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Chad Reviews AMERICAN HORROR STORY: TV's Scariest Show Ever!

Chadwick Benefield — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:20:50 +0000

Ryan Murphy, the guy who created Glee, now wants to make you pee! And, with the help of his Glee co-worker and co-creative partner, Brad Falchuk, he is doing just that every Wednesday night with the FX original series American Horror Story! When Dave Spencer and I were co-hosting our movie review show The Screening Room, we had pretty much given up on the horror movie genre. Studios realized that for these types of movies to really make money, they had to be rated PG-13. After all, the teenagers were the ones going to the cinema and buying the tickets and, more importantly, buying all those cheeseball special effects and watered-down scary-movie devices. But, suddenly, the genre is alive and well on the small screen. With HBO's True Blood and AMC's The Walking Dead, horror has a new home on the tube. And horror's newest home of all, American Horror Story's MURDER HOUSE, is the most terrifying of them all!

TV In October? Creepy Is An Understatement

egrant — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:35:43 +0000

Scary movies don’t scare me, but scary TV? That’s a little different. Leave it to the powers that be to premiere two creepy, and sometimes, bloody shows in October. It’s brilliant marketing with oh yeah Halloween just around the corner. Not only are these series chilling, but they are really good and really fascinating to watch. First, [...]

Movie Stars Portraying Country Artists In Feature Films [VIDEO]

WBKR Radio — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:33:08 +0000

Yesterday I posted about country music stars either making a cameo or as the lead actor in a movie, today what movie stars portrayed country stars in movies? Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in "Coal Miners Daughter", Jessica Lange as Patsy Cline in "Sweet Dreams", Richard Thomas as Hank Williams Jr. in "Living Proof - The Hank Williams Jr. Story" please sure to check out the video clips, and today we also need your input to help me think of other movies with actors or actresses portraying country music stars in a feature film? Visit our WBKR Facebook page to do just that and just in case you missed my other posts this week check them out! "Country Stars On The Big Screen", "Hee Haw", "Roberts Stadium The End Of A Era" & "Do You Remember The Nashville Network?"

Country & Oscar: Together Again

Dave Spencer — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:53:44 +0000

Nominations for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning, and the song “Coming Home” from Country Strong was among the four nominees for Best Original Song. This recognition continues the on-again-off-again relationship country music and Oscar have had for some 30 years. Yes, you could point out 1977′s Best Song winner “You Light Up My [...]