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Game On: The game that destroyed my childlike wonder with video games

Growing up with an Atari 2600 and Sega Genesis was a funny thing. Looking back now, it’s obvious how these machines were painfully limited by the technology of their time – but as a little kid, nothing was more wondrous to me than slaying the duck-looking, pixelated dragons in Adventure or zipping across the screen in Sonic the Hedgehog.
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Movie Review: Strong cast, familiar tropes give ‘Champions’ winning formula

UPDATED: Thu., March 9, 2023

The Farrelly brothers — Peter and Bobby — reigned supreme over comedies of questionable taste in the 1990s and 2000s (“Dumb and Dumber,” “There’s Something About Mary,” “Shallow Hal,” “Stuck on You”), but while brother Peter has gone on to the industry's highest success, picking up best original screenplay and best picture Oscars for his film “Green Book,” Bobby hasn’t directed a film in awhile. He makes his comeback with his “Kingpin” star Woody Harrelson in the sports comedy “Champions,” an English-language remake of the 2018 Spanish smash hit, the Goya Award-winning, “Campeones.”
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Movie Review: ‘Scream VI’ is new city, new killer, same old stuff

UPDATED: Thu., March 9, 2023

It's tempting to call "Scream VI" - the latest installment in the long-running meta-slasher franchise, now set in New York City instead of the fictional Woodsboro, Mich., and featuring a whole gaggle of Ghostface killers - less of a fresh idea than a cynical exercise in boosting an existing intellectual property to make a buck. But including a line of dialogue in the new screenplay that does exactly that - an allusion to the bad habits of horror franchises, including the fictional "Stab" series, films-within-these-films that serve as stand-ins for the one you're watching - doesn't inoculate the makers of this latest chapter against accusations of trafficking in lazy formula.
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‘The Last of Us’ Continues Craig Mazin’s Hollywood Ascent

UPDATED: Thu., March 9, 2023

About a decade ago, Mazin had carved out a solid career as a comedy screenwriter. Although his credits were hardly going to win over critics — “Scary Movie 3” and “Scary Movie 4” as well as the second and third installments of the “Hangover” trilogy among them — the calls from Hollywood executives kept coming. It was a steady and lucrative job.
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‘America’s Got Talent’ favorite returns to the Spokane Comedy Club

UPDATED: Thu., March 2, 2023

It’s not easy winning over Simon Cowell. The popular arbiter of taste, who reigns as an “America’s Got Talent” judge, is known for his unrelenting criticism. However, Cowell praised Mike E. Winfield and honored the veteran stand-up by pressing his golden buzzer during the “AGT” competition in 2022. Cowell proceeded to gush over Winfield’s material and delivery.
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‘Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre’ is ‘Mission: Impossible’ lite

UPDATED: Thu., March 2, 2023

A cynical thought popped into my head as the closing credits began to roll for "Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre," a garden-variety comedy caper featuring an elite team of supersecret agents with a unique set of skills, all of which are applied to stopping a mysterious weapon from falling into the wrong hands: This feels designed - focus-grouped, even - to become a franchise.
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