Posts by Tara Ariano
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Freak Show & Tell: Does Does Someone Have to Go? Have to Go?
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. Does Someone Have to Go? (Fox) Who Is […]
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Video on Demand Report: Steven Soderbergh’s Last Movie, Probably. Maybe.
The Headliner Side Effects According to Steven Soderbergh, this is the last feature film he intends to direct, which I find hard to believe given that, between September 2011 and this one coming out, earlier this year, he directed four movies (and, since his “retirement” hasn’t precluded his making the sublime Behind the Candelabra, premiering […]
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Video on Demand Report: Tackle the 14 Hours of Cloud Atlas in the Comfort of Your Own Home
The Headliner Cloud Atlas If you read the huge story in The New Yorker last fall about the making of Cloud Atlas — three directors, a gigantic budget, a protracted development process — you would probably assume that the final result would be … a mess. And it is. Kind of. Cloud Atlas is based […]
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Freak Show & Tell: Trolls vs. Caves
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. My Crazy Obsession (TLC) Who Is This Now? Michelle. […]
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Video on Demand Report: Give Sparks a Chance With the Not-As-Bad-As-You’d-Think Safe Haven
The Headliner Safe Haven A while back, author Nicholas Sparks explained to Entertainment Weekly that he figures out the plot for his next book by making sure it differs in some significant way from his last: “I just wrote The Lucky One. So the next one won’t be a military story. I know that right […]
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Freak Show & Tell: Just a Little Harmless Naked Morning Stroll
Every week, television documentaries present us with so many unusual people, 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. Wife Swap (ABC) Who Is This Now? Mark. Why […]
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Freak Show & Tell: A Lovingly Illustrated Interspecies Romance
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. What!? I Think I’m An Animal (Logo) Who […]
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Video on Demand Report: It’s Dumpuary All Over Again With the VOD Premiere of Gangster Squad
The Headliner Gangster Squad Gangster Squad was originally supposed to hit theaters last summer, but after the shooting at a Colorado screening of The Dark Knight Rises, Squad was quickly yanked so that it could be edited: Originally, it also featured a shootout in a movie theater. The scene excised, it was rescheduled for January, […]
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Freak Show & Tell: ‘Doggie Palm Reader’ Is a Job That at Least One Woman Has
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. Spoiled Rotten Pets (Nat Geo Wild) Who Is This […]
