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‘Black Rock’ Movie Review: Girls Bonding Trip Gone Awry

05/20/2013

Husband and wife Mark Duplass and Katie Aselton, from the FX comedy The League, joined forces on Black Rock. Duplass wrote the script, while Aselton directed and co-stars in the film, and while fans of the funny duo may be expecting big laughs from this collaboration, Black Rock is anything but another comedy. Black Rock is a Deliverance-type tale of three friends--Abby (Aselton), Lou (Lake Bell) and Sarah (Kate Bosworth)--who, due to Sarah’s scheme at reuniting Abby and Lou, who haven’t talked for years because of a longtime feud, have traveled to the coast of Maine to visit the island where the three women spent summers as kids.

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'Star Trek Into Darkness' Movie Review: A Successful Homage To The Series

05/17/2013

Star Trek Into Darkness is directed by J.J. Abrams, who also directed Star Trek: The Future Begins (2009), and it continues the saga from where the first Abrams film ends. Just like with The Future Begins, the characters are the same as in the original TV series. This enhances the feeling of a back-to-basics fresh start from the beginning. The cast is practically the same as in the last film, and only a few key roles are completely new to the audience, like the bad guy Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch).

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‘The Great Gatsby’ Review: DiCaprio Delivers As Jay Gatsby In Baz Luhrmann’s Newest Rendition

05/13/2013

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless classic on the Roaring Twenties, has been adapted four times for the small and silver screens. The latest version, created under director Baz Luhrmann’s (Moulin Rouge, 1996’s Romeo & Juliet) vision, is by far the most faithful interpretation of the novel. Told in retrospective narration by writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), The Great Gatsby follows Nick’s relationship with his enigmatic neighbor, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), who loves Nick’s cousin Daisy (Carey Mulligan), but cannot have her.

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‘Peeples’ Movie Review: Just Another Lazy Attempt At ‘Meet the Parents’

05/13/2013

Peeples, a new comedy that despite the ‘Tyler Perry Presents’ tag is actually the directorial debut of Tina Gordon Chism, who also wrote the film, while Perry acted as co-producer. The film stars Craig Robinson of The Office and Kerry Washington of Scandal. Robinson plays Wade Walker, a man who makes a career out of singing inspirational songs to young children (that usually deal with urinating on themselves), with the deeper aspiration of becoming a child therapist. Wade’s well-educated girlfriend, Grace Peeples (Washington), is a successful lawyer who wants to avoid introducing Wade to her status conscious father, Judge Virgil Peeples (David Alan Grier) in fear that he’ll ultimately disapprove of their relationship.

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'Iron Man 3' Movie Review: Who Is Iron Man?

05/03/2013

This is the third time around we meet Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) on the screen in Iron Man 3 - not counting his marvelous appearance in The Avengers. This time, Stark is a man who has some serious doubts about who he is. He is completely disconnected from the business of Stark Industries and is making his Iron Man suits as a hobby. His right hand and girlfriend, Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), is sitting quite lonely but steadily at the rudder of Stark Industries. This story picks up all the way back on a festive New Year’s eve in Switzerland, in 1999, some years before all the events in the first Iron Man movie, when Tony still knew how to party.

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‘Pain And Gain’ Movie Review: Michael Bay Gruesomely Satirizes The American Dream And A Real-Life Murder

04/29/2013

What do you get when you combine beefy leading men in spandex, murder, Miami, and some truly mortifying 90s fashion? Why, the dramedy Pain and Gain, of course. In director Michael Bay’s smallest-scale production to date, Mark Wahlberg plays Daniel Lugo, a narcissistic fitness instructor in pursuit of the "American Dream." Encouraged by his excessive greed, ego and aggressive motivational speaker Johnny Wu (The Hangover’s Ken Jeong), Lugo decides to attain his dream of infinite wealth and power, something his sleazy new client Victor Kershaw (Monk’s Tony Shaloub) just so happens to possess.

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Danielle Panabaker's Top Pop Picks
- Favorite Band: The Avett Brothers
  
  "I'm really into the Avett Brothers as of late."
- Favorite Book: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  
  "My girlfriends are I - we are very nerdy. We started a book club and the first book we read was Gone Girl."
- Favorite New Movie: Silver Linings Playbook
  
  "I thought it was a great film and I thought Jennifer Lawrence was incredible, you know those angry tears, I've certainly experienced that."
Paul Van Dyk: Current Favorites
- School of the Seven Bells
  
  The New York-based band unites Benjamin Curtis of "Secret Machines" and Alejandra Deheza. Formed in 2007, the duo is named after a mythical South American pickpocket training academy of the same name.
- Linkin Park
  
  The Californian rock veterans have come a long way since 'Hybrid Theory.' Back now with their fifth studio album in over a decade, 'Living Things' is one of Paul Van Dyck's favorite albums this year.
- Jupiter Jones
  
  The German punk rock band formed in 2002, but has already released several LPs, including an eponymously-named album in 2011.
- Depeche Mode
  
  The legendary Essex electronic band from the 80s remains a classic for Van Dyk. It was also recently among 'Q' magazine's "50 Bands That Changed The World!".
Cody Simpson
- Favorite Movie
  I'm still really into the Ocean's series. I got into them recently. I was always too young to watch them.
- Favorite Book
  This book called Contest by Matthew Reilly, he's an Australian author.
- Favorite Album
  Drake's Take Care — big fan of that
- Favorite TV Show
  The Mentalist
Styx's Lawrence Gowan
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
  
  "That’s got me laughing hysterically on airplanes."
- Making Mirrors by Goyte
  
  "I thought that was a tremendous record."
- The Artist
  
  "It really impressed me."
- Keane
  
  "They’re really strong."
90210's Michael Steger: My Favorite Stuff
- Favorite TV Show: Rome
  
  HBO's series starring Cirian Hinds
- Favorite Album: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
  
  "Either that or The Gypsy Kings."
- Favorite Book: The Fountainhead
  
  "Probably my favorite book of all time."
- Favorite New Movie: Attack The Block
  
  “It reminded me of The Goonies.”