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Facebook could potentially have a problem with this whole ‘teenagers leaving the site en masse’ thing

This won’t be a very long post, as I’ve already talked about the idea of leaving Facebook (which I’ve yet to do, although in the past couple of weeks, I’ve mostly just checked it once in the morning, said happy birthday… Continue Reading

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Richard Linklater, who greatly influenced your pop culture existence, has an opus called Boyhood coming to Sundance

Richard Linklater is the guy behind movies such as Slacker, Dazed and Confused, School of Rock, the updated Bad News Bears, and all those Before Sunrise-type films. Phrased another way, you’ve probably seen his work at some point in time. Minus School of Rock, his… Continue Reading

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Todd from Breaking Bad (i.e. Jesse Plemons) as a young Luke Skywalker in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars movie? Sure.

Depending on your particular streaming video obsession, you know Jesse Plemons as either Landry from Friday Night Lights or Todd from Breaking Bad. I watched both shows, although I was a lot more into Breaking Bad all told, and I think Plemons has one… Continue Reading

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Why isn’t Sofia Vergara a bigger movie star?

She owns the ‘highest-paid TV actresses’ list, but can she become a silver screen star too? Continue Reading

Is The Big Chill the best ‘friends-reuniting’ movie of all-time?

In a potential low point for me, I watched the above movie — alternatively titled The Wedding Weekend or Shut Up And Sing — on Amazon Prime Video a couple of nights ago. Basic plot is that the guy from Royal Pains on USA Network gets… Continue Reading

The January 1 Netflix purge is upon us: Kids In The Hall, Can’t Hardly Wait, Back to School are all off streaming

The Netflix streaming market in the U.S. is a moving target — different content agreements end at different times (and new ones start), so what’s available on there can vary accordingly (that’s probably one of the most obvious sentences I’ve… Continue Reading

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The five best-performing stocks of 2013 were … Tesla (check), Netflix (check), Twitter (check), Herbalife (check), and … Best Buy?

The first couple seem to make sense — Tesla could be the future of cars, Netflix is just crushing it in every way, Twitter had an IPO this year, and Herbalife, well, at the very least they drop dime on… Continue Reading

What are going to be the big movies of 2014 or, phrased another way, is it the year of Shailene Woodley?

One year turns to the next, and while we make lists of stuff related to the year we’ve just finished, we also look breathlessly ahead. Movies are tough to hit on — release dates can change pretty quickly (for example,… Continue Reading