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Author :: Audrey Lizee  |
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| Article Title :: Reality TV Bytes |
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| Remember when…we watched TV shows with real actors and real script in an attempt to escape reality. Nowadays, our TV listings are becoming more inundated with staged “reality-based” programs. Why has this type of programming reached such epidemic proportions? What are viewers getting out of them? Where are producers going with it and when will it end?Actually, reality television is not really about reality. According to Dr. William Beard, professor of film and media studies, University of Alberta, “realism is the most misused word in the lexicon of film. Video realism is a store security camera, yet nobody wants to watch that.” He explains that, what ‘reality’ TV of (read full article) |
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Author :: Duane Shinn |
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| Article Title :: "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" - Einstein Would Have Loved It! |
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| In the popular movie “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, author C.S. Lewis created the imaginary land of Narnia, where 4 children encounter time travel and discover the forces of both good and evil, and take a much greater part in that battle than they had ever dreamed possible.Set during World War 2, four siblings Lucy, Peter, Susan and Edmund are moved to the county because of the bombing in London, and begin to explore the big house that is their temporary new home. In a back room of the house is a large wardrobe filled with many coats. The youngest sister, Lucy, runs into the wardrobe to hide from the other kids, and in so doing discovers that the back of the wardrobe (read full article) |
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| Category :: Movies Articles |
Author :: Rod Collins |
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| Article Title :: Casino Royale - The 21st James Bond Movie |
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| Casino Royale, the 21st James Bond film, is due to start shooting shortly and is to be released November 2006.
It is already a hot topic amongst fans of the 007 franchise, with the new Bond, Daniel Craig, generating much debate amongst fans.Fans of the original Ian Fleming books will be hoping for a more authentic portrayal of both the character and the book.
The producers seem to have been reluctant to take a risk with the formula in the past, presumably for purely financial reasons.
The time has come now were they, perhaps, have no choice other than to bring in a new era.We hope to see a more realistic and gritty film, less gadgets and explosions, more dialogue and le (read full article) |
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Author :: Marty Gallagher |
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| Article Title :: Why "The Biggest Loser" Is The Biggest Loser |
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| 1. Where’s my Hollywood Mansion? Contestants of the Biggest Loser reality fitness show are moved into a Hollywood Mansion for three months. It is undoubtedly a heck of a lot easier to maintain fitness focus when you’re sequestered in a Mansion for 12-weeks. Plus the cash incentive is huge: the winner banks $250,000. Cash and isolation make it far easier to maintain a commitment to the transformation process. Participants are not bothered with any of life’s distractions: work, family, stress and dilemmas.2. Beat the hell out of them -- Whoever dreamed up the training regimen for this torture-fest ought to be indicted as a war criminal. If US Army personnel subjected Guantanamo (read full article) |
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Author :: Brian Kohlmeier |
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| Article Title :: The Illusion of Home Makeovers |
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| With so much misery going on in the world, it’s nice to have a feel-good escape from it all. Television has always been a good diversion, but lately it seems the schedule has been inundated with gross-out procedural dramas that involve examining dead bodies… not exactly my idea of feel-good entertainment. One show that succeeds in the mission of creating a warm fuzzy is “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” A family facing hard times and receiving a glorious new house always tugs at the heartstrings and delivers with a happy ending. While this program provides great escapism, I find it very flawed and, at times, wonder if the producers think the viewing audience is made up of idiots. (read full article) |
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Author :: Robert Baird |
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| Article Title :: Why Are There SO Many Atlantis TV Shows? |
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| Atlantis – A Myth to Cover-up Our Roots:We have seen Troy and the Hyksos Sea People were A-Mu in the time of Troy III, and we know that 'A' in Greek reverses the meaning of a word when used as a prefix; this adds another possibility to the issue of who the Hyksos were and whether the Phoenician 'Brotherhood' was still the main purpose of these people at this time. The civilization of Mu or Lemuria ('the Mu people', in French) had gone to a watery grave during the end of the last glacial stage. The Chinese word for grave or perhaps the end of Mu in another context is 'Mu', with another of those pesky accents that I especially deplore when typing. Thus A-Mu might mean 'not in (read full article) |
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| Category :: Movies Articles |
Author :: David Skul |
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| Article Title :: Privacy of Celebrities |
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| Enjoying your afternoon tea in your home alone with your favorite muffins? Imagine Justin Timberlake doing just that. Well, it can be almost impossible.Being a celebrity means you are now a public property. You can no longer walk alone in the malls. You cannot sip your drinks during breakfast alone anymore. People will scream around you and fight for your autograph. It is hard to walk around without people interrupting you now and then for autograph. That has not included paparazzi snapping your pictures.Snapping picture of you filling up the petrol is not dangerous, right?Picture this. You are a celebrity. You have tons of fans. They went to your concert and stay for (read full article) |
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Author :: Timothy Stelly Sr |
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| Article Title :: Film Noir Legends: Bette Davis, Claire Trevor, Eleanor Parker, and John Huston |
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| When it comes to cinema, I love those made during the 40’s and 50’s when in my view, films were made not so much for their profitability, but for the art itself and the messages contained within. As a kid I would watch the local version of The Sunday Matinee Movie and became familiar with actors such as Humphrey Bogart, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and others. This was the era of “film noir” which is defined as movies that are symbolized by dimly-lit sets, a bleak setting and center on stories about corrupt and cynical characters. The plots of these films often revolve around an anti-hero, a crime (and subsequent moral dilemma), and a romantic interest for the films central characte (read full article) |
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| Category :: Movies Articles |
Author :: Nicky VanValkenburgh |
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| Article Title :: Movie Reviews for "Chronicles of Narnia" & "Chicken Little" |
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| Have you ever started reading C.S. Lewis’ “The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,” and lost interest after a couple of chapters? If so, push these objections aside like the children do to the fur coats in the closet. “Chronicles of Narnia” is about four kids discovering that their closet is a portal into a magical world. They step into a riveting world of talking beavers, fauns, goblins and other half man-half animal characters—all enslaved by a wicked witch—who makes life a perpetual winter. “Two sons of Adam, and two daughters of Eve,” who turn out to be the children themselves, must break the curse. They’re really just ordinary kids, but in Narnia’s mystica (read full article) |
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Author :: Steve Singleton |
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| Article Title :: Lion, Witch, Wardrobe, and Gospel: Narnia as Christian Allegory |
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| The Chronicles of Narnia, a seven-volume saga for children by C. S. Lewis, reveals a world that exists parallel to our own, populated by men and women, dwarves and talking animals, giants and merpeople, centaurs and fauns, and ruled by a kind but awesomely ferocious and gigantic lion named Aslan. Lewis, who died on the same day as JFK, November 22, 1963, combined the three passions of his life—classical mythology, medieval lore, and Christian-based philosophy—to create in Narnia a microcosm of the moral struggles our own world faces.Characters and plotAlong with Aslan himself, the heroes of the Narnia books are the four Pevensie children, Peter, Susan (read full article) |
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