, 2014

By Rebecca Keegan Los Angeles Times (MCT) TELLURIDE, Colo. — Jon Stewart was on his way to introduce the fourth sellout screening of his movie “Rosewater” at the Telluride Film Festival when a...

CMA Awards 2014: Complete List of Nominees

CMA Awards 2014: Complete List of Nominees

Andrea Wang September 4, 2014

By Andrea Wang Los Angeles Times (MCT) Miranda Lambert leads the nominations for the 2014 Country Music Assn. Awards with nine, matching a record she set in 2010 for female with the most nominations...

Iggy Azalea at the Irving Plaza in NYC.

Like It or Not, ‘Fancy’ Is The Song of Summer

August Brown September 4, 2014

By August Brown Los Angeles Times (MCT) Just as the season’s winding down, there’s finally a definitive pick for Song of the Summer: Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy.” The surprise of few (and to the...

Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Actor, Manic Comedian, Dies At 63

Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Actor, Manic Comedian, Dies At 63

September 2, 2014

By Steve Chawkins and Steven Zeitchik Los Angeles Times (MCT) When Robin Williams graduated from Redwood High School in Marin County, Calif., his classmates couldn’t help themselves: They voted him...

Commentary: Religious Tide Turns Against ‘Noah’

Commentary: Religious Tide Turns Against ‘Noah’

March 31, 2014

By Glenn Whipp Los Angeles Times (MCT) Whenever Hollywood makes a movie from a well-loved story or saga — Batman, Tolkien, “50 Shades of Grey” — there’s usually a period of ... well...

‘How I Met Your Mother’ braces for ‘ambitious’ finale

‘How I Met Your Mother’ braces for ‘ambitious’ finale

March 27, 2014

By Chuck Barney Contra Costa Times (MCT) While shooting the pilot for “How I Met Your Mother” back in 2005, Alyson Hannigan genuinely believed the show was destined to fail — not because...

Global Box Office Hits Record $35 Billion In 2013

Global Box Office Hits Record $35 Billion In 2013

March 25, 2014

By Richard Verrier Los Angeles Times (MCT) Propelled by a string of hit family movies, global movie ticket sales set a new record last year, climbing to $35.9 billion in box office revenue, according...

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