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Let’s be honest, when someone mentions Michael J. Fox, your brain probably jumps straight to Back to the Future. The red vest, the DeLorean, that wild “Great Scott!” energy… it’s iconic, and so is he. Marty McFly basically defined a generation. But here’s the thing: Michael J. Fox didn’t stop being awesome after time travel.

He’s been out here delivering underrated bangers, low-key gems, and performances that hit way harder than you’d expect. Comedy? Drama? Even animated voice work? He’s done it all, and chances are, you’ve missed a few of his best roles just because they didn’t involve a flux capacitor.

So if you’ve only seen him skateboarding through Hill Valley, buckle up, we’re about to dive into some seriously good Michael J. Fox movies that deserve their own moment in the spotlight. Trust us, there’s way...

Released in 1995, Tommy Boy has gone on to become a comedy movie staple and cult classic. Starring Saturday Night Live castmates and close friends David Spade and Chris Farley, the film played off of their undeniable chemistry and likely wouldn't work if one person were taken out of the equation. This could be why a sequel never came to fruition, given the passing of Farley in 1997 from a drug overdose at the age of 33. Still, that didn't stop Spade from receiving a pitch for a sequel, and he's now revealing his response to a potential Tommy Boy follow-up.

During an appearance on Theo Von's podcast, This Past Weekend, Spade reveals that he was pitched an idea for Tommy Boy 2, and it's something he turned down without hesitation because he can't imagine a sequel without Farley. Not only were Spade and Farley co-stars in the film, they also shared the...

The very concept of aliens plays on our collective fear of the unknown; there’s no telling what horrors await in the cosmos. While there are plenty of horror movies that explore that horror by sending humans into space, alien invasion horror movies induce paranoia, tension, and fear by bringing extraterrestrials earthbound to invade in various unsettling ways.

It’s home invasion horror on a massive scale, with humanity often facing apocalyptic doom against the threat of intelligent life from beyond our galaxy.

This week’s streaming picks are dedicated to alien invasion horror movies that unsettle for the eerie, inhuman invaders and their even creepier means of assimilation.

As always, here’s where you can watch them this week.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers – Hoopy, Kanopy, MGM+

This update of the 1956 sci-fi film Invasion of the Body Snatchers is regarded...

A new episode of the Black Sheep video series has just been released, and in this one we’re paying tribute to the late, great Donald Sutherland by taking a look back at the 1994 sci-fi horror film The Puppet Masters (watch it Here)! You can hear all about it by checking out the video embedded above.

Directed by Stuart Orme, who is quite a prolific TV and music video director (best known for his collaborations with Phil Collins), from a screenplay by Hollywood heavy hitters Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio (The Pirates of the Caribbean) and David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight), The Puppet Masters was based on a novel by Robert A. Heinlein and has the following synopsis: An alien spacecraft sets down in rural Iowa, and top-secret government agents Andrew Nivens and his son, Sam, are sent to investigate. Coming along is NASA biologist Mary Sefton, and together they...

The Good Doctor welcomes Peter Jacobson as a new cast member, adding to the exciting crossover appeal with House alumni. Fans can expect Jacobson's guest appearance in Season 7, Episode 2, bringing a unique sense of nostalgia and familiarity to the show. While the possibility of a Hugh Laurie cameo may be slim, The Good Doctor continues to engage audiences with familiar faces from House.

The Good Doctor is adding another House cast member to its ensemble, which is incredible news for audiences that admire both medical dramas. However, in some ways, the news is also a reminder of the fact that it may be too late for another highly-demanded House cameo in The Good Doctor. This makes the arrival of the House star bittersweet, giving audiences mixed feelings of excitement surrounding the new actor's appearance and longing for the one star who may never make a cameo.

In its seven-season runtime,...

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Sleigh bells ring and it’s that time of year again, with Hallmark’s “Countdown to Christmas” officially underway. The annual holiday event features all-new Hallmark Christmas movies premiering on the Hallmark Channel on TV and — love ’em or hate ’em — the films have become a beloved holiday tradition for millions of viewers each year.

This year, viewers can also get into the festive films by streaming Hallmark holiday movies online.

It's time to start getting in the Christmas spirit - at least, according to the Hallmark Channel, which released its full slate of holiday movies on Sept. 19. This year's crop of films features a number of new faces and fresh plots to immerse you in the scent of pine trees and the sound of Christmas carols, as well as some relatively familiar faces, such as John Travolta's sister Ellen, who stars in "Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up."

Hallmark will begin airing its holiday movies on Oct. 20, starting with "Checkin' It Twice," a romance that follows a real estate agent who falls in love with a hockey player. The 40 films will air on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 8 p.m. Et, with additional features also airing every Thursday on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel, with a few exceptions. Hallmark first began airing its Countdown to Christmas movies in...

