Posts by Tara Ariano
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Video on Demand Report: Kick Off Cumberbatch High Season With Star Trek Into Darkness
The Headliner Star Trek Into Darkness It is a truth universally acknowledged that when it comes to Star Trek movies, the even-numbered ones are good and the odd-numbered ones are crap. When J.J. Abrams took over the franchise, of course he must have wanted to put his own stamp on it, so he flipped the […]
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Freak Show & Tell: Family Fight Night
Every week, television documentaries present us with so many unusual people, with so many strange and/or disturbing problems, you might find it hard to keep up with all of them. That’s where I come in! Here’s an unflinching look back at TV’s Week in Freak Shows. Doomsday Castle (NatGeo) Who Is This Now? Brent. Why Are We […]
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Video on Demand Report: Now You Can See Now You See Me
The Headliner Now You See Me For an actor, a role that requires him or her to learn a few sleight-of-hand tricks is probably enticement enough to take a role as a magician; it’s fun, it’s showy, and it’s something to replicate at a party. But the four leads of Now You See Me — […]
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Freak Show & Tell: Observing the Elaborate Dance of Courtship on Tough Love: Co-Ed
Every week, television documentaries present us with so many unusual people, with so many strange and/or disturbing problems, you might find it hard to keep up with all of them. That’s where I come in! Here’s an unflinching look back at TV’s Week in Freak Shows. Tough Love: Co-Ed (VH1) Who Is This Now? Steve. Why Are […]
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Video on Demand Report: Beam The Great Gatsby Into Your Home in Crippling 2-D
The Headliner The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby was probably about due for a new film adaptation: The one from the ’70s, starring Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, and Sam Waterston, is no one’s favorite movie, and today’s high school students trying to get out of their assigned reading deserve a cinematic crib sheet featuring actors […]
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Freak Show & Tell: All's Fair in Love and Civil War Reenactment
Every week, television documentaries present us with so many unusual people, with so many strange and/or disturbing problems, you might find it hard to keep up with all of them. That’s where I come in! Here’s an unflinching look back at TV’s Week in Freak Shows. Extreme Cougar Wives (TLC) Who Is This Now? […]
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Video on Demand Report: The Exceedingly Average Epic Is Here To Babysit Your Kids
The Headliner Epic If kids’ movies have taught us nothing else about scientist parents (and they haven’t), it’s that eventually those scientists are accidentally going to shrink down their kids and send them on a wild adventure dodging gigantic human feet amid intimidatingly tall blades of grass in what used to be a perfectly normal […]
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Freak Show and Tell: The 132 Pounds of Scrotum That Captured a Nation's Imagination
Every week, television documentaries present us with so many unusual people, with so many strange and/or disturbing problems, you might find it hard to keep up with all of them. That’s where I come in! Here’s an unflinching look back at TV’s Week in Freak Shows. The Man With the 132-Pound Scrotum (TLC) Who Is […]
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Video on Demand Report: Your Weekly Chance to Watch Someone Try to Blow Up the White House
The Headliner Olympus Has Fallen In one of those crazy instances of parallel thinking in the film industry, 2013 has already seen the release of not one, but two movies in which terrorists attack the White House and menace the president, and in which only one extraordinary agent can protect our commander-in-chief. Olympus Has Fallen […]
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Freak Show & Tell: Raising the Next Generation of Sad Victoria's Secret Models
Every week, television documentaries present us with so many unusual people, with so many strange and/or disturbing problems, you might find it hard to keep up with all of them. That’s where I come in! Here’s an unflinching look back at TV’s Week in Freak Shows. Raising Fame (TLC) Who Is This Now? Shun. Why […]
