Sean Stangland
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Widescreen: Emmy voters should consider these four long shotsJun 18, 2017 7:00 am - The long buildup to Sept. 17's Emmy awards began this week as online voting opened to members of the Television Academy. Between now and June 26, 22,000 industry profess...
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'Pirates' director Verbinski scares up a 'Cure' on videoJun 09, 2017 6:00 am - Gore Verbinski isn't a household name, but some of his movies are - the first three "Pirates of the Caribbean" epics, the Naomi Watts horror remake "The Ring" and the Os...
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'iZombie' leads The CW's collection of cool showsJun 02, 2017 6:00 am - I had a surprising realization last weekend about which TV network I'm watching and enjoying the most. It's not HBO. Damon Lindelof's acclaimed end-times drama, "The Lef...
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Before 'Alien: Covenant,' revisit David Fincher's installmentMay 19, 2017 6:00 am - It's time for another summer movie anecdote! May 20, 1992: My father and I sit in his black 1988 Dodge Omni, listening to Jeremy Roenick and the Blackhawks beat the Edmo...
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'Fifth Element' back on the big screen for its 20th anniversaryMay 09, 2017 1:00 am - May 9, 1997: I was working for Suncoast Motion Picture Company at Mount Prospect's previous, dearly departed incarnation of Randhurst. Those were the days of the Picnic ...
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Kaitlin Olson, Carla Jimenez helped make 'The Mick' the year's funniest new showMay 06, 2017 7:15 am - In January, I expressed hope that the cast of FOX's raunchy new sitcom, “The Mick,” could craft characters that win us over even when the show's more extreme gags tu...
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The funniest 92 seconds of 'La La Land'Apr 28, 2017 6:00 am - “La La Land” is a film of many pleasures. The breathless opening musical number on an L.A. freeway. Director Damien Chazelle's ever-moving camera. Linus Sandgren's gorge...
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'Bates Motel' will go out on topApr 21, 2017 6:00 am - It doesn't have Bernard Herrmann's piercing violins or Alfred Hitchcock's mastery of the camera, but A&E's television series based upon "Psycho" has carved out its own p...
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'Better Call Saul' needs to bring on the FringApr 14, 2017 6:00 am - AMC's “Better Call Saul” returned for its third season last Monday with a premiere that felt, oddly, like a midseason steppingstone, not an important bookend. The second...
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Alien Day celebrates the classic film and this summer's prequelApr 07, 2017 6:00 am - If you're bursting with excitement over the May 19 release of "Alien: Covenant," director Ridley Scott's return to the sci-fi/horror franchise he helped launch in 1979, ...