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Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Friday, 16th May 2008 @ 12:30 PM

In 2001, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant created what is considered one of the funniest British television programs of all time called The Office. The series lasted for two seasons and a two part Christmas special. The series followed a documentary format, although the entire pretense of the show was fictional. The show was noted because of its emphasis on characters that functioned like regular (in some cases not so regular) people with desires, flaws, mannerisms, and traits that wer... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By MIKE SELVON @ Thursday, 15th May 2008 @ 10:07 PM

Magicians today are a far cry from their ancient predecessors. Instead of pulling rabbits out of hats, the magi were guardians of Egyptian kings. Throughout the ages, magic and the magician has evolved greatly and today's illusionist is more of a celebrity than a mystic. In this article, we'll meet the masters of sleight of hand who have laid the foundation for today's renewed interest in the unknown. Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin, who opened an illusion theater in Paris in th... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Tuesday, 13th May 2008 @ 6:32 AM

In June of 2004 a comedy show entitled Arrested Development was broadcast on the Fox network. The show was done in a mock documentary format, very similar to the show The Office, and followed the lives of the members of the fictional Bluth family, who lead excessive lifestyles well beyond their actual financial means. The family is selfish, greedy, overly materialistic, vain, underhanded, sneaky, and deceptive and yet the audience cannot help themselves but fall in love with them. In fac... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Friday, 9th May 2008 @ 8:46 AM

TBS is nearly infamous for its lack of original series. In fact, almost everything that comes on the channel is a cancelled or licensed series that uses reruns several times over. They've used Family Guy, Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, Sex and the City, and Just Shoot Me until anyone who watches the channel on a daily basis has no need to purchase the DVDs for the series. However, there is a silver lining to all of this, and that silver lining is the TBS original series 10 Items... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Friday, 9th May 2008 @ 8:44 AM

Of late, there have been very few examples of historical fiction in the film industry that go beyond just 200 years. Not very much history is explored in films, especially not in the action genre. However, this could be about to change. Director Roland Emmerich, the director who brought us the films Godzilla, The Patriot, The Day After Tomorrow, Stargate, Universal Soldier, and Independence Day, brings us a vision a life in prehistoric times with the new prehistoric action film 10,000 B.... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Friday, 9th May 2008 @ 8:18 AM

Blackjack is one of the most popular card games in casinos today. With the simple formula of whoever gets 21 or the highest number wins, the game is easy to play and is one of the few card games in which the player has just as much of a chance of being the winner as the dealer. Or at least it would seem. The new film 21 is based on the true story and book Bringing Down the House based on the exploits of four MIT students who were brought together and went to Las Vegas where they attempte... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Friday, 9th May 2008 @ 7:59 AM

Christmas trees, fruit cake, presents, carols, bickering relatives, and the sound of an adult telling a bespectacled eight year old boy You'll shoot your eye out! These are some of the most important things of any holiday season. If the last piece of the aforementioned Christmas merriments is unfamiliar to you, then many would say that you have not received the full Christmas experience. That line comes from the Christmas classic, appropriately titled, A Christmas Story. It is the t... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Friday, 9th May 2008 @ 7:52 AM

Katsuhiro Otomo's name may be somewhat unfamiliar to those in the United States, but in Japan he is one of the top manga artists to ever be published. Otomo has been behind several projects that received major recognition, particularly in the anime field. He was involved with the films Steam Boy, Metropolis, and Memories. But perhaps his most famous project is Akira. Akira ran as a series from 1982 to 1990. The series was collected into a 2,000 plus page graphic novel. Akira tells t... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Ann Knapp @ Tuesday, 6th May 2008 @ 6:38 PM

Cigar smoking enjoyed an abrupt, and steep, spike in popularity during the 1990s, after years of decline. Cigar bars and shops sprang up even in midsize towns and cities, while profits experienced heady growth. But during all the years between the industry's heyday and this 1990s revival, these fictional cigar smokers from stage, screen and literature never stopped puffing away. James Bond This tuxedo-clad, luxury-obsessed, cynical secret agent first appeared in Ian Fleming's... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Laurie Lindsay @ Tuesday, 6th May 2008 @ 8:30 AM

