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Why We Give Our Favourite TV Shows A Free Pass Even When We Probably Shouldn’t By Sinead Stubbins 16/1/15 end article header Like learning that your significant other secretly watches The Big Bang Theory while you secretly listen to Taylor Swift*, confronting the flaws in your favourite things is a tough business. That’s probably why…
1 No one on TV ever does paperwork. As everyone knows, for every second a real policeman spends on the beat, he or she wastes about a day and a half filling in endless, pointless, politically correct forms. Likewise, TV teachers are never seen marking homework or filling in the 38 risk assessment documents required…
‘Selma’, ‘The Imitation Game’ And Rewriting The Past: Should We Expect More Accuracy When It Comes To Biopics? By Dave Crewe 19/1/15 end article header It’s fair to say that a lot of people were unhappy about the Oscar nominations announcement on Thursday. While nerds raged at The Lego Movie’s snubbing, the bulk of the…
Alan Menken, the songwriter behind Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast — to name just a few — has given Entertainment Weekly the story behind a number of his most famous songs. Some are pretty basic, some are funny, and some tell of frustrating directors. But the one that is a laser-guided missile…
Anthony D’Amato sings and writes in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen or Josh Ritter: His songs sound friendly musically, but they also tackle the difficult and the twisted. Like those great songwriters, D’Amato’s work is universal without devolving into moping. There’s also a spirit to these songs, as it’s easy to imagine a crowd spontaneously…
By Lillian Mongeau For the record, on the evening of January 13, 1999, I was nowhere near Leakin Park. I was probably driving my grandfather’s old Ford Taurus to ski team practice. Or maybe I had to work that night, teaching lessons, also at the local ski hill. Or possibly I had homework. Or Girl…
Proof Han Solo Is Sort of an Idiot Proof Han Solo Is Sort of an Idiot – YouTube.
The British singer-songwriter Emma-Lee Moss, self-dubbed Emmy the Great, established herself as a master of the breakup song on her first two albums, First Love and Virtue. The lyrics were devastating in one line, and comforting in the next. Emmy’s latest EP, S (out January 27 on Bella Union), is a little different. Despite changes…
It’s a measure of how much the economic and cultural landscape has changed in eight years that Apple’s app developers earned as much last year as Hollywood took in from U.S. box offices — $10 billion. There’s more to Hollywood’s revenue stream than the U.S. box office, of course. But as Horace Dediu wrote Thursday,…
Most are nothing like their unethical onscreen counterparts. Photo: Photo Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon/© 2012 Knight Takes King Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved. A few months ago, I was sitting at a hotel in Huntington Beach, California, typing notes on my laptop, when two teenagers came up to me and started asking me questions. What…