COVER FEATURE

Dwayne Johnson Is Hard-pressed To Leave His “Rock” Persona In The Dust Despite his determined public relations efforts to play down his wrestling alter ego The Rock, Dwayne Johnson, has solidified himself as a global box office success with gross film revenues in excess of 2.1 billion dollars worldwide. That’s a lot of pebbles. Born into a family of unique entertainers, Johnson had the opportunity...

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The end of the year hype is practically over. We’ve suffered through a cold blast of calculated movie technology with Tom Cruise’s new “Mission Impossible” installment. Cruise’s alpha male stunts in the film are impressive but if you want real exhilaration it would have had to be a pair of tickets to Hugh Jackman’s “Back on Broadway” concert show at the Broadhurst Theatre that...

Christmas Cover Feature

Neil Patrick Harris Plays An Extreme Version of Himself In “A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas” The Neil Patrick Harris story goes something like this; He returns to the “Harold & Kumar” franchise having previously appeared in “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” and “Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay.” Earlier this year he starred in the global smash hit...

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Bette Midler & Other Irrelevant Divas! There we were in the lobby of The Palace Theatre during intermission for “Priscilla Queen of the Desert.” All gay sensibility aside the crowd seemed very tourist-mainstream (straight?). Considering that “Priscilla” had a built-in homosexual base it confounded the senses that the gay cognoscenti seemed to be ignoring this incredibly relevant...

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Harry Connick, Jr: With A Wink And A Smile 43-year-old Grammy and Emmy Award Winner and star of the new Warner Bros. film “Dolphin Tale,” Harry Connick, Jr. dragged himself away from his home in Connecticut and former Victoria Secret model wife and their children to do some publicity chores for his new family movie. The movie about the mammal with a prosthetic fin opened to generally warm...

Disc & That

Mary J.Blige
“My Life II” The Journey Continues (Act 1)

She’s been called “Queen of Hip Hop Soul” and Mary J.Blige has forged a unique niche for herself on her follow-up album to 1994’s “My Life.” “My Life II” exposes a more personal musical interplay with songs like “Ain’t Nobody” a cover of the Chaka Kahn hit and the Theme Song to “The Help,” “Living [...]

DJ Spotlight

DJ Bryan Thomas’s
Top10

Rihanna – You Da One (Almighty Club Mix) — Capital Records Madonna and LmFao with Nicki Minaj – give me all your luvin’ (LmFao mix) — Interscope Mark Simmons, Polina, Tom Geiss – Dream On (A.C.K. & Love N Joy Remix) — Recovery House Devolution Ft. Amy Pears – Good Love (Alesso Remix) — One [...]

Screening Room

I Am
(Shady Acres Entertainment)

Director/Writer Tom Shadyac seems fixated on proving that the world is on the wrong track. Through some inspired filmmaking here the director of films like “Bruce Almighty” and “The Nutty Professor” exhibits his serious side and proceeds to show us the serious side of what ails the universe. The dialogue that he sets up between [...]

DVD Corner

Crutch
(Ariztical/$14.95)

David (Eben Gordon) feels a strong attraction to his acting coach Kenny (Rob Moretti). The chemistry at play here is not merely lustful and turns sinister before long. Based on incidents in director/co-writer Moretti’s own life “Crutch” wobbles rather unsteadily towards its twelve step message and then retreats into