By Ian Murphy (Who else would it be by?) This is where my two primary obsessions tend to intersect. Music nuts are as defensive and passionate about their favorite guitarists as boxing fans are about their favorite fighters. Sometimes the reasoning is ludicrous, like saying Floyd Mayweather, JR. is “The Best Ever” and other times […]
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Murphy’s Top Ten Rock Guitar Players of All Time
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Comments Off on Murphy’s Top Ten Rock Guitar Players of All TimeBruce Willis SHOCKS Fans – Breaking Entertainment News
November 11th, 2015 CEO EXTRACTION In Theaters & On-Demand December 18th When a terrorist group kidnaps retired CIA field operative Leonard Turner (Bruce Willis), his son Harry Turner (Kellan Lutz), a government analyst who has been repeatedly turned down for field service, launches his own unsanctioned rescue operation. While evading highly skilled operatives, deadly assassins, and international terrorists, Harry […]
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November 10th, 2015 CEO By Dave Siderski I was introduced to jazz at an early age by my father. Listening to Chuck Mangione with him one day, I enjoyed it but remember saying: “Dad but there are no words!” He told me that with music like this: “No words are needed.” As I grew into adolescence, I discovered bands […]
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November 10th, 2015 CEO Review by Chris Benedict “Just as when analyzing a chess game, what we call the postmortem, talking as if everything was going just fine until this or that event is usually absurd and harmful to the process of honest analysis,” states Garry Kasparov in his new book Winter Is Coming, the first of an intended […]
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November 3rd, 2015 CEO One man. Many wives. From the outside, it’s a cozy picture of contented sister-wives raising a house full of kids. But, on the inside, it can become more “sister-knives” – with sizzling bitter rivalries, simmering tensions and surging jealousies. Investigation Discovery’s (ID) all-new series THE WIVES DID IT takes viewers inside the homes of polygamist […]
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November 3rd, 2015 CEO By Dave Siderski (Who else would it be by?) The term villain is defined as: “a character whose evil actions or motives are important to the plot.” The best of them exhibit behavior that is so offensive that they grab the audience’s attention and move them emotionally. My personal favorite villains are the ones with […]
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November 2nd, 2015 CEO By Chris Benedict The Mercury Theatre’s October 30, 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast was both trick and treat. The perpetrator, star and narrator of F For Fake, speculates in a poignant segment of this-his last completed film-that one day our works in stone, paint, and print-the treasures and frauds alike-will ultimately fall to war […]
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October 22nd, 2015 CEO By Dave Siderski The reality is most commercials are just an annoying nuisance. If you’re like me, you really don’t pay attention during the station break and won’t remember the vast majority of ads that are bombarding us over the television. However, there are some that are just so horrendous they stick out in your […]
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October 18th, 2015 CEO By Ian Murphy When you think of the greatest intro riffs of all time, Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades” absolutely needs to be at or near the top of the list. The raw power, danger and attitude are infectious and despite its breakneck pace, “Ace of Spades” is actually catchy. Well, it’s catchy enough to make […]
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October 16th, 2015 CEO By Chris Benedict How closely do you straddle the fine line between critical thinking and cynical derision? More to the point, can you differentiate between the two? Better yet, do you prefer to remain impartial to social, political, and philosophical matters, therefore choosing to travel the path of gullibility and vulnerability with the indistinguishable lambs […]
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October 13th, 2015 CEO By Dave Siderski I think everyone can relate to coming home from a long, hard day, turning on the TV and just wanting to find something that will make you forget about your troubles. I’m not saying these are the 10 best comedy films of all-time, because as they say beauty is in the eye […]
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October 9th, 2015 CEO Love The Coopers follows the Cooper clan as four generations of extended family come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration. As the evening unfolds, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday. Directed […]
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October 4th, 2015 CEO By Chris Benedict With Don Rickles playing a supporting role, it should come as little surprise that “Mr. Dingle the Strong” is one of the sillier Twilight Zone episodes. Free from the show’s usual dark irony or overt sentimentality, this light-hearted morality play regarding abuse of power takes place, as Rod Serling introduces us to […]
