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Hey, video game haters out there, listen up. You probably thought that 30-year-old “kid” living in your neighbor’s basement playing non-stop video games was a

If you haven’t noticed, hostile avians are everywhere. I’m not talking about the kind Hitchcock made famous, of course. I’m talking about their digital descendants

Make way for the king. The Lion King, that is. In a cinematic landscape pocked with violent newcomers and tired holdovers, Disney’s classic story of

I’ve got to admit, I really love the recent Toyota Venza commercial. It focuses on a young girl who’s worrying about her parent’s lack of

Thrall, Texas. Population: 800. For most travelers along Route 79, this quiet town lined with cotton fields is just a rest stop on the way

TLC’s Kate Plus 8 aired its last episode Monday, bringing to a close one of the strangest, most meteoric chapters in reality television. For those

I didn’t need a scientific study to know that my children don’t respond to all animated shows the same way. But now I’ve got one.

The local cineplex was a sick, sick place this weekend. Contagion, a film that some have surely been waiting for with feverish expectation, inspired moviegoers

This weekend, on the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, America will pause. We’ll reflect. We may even share stories with one another

There is something about reality shows that just rubs me the wrong way. I can’t help it, I simply find most of them to be