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Boom! Studios

Adventure Time #1 (Chris Houghton 3rd Printing Variant Cover), $3.99

Adventure Time #2 (Cover A Chris Houghton), $3.99

Adventure Time #2 (Cover B Jen Bennett), $3.99

Adventure Time #2 (Cover C Emily Carroll), $3.99

Adventure Time #2 (Cover D Becky Dreistadt & Frank Gibson), Ar

Elric The Balance Lost #9 (Cover A Francesco Mattina), $3.99

Elric The Balance Lost #9 (Cover B Dan Panosian), $3.99

Elric The Balance Lost #9 (Cover C Francesco Mattina), Ar

Exile On The Planet Of The Apes #1 (Of 4)(Cover A Gabriel Hardman), $3.99

Exile On The Planet Of The Apes #1 (Of 4)(Cover B Declan Shalvey), $3.99

Exile On The Planet Of The Apes #1 (Of 4)(Cover C Gabriel Hardman), Ar

Dark Horse

Art Of Tara McPherson Volume 3 Bunny In The Moon Hc, $23.99

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 9 #7 (Georges Jeanty Variant Cover), Ar

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 9 #7 (Phil Noto Regular Cover), $2.99

Conan The Barbarian #2 (LeAndro Fernandez Variant Cover), Ar

Conan The Barbarian #2 (Massimo Carevale...

The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and special items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.

AC Comics

Golden Age Greats Spotlight Volume 8 Outrageous Good Girl Art Comics, $29.95

Antarctic Press

Gearhearts Steampunk Glamor Revue #2, $3.99

Gold Digger #136, $3.99

Ape Entertainment

Richie Rich Digest Volume 1 Boon Under The Bay Tp, $6.99

Subculture The Webstrips Volume 2 Return Of The King’s Throne Tp, $9.95

Arcana Studio

Amour Volume 1 Gn, $14.95

Amour Volume 2 Gn, $14.95

Cat Named Haiku Coloring Book Sc (not verified by Diamond), $2.95

Hyper-Actives Gn (resolicited), $14.95

Nieves Gn, $14.95

Redfoot Gn, $8.95

Romeros Requiem Gn, $9.95

Scionic Gn (resolicited), $14.95

Sideshows Gn, $9.95

Archaia Entertainment

Mouse Guard Black Axe #4 (Of 6), $3.50

Primordia Hc (with dust jacket)(resolicited), $19.95

Archie Comic Publications

Archie Double Digest #227, $3.99

Archie The Married Life Volume 2 Tp, $19.99

Mega Man #11, $2.99

Ardden Entertainment

Comeback Kings #2 (resolicited), $2.99

Aspen Mlt

Dead Man’s Run #2 (Cover A Tony Parker)(not...

Released in America under titles like New House On The Left and Second House On The Left, the 1975 Italian exploitation film Night Train Murders crudely follows the template for Wes Craven’s notorious 1972 rape-revenge thriller The Last House On The Left. Act one: Two attractive young women venture off on their own. Act two: Sadistic thugs subject them to violence, degradation, and sexual assault, then leave them for dead. Act three: The perpetrators wind up in the house of one of the victims’ parents, who slowly realize what happened to their daughter. As facsimiles go, it’s mostly ...

Michael J. Lutch Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis in “Porgy and Bess” at Art in Boston.

It was about a year and a half ago when playwright Suzan-Lori Parks first received a call from director Diane Paulus about a new musical version of the Gershwin and Heyward classic, “Porgy and Bess.”

“She said hey, the Gershwin estate has approached me, they are interested in taking their brilliant opera, ‘Porgy and Bess,’ and creating a musical that’s viable for the Broadway stage,...

Other Desert Cities Booth Theatre, NY

There is no reason to beat around the bush when it comes to describing John Robin Baitz's play, Other Desert Cities, which recently opened on Broadway after a sold-out Off-Broadway run at Lincoln Center last winter. To me, it is a great play, a term I don't get to use often, and the best new play I can recall in quite some time. It was riveting, mesmerizing, totally involving, along with being quite funny and relevant. Beautifully written by Baitz, Other Desert Cities grabs the audience from the beginning and never lets go.

