Posts by Tara Ariano
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Video on Demand Report: Witness the Triumph of the McConnaissance With ‘Dallas Buyers Club’
Plus looks at ‘About Time,’ ‘Escape Plan,’ ‘Free Birds,’ ‘The Broken Circle Breakdown,’ and ‘Metallica Through the Never.’
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Freak Show & Tell: No Taste Tests in the Drugstore
All the best parts from ‘My Strange Addiction,’ ‘Couples Therapy,’ and ‘Gigolos.’
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Video on Demand: ‘Jackass’ Goes Geriatric in (Oscar-Nominated Film) ‘Bad Grandpa’
Oscar completists can thank VOD for the help in checking another title off their lists this week: Here’s Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, Oscar nominee for Best Makeup And Hairstyling!
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Freak Show & Tell: One Word — Plastics
All the best parts from ‘My Strange Addiction,’ ‘Gigolos,’ and ’90 Day Fiancé.’
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Video on Demand Report: Check Out Tom Hanks’s and Cate Blanchett’s Buzzy Award-Season Performances
Captain Phillips, Blue Jasmine, and All Is Lost make their way to VOD.
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Freak Show & Tell: The Human Diaper Hamper
All the best parts from My Strange Addiction, Couples Therapy, and 90-Day Fiancé.
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Video on Demand Report: Catch Up With Your Most Passionately Defended Oscar Snubs
This week’s slate of VOD releases contains one Oscar nominee (’20 Feet From Stardom’ — see below), a few that were thought to have been contenders (no, not you, ‘Riddick’), and one snub that Slate’s Aisha Harris says “hurts the most”: ‘Fruitvale Station.’
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Freak Show & Tell: Glow-in-the-Dark Boobs
All the best parts from My Strange Addiction, Couples Therapy, and Sex Sent Me to the ER.
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Video on Demand Report: Time to Add ‘The Act of Killing’ to Your Oscar Season Cram Session
The Headliner The Act of Killing A breakthrough hit for documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer (that one of its executive producers is Werner Herzog probably doesn’t hurt), The Act of Killing tells the story of Anwar Congo and Adi Zulkadry, the notorious heads of a North Sumatran death squad believed to have been responsible for more […]
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Freak Show & Tell: Don’t Drink Paint, Kids (Also, Don’t Eat Your Mattress)
My Strange Addiction (TLC) Who Is This Now? Heather. Why Are We Watching Her? She’s addicted to drinking paint. How Did She Get Here? Shortly after her mother died, Heather was cleaning out a desk and found a paint pen. She was attracted to the smell and suddenly had the urge to taste it. Since […]