Don’t look now, but it is getting very close to the most wonderful time of the year. Yes, the holidays are still a few months away, but holiday movie season is just around the corner. Yesterday, Great American Family announced its Great American Christmas programming slate, and on Tuesday, the Hallmark Channel did the same announcing their expansive “Countdown to Christmas” lineup of original films that will take place on both the flagship cable network as well as sibling channel Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (which hosts the annual Miracles of Christmas lineup) and direct-to-consumer (Dtc) streaming service Hallmark Movies Now.

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Hallmark is delivering 40 brand-new original films across its multiple platforms with new movies premiering on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night all season long. The festivities will kick off on Friday, Oct. 20 and will run around the clock throughout the holiday season.

Hallmark has revealed that it will have 40 all-new, original movies for both its flagship channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, as well as special content for Hallmark Movies Now, the company’s subscription streaming service.

Even though the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes impacted TV and film productions, Hallmark anticipated the labor dispute by getting a head start on production in Canada. “Christmas is a year-round business at Hallmark, so we were able to mitigate early in the year understanding that the strikes were unfortunately imminent,” Lisa Hamilton Daly, EVP of programming at Hallmark Media, was recently quoted as saying. “We’re grateful to meet all our goals for a full, all-new holiday slate and to bring our viewers the content they love most to celebrate the season.”

Holiday programming kicks off Friday, Oct. 20 with the channel’s Countdown to Christmas and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries’ Miracles of Christmas.

Among the...

Hallmark delivers countless great movies year-round, and now, it's time for some Christmas content.

That's right, folks, the Countdown to Christmas and Miracles of Christmas schedule has been revealed.

That means Hallmark's cable networks will have you covered with plenty of content over the next few months.

All of your favorite stars are back, and there are some match-ups we're excited to see.

Check out the complete list of movies below.

Friday, October 20 - Checkin’ It Twice

Stars: Kim Matula (Ghosts of Christmas Always), Kevin McGarry (When Calls the Heart)

A journeyman hockey player (McGarry) falls for a real estate agent (Matula) in a career crisis when he’s traded to her hometown and moves into the cottage in her hockey loving family’s backyard.

Saturday, October 21 - Where Are You, Christmas?

Stars: Lyndsy Fonseca (How I Met Your Mother), Michael Rady (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants), Jim O’Heir...

In the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Booby Trap", the Enterprise-D discovered -- floating in a vast asteroid field -- an ancient Promellian battle cruiser, a ship that had been built 1,000 years earlier. Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) mentions that the cruiser was engaging in space battles when Earth was barely perfecting the crossbow and that he -- an archaeology buff -- used to build models of similar ships as a boy. The Promellians, he explains, were once engaged in a costly and prolonged war with a species called the Menthars. The Promellian/Menthar war entirely wiped out both species a millennium ago, and derelict ships from the conflict are quite rare indeed. 

"Star Trek" typically espouses a pointed pacifist philosophy, but one might find that the franchise also contains numerous characters who are fascinated by the history of combat and antique weapons of war. It's telling, however, that...

Blue Finch Barbarians Sales

UK sales and distribution outfit Blue Finch Films has struck some key territory deals on Barbarians, the directing debut of British filmmaker Charles Dorfman, who also penned the script. The film has sold to the Middle East (Front Row), Scandinavia (NonStop Entertainment) and will join the Sky Original film line-up on Sky Cinema in the UK and Ireland on April 3. The pic previously sold to the U.S. with IFC Midnight, which will release the film in theaters and on demand on April 1. Barbarians stars Iwan Rheon (Game Of Thrones), Tom Cullen (Downton Abbey), Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full Of Grace), Connor Swindells (Sex Education) and Inès Spiridonov (Section Zero). It follows two couples celebrating a birthday at an intimate dinner party. As the night progresses, secrets begin to unravel, and an unexpected knock at the door sends the evening of celebration into a dark night of terror.

No amount of talking points could prepare Shaun for dinner with Lea’s parents on Monday’s episode of The Good Doctor. No, that “predictable disaster” went exactly as Lea had feared.

For starters, Lea’s mom Pam (Nip/Tuck‘s Julie Warner) essentially asked Shaun if being autistic makes his job more difficult. And because that wasn’t awful enough, her dad, Mike (Riverdale‘s Barclay Hope), went and asked Shaun for his opinion on vaccines — even though there’s no link between autism and vaccines. To alleviate the tension, Dr. Murphy interjected with an anecdote about a terminal...

Will WandaVision peddle secrets in its commercials? Is Lucifer‘s Dan due to make a deal with the you-know-what? Which 9-1-1 fireman has caught a “Covid crush”? Read on for answers to those questions plus teases from other shows!

Any scoop about WandaVision? –MattB

Though Falcon and the Winter Soldier was always supposed to to be the first Marvel series from Disney+ (but now will premiere two months after WandaVision), that change-up did not present any meaningful continuity issues. “In a year, after you’ve seen all the shows and movies that we’ve made, there are a few super-tiny things that,...

This is one for the C-movie connoisseurs among you.