The play takes place on Christmas in 2004 at the Palm Springs home of Polly and Lyman Wyeth, staunch Republicans (and one-time friends of the Reagans) played brilliantly by Stockard Channing (above) and Stacy Keach. They are being visited by their son, Trip (Thomas Sadoski), an L.A. producer of a courtroom reality show,...

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

So here we are, the first act of the finale for Sons of Anarchy’s forth season and one which almost feels like not only a season finale, but what could easily be a definitive end to the entire show. With Clay (Ron Perlman) in critical condition, Jax (Charlie Hunnam) and Tara (Maggie Siff) trying to leave Charming and the Samcro we once new in complete tatters, it’s incredibly hard to see how the club will survive for a further season. As the first of two parts, much of ‘To Be (Act One)’ was spent nicely establishing next weeks conclusion, which is now driven by Jax’s newfound desire to kill Clay – although he could have saved himself a lot of trouble by letting Opie (Ryan Hurst) finish the job at the start of the episode.

Instead he put a bullet in Opie’s hand,...

It started with a tweet. I have no idea who put said tweet in my feed, but in that feed there was a trailer for a film that sounded so vague that admittedly my curiosity was piqued. The name? Some Guy Who Kills People.

Written by Ryan Levin, directed by Jack Perez and starring Kevin Corrigan, Some Guy Who Kills People tells the story of Ken Boyd, a lonely man fresh out of the loony bin who sets out to kill those he deems responsible for his miserable life.

Using the powers of Twitter, I reached out to writer Ryan Levin and this is what happened...

Crix: Where did the idea for Sgwkp come about?

Ryan Levin: The idea came from a short film I made in 2007 called “The Fifth,” in which a group of buddies hang out, play poker and shoot the shit about their jobs. One of the guys,...

Sons Of Anarchy Finale Part 1 Promo Images

Sons of Anarchy is getting down to its two part finale for its fourth season, titled “To Be”, and we have a preview of “Act 1″ for you via our sister site Criminal Complex. I’m not sure how the scenes or story got extended, but we are getting the second part (December 6th) due to that bonus Samcro episode we told you about earlier this month. Sutter, FX and the Samcro team are typically brief when it comes to episode summaries, so what we have is: “Jax is confronted with a new challenge that threatens his family and his club.” You will also find the television promo we posted a few days ago, reposted below with the image gallery for your click-limitation convenience.

While season 4 of Sons of Anarchy is coming to an end, Samcro fans already have a season 5 locked in to look forward,...

• "Patang," by Prashant Bhargava

I visited India only once, for less than two weeks, but I left a part of my heart there. I can't say I know it well, but I know how it made me feel, and it seemed impossibly exotic and absolutely comfortable at the same time: I was curiously at home in a strange land.

At an event in my hotel, I met a police chief's wife, who invited me to her home for dinner. Just like that. The families seemed to function in the ways of families I knew. The fact that so many people in this far-away land spoke English made it more accessible to me. I loved the way so much of the talk circled around philosophy. I developed a particular love of the exuberant music, colors, scents and tastes. It occurred to me that no women can fail to look well-dressed in a sari.

The first of the senses that writer/director Julia Loktev hits us with over the opening black screen is sound. We heara  rhythmic pounding/creaking/breathing that's hard to place (sex scene? construction work?). When the fade-up happens, you'd never guess what image is waiting for you. It's something both utterly mundane and alien and strange. This is only the first of the surprises that await you as you journey across the Georgian wilderness with Nica (Hani Furstenberg) and Alex (Gael García Bernal) in The Loneliest Planet. 

Hani Furstenberg could eat Gael García Bernal right up in "The Loneliest Planet"

Nica and Alex are madly in love both with each other and their mutual wanderlust. They're seeking an authentic travel experience beyond touristy paths before they marry. English is their common tongue (though neither of their native languages) and the film makes the very smart decision of subtitling nothing, as...

Steven Juliano best known for his role of being the main frontman for his former act I Am Ghost has been working on a brand new project Requiem For The Dead. Since the band’s formation they have released several singles “Kill Or Be Killed”, “Act One: The Terrible Tale Of Two”, and “Those Lovely Shark People” while also releasing a minute teaser of another upcoming single titled “The Death Note of Shipwrecks”. Requiem For The Dead will be releasing their debut full-length “Always and Forever” on September 2, and the entire album will be available for download for free via their Facebook page. Also the band’s first music video will...

