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Vice Principals: The Complete Series

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 4/16/2018 11:00 AM EDT
HBO's half-hour comedy series Vice Principals was always meant to be two seasons long. Creators Jody Hill (Eastbound & Down) and Dan McBride (Pineapple Express) - who also stars – envisioned a feature film originally but then morphed the idea into a short-term television show. While the first season wasn't overtly funn... Read More

Rampage

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 4/11/2018 4:01 PM EDT
Besides making feature films out of popular novels and comic books, the newest trend is to fashion them after video games. The latest installment in that endeavor is a movie based on the 1986 arcade game called Rampage. In the game, players choose to be mutated humans who become giant creatures due to accidents in a science lab. T... Read More

Knowing

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 4/11/2018 10:36 AM EDT
Imagine if you knew the future. Imagine if you could predict world events and potentially save thousands of lives a year. Imagine if there were voices inside your head possessing you to write it all down. Imagine if you were a young girl who didn't understand it. Imagine people thought you were crazy or disturbed. For poor L... Read More

The Crazies

(Leonard Buccellato) 4/10/2018 4:55 PM EDT
When a plane carrying a secret biological weapon crash-lands in the vicinity of a small, rural town, the area descends into chaos. Infected with a virus that sends them into a homicidal frenzy, the locals turn on each other in an orgy of bloody violence. As the army cordons off the town and government agents clash with scientists over the appropria... Read More

Ballers: The Complete Third Season

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 4/10/2018 2:46 PM EDT
HBO is known for quality television that engrosses audiences and keeps them coming back time and time again. The Sopranos, True Blood and Game of Thrones have all been award winners, just to name a few and the cable network has a strong history excellence in television. Occasionally they get a mildly entertaining series that has some ap... Read More

Push

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 4/10/2018 9:10 AM EDT
Creatures with special abilities have been around in literature and films for a very long time. Beings that can transform or move objects with their minds or see the future are from the imaginations of some very creative people and they tend to fascinate audiences who are fixated on these ideas. They also offer a common theme of humans ... Read More

There's Always Vanilla

(Leonard Buccellato) 4/9/2018 5:02 PM EDT
Hot on the heels of the game-changing, and now legendary, Night of the Living Dead, George and his production company, The Latent Image, set out to prove to Hollywood and the cinema world, at large, that they were capable of more, and so they released There's Always Vanilla AKA The Affair.Unlike almost all other Romero films, Vanilla is not a h... Read More

The Greatest Showman

(Judith Raymer) 4/9/2018 2:41 PM EDT
Looking for a film to feed your musical sensibilities and soul that will also keep the younger "Mouseketeers" at your side engaged and entertained? Look no further than the circus! Socialites and royalty mingling with "freaks;" contemporary dance moves in period costumes; 20th Century dialogue and song from 19th Century characte... Read More

The Americans: The Complete Fifth Season

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 4/9/2018 8:45 AM EDT
When one thinks of compelling television, one undoubtedly thinks of FX's The Americans. With the recent start of the sixth and final season, we are once again drawn into the dramatic world of international espionage disguised as normal suburban family life… Or is it the other way around? As we brokenheartedly await ... Read More

Blockers

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 4/5/2018 4:53 PM EDT
Prom night. It's a magical time for teenagers all over the country. They party, dance, do things they shouldn't be doing and plan for a special night they will never forget. For some that includes losing their virginity. It's a "rite of passage" many partake in before they graduate from high school and head off to ... Read More