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The newly svelte Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong, his first film since the brobdingagian Lord of the Rings trilogy, is now within sniffing distance (if you are downwind), with worldwide release due December 14, 2005. Like Rings, shot in his native New Zealand and co-written by Jackson, Fran Walsh …

The American Idol wheels keep turning in unexpected ways as Mario Vazquez, who “withdrew from the competition for personal reasons” just before the ’05 finals began in March, has remained within the Idol family, at least according to them. Yesterday, Idol guru Simon Fuller’s 19 Entertainment Limited announced that Vazquez …

Predictably disgusting but educational

I was going to wait until next week to share any more reviews but after being asked here about my thoughts on Moore, I thought I’d post this one too. In a nutshell, I think this is a great documentary and Michael Moore is a talented director and editor. My …

Fans of the Harry Potter series can look forward to the second well-directed movie in the series

This is my first post for tbomedia.co.uk and I’m kind of excited about that. I’m a reporter-turned-educator in the middle of a career change from journalism to elementary education. I write book and movie reviews for a blog I started partially to fill the need to keep writing. Time to …

Despite recent grim characterizations in popular culture such as ABC’s smash Desperate Housewives and Judith Warner’s popular book Perfect Madness, the latter of which posits modern motherhood as “an endless sea of child-enriching activities” leading into “a well of despair,” a new survey finds that an overwhelming majority of mothers …

Created by Tracy Torme & Robert K. Weiss Universal Television Sliders is a science fiction television series about a foursome who travel, or “slide” as the show refers to it, between parallel universes trying to return to their Earth after an accident strands them. They are led by Quinn Mallory, …

El Crimen Ferpecto is to selling women’s clothes is what Alfie is to seducing women. Directed by Álex de la Iglesia (800 Balas), El Crimen Ferpecto (Ferpect Crime) tells the story of Raphael, a womanizing department salesman (Guillermo Toledo), whose life revolves around selling women’s clothes. His dream is to …

Venerable audience measurement arbiter Nielsen Media Research says the national TV audience is getting more ethnic, Southern, Western, and a little older, according to its estimates for the 2005-06 viewing season. The total number of television households within the U.S. (including Alaska and Hawaii) is now estimated at 110,200,000, according …