Patton Oswalt is not only a funny comedian, but a is a fellow Geek! Here are two Batman storylines that he wrote and pitched to DC Comics. Both stories were never published, but they are still cool and worth a read.

Check out the two stories below, as well as Oswalt's commentary of each:

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The Joker once again breaks out of Arkham Asylum, and Batman - along with the Justice League - tears apart Gotham to find him.

And who feels the heat the worst when the League is cracking down hard? Gotham's criminals.

And because Batman works his way up from minor street thug, higher and higher on the chain, it's the "C" list criminals who suffer first.

Barely escaping a beatdown and capture, The Cluemaster (who I'm going to make a much younger, inexperienced criminal) gathers a literal "C"-list of other, frightened criminals - Crazyquilt, Crime Doctor,...

On The Bachelorette, the standard-operating “happy ending” occurs when our heroine with princess issues brutally rejects one potential fiance, reapplies her foundation over dried rivulets of tears, then says “yes” to a marriage proposal from her other potential fiance. It’s clean and simple and debatably satisfying — at least until the cameras stop rolling.

But in the latest installment of the long-running ABC dating franchise, I’m convinced that Ashley is going to ask the final two dudes to perform a good old-fashioned duel at 20 paces. “How will I know a guy loves me if he’s not willing to die for me?...

Where can you go to get the best science fiction and fantasy in any given year? Anywhere that sells the annual Nebula and Hugo anthologies, naturally! This year, the collected nominated Nebula short stories and novelettes are gathered together in a tome called Nebula Awards Showcase 2011, edited by the esteemed and highly talented author Kevin J. Anderson. Included is the winning novella, the incredible The Women of Nell Gwynne’s by Kage Baker; the three poems nominated for the Rhysling Awards; a story by the Sfwa Author Emeritus, Neal Barrett Jr., “Getting Dark”; and a story introduced by the Sfwa Grand Master, Damon Knight, by Joe Haldeman, the newest Grand Master, “A Tangled Web.”

Winners of the other awards given out are also included, like the Nebula Award for the Best Novel, The Windup Girl by Paulo Bacigalupi; the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy winner,...

Okay, I'll admit it: A few months ago I wouldn't even have entertained the idea of seeing "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" multiple times, let alone recommend that you see it. Back in January, when we published a list of five things we liked about the show and five things we hated, we had trouble coming up with enough items for the former, and had even more trouble narrowing down our list of the latter.

Since then, the budget-busting Broadway show has undergone a massive overhaul, with former director Julie Taymor departing the production, and an entirely new set of writers — including comics scribe Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa — brought on to rework the script.

With the show finally ending its record-breaking run of preview performances next week and marking its official Broadway debut, I found myself in the audience a second time to find out whether "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" had...

The headache has truly set in for the laboured and self-conscious The Hangover Part II. It's more a remake than a sequel

We all enjoyed ourselves during that first movie. But now … well, the hangover has begun. And begun so powerfully, so oppressively, that you might almost suspect the success of the original was created specifically to engender this comedown as a piece of conceptual art. Each reminder of the original, each repetition, each desperate, hair-of-the-dog attempt to recapture the party feeling: it's exactly like living through a hungover flashback-memory of what had once seemed so great.

In Hollywood, said William Goldman, nobody knows anything. Who knew The Hangover, from fratpack comedy director Todd Phillips, was going to be such a huge hit? Nobody – perhaps not even the people involved. The story of a Vegas bachelor party that goes horribly wrong looked pretty ropey on paper, and yet it was great.

Anything Goes Stephen Sondheim Theatre, NYC

Early in Act One of the Roundabout Theatre Company's new revival of Cole Porter's classic 1934 musical, Anything Goes, Sutton Foster and Colin Donnell have the chance to sing one of Porter's great songs, "You’re the Top." It is quite sublime, and from that moment on, you know you're in good hands for the evening. This mostly smashing new production, staged by Kathleen Marshall, is, indeed, to quote another Porter lyric in the show, "delightful, delicious, and de-lovely."

