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Hey kids, you know what? This year’s Tribeca Film Festival is right around the corner, starting on April 21, and tonight is the first of two volunteer outreach info sessions at Tribeca Cinemas. If you have any interest in participating with this year’s festival, you should visit the Volunteer web page. The festival simply couldn’tContinue reading “YOU KNOW YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO VOLUNTEER AT A FILM FESTIVAL — YES YOU DO; DON’T HIDE IT”

Last August I got very excited due to the release of “The Martin Scorsese Collection” on DVD from Warner Video. Well today, MGM releases another box set they’re calling “The Martin Scorsese Film Collection” with four different Scorsese pictures including the new 25th Anniversary 2-disc DVD release of his masterpiece Raging Bull. Collectively, the Warner’sContinue reading “DON’T STOP WITH THE BULL: ANOTHER SCORSESE BOX SET ARRIVES FOR VIEWING”

Maybe we’ve come to expect too much. I mean, it’s the most watched television event every year, and over the last two decades, people tend to expect more from the commercials than from the Super Bowl itself. If the game blows, at least the commercials were decent. But no matter how good the game actuallyContinue reading “THE SUPER BOWL: IT SEEMS THE ONLY THING PHILLY COULD BEAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE ADS”

It seems that the next James Bond film will, in fact, be the one fans of author Ian Fleming’s original novels have long been waiting for — an adaptation of the author’s first and most character-driven novel, Casino Royale! This news was announced along with the fact that the adaptation will likely be ruined byContinue reading “JAMES BOND NEWS: WHO KNEW E! HAD BETTER JOURNALISTIC ABILITIES THAN VARIETY?”

I just got back from the Arcade Fire show at Irving Plaza. While the band sounded great, the room was so packed and there were enough taller people than my average 5′ 10″-ish self, that I suddenly knew how all the shorter (usually female) members of the audience must feel most of the time goingContinue reading “OFTEN NOT BEING ABLE TO SEE THE FIRE THROUGH THE HEADS, IT ALL BECAME CLEAR WHEN ONE STARTED TALKING”

I know we’re all Johnny Carson’d to death (no pun intended) at this point, and I don’t want to suddenly sound like a Jay Leno basher, because actually I tend to watch neither Leno nor Letterman most evenings. But last night’s Late Night With Conan O’Brien was all the proof NBC should need that theyContinue reading “CAN WE JUST FLASH FORWARD TO THE TONIGHT SHOW 2009 PLEASE?”

Tonight at 10:30 PM on MTV is the episode of The Ashlee Simpson Show for which we’ve all been waiting: Ashlee is going to “sing” on Saturday Night Live. Then she’s going to unintentionally “dance” on SNL before racing off the stage to hide her embarrassment. at the now-infamous lip-syncing revelation. (Sorry … “backing vocalContinue reading “DiVo ALERT: WHAT COULD BE MORE FUN THAN RELIVING ASHLEE SIMPSON’S FAVORITE TV MOMENT”

OK, that may be a bit of exaggeration at this point, but the news in Variety today that NBC has cut the season order on American Dreams from an already lower-than-normal 19 to only 17 episodes (sub req’d) is not a good sign for the future of this great Sunday night family drama. I’ve madeContinue reading “SAVE THIS SHOW: THESE DREAMS DESERVE TO REMAIN ALIVE”

David Letterman was on vacation last week, so it wasn’t until last night’s Late Show that he was able to address the death of his mentor, idol and hero, Johnny Carson. The contrast between Letterman’s appreciation for the former king of late night and the one presented last week by current Tonight Show host JayContinue reading “LETTERMAN’S HEARTFELT TRIBUTE PROVES WHY HE, NOT LENO, IS THE REAL LATE-NIGHT HEIR”

It’s January, which means that unless you’re catching-up with the major film awards contenders, your choices at the cinema become more and more limited by the week. January brings the dregs of theatrical releases, the major studios relative throwaways that most likely would flop against most good competition the rest of the year. But thisContinue reading “A 25TH BIRTHDAY PRESENT TO US: THE REAL BOXING CHAMP”