For those of you who don’t know (you won’t), there’s a new sci-fi spoof on the way called Unbelievable!!!!! It stars Snoop Dogg, 42 former Star Trek actors, Michael Madsen, and a ficus on a skateboard. That ought to answer all of your questions.

In the can for what appears to have been an eternity (some of the footage dates back as far as 2013), the film does at last have a release date. I say at last, but I’m not sure it was at the top of anyone’s list of movie treasure troves. Anyway, if you’re feeling particularly trashy (there’s no shame in that), sit down for Unbelievable!!!!! in an online premiere this August 1st. The premiere will also come with a virtual convention.

Two more items on the agenda to go through. One is the trailer,...

Indie Rights has acquired domestic distribution rights to Unbelievable!!!!!, the Steven L. Fawcette-helmed sci-fi film that stars Snoop Dogg and over forty former Star Trek cast members from the movies and TV series. The company will also launch foreign sales at the Virtual Cannes Film Market on June 24.

The pic stars Kirk Stillwood, a puppet created by the Chiodo Brothers. It follows the crazy exploits of four off-beat astronauts (one is a marionette) who travel to the Moon on a rescue mission to determine the fate of two Space Agency comrades who have not been heard from in several days. The individuals they find at the Lunar Base are not who they appear to be and, through acts of trickery and deception, nearly succeed in killing them. Soon the astronauts find themselves trying to save the Earth from Plant Aliens!

Additional co-stars include Michael Madsen, and Gilbert Gottfried, with cameos from Robert Davi,...

Happy anniversary, Tommy Boy! The comedy turned 25 years old on Tuesday. The film opened in theaters on March 31, 1995. Chris Farley, who passed away just two and a half years after the release, and David Spade starred in the movie. Rob Lowe, Dan Aykroyd, Bo Derek, Brian Dennehy and Julie Warner appeared in it, as well. For those who haven't seen the movie, the flick begins with Tommy (Farley) barely graduating from college and returning to his hometown in Sandusky, Ohio, where his dad (Dennehy) owns an auto parts plant. Tommy is immediately given a job with a big office and shown the company's new brake pads division. His father also announces he's getting married to Beverly...

Robert Heinlein’s frighteningly brilliant sci-fi horror concept spawned an entire generation of biological invasions from outer space. Stuart Orme’s faithful, authorized adaptation has a lot going for it, including sensationally good, gloppy special makeup effects, and a commanding performance from a dour, authoritative Donald Sutherland.

The Puppet Masters

Blu-ray

Kl Studio Classics

1994 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 109 min. / Street Date December 4, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Donald Sutherland, Julie Warner, Eric Thal, Keith David, Will Patton, Richard Belzer, Tom Mason, Yaphet Kotto, Marshall Bell.

Cinematography: Clive Tickner

Film Editor: William Goldenberg

Original Music: Colin Towns

Special Makeup Effects: Greg Cannom, Larry Odien

Written by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, David S. Goyer from the book by Robert A. Heinlein

Produced by Ralph Winter

Directed by Stuart Orme

Paranoid conspiracy movies got an early hold in film noir but really took off in early science fiction, abetted by rumors (and some evidence...

Stuart Orme’s The Puppet Masters, starring Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner, Keith David, and Will Patton will be getting the special edition Blu-ray treatment this December via Kino Lorber. You can check out the cover art to the right and the special features below and then make sure to hit us up and let […]

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It’s a Trekkie delight. No idea why so many Star Trek actors thought this was a great idea, but they did. Snoop Dogg seems to be the furthest thing away from sci-fi as you can get, but he’s one of the stars Unbelievable, a parody film that uses a puppet for James T. Kirk. Watch the trailer for below.

The original score was written/composed by Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated Gerald Fried — the last living composer from the original Star Trek series.

Snoop Dogg executive produced the film from writer-director Steven Fawcette that also stars Nichelle Nichols (who also co-produced), Angelique Fawcette (also a producer), Michael Madsen and Robert Davi. Also in the film are Casper Smart, Sam Asghari, Gilbert Gottfried and newcomer Katarina Van Derham.

Here are some of the 40-plus Star Trek actors who also appear: Garrett Wang, Chase Masterson Tim Russ, Armin Shimerman, Vaughn Armstrong, Gary Graham,...

Title: Breaking Through XLrator Media Director: John Swetnam Writer: John Swetnam Cast: Sophia Aguiar, Jay Ellis, Marissa Heart, Bruna Marquezine, Taeko McCarroll, Jordan Rodrigues, Robert Roldan, Julie Warner, Lindsey Stirling. Performances by Les Twins, The Poreotics and Anitta Running Time: 101 minutes Rated: Not Rated (mild language and implied sexuality) Theatrical, VOD and iTunes release date: October 9, 2015 Available on DVD – Nov. 3, 2015 Casey (Sophia Aguiar) and her dance crew/friends Jj (Jordan Rodrigues), Drew (Robert Roldan), Tara (Marissa Heart), and Michelle (Taeko McCarroll) have been uploading dozens of videos of their dance choreography on YouTube , only to garner 28 views and one comment. Casey works a [ Read More ]

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The Enterprise rescues a mysterious patient in this week's Star Trek: Tng look-back. Here's James' take on Transfigurations...

