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PopEntertainment

Jul 3, 2017
4 min

She Rises (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

She Rises SHE RISES (2016) Starring Angus Macfadyen, Jennifer Blanc, Daisy McCrackin, Michael Biehn, Lorraine Ziff, Larry Wade Carrell, Nick W. Nicholson, Hallie Jordan, Jenise Blanc, Jason Aaron Moran, Danielle Artigo, Randy Chance, Jay Lobit and Christopher Jiminez. Screenplay by Angus Macfadyen. Directed by Larry Wade Carrell. Distributed by Blanc/Biehn Productions. 90 minutes. Not Rated. She Rises is an exceedingly odd mind-fuck of a horror film, but you have to give the

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Jacob Whitesides – Lovesick and There Ain’t No Cure

PopEntertainment

Jun 7, 2016
8 min

Jacob Whitesides – Lovesick and There Ain’t No Cure

Jacob Whitesides – Coda – Philadelphia, PA – May 20, 2016 – Photo by Ruth Bekele © 2016 Jacob Whitesides Lovesick and There Ain’t No Cure By Maggie Mitchell How many people can you say that they started their own record company? Well, add Jacob Whitesides to that exclusive list. Whitesides has been climbing the mountain of fame, and hasn’t stopped since we met him. Yet, he’s still the 18-year-old from Tennessee that Pop Entertainment has grown to love. With his new tour White

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Jake Johnson and Rosemarie DeWitt – Are Digging on Digging for Fire

PopEntertainment

Aug 21, 2015
18 min

Jake Johnson and Rosemarie DeWitt – Are Digging on Digging for Fire

Jake Johnson and Rosemarie DeWitt star in “Digging for Fire.” Jake Johnson and Rosemarie DeWitt Are Digging on Digging for Fire by Jay S. Jacobs Jake Johnson has become Hollywood’s go-to guy for playing aging party boys who don’t want to grow up. Beyond his lead role as Nick on the popular Zooey Deschanel sitcom New Girl, Johnson has been digging into feature films, with the popular comedy Let’s Be Cops and this summer’s blockbuster Jurassic World. Now he’s trying out the rol

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Drew Chadwick – Taking the Road Less Traveled

PopEntertainment

Mar 9, 2015
9 min

Drew Chadwick – Taking the Road Less Traveled

Drew Chadwick Drew Chadwick Taking the Road Less Traveled by Rachel DiSipio You may know Drew Chadwick from the band Emblem3, who started their career on the hit TV show The X-Factor and had the big hit “Chloe (You’re the One I Want)” a little over a year ago. Or, maybe you know him from the amazing messages of positivity he spreads to his fans about life, love, nature and sustainability. In June of 2014, the twenty-two-year-old singer/songwriter decided to take a different

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Cary Elwes – Standing Up For The Citizen

PopEntertainment

Sep 30, 2013
9 min

Cary Elwes – Standing Up For The Citizen

Cary Elwes stars in “The Citizen.” Cary Elwes Standing Up For The Citizen by Jay S. Jacobs With a career that has spanned 30 years and over 70 films, Cary Elwes has become a familiar presence on our screens. However, despite having worked on so many films and having starred in at least two drop dead classic films – the fantasy The Princess Bride and the horror film Saw – Elwes is more than happy to pay it forward and work with unknown talent. As long as the role intrigues him

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PopEntertainment

Nov 4, 2010
3 min

Cherry (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Cherry CHERRY (2010) Starring Kyle Gallner, Laura Allen, Brittany Robertson, Esai Morales, D.C. Pierson, Matt Walsh and Zosia Mamet. Screenplay by Jeffrey Fine. Directed by Jeffrey Fine. Distributed by Fresh Shrimp Productions. 99 minutes. Not Rated. Cherry does a good job of being tasteful with a potentially awkward scenario – a shy seventeen-year-old college freshman finds himself in a prospective love triangle with a thirty-something woman and her wise-beyond-her-age fou

