Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
We really hope the Nederlander Theatre isn’t cursed, like we said last week . After the fateful closing of Cromer’s plays, another Chicago show will fill the theater. Million Dollar Quartet , which celebrated its one-year anniversary at the Apollo Theater last Thursday, is making the Broadway transfer in the spring. This power-packed show is a huge Chicago hit, but can it successfully...
The Theater Loop (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Levi Kreis is Jerry Lee Lewis, Rob Lyons is Carl Perkins, Eddie Clendening is Elvis Presley and Lance Guest is Johnny Cash. REVIEW UPDATE: "Million Dollar Quartet" ★★★1/2 Open run at the Apollo Theater, 2540 N. Lincoln Ave.; Running time:...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Catherine Mary Stewart starred in two of the memorable films of 1984 In Nick Castle's THE LAST STARFIGHTER , released in July, she played the girlfriend of intergalactic warrior Lance Guest....
Blogcritics: Video (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
A fun, adventure for young boys. But will it hold up for modern-day children?
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Recommended THE PROGRAM "The Last Starfighter" is not an easy film to review, contrary to its appearance. A relic of the mid 1980s, when put against films released a decade later, it looks laughable in the visual effects department, an area that is vital to a science fiction, adventure film. Yet despite stiff odds, the film holds up as a valid entry into the genre and furthermore as an important...
Transbuddha.com (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
“Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada.” Has it really been 25 years? It seems only yesterday I was sitting in a darkened theater watching The Last Starfighter for the first time. Re-released on DVD and Blu-ray, the film that took a [...]
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Ahoy, squirts! here. Methinks someone high up at Universal is having a bit of Peter Pan complex. There are worse things for an executive to have, for sure... But this is the studio that's working to bring us Candyland and Battleship and now they've jumped from the board game to the classic arcade game. ASTEROIDS: THE MOVIE. Should have been an '80s movie starring Fred Savage and Lance Guest. Alas,...
FJ Girls Female Celebrity News (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
The 63rd Annual Tony Awards were held on Sunday night, June 7 at Radio City Music Hall, New York and this is a big event on the awards calendar attracting the more mature stars and honours those involved in the theatre including dramatics and musicals and is an event for the thespians. Stars that attended the event included [...] Article by FJ from: FJ Girls Female Celebrity News Marcia Gay Harden...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Virtuosic performances aren’t the same thing as precise impersonations. This show is based an the actual night in 1956 when Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash showed up at Sam Phillips’ Sun Studios in Memphis for a jam session—the show contains some two dozen iconic musical numbers. But as the artful director Eric D. Schaeffer clearly understands, fake celebrities...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
On Chicago stages, lighters don't work The world-famous Chicago theater is now the global capital of the broken lighter. You can blame the lack of an artistic exemption in the city's and state's bans on indoor smoking.
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
If you thought the giant dodo birds in Roland Emmerich’s failed epic 10,000 B.C. were a special effects blunder, the Sci-Fi channel and First Look Studios have something you need to see… and the title says it all: Flu Birds. In case you have trouble deciphering the plot from this subtle moniker, it’s about giant birds… that [...]
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
By David Lambert - Harm (David James Elliott, Street Legal), Mac (Catherine Bell, Army Wives) and the crew return to DVD this fall with CBS/Paramount's November 4th release of JAG - The Complete 7th Season.... (more)
IGN (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
An action packed final season for the nut-fueled series.
Gobal free gas (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
Surplus in the Budget; Spend it Quick? As we approach election time we can see that the Republicans and Democrats are arguing over many issues such as global warming and international terrorism. Which one should we fear the most? Is it truly an either or situation or should we continue the war...
io9 (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
The long list of totally unnecessary sequels just got a bit longer. A sequel to 1984's The Last Starfighter is finishing up script revisions, and producers are doing some location scouting. Not only... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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