TELEVISION
Premieres Sunday @ 9pm on HBO
“The Pacific” will rock your soul and make your heart bleed. A 10-part HBO World War II miniseries, the long-awaited companion piece to “Band of Brothers” from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks which begins Sunday night, is a masterful, compelling, intense and brutal depiction of battle, the men who fight [...]

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I’ll state it right now; I love disaster movies. Many of you out there immediately shrug off the genre as “stupid” and “a waste of money.” Well you know what? Sometimes you just need to watch the world explode and fantasize about the day Los Angeles sinks into an endless abyss.
The premise of 2012 is [...]

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Sometimes I think that the greatest thrill of a Peanuts cartoon strip came not from the characters it had, but rather from the characters it didn’t have. Namely grown-ups. There was not a grown-up to be found anywhere in the lives of Charlie Brown and his chums. Not even one. No parents, no teachers no [...]

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Walt Disney Pictures
In cinemas on 5 March
Well “Alice” certainly has attracted a lot of attention in her most recent incarnation. There’s a pop soundtrack (really an ‘inspired by’ type thing), re-issues of the books, re-issues of older versions of the movie, and then there is this new version of the film, which one would [...]

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Geffen Playhouse: Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater / Los Angeles
On through 4 March
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Neil LaBute is the snobby theatre-goer’s favorite punching bag– what with his “gimmicks,” his twist endings, and his seeming unwillingness to uplift our noble human spirit or adequately chastise his brutal white male leads. But what gets lost in the obsession over his misanthropy— [...]

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For women of a certain age, there is nothing more soul satisfying than the prospect of spending four or five hours totally immersed in the grace and civility of a Jane Austen story. In years past, we have had lavish productions of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park….all of Austen’s novels [...]

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Touchstone Home Entertainment
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When the billboards first hit the L.A. streets for “Surrogates,” it all looked super-cool. When the trailers came out, it looked…well, far less cool. Set in the not-too-distant future, the world has become a place where everyone and their mother has a second version of themselves – [...]

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