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Video of the Day: Watch Coach Taylor from ‘Friday Night Lights’ give a “Don’t talk or text” PSA
With the rise and accessibility of cell phones has come a common problem in movie theatres of cell phone usage among some patrons that causes a distraction for other moviegoers. This has led to most theatres issuing public service announcements asking the audience members to turn off their cell phones ahead of the start of […] More
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Bloodline, Ep. 1.01-06: Compelling mystery driven by exceptional casting
Bloodline is all about deception. What’s beneath the surface, what we hide from the world and the lies we tell to protect ourselves and our families. The problem is, and the one that is explored in Bloodline, that it’s usually our families who know our deepest secrets anyways. And if you have a family like the Rayburns’ they are likely to use them against you at some point. What becomes clear in these first six episodes is that these are people who don’t let things go. More
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Netflix’s drama series from the creators of Damages now has a release month, title, and teaser
While Netflix has established itself as the destination for people looking to begin or catch up on numerous tv shows, the company has also found recent success with its own original programming, with shows such as Orange is the New Black and BoJack Horseman garnering critical and commercial acclaim. Alongside numerous Marvel-related shows currently in […] More
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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ a grand, triumphant rebuke of financial excess, and the best Scorsese-DiCaprio collaboration to date
The Wolf of Wall Street Written by Terence Winter Directed by Martin Scorsese USA, 2013 Leonardo DiCaprio is a year away from 40, though he still retains the same boyish air and enthusiasm that marked him from Titanic onward. But over the intervening 16 years, he’s thinned down enough that he has a leaner, tighter, […] More
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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, the latest from Martin Scorsese, releases a new trailer
Director Martin Scorsese is widely regarded in the world’s film community as a working legend, with classics such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas to his credit. While many of his early works saw him collaborating with Robert De Niro, a large number of his latter-day projects has seen him team up with Leonardo […] More
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Greatest Series Finales: Friday Night Lights’ “Always” is a beautiful exploration of family
Friday Night Lights had a unique journey, to say the least. Based on the novel of the same name, which was adapted into a film first, the series premiered in 2007 on NBC to critical praise but didn’t manage to find a significant audience. NBC supported the series, bringing it back for a truncated season two (courtesy of the Writers Strike), but season three seemed unlikely to happen until NBC worked out a deal with DirecTV to cost-share the series, renewing it for season three, and then in one fell swoop, four and five. Because of this rocky road, the creators actually ended up crafting three separate episodes intended to function as series finales, season one’s “State”, season three’s “Tomorrow Blues”, and season five’s “Always”. Many series struggle to create a meaningful series finale. Jason Katims and the Friday Night Lights team made three. More
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‘The Spectacular Now’ a swooning, honest tale of teenage angst and love
The Spectacular Now Directed by James Ponsoldt Written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber USA, 2013 The teenage genre is an infinite well Hollywood enjoys returning to, even if such repetition can frequently wind up creating some of the most inherently false-seeming films. We like watching movies about teenagers so we can be nostalgic […] More
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Alien Invasion Month: ‘Super 8’
So I know it’s Alien Invasion Month and that the key requirements of Sound on Sight’s ongoing theme are quite simple: a) aliens and b) invading. I also know that apart from the U.S. military’s invasion of small town Ohio, there’s not a whole lot of that second part in J.J. Abrams’ Super 8, least of all from its star extraterrestrial, a recently escaped interplanetary alien-spider-gorilla who’s been exacting revenge on the government that studied him by abducting townsfolk and household appliances to rebuild his ship constructed from white, morphing Rubiks cubes. It’s all very technical, if you must know. More
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Greatest TV Pilots: Friday Night Lights’ pilot spotlights middle America with specificity and grace
The opening images in a pilot are usually incredibly specific ones. They’ve been chosen as the very first thing viewers will see, what will introduce them to this series and help them decide whether to tune in or flip to something else. In Alias, it’s Sydney Bristow’s face, her head held under water. In Battlestar Galactica, it’s a ticking clock. In Justified it’s a man in a cowboy hat and boots, heading to a duel at high noon. In Friday Night Lights, it’s Texas. More
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‘The Spectacular Now’, James Ponsoldt’s Sundance hit, releases its first trailer
Filmmaker James Ponsoldt’s second full-length feature Smashed turned the heads of many film fans as it made its way around the festival circuit in 2012. It was at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, however, that Ponsoldt really made waves, with his new feature garnering a lot of acclaim prior to getting picked up. Titled The […] More
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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, the newest feature from Martin Scorsese, releases its first trailer
Director Martin Scorsese is considered a legend by many, with his debut feature Taxi Driver being hailed as a classic alongside numerous other features such as Goodfellas and Raging Bull, with other features such as The Departed and Gangs of New York being held in high regard. Many fans of the director were excited to […] More
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Friday Night Lights with Stephanie Smith
Stephanie Smith from PotentialCast joins us to look at Peter Berg and Jason Katims’ fantastic middle American drama, Friday Night Lights. [powerpress] More
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