This review contains spoilers.

3.25 Transfigurations

The Enterprise is enjoying some quiet time (Picard's phrase, not mine) so Geordie and Worf are hanging out in Ten Forward. Geordi is trying to catch the attention of Christy Henshaw, but is too shy to go and talk to her. When La Forge tries to stop Worf staring, Worf advises him that "you must let her see the fire in your eyes" - apparently oblivious to Geordi's lack of visible eyes.

This awkwardness is interrupted when Riker calls Geordi away, and the two head to a planet to investigate a crashed vessel. It's an escape pod with one badly injured survivor. They need to transport him to the ship, but his brain is too damaged and can't take the strain. Crusher rigs up the tricorder to...

Diving deep into the lives of soccer moms, AOL recently debuted the second season of “Little Women, Big Cars.”

The series produced by Vuguru returns with 19 comedy-filled webisodes starring Amy Yasbeck, Julie Warner, Kristy Swanson and Antonio Sabato Jr.

“Little Women, Big Cars” follows a group of women taking on the challenges of suburbia along with all the hurdles included in parenting and marriage.

According to Vuguru CEO Larry Tanz, "We had a really successful Season 1, with lots of positive comments from viewers like 'When's the next one coming?’ So we decided to amp it up."

Check out the series in the player above and share your thoughts below!

One of AOL's biggest series is bringing back its big cars in a big way. Little Women, Big Cars, which follows four soccer moms as they navigate their suburban lives, has returned for a second season on the site's AOL On video portal. The four titular little women are played by actresses Amy Yasbeck, Julie Warner, Kristy Swanson, and Anita Barone, and each one must navigate her own network of current husbands, ex-husbands, boyfriends, daughters, soccer practices, minivans, and all the other elements that compose the lifestyle of your average stay-at-home soccer mom. All nineteen episodes have been released via AOL On Parenting, where they can be viewed in a single, two hour long binge. The first season of Little Women, Big Cars was an instant hit for AOL. Its seventeen installments also saw simultaneous release to the tune of more than 2 million views in just 11 days.

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After Michael Eisner made his pitch to online video advertisers at the AOL Digital Content NewFront in New York City, the newly promoted CEO of his multi-platform independent studio Vuguru took the stage. Larry Tanz addressed the audience of advertisers, brand representatives, and reporters before showing off a pair of online originals he noted would soon debut on On AOL, the internet portal’s shiny new video destination. One of those originals was Little Women Big Cars, a Vuguru original series directed by Melanie Mayron, created by Sherry Coben (Kate & Allie), and starring an ensemble cast headlined by Amy Yasbeck (Wings, Hot in Cleveland), Kristy Swanson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Psych), Romy Rosemont (Glee), Julie Warner (Crash, Nip/Tuck), Ed Begley Jr. (Portlandia, The New Adventures of Old Christine) and Antonio Sabato Jr. (Melrose Place, The Bold and the Beautiful). It’s about four moms navigating the comedy, drama, and associated gossip of PTA meetings,...

Today the trailer for Leap Year - the startup-focused dramedy and example of branded entertainment that works - debuted at the Mashable Connect conference in Orlando, Florida. Mashable's Svp Content & Executive Editor Adam Ostrow sat down with Leap Year creator Wilson Cleveland, Founder of Cjp Digital and Hunter Hoffman, Head of Us Communications at Hiscox (Leap Year's underwriter, so to speak), to discuss what lies ahead for our friends at C3D. Season 2 boasts cameos by well-known entrepreneurs including TechStars' David Tisch from and Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian. (Ostrow also appeared in the first season of the series, playing himself in a critical role.) Upcoming episodes will feature guest stars Eliza Dushku, Craig Bierko, Joshua Malina, Julie Warner, Steven Weber, and former Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-star Emma Caulfield

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One of the hottest web-series just got even more caliente, as Eliza Dushku is booked to guest star on dramedy Leap Year. Actress/Producer Eliza Dushku (Dollhouse, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) will guest star on three episodes of the upcoming second season of Leap Year, the award-winning online original series about the founders of Silicon Valley.s hottest startup, C3D. According to the producers, Dushku is set to recur throughout the season as 'June Pepper,' an eccentric computer hacker turned startup executive who has a history with C3D lead engineer Bryn (Alexis Boozer) and tangles with recruiter Derek (Wilson Cleveland) and ladykiller CEO Jack (Drew Lanning). Dushku joins previously-announced guest stars Craig Bierko, Joshua Malina, Julie Warner, Steven Weber...