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There seems to be an over-abundance of shows aimed at turning one person’s trash into an undiscovered treasure. The most famous of these shows being Antiques Roadshow, that weekly televised garage sale which inevitably ends with my overcome with tears after realizing that not only is nothing I own is worth anything, but more importantly Mark L. Walberg will never be mine. (You will always be the only Mark Walberg for this gal, Mark L. Walberg.) But there’s something the world really doesn’t have: An Antiques Roadshow for straight guys. Sure, you could argue that Pawn Stars filled this void a while back, whereas I would argue that Pawn Stars filled this void for drug addicts and food addicts. We joke, of course, as theirs is a void that could never be filled. Well that’s about to change, straight guys who are closeted Antiques Roadshow fans!

PhotoCourtesy of Spike TV

When wewere kids our parents took us to an auction in some picturesque town inMassachusetts. It was hot and we were in a quaint little barn. We rememberbeing terrified to scratch our noses or wiggle in our seats out of fear ofaccidentally placing some bid that would take years to pay off with our measlyallowances. Maybe that’s why we like watching Auction Hunters on TV. We can seeall the fast paced action, without the risk of spontaneous over spending.

In factaround the same time we were having our tense auction experience, Allen Haffwas growing up in Michigan having antiquing adventures of his own. In a recentexclusive interview he told us, “I have a family that was into resale. I jokethat my father is a used car dealer… He does own a used car dealership. And mymother has been an antiques nut her whole life and has been a dealer.

One year after President Obama signed health-care reform into law, former Services Employees International Union president Andy Stern says the bill truly is, in Vice President Biden's famous words, a "big [expletive] deal" -and that the Gop will never get it repealed.

Defund! Repeal! It's unconstitutional! The vitriolic attacks from the Tea Party, RepealItNow.org, and certain members of Congress are designed to keep people from understanding what "Obamacare" really means.

Related story on The Daily Beast: Al Sharpton: Obama's Go-To Black Leader

Fewer denials for preexisting conditions. Prescription drug costs reduced for seniors. A million more young adults have health insurance. Tax credits for small businesses.

Vice President Biden captured the moment perfectly, if a bit crudely, when he said of President Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act one year ago: "Mr. President, this is a big [expletive] deal" .

And it was.

Republicans know that the longer the...

The Indelicates have confirmed the release of a two-part recording of The Book Of Job: The Musical. Originally written by Simon Indelicate in 2005, the show has since been performed across the country, including festivals in Brighton, Edinburgh and Cheltenham. The soundtrack albums have been recorded as live at Dean Street Studios by Keith Top Of The Pops. Act One will be made available as a pay-what-you-like download on February 28. Act Two follows on March 7, with a minimum price of £5. A statement (more)...

It was a tale of two telecasts tonight on American Idol. Act One found the sanctity of marriage getting punched in the kidney by a pair of craven fameosexuals (even worse than it sounds), a grizzled clairvoyant predicting the untimely death of a pair of wide-eyed teenage contestants (much funnier/more inspirational than it sounds), and Randy Jackson offering perhaps the worst advice of his 10-season Idol tenure (no small accomplishment, that). Act Two (aka The Jennifer Lopez Empathy Hour) was most notable for revealing five of the 24 season 10 semifinalists, ousting a contestant whose backstory was far more impressive than his singing voice,...

Kevin Smith sure knows how to put on a show. In the weeks leading up to this week's premiere of his new film, Red State, at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Smith tweeted about his plans to auction the movie off to the highest bidder for distribution. He shunned the press, which only fueled interest in what turned out to be a stunt, presumably meant to show the absurdity of the now-broken independent film distribution model.

By Smith's own admission, Sunday night's event, possibly the toughest ticket to snag at this year's festival, was a three-act play. Act one was a protest outside of the theater. Act two was the movie. Act three, which never exactly materialized, was the much-hyped auction. While response has been swift--many tweeters expressed dismay at the "hoax," and must-read industry blogger Nikki Finke griped at Smith's "vulgar" and "tasteless" performance--anyone who's seen...

