For the first time, an animated film in 3D – Disney-Pixar’s UP! – will open the Cannes Film Festival. The CG film will be the Opening Ceremony film of the 62nd Festival de Cannes on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009. It will be released on May 29th in North America. UP is a comedy adventure in […]
TELEVISION: This Just In! Champion Jeopardy Player Donates Winnings To Charity!
Every now and then, someone does something so cool that it takes a few seconds to wrap one’s head around it. Such was the case of Donna Vogel’s decision to donate of $85,299, her complete winnings on Jeopardy [check your listings for time], last year. Vogel, a scientist from John Hopkins Medical Institute, said […]
INTERVIEW: Guiding Light’s Jessica Leccia
Recently I had the pleasure to sit down with Guiding Light’s Jessica Leccia to discuss her character Natalia Rivera and the burgeoning same-sex love story energizing daytime TV. The stunning Leccia alongside sexy soap siren Crystal Chappell (Olivia Spencer) are throwing caution to the wind and raising some eyebrows on Guiding Light with their latest […]
Television: Smallville ‘Turbulence ‘Sneak Peek’
TESS SETS A TRAP FOR CLARK — Tess (Cassidy Freeman) invites Clark (Tom Welling) to a press conference in New York but when an explosion rocks the private jet they are on, Clark must figure out how to save them without Tess learning his secret. Unbeknownst to Clark, Tess orchestrated the explosion to get Clark […]
Television: Supernatural ‘On The Head of A Pin’ Stills Gallery Plus Cool Supernatural News
SOMEONE’S KILLING ANGELS — Someone found Lucifer’s sword and is using it to kill angels. Castiel (Misha Collins) and Uriel (guest star Robert Wisdom) have captured Alastair (guest star Christopher Heyerdahl) and ask Dean (Jensen Ackles) to use the torturing skills he learned in Hell to extract information from him so they can stop the […]
Television: Gossip Girl ‘Age of Dissonance’ Sneak Peek
THE SENIORS PUT ON A PRODUCTION OF “THE AGE OF INNOCENCE”/SEBASTIAN STAN (“KINGS”) RETURNS AS CARTER BAIZEN — MONDAY MARCH 16TH AT 8PM EST ON THE CW NETWORK. The Constance Billard and St. Jude seniors put on a production of “The Age of Innocence” and find their personal lives mirroring conflicts in the play. Serena […]
TELEVISION: Better Off Ted – R&D Becomes Fodder For Sitcom!
Ted [Jay Harrington] is the head of a Research & Development team at Veridian Technologies. As the central character on Better Off Ted [ABC, Wednesdays, 8:30/7:30C], Ted is faced with the moral, ethical and legal situations that can arise out of the search for new and exciting products and processes – like the one where […]
TELEVISION NEWS: Sci-Fi Channel is now SyFy
In one of the dumbest rebranding moves ever, one of my favorite networks Sci-Fi Channel is rebranding itself to become the SyFy network. There must be some reason beyond the explanation they give for this change. Their stated reason is they have grown beyond the “generic” Sci-Fi moniker and wanted a new name to reflect […]
EMVisionaries: Drupal’s Dries Buytaert
This is the first in what I’m going to call EMVisionaries – a new series of interviews with people who are creating technologies and services that are changing the “world” we’re living in one technology at a time. The people featured here will be web technologist, environmental folks and people creating next gen audio/visual experiences. […]
Television: Gossip Girl Sets the Stage for The Age of Dissonance
“When God closes one door, he opens a play” Gossip Girl makes it return to the CW Network lineup on Monday March 16th at PM EST with an episode that finds the senior class putting on the play ‘The Age of Innocence’ amid their own lives filled with the usual dealings of lies, deceits, […]
New On DVD: ER The Complete Tenth Season
Healing is teamwork and science. Instant decisions and best guesses. Joy one moment, tragedy the next, 24/7 readiness. It is learning, always learning. County General is a teaching hospital. And each day it presents its weary students and dedicated doctors with an unexpected instructor called experience.The ambulances are ready to unload more compulsively watchable tales […]