Leap Year fans are in for a surprise—Eliza Dushku, star of acclaimed fan favorite series Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, Tru Calling and films like Bring It On and City by the Sea, is guest starring in on the upcoming second season. Dushku will recur over three episodes as June Pepper, an eccentric computer hacker turned startup executive. "She manipulates, she steals things, she's kind of an overall wack-a-doodle corporate espionage chick," Dushku told Tubefilter in an exclusive interview on set. Dushku joins guest stars Craig Bierko, Joshua Malina, Julie Warner, Steven Weber, and former Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-star Emma Caulfield for Leap Year Season 2. "We hit the guest star jackpot hard this season," said Executive Producer Wilson Cleveland, who also plays the role of Derek. "All were generous with their time and talent, all came to work, and all of them just nailed it." According to Cleveland, the...

Leap Year is a branded entertainment web series with a sizable budget funded by Hiscox, a London Stock Exchange-listed insurance provider that specializes in niche areas of the insurance market (including art collections and kidnapping/ransoms) that last year extended its offerings to provide small business insurance to companies in the Us. The show was created and executive produced by Wilson Cleveland and Cjp Digital (the individual and company behind other online branded programs including The Temp LIfe, The Webventures of Justin and Alden, Suite 7, and Bestsellers) and written and directed by the Baranovsky brothers under the banner of Happy Little Guillotine Films (the digital production shop behind titles like 7-Eleven’s Road Trip Rally and Break a Leg). It's comprised of a cast that fans of Cjp Digital and Happy Little Guillotine productions will find very familiar (including Yuri Baranovsky, Alexis Boozer, Cleveland, Daniela Diiorio, Drew Lanning, Rachel Risen,...

Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, The Avengers and – SuperMoms? Yes, and it’s as silly as it sounds. Joey Lauren Adams, Julie Warner, Lourdes Benedicto and Brennen Hesser join forces to bring the SuperMoms to life, a group of moms who are struck by lightning and left with superpowers that they use to, well, in the first episode, battle a band of stinky skunks. That first episode just debuted on the SuperMom Facebook page yesterday with more episodes coming every Tuesday for the next seven weeks. The pieces are also being syndicated across the Joost Media Network. Each episode features the moms in the real world, but then, when duty calls, they...

RedLever studios and Emmy Award-winning producer Jonathan Prince launched web series SuperMoms on Facebook and Joost today. The series stars Joey Lauren Adams (Chasing Amy, The Break-Up), Julie Warner (Nip/Tuck, Tommy Boy), Lourdes Benedicto (V, 24) and Brennen Hesser (So noTORIous)—four women who are not only super moms but actual superheroes, faced with the challenges of both dirty diapers and dirty tricks from their arch-enemy, Dr. Deconstructo. The show also features football and reality star, Hank Baskett, as the "man behind a SuperMom." The eight episode series features a retro-style (reminiscent of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog) that blends live-action and animated superhero story lines, with new episodes debuting Tuesdays on Facebook. The series—not-so-subtly sponsored by Clorox—successfully targets its demographic, shrewdly identifying favorite topics of momdom: blind dates, girl talk, cats, mother-in-laws, makeovers, and, of course, firemen (...and "epic battles against chaos," too). But SuperMoms also reinforces some...

Rank the week of October 14th’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best films of all-time: New Releases Green Lantern

(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #2480

Win Percentage: 43%

Times Ranked: 6760

Top-20 Rankings: 25

Directed By: Martin Campbell

Starring: Ryan Reynolds • Blake Lively • Peter Sarsgaard • Mark Strong • Temuera Morrison

Genres: Action • Action Thriller • Based-on-Comics • Comic-Book Superhero Film • Crime • Crime Thriller • Science Fiction • Sci-Fi Action • Thriller

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Horrible Bosses

(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #750

Win Percentage: 54%

Times Ranked: 6278

Top-20 Rankings: 23

Directed By: Seth Gordon

Starring: Jason Bateman • Jason Sudeikis • Jennifer Aniston • Kevin Spacey • Jamie Foxx

Genres: Black Comedy • Comedy • Workplace Comedy

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Zookeeper

(Blu-ray & DVD | PG | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #10259

Win Percentage: 37%

Times Ranked: 470

Top-20 Rankings: 9

Directed By: Frank Coraci

Starring: Kevin James • Rosario Dawson • Leslie Bibb • Ken Jeong • Donnie Wahlberg

Genres: Animal Picture • Comedy • Family-Oriented Comedy

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Judy Moody And The Not Bummer Summer

(Blu-ray & DVD | PG...

We already told you about AOL’s relaunch of Cambio, headlined by McG’s original web series Aim High, Mark Burnett’s online original CliffsNotes, and a production partnership with several new partners (e.g. Dolphin Entertainment) that comes along with a programming slate in the $10 to $12 million range for future titles. Today, AOL told the internet about the dozen or so other online originals the media company is planning for its destinations outside the domain of Cambio.com. Former CEO of 5min and current Senior Vice President of AOL Video, Ran Harnevo and his team announced a slate consisting of no less than 16 web series (including the aforementioned Aim High and CliffsNotes), all of which will be distributed across the newly formed conglomerate of sites under the banner of AOL Huffington Post Media Group. The mostly new titles span across a few verticals and include: Women Little Women, Big...

