Movies Guide

Posted on Thursday, 12th January 2012 by Aidan Bayly

The black-and-white silent film “The Artist” came away with the most prizes with three wins at the Golden Globes, but the show spread the love around among a broad range of films and TV shows.

Actor Jean Dujardin poses in the press room with the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy award for “The Artist” at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday.KEVIN WINTER, GETTY IMAGES

Wins for “The Artist” included best musical or comedy and best actor in a musical or comedy for Jean Dujardin, while the family drama “The Descendants” claimed two awards, as best drama and dramatic actor for George Clooney.

Other acting winners were Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, and Octavia Spencer, while Martin Scorsese earned the directing honor.

Streep won for dramatic actress as Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady,” her eight win at the Globes.

Williams won for actress in a musical or comedy as Marilyn Monroe in “My Week with Marilyn,” 52 years after Monroe’s win for the same prize at the Globes.

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Posted on Wednesday, 11th January 2012 by admin

It’s inevitable. No, not death or taxes–becoming the go-to person when technology isn’t acting right! All geeks with computer know-how have experienced this: a less tech-savvy family member or friend discovers a problem with their computer, and you’re their only hope.

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Spyware and You

One of the easiest ailments a newbie computer user can give their machine is spyware. Read full text…

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Posted on Tuesday, 10th January 2012 by admin

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In times of war, conflicts become part of popular culture. TV is no exception. In fact, one might even say that television’s depiction of combat has changed the way our society views war, from the ability of television news programs to bring images of war right into people’s homes to shows like MASH bringing a lighthearted perspective to something we know to be bloody and horrific.

With America’s recent confrontations growing more and more unpopular every day, television has chosen to more or less forget their existence. Read full text…

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Posted on Monday, 9th January 2012 by Declan Palazzi

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Posted on Sunday, 8th January 2012 by Aidan Bayly

The latest mixtape from The Weeknd is beautiful music written from some low places. It’s drunk, high, a little manic depressive, and really wants to get in your pants. The first track sets the tone — a cover of Michael Jackson’s “Dirty Diana” (titled “D.D.”) in which Abel Tesfaye nails the tension in M.J.’s voice while bringing a much heavier hand to the production. That vocal quality holds up through the whole mixtape, with the exception of “Initiation,” where he’s artificially messing with the speed and making the pitch slide around in an unsettling way. Everything keeps getting woozier from there, as if Tesfaye is getting more messed up, the whole time menacing and seducing. The nominal, final track “Echoes Of Silence” is particularly gorgeous and sad. Tesfaye pleads Read full text…

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