Entertainment
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The Fault in Our Stars #TFIOS
Hazel and Gus are two extraordinary teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional and a love that sweeps them — and us – on an unforgettable journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous, given that they met and fell in love at a cancer support group. The Fault in Our Stars, based upon the #1 bestselling novel by John Green, explores the funny, thrilling and tragic business of being alive and in love. It’s a truth we all know. We want our happily ever after endings. But we know that happiness on earth is fickle and fleeting. In The Fault in Our Stars, we find that the…
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X-Men: Days of the Future Past
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The beloved characters from the original “X-Men” film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from the past, “X-Men: First Class,” in order to change a major historical event and fight in an epic battle that could save our future. Believe it or not, with this latest entry in the franchise we have 14 years of X-Men pics tucked under our cinematic belts. X-Men: Days of Future Past reunites director Bryan Singer, much of the original cast and newer characters—from earlier sequels and prequels—for one big hard-driving…
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Fed Up Address US Food Addiction
Fed Up is the film the food industry doesn’t want you to see because more of us get sick from what we eat than anyone ever realized. Produced by Katie Couric and Laurie David (An Inconvenient Truth), Fed Up blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss revealing a 30 year campaign by the food industry, subsidized by the US government, to mislead and confuse the American public.There’s not a lot new in Fed Up, a documentary about the nation’s obesity epidemic. But it’s a decent summary of the issue, taking square aim at corporations and politicians. Fed Up personalizes the problem by introducing…
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Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return
Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return is a 3D-animated musical based on the adventure books by Roger Stanton Baum, the great-grandson of L. Frank Baum. A continuation of one of the world’s most popular and beloved fairy tales, Legends of Oz finds Dorothy (Lea Michele) waking to post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends the Scarecrow (Dan Aykroyd), the Lion (Jim Belushi), the Tin Man (Kelsey Grammer) and Glinda (Bernadette Peters) from a devious new villain, the Jester (Martin Short). Wiser the owl (Oliver Platt), Marshal Mallow (Hugh Dancy), China Princess (Megan Hilty) and Tugg the tugboat (Patrick Stewart) join Dorothy on…
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Jonah Wins Our Hearts and Entertains The Whole Family
I have heard a lot about Sight & Sound Theatres. My friend Scott Vann said, “Sight & Sound is on par with the theater experience in NYC.” Well then, I MUST check it out. My family recently took our first trip to Branson, Missouri, and our first stop was to Sight & Sound Theatre, which tells stories from the Bible with a high-tech, spectacular spin. Sight & Sound Theatre gave my family tickets to see their show, “Jonah,” about the man who gets swallowed up by a giant, spectacular fish. There are some huge set pieces in “Jonah,” including an almost life-size ship, a gorgeous underwater world and the imperial fortress city…