AOL unveiled its slate of original programming today featuring more than 15 Web series targeting specific audience demographics in partnership with the likes of Jennifer Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions (Tiger Beat Entertainment), Mark Burnett (CliffsNotes Films) and Vuguru (Little Women, Big Cars). Each series will be programmed and distributed across AOL Huffington Post Media Group sites and many will be produced in-house at AOL Studios in Los Angeles and New York; some go live today and others will be rolled out over time. Here’s the slate: Women Little Women, Big Cars: From bake sales and soccer games to gossip and divorce, four moms navigate the comedy and drama of suburban life. Starring Ed Begley Jr., Antonio Sabato, Jr., Julie Warner and Kristy Swanson. Produced by Vuguru. A Supermodel Stole My Husband: A lighthearted makeover show in which a frustrated wife enlists an adored supermodel to help transform her husband. Produced by AOL Studios.

Tune in alert for one of the best webseries online. "5 Friends. 5 Startups. Competing for Half a Million Dollars." "Leap Year" is a new original comedy series about the highs and lows of startup life. When friends and co-workers Aaron, Olivia, Jack, Derek and Bryn are downsized from their corporate careers, they pledge to 'make the leap' toward the unknown and found their own startups. Then things get...complicated. A mysterious investor proposes a contest worth $500,000 for a single winning startup. The competition is on and the group must build their companies from scratch without a clue what they're doing or who they can trust. Julie Warner Produced for Hiscox Small Business Insurance by...

Lacey Chabert has joined Buzz Entertainment's indie drama Telling of the Shoes, written and to be directed by Amanda Goodwin.

Telling of the Shoes chronicles a Manhattan dinner party that starts out good-natured, and turns unexpectedly dark as alcohol-fueled party guests eschew their mantles of reserve, turning quick-witting sparing into full-fledged skewering.

Lacey Chabert will play a recent Stanford grad studying for the bar. The ensemble cast includes Julie Warner, Emma Caufield, Taylor Dayne, Nick Stabile and Steven Brand.

Telling of the Shoes starts production later this month.

Lacey Chabert has joined Buzz Entertainment's indie drama Telling of the Shoes, written and to be directed by Amanda Goodwin.

Telling of the Shoes chronicles a Manhattan dinner party that starts out good-natured, and turns unexpectedly dark as alcohol-fueled party guests eschew their mantles of reserve, turning quick-witting sparing into full-fledged skewering.

Lacey Chabert will play a recent Stanford grad studying for the bar. The ensemble cast includes Julie Warner, Emma Caufield, Taylor Dayne, Nick Stabile and Steven Brand.

Telling of the Shoes starts production later this month.

Whatever happened to Lisanne Falk and Kim Walker, the other two Heathers, who weren't Shannon Doherty in Heathers?

What ever happened to Joanne Whalley, Val Kilmer's co-star (and ex-wife) in Willow?

What ever happened to Vanity, the woman who starred opposite Carl Weathers in Action Jackson?

What ever happened to Bonnie Bedalia, John McClane's wife in Die Hard?

Oh, wait. This is what happened to her! She's on "Parenthood." Weird.

Whatever happened to Nancy Travis, the wife in So I Married an Axe Murder and the mom in the Three Men and a Baby movies?

Whatever happened to Julie Warner, the love interest in Doc Hollywood?

Whatever happened to the awesomeness that was Lori Petty, from Point Break and Tank Girl?

Whatever happened to Heather Langenkamp from NIghtmare on Elm Street?

I wonder whatever happened to Bridgette Wilson, from I Know What You Did Last Summer and the love interest in Billy Madison?...

The brand new episode of Crash's second season, Always See Your Face, will debut on Friday, October 2 at 10 Pm Et on Starz. However, if you dont' want to wait another day, you can watch the full episode right here! Just click below to watch this second episode of the second season before anyone else.

After his near-death experience, billionaire Seth Blanchard (Eric Roberts), tries to make sense of what he saw and whether God-if there is a God-has a plan in mind for him. Blanchard's right-hand woman Andrea Schillo (Julie Warner) warns him stockholders are losing confidence since word of his collapse has spread, and urges him to hit the town with his wife Maggie (Linda Park) to reassure the world he's fine. However, Blanchard is more interested in revisiting the strip mall to ask security guard Kenny Battaglia (Ross McCall) whether he noticed a bright light when Seth collapsed,...

The season 2 of "Crash" will be premiering on Starz on September 18, with this season's plot line delving past the police storyline to focus on a farther-reaching group of Angelenos from different social strata as their lives intersect.

