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Irish Film Festival Features the Bass Player: A Song for Dad, on March 27

March 27, 2010

The 11th annual Irish Film Festival Boston is presenting The Bass Player: A Song For Dad by Irish filmmaker Niall McKay, at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, Somerville, MA. on Saturday, March 27, at 2:30 p.m.In this eloquent, witty homage to his father, McKay wrestles with his family's unsettling past to overcome his fear ...

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'The T.A.M.I. Show': A Pop Music Time Capsule

March 23, 2010

The 1964 concert never turned into the annual fundraiser it was envisioned as, but it did bring together the Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, the Beach Boys and James Brown, and now it's on DVD. “The T.A.M.I. Show," the fabled film document of an equally legendary 1964 concert in Santa Monica with the Rolling Stones, James Brown, ...

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Michael Jackson's Revived Captain EO is Still Wired, Slightly Tired

March 22, 2010

ANAHEIM, California Michael Jackson's 3-D short film Captain EO is playing again at Disneyland, and the 24-year-old space opera still holds up. Mostly. Representing the height of 1986 movie technology, Captain EO was a lavish collaboration between Disney and George Lucas Industrial Light & Magic studio. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Jackson at the ...

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Santa Monica Sushi Bar the Hump to Close

March 20, 2010

A Santa Monica sushi restaurant facing federal charges for serving endangered whale meat appears set to close its doors Saturday, according to a statement posted to The Hump's website Friday which called the decision a “self-imposed punishment." “The Hump hopes that by closing its doors, it will help bring awareness to the detrimental effect that illegal ...

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Chet Baker's "Let's Get Lost

March 19, 2010

Lined and ravaged as it is, the face is ageless: as sunken as a dead man's, as softly bewildered as a child's. Chet Baker's face, and the extraordinary ways in which Bruce Weber has photographed it, encapsulate the story of Baker's life in a succession of ghostly, indelible images that are at once hauntingly beautiful and ...

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Lucasfilms the Clone Wars: Best Political Cartoon Ever?

March 19, 2010

Political murder, mercenary violence, military occupations and callous terrorists dont just kill as newspaper headlines. They've also made excellent thematic fodder for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, whose dark second season wraps with a three-week stand starting Friday night. The procedural and corporate intrigue has also solidified Lucasfilm's CGI tween fever dream as one of Earths ...

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Stewart, Fanning Glam It up in Runaways

March 19, 2010

Film is a smart showcase to help stars break out as they take on adult roles. Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie in the tumultuous story of the 1970's all girl rock band, The Runaways. “The Runaways," chronicling the rise and fall of Joan Jett's first band, easily could have ...

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Neil Young Trunk Show

March 19, 2010

Virtually from the beginning of a career that's closing in on the half-century mark, Neil Young has been both an obsessive archivist and a passionate believer in the nexus of rock music and film. That combination goes a long way toward explaining why he's made considerably more films than your average rock star and why he ...

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Chess Records Biopic Robert Randolph, Keb' MO'

March 19, 2010

OPENS APRIL 9 IN NEW YORK CITY Who Do You Love is the new film about Leonard and Phil Chess, legendary founders of Chess Records. The film opens in theaters beginning April 9 in NYC and stars Robert Randolph (as Bo Diddley), Keb' Mo', Raheem DeVaughn, Ryan Shaw and Alessandro Nivola (as Leonard Chess). Who Do ...

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Breathtaking 'Hubble 3D' IMAX Film Opens Friday

March 19, 2010

Take a number of the Hubble Space Telescope's most stunning images, give them a 3D look, and display them on an IMAX screen--what's not to love? Yet Hubble 3D, an IMAX and Warner Brothers film made in cooperation with NASA, manages to go far beyond that. Much of the film focuses on last May's mission of ...