Kurt Busiek has revealed that his current ongoing series Dracula: The Company of Monsters will consist of three separate acts. Busiek said that he has already outlined each part of the story and that it will become much darker now all the basic setup has been done. "The whole Company of Monsters storyline I outlined is three books long, so volume one is essentially Act One," he told Cbr. "Now we've got all the players on the board, we've got things moving, with disaster on the way - it's time to make things worse." The series follows the iconic vampire Dracula after (more)...

In 1997, Simon Hattenstone went to the pub with Pete Postlethwaite while the actor, who died earlier this week, was starring in Macbeth. Read the interview again

Act One: lunchtime, a pub in Bristol. Three men, actor Pete Postlethwaite, Dennis, a publicist, and Dick, a producer, sit supping pints of Guinness. Enter a Journalist, who has never met the actor before.

Postlethwaite: "Simon, Simon. What can we do about this?"

Dennis: "You're late, and Pete has a full dress rehearsal in 20 minutes."

Exit Dick to get a round of drinks.

Postlethwaite: "Any chance of hanging around for three hours or so? Then we'll have a proper chat. A proper drink, a good time."

However often you've watched Pete Postlethwaite on stage or screen, it's hard to prepare for the close-up: the compact body, dainty feet dressed in Kickers, the skin – cross-hatched with thin red contours – resembling a faintly exotic cheese,...

“Deep Vote,” an Oscar winning screenwriter and a member of the Academy, will write this column — exclusively for ScottFeinberg.com — every week until the Academy Awards. He will help to peel back the curtain on the Oscar voting process by sharing his thoughts about the films he sees and, ultimately, his nomination and final ballots, as well. His identity must be protected in order to spare him from repercussions for disclosing the aforementioned information.

Thus far, he has shared his thoughts in column one about his general preferences; column two about “Winter’s Bone” (Roadside Attractions, 6/11, R, trailer) and “Solitary Man” (Anchor Bay Films, 5/21, R, trailer); column three about “Alice in Wonderland” (Disney, 3/5, PG, trailer), “Toy Story 3” (Disney, 6/18, G, trailer), and “Mother and Child” (Sony Pictures Classics, 5/7, R, trailer); column four about “Get Low” (Sony Pictures Classics, 7/30, PG-13, trailer), “The Kids Are All Right” (Focus Features, 7/9, R, trailer), and “The Social Network” (Columbia,...

Back in the mid-80s, horror fiction had become more than a little complacent. In most people’s minds, what passed for cutting edge genre fiction was the work of word generators such as Stephen King, Dean Koontz, or Anne Rice. It was all spooky kids, rabid pets, daddy issues, and whiny, homo-erotic vampires.

By and large that was fine, but it is important to remember that the punk music scene had landed with both feet on the next of the public zeitgeist and stories of such archetypical monsters and mayhem didn't resonate with readers like they once did. The public had a new attitude and wanted a new breed of monsters to go with it...ones that better fit in line with their new nihilistic outlook.

Then, seemingly out of nowhere and to everybody’s surprise, came a group of young iconoclasts like Clive Barker, Poppy Z. Brite, Jack Ketchum,...

CBS Films

The Transporter is gone. Now there is only “The Mechanic.”

While it’s always initially somewhat problematic to accept a professional murderer as a “hero” in a movie, it’s reconciled fairly quickly when that professional murderer is Jason Statham (yes, his name should only ever be written in all-caps), the Coolest Man in the Universe.

FirstShowing.net has the trailer for Statham’s latest action flick, “The Mechanic.” Watch as Statham kills a dude in his own pool, douses a car in gasoline and blows up someone’s collection of vinyl records, all to earn a paycheck.

Jason Statham.

Meanwhile, Donald Sutherland does his “I’m old and I have regrets” routine and seems to be dead by the end of Act One (shades of “The Italian Job” on all counts, which also starred Jason Statham) and Ben Foster, as always, looks like he’s about to...

Every great redemption story has three acts.  Act one: the hero is introduced and proves his worth.  Act two: the hero screws up royally and everyone hates him.  And finally, act three: the hero returns just in time to save the day.  

