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A New Disney App: Princess Story Theater

posted by Nell Minow

Disney has a new app that lets kids create their own princess stories, even recording their own voices for the characters.  It’s available on iTunes for $2.99.

Roger Ebert’s New Website

posted by Nell Minow

Roger was very excited about his new website and invited me to be a contributor, along with my friends Odie Henderson, Jim Emerson, Michal Oleszczyk, Thomas W Shales, Omer M. Mozaffar, and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky.  We are going forward and will try [...]

App to Identify Those Face-is-so-familiar Actors

posted by Nell Minow

Do you wish there was a movie and television version of Shazam or Soundhound, those apps that identify songs?  It’s here.  Amazon has X-Ray for movies and television, an app that works on its Kindle Fire series and lets you [...]

Happy Opening Day! Visit The National Pastime Virtual Museum

posted by Nell Minow

In honor of the baseball season’s opening day, visit the brand-new virtual museum of baseball history, The National Pastime.  It is an astonishing treasure trove, based on a collection of over 25,000 items, including equipment, contracts, photos, and artifacts.  Gaze [...]

Previous Posts

Want to Know What James Franco Thinks of "The Great Gatsby?"
I'm interested in James Franco's take on "The Great Gatsby" because of what this polymath who attended two grad schools at once has to say about the challenges of adapting great writing to the screen and the differing goals and audience expectations of a book now viewed as a classic and a movie. Th

posted 8:00:42am May. 17, 2013 | read full post »

Interview: Directors/Writer/Star of "Desperate Acts of Magic"
Magic is in the air.  And on the screen.  Two big-budget films with some of Hollywood's biggest stars playing magicians are being released within a few months of each other.  In March, we had the silly comedy The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey.  Coming up is the en

posted 8:00:21am May. 17, 2013 | read full post »

Star Trek: Into Darkness
This time, there's crying in "Star Trek."  And some very significant time on Earth as well.  This story is in the most literal sense, close to home. Writer-director J.J. Abrams, who rebooted Gene Roddenberry's original "Star Trek" saga with a rousing 2009 origin story prequel now takes us clos

posted 9:36:25am May. 16, 2013 | read full post »

Interview: Candace Cameron Bure of "Finding Normal"
It was great to catch up with Candace Cameron Bure to hear about her new film, "Finding Normal," premiering this week on GMC-TV.  She plays a brilliant type-A surgeon who is completely focused on status and her career until she gets stuck in a small town and sees a different way of life. What i

posted 8:00:14am May. 16, 2013 | read full post »

Interview: Margaret Talbot on The Entertainer
I loved Margaret Talbot's book about her father, actor Lyle Talbot, The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century.  His career spanned the full range of entertainment from the traveling shows of the 1920's to movies in the golden age of Hollywood co-starring with Bette Davis,

posted 3:28:07pm May. 15, 2013 | read full post »


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