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Movie Reviews (Seeking A Friend, Ted, People Like Us)

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Seeking A Friend For The End of The World is all about the last three weeks leading up to the earth being destroyed by an asteroid. During this time, Dodge (Steve Carell; The Office) gets ditched by his wife and ends up bonding with his  neighbor Penny (Keira Knightley; Atonement, Pirates of The Caribbean), who leads him on a road trip to reconnect with her family and his high school sweetheart. A sweet, simple and kind of sad romance is portrayed in this movie. This isn’t like other romances when they show the couple is going to live happily ever after at the end. Nope, you know this is going to end with them both dying which I kind of love because if you have read any of my reviews on romantic movies or know me personally, you know I hate the last 10 mins of the movie which is all about happily ever after. Carell and Knightley are good actors but their whole romance is just a little weird because of their age difference. I have definitely seen movies where the age difference works but here it just doesn’t really but that is really a minor problem. The best thing about this movie though is the supporting cast. From Patton Oswald, Connie Britton, and Martin Sheen to Derek Luke, Rob Corddry and Adam Brody, the supporting cast make have the funniest and the most heart tugging parts of the movie. Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World is in theaters now.

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4th of July Marathons

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Happy 4th of July everyone. I hope everyone enjoys their mid-week holiday with lots of fun, food, friends and family. To celebrate the networks have a ton of marathons that you can catch today no matter what you are into. From drama, cooking, to reality shows there is something to tickle everyone’s fancy.

Cake Boss, 9am/8c, TLC (until 12pm/11c)

House Hunters, 9am/8c, HGTV (until 5pm/4c)

The Andy Griffith Show, 8am/7c, TV Land (until 1pm/12c)

Matlock, 6am/5c, Hallmark Channel (until 8am/7c the next morning)

Star Trek: The Next Generation, 9am/8c, BBC (until 5am/4c Friday morning)

The Game, 9am/8c, BET (until midnight/11c)

The Revolution, 9am/8c, HISTORY (until 8pm/7c)

The Twilight Zone, 9am/8c, Syfy (until 5am/4c Friday morning)

Band of Brothers, 9am/8c, Spike (until 6pm/5c)

Bomb Patrol: Afghanistan, 9am/8c, G4 (until 2am/1c the next morning)

Brothers & Sisters, 10am/9c, SOAP (until 7pm/6c)

Dancing with the Stars, 9am/8c, GSN (until 3pm/2c)

Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?, 9am/8c, ID (until 3am/2c the next morning)

America’s Got Talent, 10am/9c, Oxygen (until 7pm/6c)

Kendra on Top, 10am/9c, WE (until 6pm/5c)

NCIS, 10am, USA (until 11pm/10c)

The Mentalist, 10am/9c, TNT (until 5pm/4c)

America’s Funniest Home Videos, 11am/10c, ABC Family (until midnight/11c)

American Greed, 11am/10c, CNBC (until 6pm/5c)

Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, 11am/10c, Food Network (until 7pm/6c)

Sons of Guns, 11am/10c, Discovery (until 4pm/3c)

United Tastes of America, 12pm/11c, Cooking (until 8pm/7c)

Don’t Be Tardy for the Wedding, 2pm/1c, Bravo (until 7pm/6c)

Undercover Boss, 2pm/1c, TLC (until 10pm/9c)

American Guns, 5pm/4c, Discovery (until the new episode at 9pm/8c).

Firefly, 8am/7c, SCIENCE (until 3am/2c)

Criminal Minds, 9am/8c, A&E (until 6pm/5c)

My Big Redneck Vacation, 10am/9c, CMT (until 10pm/9c)

Keeping Up With the Kardashians, 3pm/2c, E! (until 10pm/9c)

House, 6am/5c, CLOO (until 6am/5c the next morning)

100 Greatest Songs of the 90s, 11am/10c, VH1 (until 4pm/3c)

Dallas, 5pm/4c, TNT (until the new episode at 9pm/8c)

Jaws movie marathon, 1:40pm/12:40c, HBO (until Jaws IV: The Revenge)

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BET Awards 2012

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The BET Awards aired their annual show last night and they should have just called the show “The Carters and Kimye” because that is all the camera cut to for most of the show. The show ran 3 1/2 hours and that is minus the pre-show. Lets’s start with the pre-show. It ran for 2 hours and was just a hot bed of ignorance and

Machine Gun Kelly performing. He’s …. enthusiastic and sadly he’s was one of the better performances on the pre-show.

Rocsi and Terrence. Ughh Why? She looks like a bedazzled hot mess. They said they are leaving 106 & Park. I need that show to end now. Terrence quitting I understand, Rocsi no. Just because you upgraded to Eddie Murphy as a boyfriend doesn’t mean you need to quit your day job because lets be real you really have no job prospects. It seems like the male former hosts of 106 &Park always end up doing bigger and better things than the show but the women always falter. I mean who has seen Julissa or Free in anything since they left the show.

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BET Awards To Air Sunday July 1

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BET will be airing it’s annual awards show tomorrow at 8/7c. The show is being hosted by Samuel L. Jackson. Many performances are in store for the night from Nicki Minaj, Usher, Chris Brown, Cissy Houston, Yolanda Adams, D’Angelo, Meek Mill, Rick Ross, Big Sean, Wale, the entire G.O.O.D. Music crew, Y’Anna Crawley, Amber Bullock, Jessica Reedy, Melanie Fiona and 2 Chainz. There is also a Whitney Houston tribute instore for the night that BET’s Stephen Hill believes will bring “closure that people will feel, and … haven’t had elsewhere.”

