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The rumors that “Valkyrie,” the Tom Cruise World War II film premiering Christmas Day, is terrible must be true. Otherwise, why would he return to the glibbest morning show on television? It’s been three years since Tom Cruise declared Matt Lauer “glib” during one of the most bizarre “Today” show segments ever and he’s making…

There was a time when a playwright like the acclaimed John Patrick Shanley would not have considered an interview with Christians worth his time– even to promote a movie, even one with an overtly religious nature like his latest effort, “Doubt.” So I think the fact that he just did a Q & A with…

As Movie Mom has already pointed out, critics and major media outlets are posting their year-end lists of the best movies of 2008. Roger Ebert has published his, as has the prestigious National Board of Review and the Los Angeles Film Critics released their list yesterday. In a year that I would label as only…

While it doesn’t open in wide release until Friday, I had a chance to see “Frost/Nixon” out in Los Angeles last week and I can’t recommend it enough–for adults who remember the time but who can now reflect on history much more intelligently and for young people who are bored by history. “Frost/Nixon” presents a…

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Thought you had it tough raising your kids? Try raising 8! On the hit TLC TV show “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” we see married couple Jon and Kate Gosselin go through the daily struggles–and, of course, the daily joys–of raising their adorable children: 8-year-old twins Cara and Mady, and 4-year-old sextuplets Leah, Hannah, Alexis,…

I like commercials. Most people leave the room when a commercial comes on, but I turn up the volume. I appreciate the artistry needed to manipulate the public into purchasing a product in less than two minutes. And while I absolutely revel in the inventiveness of Burger King’s new “Whopper Virgins” campaign, it also leaves…

Enya’s seventh studio album, “And Winter Came,” is not so much a holiday album as it is an ambient ode to the season. Featuring ten original winter/holiday-themed compositions and two traditional Christmas carols, the CD features the “choir of one” production–multi-layered vocals that create the trademark Enya sound–found on such hits as “Orinoco Flow.” Which…

So she married a much older man, a prince, and is known for, among other things, dying her hair a myriad of colors and even wearing it in a mohawk. That doesn’t stop Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis of Germany from being the royal face of Catholicism. In “Gloria In Extremis” from the New…

Arriving with surprisingly low-key Muggle murmurs, “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” is the newest book written by J.K. Rowling after the final Harry Potter book came out last year. For those who read Deathly Hallows, you’ll remember a book of wizard fairy tales (the wacky equivalent of the Muggle world’s Grimm’s Fairy Tales) play…
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