While many Hollywood denizens were putting the finishing touches on their hair and makeup to head out to the Jan. 13 Golden Globes ceremony, filmmaker Judd Apatow was planning a surprise for a wounded OIF/OEF veteran. On Feb. 20, 2012,
Senator Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) latest report on spending by the Department of Defense shows, among other things, defense spending used for a lecture series involving fictional alien species. “Did Jesus Die for Klingons too?” was just one session at a
“Act of Valor,” the based-on-real-events film featuring active duty Navy SEALs, follows a Navy SEAL team as they travel around the world, tracking a developing terrorist plot from South America, to Africa, and finally to the US-Mexico border. The choice
After hitting a legendary high score, 14-year-old video game fiend Reggie King is contacted by the creators of his favorite game to participate in a focus group. So goes Sean Austin’s new young adult novel “Echo’s Revenge,” a satisfying slice
The military spouse community is abuzz with news that CBS is seeking out military widows for a new dating reality show. Emails similar to this one have been sent to dozens of milspouse bloggers: Greetings! My name is [redacted], and
Director Cameron Crowe’s “We Bought a Zoo” is the fictionalized retelling of Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon), a successful journalist suddenly becoming a single father following the death of his wife. His young teen son, Dylan, has turned to morbid artwork
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To me, Zooey Deschanel will always be DG from SyFy’s “Tin Man” series. I love her perky cuteness enough to have lasted through three whole episodes of her yawner Fox sitcom “New Girl.” And I wish I had her hair.
Recently Jamie Lee Curtis wrote a piece in The Huffington Post regarding the passing of Whitney Houston. Titled “Blame it on the Fame Game?” Curtis makes the point that, though celebrities get the most notoriety for struggling with substance abuse, addiction is
The 2011 thriller “In Time” tells the dystopian science fiction story of a world where time means everything. Social classes are not determined by income, but by the amount of time a person can live. The humans are genetically engineered
Can a young FBI analyst catch a Soviet serial killer before becoming his next victim? In “The Double,” out this week on DVD, a U.S. Senator is assassinated in a style unique to a Soviet Cold War-era serial killer dubbed
FOX’s newest hit show gives viewers an unusual look at a familiar subject. In the show’s version of history, when Alcatraz Prison was shut down in 1963, its prisoner population disappeared into thin air before they could be transferred to
“What’s Your Number?” (or as it’s known in France, “Sex List”) stars Anna Faris as Ally, a twenty-something woman in Boston who reads in a magazine that after a woman has had 20 lovers, her odds of marriage are basically
Is it really important for our next President to be against Iran developing nuclear weapons? Or is the scientific development of other countries none of our business ? Author Joel C. Rosenberg’s latest series, which began with “The Twelfth Imam”
What if the government tracking your every move could be a good thing? The new CBS series “Person of Interest” poses that intriguing question with mostly satisfying results. To “the machine,” you’re just a number – a Social Security number.
The Enchanted Forest kingdom, land of fairy tales, is about to fall under a curse from the Evil Queen in ABC’s new Sunday night series “Once Upon a Time.” Snow White learns through a prophecy that her child will one
If you’re any fan of Alexander Dumas’ novel ‘The Three Musketeers,’ save yourself the aneurism and pass on its latest screen incarnation. (Warning: There will be spoilers) The new ‘Musketeers’ opens with a prologue where the famous Three – Athos
Ed. Note: Please welcome Jaci, make her feel welcome, and encourage her return — JN “What happened to you?” “I joined the Army.” When I first heard the nebulous “they” were making a movie about Captain America I was cautiously