Articles By Allan Tong
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Apollo 13: 20th Anniversary Edition Ron Howard Published Jun 18, 2015This 20th anniversary edition of Apollo 13 — based on a real-life space expedition that nearly ended in disaster — is an impress...
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The Newsroom: Season 3 Published Jun 15, 2015The Newsroom is gone after only three seasons, and I'm sad to see it go. Sure, the series was melodramatic. In each episode, there was a...
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Clint Eastwood: The Universal Pictures 7-Movie Collection Published Jun 02, 2015From 1968-75, Clint Eastwood was one of the biggest movie stars in the world. This box set of seven films from Universal from this era displ...
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Pitch Perfect: Ace-Awesome Edition Jason Moore Published May 05, 2015Pitch Perfect is back. The 2012 sleeper hit arrives in home theatres as a new Blu-ray to tie-in with the theatrical release of its sequel. F...
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Silicon Valley: Season One Published Apr 07, 2015Nerds rule in Silicon Valley, HBO's comedy series about a gang of programmers struggling to thrive in the computer capital of the world. ...
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The Judge David Dobkin Published Feb 02, 2015A lot has been said about this legal drama being a tour-de-force of acting from Robert Duvall and Robert Downey Jr., who portray a dysfuncti...
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Boardwalk Empire: Season 5 Published Feb 02, 2015The fifth and final season of this period gangster drama looks forward as well as backward. We leap ahead seven years from the previous seas...
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Red Army Gabe Polsky Published Jan 22, 2015Hockey's greatest five-man line belonged not to Canada, but the U.S.S.R. Today, it's Russia, and in Gabe Polsky's film, the players...
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The Jeffersons: The Complete Series [Blu-ray] Published Dec 08, 2014George and Weezy finally get their own deee-luxe DVD box set that was long overdue. Shout Factory's The Jeffersons box set collects all 253...
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WKRP in Cincinnati: The Complete Series Published Oct 27, 2014Yes, the music is back — most of it. About 80% of the songs that played on original WKRP broadcasts from 1978-1982 have been restored...
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Dracula Untold Gary Shore Published Oct 10, 2014The latest re-telling of the Dracula legend explores his origins as Transylvanian prince, Vlad The Impaler (Luke Evans), who runs a peaceful...
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Boardwalk Empire: Season 4 Terence Winter Published Aug 19, 2014And so begins the long, dark autumn of this gangster chronicle set in Atlantic City during the Prohibition. Former Atlantic City politician...
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Under the Skin [Blu-ray] Jonathan Glazer Published Jul 28, 2014Some will praise this moody sci-fi film for offering a brilliant cinematic experience that exposes how males prey on beautiful women. Then,...
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NYPD Blue: Season Six Published Jun 24, 2014If NYPD Blue were around today, it would be a series on Netflix. Instead, from 1993-2005, this innovative cop show ran on ABC and pushed the...
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit [Blu-ray] Kenneth Branagh Published Jun 06, 2014Slick and sleek is this action flick based on late writer Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character. The popular franchise returns not as an adaptati...
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The LEGO Movie [Blu-ray] Phil Lord and Christopher Miller Published May 27, 2014The LEGO Movie is pure fun. In this world of plastic building blocks, cheerful but bland everyman Emmett (voiced by Chris Pratt) meets Maste...
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Endless Love [Blu-Ray] Shana Feste Published May 23, 2014Endless Love is supposed to be a tragic love story about beautiful rich girl Jade (Gabriella Wilde of The Three Musketeers) and hunky workin...
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L.A. Law: Season Two Published May 20, 2014Few series captured the zeitgeist of the '80s as well as L.A. Law. It was a hit the moment it debuted in 1986, when Ronald Reagan, greed and...
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The Godfather: Part III Francis Ford Coppola Published May 13, 2014It's no secret that The Godfather: Part III is universally scorned as the weakest film in the trilogy. Al Pacino returns as the aging mobste...
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The Terminal Steven Spielberg Published May 12, 2014This 2004 romantic comedy stars Tom Hanks as Viktor, an eastern European who gets stranded at New York's JFK Airport after a military coup s...