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New to On Demand: The Founder

April 18, 2017 Paul Hall

Most of us have indulged in McDonald’s at one time or another. But, how many of us know the story behind the story of those legendary “golden arches” and their rollout across America? The Founder, featuring Michael Keaton as legendary businessman Ray Kroc, takes us behind the scenes of the fast food empire’s rise. A milkshake machine salesman from the Midwest, Ray Kroc stumbles upon something amazing when a small restaurant in California wants a number of his machines to keep up with demand. When Kroc meets owners Dick (Nick Offerman) and Mac (John Carroll Lynch) McDonald, he is enamored with […]

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On Demand DVD New Releases: April 17-23

April 17, 2017 Meredith Ennis

On Demand DVD New Releases: April 17-23 The Founder Ray Kroc was a milkshake salesman from the Midwest when he stumbled upon the McDonald brothers and their concept to make good hamburgers fast and with consistency. Seeing a good thing, he did everything he could to get the brothers to agree to his franchise ideas, ensuring he was in charge of the company’s future. Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch (PG-13, 1:55) 4/18 Ocean Waves Best friends Taku, Yutaka, and the new transfer student, Rikako, find their friendship tested when Taku joins Rikako on a trip and the school […]

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Drama

The White Princess: Humble And Penitent? Not This Lady

April 15, 2017 Barb Oates

A new generation of wicked-smart, scheming women manipulate the English throne in Starz’s eight-episode limited series The White Princess. The series is a follow-up to 2013’s The White Queen — both based on Philippa Gregory’s historical fiction novels of the same names — which follows the political and emotionally turbulent times of 15th-century British history over who is the rightful king … according to the ladies’ vantage point. In this complex monarchal world way too full of Richards, Edwards, Henrys and Elizabeths, there is a battle between two sides of the same family — the House of Lancaster and the […]

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Documentary

Killing Richard Glossip: Investigation Discovery’s Two-Night Event is a Matter of Innocence, Life and Death

April 12, 2017 Lori Acken

In late fall of 2014, Denver defense attorney Don Knight had just pulled up to a barbecue joint when his cellphone rang. On the line: Sister Helen Prejean. The same Sister Helen whose tireless work to end the death penalty made her the subject of 1995’s critically acclaimed feature film Dead Man Walking. Prejean was calling about Richard Glossip. And the makings of Investigation Discovery’s chilling two-night event, Killing Richard Glossip, were set into motion. (See the first hour here.) In 1997, Glossip — an Oklahoma City motel manager and father of four with no felony record — was named the […]

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New to On Demand: Hidden Figures

April 11, 2017 Paul Hall

In the film Hidden Figures, we pull back the curtain to see some of the brave African-American women who worked behind the scenes to put a man into orbit and bring him back home safely. Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) knew her math. Always ahead of boys and girls her age, she grew into one of the smartest mathematicians around. But there was a challenge that Katherine couldn’t solve. She was an African-American woman and was looking up from the bottom of the societal totem pole. NASA hired African-American women, but still had segregated bathrooms. It employed these bright […]

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On Demand DVD New Releases April 10-16

April 10, 2017 Meredith Ennis

On Demand DVD New Releases April 10-16 Lion (pictured, above) After a 5-year-old boy from India is adopted by an Australian couple, life changes in every way. In his 20s, that boy, Saroo, decides to search for the family he was separated from as a child. His adoptive mother encourages the journey, as it will open his eyes to his past. Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara (PG-13, 1:58) 4/11 Hidden Figures As NASA races to space against the Russians, a team of African-American women is at the core of the most important mathematical data. Such a global accomplishment needs all […]

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Magazine Archive

‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’: HBO and Oprah Turn the Bestseller into a Must-See Film

April 9, 2017 Lori Acken

You may not know of her, but your life has been directly, enormously impacted by Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta, a stout and pretty rural Virginian born in 1920, was the devoted mother of five, including a disabled eldest daughter on whom she doted. She looked after friends and neighbors, too. Henrietta accepted the hard work of tobacco farming, though she knew she might have accomplished much more. She loved to dance and tended her looks, particularly her nails, which were perfectly polished nearly to the day she died at age 31. And Henrietta suffered an agonizing and possibly preventable death from […]

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‘Genius’: Geoffrey Rush and Johnny Flynn Talk Playing Einstein on National Geographic

April 7, 2017 Lori Acken

Geoffrey Rush done up as Einstein and killing time on bench outside the enormous Prague soundstage where National Geographic’s Genius filmed begs an instant double take. For actor/musician Johnny Flynn, embodying the younger Albert proved a bit more challenging. • RELATED: ‘Genius’: Geoffrey Rush Plays A Deliciously Human Einstein on National Geographic • RELATED: National Geographic’s ‘Genius’: Meet the Two Mrs. Einsteins! “All the footage that exists of him is after he came to America,” Flynn explains of the man he calls “quite maverick and punk.” “The exciting thing about the potential in this show is to create an idea of […]

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Exclusive Preview: Tempers Elevate On ‘Gold Rush Parker’s Trail’

April 7, 2017 Barb Oates

Here’s an exclusive preview to tonight’s episode of Gold Rush Parker’s Trail (airing Friday, April 7 at 9/8c on Discovery), it’s the second episode in the three-part limited series. Gold Rush’s Parker Schnabel and Rick Ness, along with wilderness guide Karl Ann Charlton and cameraman James Levelle need to navigate the lock system at the Lewes Dam, which marks the start of the Yukon River. They run into a problem when they can’t get the dam to open. Tempers elevate between Parker and James over finding a solution. Watch the video below: As the most successful miner in Gold Rush […]