Watching movies is a neat escape from the stressful lifestyle we live in. Watching movies in a wide screen and surround sound take you far away and into the movie scene you are watching. You watch it as if you were there in the movie scene. Of late, we can only experience this escape in a cinema. However, modern technology may be able to provide this same sight and sound experience right in your own living room. We will discuss the basic components of a home theatre system in this articl... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 5:08 AM

Every year major blockbusters open into theatres that seem to instantly capture the limelight. And if it is an action oriented film, than you can almost guarantee a video game not too far behind. And no matter how well the film is reviewed and accepted by critics and the audience, the video game that follows it usually receives overwhelmingly negative reviews. Every now and then there is a game based on a film that is actually good and manages to capture the spirit of the film and bring ... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 5:03 AM

Pixar animation studios is the leading producer of computer animated films in the world. Pixar's creative director is John Lasseter, who has been hailed as the modern day Walt Disney. Their first full length film Toy Story was a landmark film for being the first ever feature length computer animated film. Pixar has managed to work with Disney to produce some of the most popular and critically acclaimed films of the past 13 years. And ever since the Academy Awards have had a best ani... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 4:59 AM

Michael Winship, the president of the Writer's Guild of America East, and Patric M. Verrone, the president of the Writer's Guild of America West announced in a letter to all involved with the strike of the past three months that has crippled much of the entertainment industry that the WGA had indeed reached a deal with the AMPTP on the basis of if they get paid, we get paid. The strike has been going on since November 5, 2007 over the royalties that were to be made from DVD sal... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 4:49 AM

Stephenie Meyer is a writer who has been picking up a lot of steam in the past few years. Her books are most often aimed at the teenage to young adult audience and are noted for using themes that people in that age group would identify with in the form of supernatural flights of fancy. Her most popular books are in the Twilight Trilogy which revolves around the world of vampires who live side by side with normal people, albeit secretly. The novel, along with its sequels New Moon, and Ecl... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 4:29 AM

In September of 1993 a television show premiered on Fox that became a cultural phenomenon all around the world. The show focused on FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Skully as they investigated paranormal activity, often centered around extraterrestrial origins. The show was called The X-Files. The show became popular among UFO enthusiasts, science fiction fans, and mystery fans due to its interesting mixture of science fiction, mystery, and conspiracy theories as topics of investigation fo... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 4:21 AM

Every week on the Fox network, audiences around the world hear a familiar chorus as voices say The Simpsons as an all too familiar theme plays. The Simpsons, for almost twenty years now, is the longest running animated program in the history of television. It is the characters of Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie, and, of course, Bart Simpson who bring audiences back to the town of Springfield with the crazy predicaments offered up by the towns folk. There have been fans of the Simpsons for yea... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 4:16 AM

Mankind has been fascinated with the concept of life existing on other worlds for hundreds of years. Incidents such as the Roswell phenomenon have done nothing but further inspire this fascination in the extraterrestrial. The concept of life on other worlds has held people's imagination largely due to the question of what if we were to be visited by people from one of those places to be inhabited. Perhaps the first book to ever speculate what could transpire given that situation was... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 3:22 AM

The comic book medium is one that has flourished around the world as just as viable as any other form of entertainment such as books, music, or film. Everywhere in the world, that is, except for America, where comic books are looked at, predominantly, as a children's medium. However, in the late 1970s, several comic book writers who were fed up with not being taken seriously sought to change the way people look at comics. They sought to receive the same respect that comic book write... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 3:10 AM

In 1982, David Hasselhoff was launched to stardom with the debut of the television series Knight Rider. Knight Rider was a story about a modern day Lone Ranger named Michael Knight who was formerly Officer Michael Long, until he was nearly killed in duty and resurrected by a group called FLAG (Foundation for the Law and Government). FLAG was founded by billionaire Wilton Knight, who was a philanthropist and owner of Knight Industries. When Wilton Knight dies, Michael vows to continue his... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 3:07 AM

Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick have been behind some of the most popular TV series in recent history. They have brought TV shows that showed realistic characters with normal motivations and quirks. The shows were Thirtysomething, My So-Called Life, and Once and Again. The shows dealt mostly with people trying to reaffirm their stances in their own lives through events that took place around them. Their new series Quarterlife seeks to do the same thing, except it keeps up with the t... more...