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September 29th, 2015 CEO Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can kill in Investigation Discovery’s DEATH BY GOSSIP WITH WENDY WILLIAMS. Featuring original ‘gossip girl’ Wendy Williams as host and executive producer, the series uncovers crimes fueled by rumors and sordid half-truths that lead to betrayal and even murder. From a respected English teacher’s very own […]
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September 26th, 2015 CEO Exclusive Interview by “Bad” Brad Berkwitt “Floyd Mayweather, JR. is one of the most boring boxers I have ever seen. The fact that he has been so dominant also illustrates why I lost a bit of interest in the sport.”—Ivan Doroschuck In 1982, a Canadian band released their debut album (for you youngsters, they were […]
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September 24th, 2015 CEO By Dave Siderski Rodney Dangerfield, born Jacob Rodney Cohen, was one of my favorite comedians ever. Rodney’s “No respect” routine turned self-deprecation into an art form. What made his comedy especially brilliant was that one could hear his own personal insecurities in the material which made him believable as a performer. As a tribute to […]
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September 24th, 2015 CEO By Chris Benedict I think it’s fair to say that most everyone, when their number comes up, would happily cheat death. The question is, how eager would you be to swap places with someone to spare them from the glacial clutches of the Grim Reaper? For Lou Bookman, the answer to that conundrum was a […]
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September 18th, 2015 CEO When their attempt to rob a casino owned by the feared gangster Pope (Robert De Niro) goes awry and a shootout ensues, Vaughn (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Cox (Dave Bautista) are forced to flee on foot and hijack city Bus 657 and take the passengers hostage. Now, in a high speed chase, Vaughn will not […]
Posted in BREAKING ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Tags: HEIST In Select Theaters & On-Demand November 13th - Breaking Movies News Comments Off on HEIST In Select Theaters & On-Demand November 13th – Breaking Movies NewsThe Twilight Zone: “The Midnight Sun” (1961)
September 16th, 2015 CEO By Chris Benedict The thermometer in Norma’s New York City apartment reads 110 degrees. And that is with the air-conditioner chugging along at maximum capacity during the interim between the mandated brownouts, as the depleted gas, water, and electrical supplies are rationed out to the remaining citizens or cut off altogether with greater frequency. The […]
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September 13th, 2015 CEO By Ian Murphy In a repertoire literally jam-packed with killer riffs, English rockers Black Sabbath truly outdid themselves with this one. “Supernaut” brought the heaviness bar up more than a few levels. While not nearly as fat as “Mississippi Queen”, it actually defies gravity by also being cocaine-fueled mania turned into music. Never in my […]
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September 12th, 2015 CEO By “Bad” Brad Berkwitt Iron Chef star Kerry Simon died at age 60 after succumbing to Multiple System Atrophy, his longtime friend Robin Leach wrote on Friday, Sept. 11, in his column for the Las Vegas Sun. Simon, was known the world to his fans and peers in the culinary realm as the “Rock ‘n’ […]
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September 11th, 2015 CEO Starring: Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace, Elisabeth Moss, and Dennis Quaid Written and Directed by: James Vanderbilt Based on the book “Truth and Duty” by Mary Mapes —————————- Synopsis: TRUTH is an independent feature film based on the book “Truth and Duty” by Mary Mapes. In the vein of “All The President’s Men” and […]
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September 10th, 2015 CEO By “Bad” Brad Berkwitt Child star Dickie Moore who at one time was one of the biggest names in Hollywood had died at 89. Moore, a public relations executive who was known as Dickie when he was a Hollywood child star, playing the movies’ first talking Oliver Twist and later giving Shirley Temple her first […]
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September 10th, 2015 CEO By Ian Murphy If there were a contest for the World’s Fattest Riff, Mountain’s “Mississippi Queen” would win, hands down. The guitar tone is so fat, it’s terminally obese. I mean, Walter “Piano Box Man” Hudson has nothing on this tune, although I am sure he’d approve of the edibility of the song.. This rib […]
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Top Ten Guilty Pleasures – Music Commentary
By Ian Murphy I need to preface this list by saying that none of the below songs are bad. They are just songs that for the most part, I wouldn’t admit to loving unless someone had a gun to my head. Some indeed do emit a slight whiff of cheddar, but this does not diminish […]