If you've been following the Transformers franchise at all (by looking at the B.O. numbers I'm sure you have) the productions themselves have virtually followed this same formula.  Everyone loved the first film and Michael Bay and Shia Labeouf were praised the world over.  Then the ball was most definitely dropped in the sequel and critics ate our heros alive.  Now, if you believe the reports that the third installment Transformers: The Dark of the Moon is the best thing since sliced bread, Bay and co. will finally redeem themselves.

Some new reports from the set seem to show that the last film in the series...

Happy Monday folks! I spent some time with my 3D glasses on this weekend, so either way you cut it - ironically or unironically - I'm part of Resident Evil's box office win this weekend. It was also a weekend for festivals of fall, farmers markets and a surprising amount of fur and faux-fur being sold on the streets of New York. It seems odd to me that someone would buy any sort of fur off the street, but I guess that's where you have to get it these days. I'm tempted to discuss my friend Rachel Paton who used to send me dead things through the mail, but that's be a digression we can't afford this week... Dark Tower's mammoth deal got left out of my Things this week, as did True Blood, because I've done my best to keep this post under 4,000 words (sorry about last week,...

Gleeful

There are a number of rules and codes that I try to live my life by and to be fair; I’ve broken most of them. But the one rule that I rend to follow as often as possible is “if it’s good enough for Joss Whedon, its good enough for me”. I’ve watched most everything that Joss has been involved in and I have to admit that it took the involvement of Joss Whedon and Neil Patrick Harris to get me to finally watch an episode of Glee, despite the encouragement of my friends since the start of the show. Joss Whedon is the man responsible for two of the best forty five minute musicals in history. My friends know my tastes; this is why they’re my friends, so when they told me that I’d love Glee I should have known that they were right.

The NPR radio series This American Life has served as inspiration for many a recent screenplay (most notably The Informant!), a list which now includes Heretics from Marcus Hinchey (All Good Things). Hinchey’s screenplay is based on the 2005 American Life episode of the same name, which centers on “Carlton Pearson, who was a rising star among evangelicals until he was ostracized by his own church and declared a heretic after he started preaching that there is no Hell.”

Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace) is co-producing the project under his Apparatus banner, and may eventually direct. Hit the jump for a statement from Tal writer/producer/host Ira Glass and a full synopsis.

Glass, who will co-produce the film with partner Alissa Shipp, remarked,

“This film lets us tell a story about evangelical Christians from their perspective, not from the outside. And at its heart, it’s a classic old-fashioned...

Ugly Betty dropped some major truth bombs on us last week—Claire revealed the fraternal bonds between Daniel and Tyler, Bobby proposed earnestly to Hilda, and it turned out that Betty caused the fire at the Suarez household. But this week’s episode was just as secret- and drama-filled as the Shakespearean title nod implies. Act one, scene one: The brilliantly cast Carol Kane, on stage as Justin’s new acting teacher Lena Korvinka, set up (and sums up) the episode’s major theme in one line—“acting is reinvention”—before she popped out her retainers and pulled off a brown wig.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have announced the nominees for the 2009 Nebula Awards.

The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of Sfwa. The awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet the evening of May 15 at the Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront, just 20 minutes from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Other awards to be presented are the Andre Norton Award for Excellence in Science Fiction or Fantasy for Young Adults, the Bradbury Award for excellence in screenwriting and the Solstice Award for outstanding contribution to the field.

Congratulations to all the nominees.

Short Story

“Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela,” Saladin Ahmed (Clockwork Phoenix 2, Norilana Press, Jul09)“I Remember the Future,” Michael A. Burstein (I Remember the Future, Apex Press, Nov08)“Non-Zero Probabilities,” N. K. Jemisin (Clarkesworld, Nov09)“Spar,” Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, Oct09)“Going Deep,” James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s Science Fiction,...

Last night's mid-season finale of Glee didn't feel like a finale at all. That's because "Sectionals" was basically the prelude to an intermission, a dramatic conclusion to Act One.

That's because we're watching a terrific musical unfold here, and that being said, terrific musical performances and dramatic elements were both on full display Wednesday.