Dennis Hopper will return as Ben Cedars, along with Ross McCall, who will return as Kenny Battaglia. New cast members will include Eric Roberts, Dana Ashbrook, Linda Park, Jake McLaughlin, Tess Harper and Julie Warner. Jocko Sims and Moran Atias will also return for the second season.

Ross McCall told Cns in an exclusive interview that fans are in for some big surprises this year saying, "I think they're going to love the drama side of this season. But with this season, it's exciting, it's dramatic, it's sexy, it's climatic, it's confrontational.and it's a really, really exciting roller coaster. You don't know what's going to happen - you think you do and...

One of the better smallscreen series that debuted last year is back for season two on Starz. 'Crash" stars Dennis Hopper, and he is joined by new cast members Eric Roberts, Tess Harper, Julie Warner, Jake McLaughlin, Dana Ashbrook and Linda Park. Roberts is cast as Seth, a billionaire entrepreneur with unfathomable success and drive; Linda Park as Maggie, Seth.s trophy wife who writes of a joyful life in her children.s books but has trouble living it; Jake McLaughlin as Bo, a former high-school pitching ace and shoo-in for the big leagues who was derailed by a career-ending injury; Tess Harper as Bo.s heavy-smoking mother Wendy, who owns a hobby-shop business; Dana Ashbrook as Jimmy, a charismatic gambler...

They say Los Angeles is a city built of desire-a place of hope, possibilities, and a brighter tomorrow. Los Angeles is also a vast urban sprawl where those who don't attain their dreams can fall into isolation and despair. The Starz original series Crash premieres Friday, September 18 at 10:00 p.m. (et/pt).

Season two of Crash goes beyond the police storylines of the first season to focus on a farther-reaching collection of Angelenos from different social strata as their lives intersect. Is it by fate or coincidence that a billionaire visionary collapses in a parking lot and is helped by a strip-mall security guard? That a girl is murdered at the athletic club where she works? This season, multiple new storylines explore the human connections made in pivotal moments when characters must literally or figuratively fight for their lives. Nothing seems random in season two of Crash; instead, a...

Starz network's series, "Crash," based on the eponymous film by writer/director Paul Haggis, is back for a second season in September, and boasts the addition of Eric Roberts to the cast. Also joining the show will be Tess Harper, Julie Warner, Dana Ashbrook and Linda Park. Starz today announced that Dennis Hopper will return as the deeply flawed music mogul, Ben Cendars, on the first original drama series from Starz Entertainment. The 13 new episodes from the producers of the Academy Award-winning Best Picture and co-produced with Lionsgate, has begun production in Albuquerque, Nm. Andrew Bernstein is directing the season.s first episode, set to debut on Starz Friday, September 18th at 10:00 p.m. (et/pt). Set in Los...

  Starz has announced which new and returning cast members will join Dennis Hopper in the upcoming season season of the ensemble drama "Crash." Leading the way among the fresh faces is Eric Roberts ("The Dark Knight," "Heroes"), who will play a Seth, billionaire entrepreneur attempting to bring an NFL team to Los Angeles. Julie Warner ("Doc Hollywood") also joins the cast as Andrea, Seth's manipulative right hand woman. Dana Ashbrook ("Twin Peaks"), Linda Park ("Star Trek: Enterprise"), Jake McLaughlin ("In the Valley of Elah") and Tess Harper ("Tender Mercies") are also new to the cast, while Hopper leads a returning...

The second season of a Starz series is about to get itself a new billionaire. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Eric Roberts has signed on for a role in Crash.

The actor will portray Seth, a billionaire who is set on finally bringing an NFL team to the Los Angeles area after all these years. Dana Ashbrook, Linda Park, Jake McLaughlin, Tess Harper and Julie Warner have also joined the cast, along with returning series regulars Dennis Hopper, Ross McCall, Jocko Sims and Moran Atias.

Production has begun on the 13-episode second season in Albequerque, New Mexico, with a season premiere set for September 18.

Eric Roberts is joining the cast of Starz's series "Crash."

On the second season of the Lionsgate TV-produced drama, Roberts is joined by five other new cast members: Dana Ashbrook, Linda Park, Jake McLaughlin, Tess Harper and Julie Warner.

Dennis Hopper is back, along with fellow returning cast members Ross McCall, Jocko Sims, Moran Atias.

Starz's first original drama series, from the producers of the best picture Oscar winner, has begun production on its 13-episode second season in Albuquerque.

Andrew Bernstein is directing the season's first episode, slated to debut on Friday, Sept. 18.

Set in Los Angeles, the second season of "Crash" will continue to revolve around the intersecting lives of Angelenos from different social strata.

Roberts will play Seth, a billionaire entrepreneur, who plans to give Los Angeles a long-desired new professional football team. Ashbrook ("Twin Peaks") will play Jimmy, a charismatic gambler who plays fast and loose with the law.

