Published by Simon & Schuster
Sep 22, 2016
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The Boys of Dunbar is not only a book about the best high school basketball team in the nation, which spawned several NBA greats, it’s a story about courage, leadership, hard work, and overcoming obstacles.
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Sep 21, 2016
Music
Beach Slang
Following quickly on the heels of several EPs and last year’s excellent debut LP, The Things We Do to Find People Who Think Like Us, Beach Slang has quickly released the follow-up less than a year later.
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Studio: Paramount
Directed by Andrew Neel
Sep 21, 2016
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Goat, a film based on Brad Land’s memoir recounting his experience pledging a fraternity, treats this widely-accepted American rite of passage with the horror it deserves.
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Sep 20, 2016
Music
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After collaborating to produce one of the top five best-selling albums of all time, a schism grew between singer Meat Loaf and songwriter Jim Steinman. It took them 16 years to make amends and follow Bat Out of Hell with its potent sequel, Bat Out of Hell II; however, their peace treaty was short-lived.
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Studio: Starz Digital
Directed by Sophie Goodhart
Sep 20, 2016
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As the blind, overachieving Robbie, Scott hilariously plays his most punchable character yet—an impressive feat for an actor who seems to specialize in douchebaggier comedy roles.
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NBC, Premieres Monday, September 9 at 10/9 Central
Sep 19, 2016
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A series pilot has to walk a rather tricky line of setting up a series premise, giving a hint of things to come, and, you know, being entertaining. As far as pilots go, NBC’s The Good Place (from Parks and Creation co-creator Michael Schur) hits it out of the park with all of the above-not to mention some honest to goodness earned laughter.
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Sep 19, 2016
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Revisiting the 1984 debut of writing/directing team Joel and Ethan Coen somehow only serves to amplify their mystique.
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Sep 19, 2016
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The murder of six-year-old child beauty pageant queen JonBenét Ramsey rocked America starting the day after Christmas, 1996. Twenty-years later, the murder remains one of the most publicized and speculated about unsolved crimes of recent note.
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Sep 19, 2016
Music
Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart is an artist. Recently, the music for which he is widely recognized has been demarcated by periods of his lesser known visual art, where open hearted interaction with forms and figures may be shaping his recordings.
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Studio: XLrator Media
Directed by Mike Nicoll
Sep 19, 2016
Cinema
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The truth the film makes abundantly clear is that amateur basketball in America is now a big money game, and anything but amateur.
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