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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years documentary review: yeah yeah yeah

Thu, Sep 15, 2016
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There’s not a lot new here, but the vintage footage is fab, as is the much-needed reminder that the supposedly innocent past was hardly innocent at all.

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reality TV hates women; pirates love ‘Lost’ and ‘Heroes’; Kevin Smith announces career makeover; more: leftover links

Sun, Jan 02, 2011
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Plus: How did ‘Little Fockers’ get focked up?; is ‘True Grit’ a remake or not?; Jon Stewart, the Modern Day Edward R. Murrow; more…

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dream cast: hypothetical ’A Hard Day’s Night’ remake

Thu, Apr 16, 2009
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It’s still Thursday for a little while, and that means it’s time to remake an 80s classic TV show or movie with an all-new cast. This week I’m stretching a bit to include something that’s not quite 80s but impacted Gen Xers a lot as kids: A Hard Day’s Night, the 1964 Beatles movie that … more…

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Yellow Submarine movie review: peace, man

Thu, Apr 20, 2000
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Remember flower power? Remember when love and rock ‘n’ roll were gonna save the world? Me neither. So much has changed in the 32 years since Yellow Submarine was released…

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