Eric Roberts has joined the cast of Starz drama "Crash," reports Variety . The series, starring Dennis Hopper and currently in production for season two in Albuquerque, N.M., will add Roberts as an entrepreneur hoping to bring a professional football team to L.A. Others added to the cast include Dana Ashbrook, Linda Park, Jake McLaughlin, Tess Harper and Julie Warner. The 13-episode new season will begin on September 18.

To mark the release of Lionsgate's comedy "New in Town," we've thrown together a list of actors and actresses we remember best as new folks in town Renee Zellweger in “New In Town” Ambition can kick you in the butt when you least expect it. Such is a tale about Lucy Hill, an ambitious Miami-based executive who's used to all the spoils of modern-day-life. When the company needs to reorganize, she proudly says ‘I can do it’ to a job in Minnesota and winds up biting off more than she can chew with the bone-chilling cold. Still, after being introduced to Ted Mitchell (Harry Connick Jr.), an unexpected romancemay just blossom if she can just survive long enough. Michael J. Fox “Doc Hollywood” En route to La to take up a great position as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, Dr. Ben Stone (Fox) winds up crashing through a fence...

NEW YORK -- This gently titled film has to do with the world of female gymnastics, which instantly provides it with a commercial hook. Much like "Bring It On", the cheerleading movie also written by this film's writer-director Jessica Bendinger, "Stick It" spends an inordinate amount of time ogling the tight, lithe bodies of its young female characters. Thus, what might have appealed only to teen girls might well have crossover appeal to leering young boys as well.

Yes, there is an inspirational plot of sorts in the film, which mainly involves advising young people to defy the rules of their chosen sport and seek only personal satisfaction and glory rather than strive for discipline and honor.

The central character is 17-year-old Haley Graham (Missy Peregrym), a rebel without a cause who, after getting into some trouble with the law, is sentenced by a judge to do time at an elite gymnastics academy. (Apparently, Texas, where the story is set, has loosened its forms of punishment).

Thus, Haley is reunited with the same girls she let down when she abruptly walked out of a championship competition years before. Given a dose of tough love by her new, hard-nosed coach (Jeff Bridges), she reluctantly takes up the sport again. Despite the ire of her teammates, particularly her chief competitor Joanne (Vanessa Lengies), Haley finds herself inspired to again lead her group to the championships.

It comes as no surprise that the director, making her feature debut, has music video experience because "Stick It" is filmed in a hyperkinetic, in your face style that will induce headaches in anyone who has passed their teens. Equally assaulting is the ultra-loud rock soundtrack, featuring music by the likes of Missy Elliott, Electric Six, K7 and My Morning Jacket.

The film might well inspire young girls to take up the sport, especially because its egregious climactic segment features the characters engaging in routines more inspired by "Flashdance" than anything ever seen at the Olympics.

On every other level, the film is thoroughly ordinary, with the only distinction being Bridges' typically unaffected and engaging performance. Still, as with Tommy Lee Jones' recent "Man of the House", it's depressing to see this distinguished actor, a four-time Oscar nominee, playing second fiddle to skimpily dressed teens.

Peregrym displays some charisma, as well as her firm physique, in the central role, and among those adult performers showing up as aggrieved parents are Julie Warner, Jon Gries and Gia Carides.

Stick It

A Buena Vista Pictures release

A Touchstone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment presentation

A Barber/Birnbaum, Jessica Bendinger/Gail Lyon production

Credits:

Director-screenwriter: Jessica Bendinger

Producer: Gail Lyon

Executive producers: Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Jonathan Glickman, Derek Evans, David Crockett

Director of photography: Daryn Okada

Production designer: Bruce Curtis

Editor: Troy Takaki

Costume designer: Carol Ramsey: Music: Mike Simpson

Cast:

Burt Vickerman: Jeff Bridges

Haley Graham: Missy Peregrym

Joanne Charis: Vanessa Lengies

Wei Wei Yong: Nikki Soorhoo

Mina Hoyt: Maddy Curley

Frank: Kellan Lutz

Poot: John Patrick Amedori

Brice Graham: Jon Gries

Mrs. Charis: Julie Warner

Alice Graham: Gia Carides

MPAA rating PG-13

Running time -- 103 minutes...

Dylan McDermott has joined ABC's drama pilot A House Divided, Kim Cattrall has been tapped to star in ABC's comedy pilot Him and Us, and Wendie Malick has come on board another ABC comedy pilot, A Day in the Life. Additionally, Denise Richards has joined ABC's drama pilot Secrets of a Small Town, Julie Warner has come on board ABC's one-hour pilot Women in Law, Lizzy Caplan has landed a role in CBS' comedy series The Class, John Heard has come on board ABC's drama pilot Twenty Questions, Vanessa Ferlito has been cast in ABC's drama pilot Drift, Annie Potts has joined Fox's comedy pilot Julie Reno, Bounty Hunter, and Todd Stashwick has been added to NBC's comedy pilot Community Service. A House Divided, from Touchstone TV, explores the conflict between a Midwest farming community and the U.S. government.