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Oh I CAN’T WAIT FOR TOMORROW. It’s going to be pure comedy. This is the only thing that I look forward to on BET because it is always a HOT MESS and this year will be no different. I just don’t understand how you have a year to put on a production and it always turns out terrible. I mean the sound is always bad, people never know where their markers are or what they are supposed to be saying. All a mess.

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Screen Gems “Think Like A Man” Getting A Sequel

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Think Like A Man is getting a sequel. Deadline is reporting that the writers, Keith Merryman and David A. Newman, who wrote the hit film, have been hired to start working on the follow-up. The film which wasn’t expected to make a lot of money opened at #1 when it was released in April and has since grossed $91 million. The film starred many people from Gabrielle Union, Jerry Ferrera, Micheal Ealy to Meagan Good, Taraji P. Henson, Kevin Hart and Romany Malco. No stars announced yet for the follow up but Steve Harvey, author of the best-selling book the film is based on, will be returning as an executive producer.

Why are they making a sequel to this? Yes the movie was good and it was successful but that still doesn’t mean there needs to be a sequel. I think they did a good job of ending it where there is no need for a sequel. I hate when movies that studios and Hollywood don’t believe will make money do and so they think they can make the magic happen twice. Guess what rarely does that happen so they just need to stop because I can name on one hand the amount of sequels that were better than the originals.

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Tyler Perry: Action Star??

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That’s what they want us to believe in the new trailer for Alex Cross, the James Patterson adaptation in which Tyler Perry will pick up the role that Morgan Freeman portrayed in Kiss The Girls and Along Came The Spider. This latest adaptation also stars Matthew Fox, John C McGinley, Edward Burns and Rachel Nichols. The film is a reboot and goes back to the younger days of Alex Cross and involves a case where a family member is murdered by a sadist killer (Fox) who likes to torture his victims.

Yeah I don’t believe him as an action man. This looks like your standard cop action movie which means very generic with nothing new to show you and extremely predictable. I’m glad this isn’t a written/directed/starring Perry movie and just one that he stars in because then it would really have been terrible. I watched Freeman’s Kiss The Girls and Along Came A Spider and I thought Kiss The Girls was a pretty standard movie but was made better by the great acting from Morgan Freeman (Along Came A Spider was pretty ehh). Freeman’s movies were a lot slower and so there was time for good dialogue and a chance to see killer and detective trade barbs and try to one up each other versus this new version that just looks like they put in a bunch of stunts to hide the fact that their star is a bad actor.

This new adaptation originally was given to Idris Elba until the film changed writers and directors and so they decided that what the project was missing was Tyler Perry. Lol. Can you imagine what it could have been with the first writer and Elba on board? Probably not what it looks like now but I will still give this movie a chance because I like all the supporting cast and they are actually pretty good at their jobs. Alex Cross opens everywhere October 19, 2012.

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Ann Curry Announces New Role at NBC News

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Ann Curry confirmed today what has been the worst kept secret ever that she will no longer be on NBC’s Today show couch after 15 years. Rumors have been circulating for the past week about the Today show host exit. She will now be an Anchor at Large and National and International Correspondent for NBC News and do global stories, primetime specials and reports for Today, Nightly News, Rock Center, Dateline and MSNBC. Savannah Guthrie is said to be a shoe-in for her spot on the couch but nothing has been announced yet.

They pretty much fired her and they are trying to make it seem like she’s getting a better gig and she’s clearly not. It sucks that they are blaming the ratings decline of the show on her. Today has always dominated in the morning show ratings and have been on the downward slide for some years now with ABC’s Good Morning America even beating them at times in the past few months. I don’t believe this is her fault. I think the ratings haven’t been that great since Katie Couric left and that a lot of people just aren’t watching as much daytime tv. The ratings for most daytime shows have been on a downward slope for sometime. Here is the video of her farewell. It’s pretty sad but she needs to put a smile back on that face since she’ll be pocketing the rest of the $20 million from her contract to not work for the show.

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So sad. Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally are  my fave movies from her.

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Brave Review

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Brave is the new Pixar film about Merida (Kelly Macdonald), the impetuous daughter of King Fergus (Billy Connolly) and Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson) who is determined to carve her own path in life. Merida defies an age-old custom sacred to the lords of the land, which inadvertently unleash chaos and fury in the kingdom. She then turns to a crazy old Witch (Julie Walters) for help and is granted an ill-fated wish. The consequences of her wish force Merida to discover the meaning of true bravery to undo a beastly curse before it’s too late.

This movie is so cute. I really enjoyed watching it. I have a thing for female red heads. I don’t know what it is from Julianne Moore, and Julia Roberts, to Emma Stone (she’s blond now but she’ll be back to red), I just love them. And so when I saw Merida with that wild mess of red hair, I knew I would love her. I didn’t really know what to expect from the movie. The first half of it is a little misleading. It’s all about Merida and her parents trying to marry her off, but in the second of it gets to the real heart of the movie which is this mother/daughter relationship. It’s just really great to watch. I even shed a little tear towards the end. I think its great for everyone to see. Granted is it the best Pixar movie? No, but it’s still a great story with lovely characters. Check out Brave in theaters now.