It’s here — the most raucous celebration of awards season, MTV’s Video Music Awards. Comedian Kevin Hart hosts the 29th annual bash at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Performers include Taylor Swift; Rihanna; Green Day; One Direction; Alicia Keys, Nicki Minaj with GANGNAM STYLE! South Korean rapper PSY, the Internet sensation of the moment, on stage with Kevin Hart doing the dance that the world is going nuts over.
Our world is home to an array of wild creatures that have evolved to survive amid harsh environments, and brutal competition. Equipped with an arsenal of predatory and defensive skills. They’re beautiful, they’re highly evolved, and they’re dangerous-they are the worlds deadliest animals.
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Tina Dakin stands accused in the dock as she awaits to hear the verdict. Several months earlier and Tina is feeling overstretched at home and at work. She and her husband are finding it hard to make ends meet. Tina accompanies a new inmate, Stephen Cartwright, into the young offender’s institution where she works as a prison officer. She senses that something isn’t right though as she shows him his cell. She tells her senior officer Frank about her concerns. After an emergency elsewhere requires her attention, she returns her worst fears have become a very real tragedy. It appears that Stephen has taken his life. Tina’s troubles get worse though when a series of betrayals and cover-ups result in her becoming the victim of a terrible crime.
A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas who spent nearly 20 years in prison before being released after new DNA evidence indicated they may be innocent. The tale of the West Memphis 3 came to an end the past year, and Joe Berlinger’s and Bruce Sinofsky’s advocacy doc trilogy comes to an end, as well, and quite satisfyingly. Watching this third installment is quite painful, even with the mostly happy ending, because it cuts back and forth between the past and the present, showing us just how long these men spent in jail – literally over half their lives.
Smokin’ Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali fought three times, but it was their third and final epic encounter in the searing heat of the Philippines on October 1, 1975, that cemented their rivalry and ended so dramatically that it continues to provoke controversy. Combined with electrifying archival footage and exclusive interviews, Thrilla in Manila is Joe Frazier’s story an absorbing, sad account of bitterness, religion, politics and racism, conveying both the depths of their rivalry as well as the explosive racial politics in America at the time. The pair had once been friends, with Frazier supporting Ali when he was stripped of his boxing license for refusing to fight in Vietnam. But once Ali was back in the ring, their friendship soon turned into a vicious feud: Ali accused Frazier of being a traitor to his people and went from an anti-war and civil rights leader to an opportunist and narcissist willing to do anything to promote himself in the spotlight.
After a run-in with a stranger, anti-hero Campbell Jackman finds himself the target of a maniacal killer behind the wheel of a sleazy, beat-up death van.
“Bangkok Girl” is a ‘remarkably accomplished, beautifully photographed and intimate film that puts a human face on the devastating social issue that, sadly, is the fate of too many impoverished girls.’ It provides a glimpse of Thailand’s sex tourism told through the experiences of a 19-year-old bar girl named Pla.
Jordan Clark’s tragic documentary provides a glimpse into Thailand’s notorious and booming sex tourism industry through the experiences of a 19-year-old bar girl named Pla. Working in the bars from the age of thirteen, Pla has managed to avoid selling her body a remarkable revelation given her surroundings but her refusal to take part in this all-too-common profession for young Thai women cannot last. The introduction of falangs, or foreigners, to Thailand has forever changed the city, the economy, the Thai people’s lives and desires. A daring and unabashed look at a popular Western predilection through the eyes of one girl, this film challenges the accepted worldwide practice of sex tourism.
In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet-or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better…
This is one of (if not THE) greatest shows on television right now. It will keep your mind reeling after just one episode. Bottom line, if you love politics, suspense, intrigue and yes, SEX, you will love this show. It is simply mind-blowing!
Mayor Tom Kane (Golden Globe® winner Kelsey Grammer) is King of Chicago, and he rules his domain with an iron fist. Deception, scandal, and betrayal go hand in hand with Kane’s form of politics. As long as he gets the job done, the people of Chicago look the other way. Despite being the most effective mayor in recent history, Kane is hiding a dark secret. A degenerative brain disorder is ripping everything away from him, and he can’t trust his memory, his closest allies, or even himself. Watch as Kane viciously fights battles on all fronts in “Boss” Season 1.
The 2012 London Olympics came to a close much the same way they opened, with an extravagant ceremony full of fireworks, floats, music, choreography, some pomp and circumstance, and it will be the most thrilling moment along the world’s best and top most musicians. WATCH IT NOW IN SPECTACULAR 3D!
The entire theme of the closing ceremony for games of London Summer Olympic 2012 Closing Ceremony is basically the art of music and so it is perfectly said to be A Symphony of British Music. Performers include the Spice Girls, Muse, the Pet Shop Boys, Jessie J, Queen (with Russell Brand), George Michael, Who, Elton John, Paul Weller, Ray Davies and the Kinks, Adele, Madness, Kaiser Chiefs, One Direction, and Take That…
Taped earlier this week in Los Angeles, this concert honoring America’s educators features performances from the band fun. Garth Brooks, Josh Groban, Dierks Bentley and Carrie Underwood.
In the season finale, the mob war between rival gangsters explodes across the city as Gunter tries to determine whom he can trust while he fights to be reunited with his former girlfriend.