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PopEntertainment

Dec 24, 2009
3 min

Knock ‘Em Dead, Kid (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Knock ‘Em Dead, Kid KNOCK ‘EM DEAD, KID (2009) Starring Dirk Julien, Michael Resendez, Torey Marks, Erin Prieto, Chad Post, Angela Nordeng, Andrew Chase, Cody Cowell, Les Mahoney and Al “Mr. Outrageous” Burke. Written by Christopher Golon. Directed by Christopher Golon. Distributed by Golon Films. 71 minutes. Not Rated. You have to grade independently made films on a different scale than you do Hollywood studio movies. For example, take Knock ‘Em Dead, Kid. This was obviously

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PopEntertainment

Feb 15, 2009
3 min

…Around (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

…Around …AROUND (2009) Starring Rob Evans, Molly Ryman, Ron Brice, Marcel Torres, Berenice Mosca, Veronica Heffron, David Joseph Boyd, David Joseph Boyd, Ali Tobia, Amy Hoerler, Julie Tran, Shawn Mahoney, Steven Grgas, Kristopher Torres and Nabil Vinas. Screenplay by David Spaltro. Directed by David Spaltro. Distributed by Wandering/Cut Films. 104 minutes. Not Rated. Writer/director David Spaltro’s independent film …Around is a nice reminder of how refreshing it can be to s

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Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Alison Pill, Gus Van Sant and Dustin Lance Black

PopEntertainment

Nov 26, 2008
25 min

Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Alison Pill, Gus Van Sant and Dustin Lance Black

Sean Penn stars in “Milk.” Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Alison Pill, Gus Van Sant and Dustin Lance Black Recruited by Harvey Milk by Jay S. Jacobs “I’m Harvey Milk, and I’m here to recruit you!” This was the battle cry of 1970s San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man voted into public office – and a man who was assassinated in office with the Mayor of San Francisco in 1978. Milk has become an icon of the gay community, but despite

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PopEntertainment

Jan 25, 2006
4 min

The Chumscrubber (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

The Chumscrubber THE CHUMSCRUBBER (2005) Starring Glenn Close, William Fitchner, Ralph Fiennes, Lauren Holly, Allison Janney, Carrie-Anne Moss, Rita Wilson, Jamie Bell, Camilla Belle, Justin Chatwin, Rory Culkin, Thomas Curtis, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jason Isaacs, John Heard, Kathy Copeland, Clam Davis, Tim DeKay, David Ellison, Richard Gleason, Caroline Goodall, Susan Hegerty, Josh Janowicz, Eric Jungman, Aaron Kiser, Gus Lynch, Jeff Parise, Max Van Ville and Seth T. Walker. Scre

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PopEntertainment

Nov 7, 2005
12 min

Liz Phair – Exile From Indieville

Liz Phair liz phair exile from indieville by jay s. jacobs Okay, indie snobs, lay off of Liz Phair already, would ya? Yes, I know she was your poster girl back in 1993 when she released the rightfully celebrated alt-rock album Exile in Guyville, a lo-fi celebration of classic riffs and low life. Here was a cute alt chick that was sensitive enough to write an extraordinarily insightful dissection of her life like “Canary” and wild enough to do a down-and-dirty grinder (in mor

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PopEntertainment

May 14, 2003
15 min

Joshua Malina – Hail to the Chief

Joshua Malina in “The West Wing.” Joshua Malina Hail to the Chief by Jay S. Jacobs There are lots of ways that people go about trying to get their first big break in acting. Some people kill themselves working a minimum wage job while floating from audition to audition. Some try other arts, like music or modeling, as an entrance. Some people sit on a stool in a Hollywood soda fountain and wait to get discovered. Some eat something gross on national television. Joshua Malin

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They May Have Been Gone, But They’re Still Classic

By Isa Barnett

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They May Have Been Gone, But They’re Still Classic

By Isa Barnett