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Movie review: Planet 51

Movie studios love to play chicken when it comes to making films with similar plots. Dante's Peak and Volcano were released within three months of each other back in 1997, while Armageddon and Deep Impact both threatened the earth with falling ...

From ALEX BENTLEY, Pegasus News,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: NASA,  Justin Long,  Gary Oldman,  John Cleese,  Jessica Biel

Exhibit review: Bodies... The Exhibition in Dallas

With all of the artificial parts on this guy, something tells me he wasn't much of a discus thrower. It's been well over two years since Body Worlds finished its run in Dallas, so you can't exactly say that Bodies... The Exhibition (which starts ...

From ALEX BENTLEY, Pegasus News,  20 Nov 2009

Movie review: The Twilight Saga: New Moon

The popularity of the Twilight series and the stars of its films has grown to such a fever pitch that it doesn't matter how good the film adaptations are. The bloodthirsty fans will turn out en masse to anything even remotely associated with it, and ...

From ALEX BENTLEY, Pegasus News,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Kristen Stewart,  Robert Pattinson,  Taylor Lautner,  Chris Weitz,  Michael Sheen

Kids and family events in Dallas-Fort Worth, November 19-25

The holidays are rapidly approaching (Thanksgiving is next week, folks!) and there's more of a chill in the air. We'll do our best to keep you inside this week, but some things might be worth putting on a jacket and scarf. If you can take the time off ...

From ALEX BENTLEY, Pegasus News,  18 Nov 2009

Movie review and director interview: Precious

Director Lee Daniels is making quite a name for himself as a filmmaker who's willing to tackle controversial subject matter. As a producer, he's been involved with such films as Monster's Ball, which was about a racist prison guard who has an affair ...

From ALEX BENTLEY, Pegasus News,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Mo'Nique,  Lee Daniels,  Lenny Kravitz,  Ellen DeGeneres,  Mariah Carey

Kids and family events in Dallas-Fort Worth, November 12-18

Ah, the post-Halloween/pre-Thanksgiving lull -- there are no natural event tie-ins, so we'll just have to pick the best of the one-off happenings. An all-youth production of The Diary of Anne Frank will put on three performances at Will Rogers ...

From ALEX BENTLEY, Pegasus News,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Anne Frank,  Will Rogers

Movie review: (Untitled)

High-minded, pretentious art can take one of two forms when it comes to movies: Either the movie itself is that kind of art or it's making fun of it. I normally steer far away from the former, as I like to be entertained by the films I see rather than ...

From ALEX BENTLEY, Pegasus News,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Jonathan Parker,  Adrian Jacobs,  Adam Goldberg,  Eion Bailey,  Marley Shelton

Movie review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

Writer/director Robert Zemeckis has fallen hard for motion capture filmmaking, having used the animation technique that captures actual human movements and molds them onto digital bodies in his two previous films, The Polar Express and Beowulf. He's ...

From ALEX BENTLEY, Pegasus News,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Polar Express,  Robert Zemeckis,  Jim Carrey,  Gary Oldman,  Colin Firth

Kids and family events in Dallas-Fort Worth, November 5-11

After the excitement of Halloween, it's only natural to want to take a break. And so even though the slate of events is a little sparser than usual, there are still a few fun things worth getting out of the house for. On Thursday, November 5, the ...

From ALEX BENTLEY, Pegasus News,  4 Nov 2009

The Biggest Loser week 8: Tracey takes the long way home

Contestants on The Biggest Loser, like a lot of people on reality shows, are given special treatment all the time in order to heighten the drama of the show. In the case of Loser, those special treats have included meeting celebrities, having ...

From ALEX BENTLEY, Pegasus News,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: White House,  Barack Obama

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