There's so much we could go over with "Sectionals"  that it's hard to know where to start. Here are some of the key developments (and our favorite things about them):

Rachel reveals to Finn that Quinn's baby is not his but Puck's! That's it. The pregnancy ruse was revealed. You knew it would happen. But what we didn't expect was that Quinn didn't hide from the truth, but rather embraced it. Rachel rose to the moment. Those gold stars she believed she'd already earned were earned last night. "Don't Rain on My Parade" was a season high point.

The Weinstein Company

Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten

Grade: B+

Directed by: Tom Ford

Written By: Tom Ford, David Scearce, from Christopher Isherwood.s novel

Cast: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Goode, Jon Kortajarena, Paulette Lamori, Ryan Simpkins, Ginnifer Goodwin

Screened at: Broadway, NYC, 11/23/09

Opens: December 11, 2009

Did Alfred Lord Tennyson know whereof he spoke when he said, .I hold it true, whate'er befall;/ I feel it, when I sorrow most;/ 'Tis better to have loved and lost/ Than never to have loved at all. Now that.s debatable. He wrote this .In Memorian. in 1850 but things may have changed. Anyone who has experienced the loss of a significant other, a great love.whether through death or marital separation or divorce.goes through the kind of hell that must have been described by Dante, and the seventh layer at that. .A Single Man. looks into that issue...

Fall Classes will run from September 14th through November 23rd (classes will not meet the week of November 16th) at Act One. The final recital will be performed on Tuesday, November 24th at 7:00 p.m. as part of our Cast Party for A Christmas Carol. A dress rehearsal for the performance will be held on Monday, November 23rd from 5:00 to 8:00.

Jerry's Girls is a celebratory 2-hour musical extravaganza with glamour, optimism, love, melody, and women. More than most songwriters, Jerry Herman has put the 'larger-than-life' women of his shows center stage. There's Dolly Gallagher Levi of Hello, Dolly!, Auntie Mame Dennis of Mame, Countess Aurelia of Dear World, and Mabel Normand of Mack and Mabel. And featuring ZaZa, of La Cage Aux Folles.

So, it is fitting that in Jerry's Girls there are women center stage, once again. Women affectionately celebrating Jerry's special gift for writing songs that capture the true spirit of the American musical theater. The show's 'name-dropping' title song, Jerry's Girls (to the tune of 'It's Today' from Mame), that opens Act One, honors the 40-plus female

stars who have appeared in Herman musicals over the years, and features a dazzling array of songs from these landmark shows. Look forward to a brilliant and lively show with enjoyable music and humor!

Richard Kelly is the man. Not just because he'll be here all this week, posting as a guest editor for MTV Movies Blog. It helps, sure, but we're talking about the guy who made "Donnie Darko" here. And "Southland Tales." Isn't that enough? Not for Kelly it isn't. His latest brain-twisting tale, "The Box," hits theaters on November 6. And he has a dynamite week of content planned for y'all, so sit back and enjoy!

October 27, 2009

Trying To Enjoy The Ride

Zen At 20,000 Feet. The view from seat 10A on my flight to Paris on October 10th. I kept looking for a gremlin crawling across that wing – but it never appeared

I have a philosophy that I’d like to share with you all . . . It is a relatively simple piece of advice that was passed on by a friend’s mother.

It comes down to three simple words.

Enjoy the ride.

Chicago – Even the most diehard fans of “The Simpsons,” a group of which I would proudly call myself a member, would admit that the last few seasons of the show have been disappointing at best and, at times, downright bad (especially the current season we’re in, which has produced fewer laughs than anything on Fox Sunday nights). The annual “Treehouse of Horror” episode has usually been a reliable standby, a bright spot even in weak seasons. If “Treehouse of Horror Xx” is the bright spot of this season, it’s going to be the worst in the history of the show.

Television Rating: 1.5/5.0

For years, starting around season twelve (and that may be generous), “Simpsons” fans like myself used to fall back on a crutch that went something like “Even sub-par “The Simpsons” is better than most TV.” Sure, we knew that the writing wasn’t nearly as clever...

Fall Classes will run from September 14th through November 23rd (classes will not meet the week of November 16th) at Act One. The final recital will be performed on Tuesday, November 24th at 7:00 p.m. as part of our Cast Party for A Christmas Carol. A dress rehearsal for the performance will be held on Monday, November 23rd from 5:00 to 8:00.