Money Monster with George Clooney and Jack O’Connell: TV celebrity and unwise investor/hostage-taker in Jodie Foster-directed socially conscious drama that is severely handicapped by a mix of pretentiousness and cowardice.…
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Oscar watch: Fruitvale Station with Michael B. Jordan. Oscar watch: Cannes is Harvey Weinstein’s Academy Awards preview show Harvey Weinstein’s Cannes Film Festival Coming Attractions Special, a showcase of upcoming…
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April 3 update: The Hunger Games passed the $250 million milestone at the North American box office on Monday, April 2, according to figures found at Boxofficemojo.com. Although Gary Ross’…
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Adolf Hitler quotes for the ages: Der Führer fumes following Academy’s Albert Brooks snub Who would have have guessed that two of Albert Brooks’ most die-hard fans are the unlikely…
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Matt Bomer gay movie: ‘The Normal Heart’ gets small-screen adaptation The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer’s semi-autobiographical off-Broadway play about a New Yorker confronted with AIDS in the early years of…
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Scarlett Johansson naked pictures have recently surfaced online. Now, the FBI is reportedly after those who have hacked into the computer and/or cell phone files of various female celebrities. In…
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James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart in Jake Scott’s Welcome to the Rileys May 12, ’11: The Milan International Film Festival (not to be confused with the Milano Film Festival) is no…
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Frank Capra, Luise Rainer, George Jessel at the 1937 Oscar ceremony, held at the Biltmore Hotel Luise Rainer, the 101-year-old, two-time Academy Award winner, was just recently interviewed by BBC…
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Colin Firth in The King’s Speech, with Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush. ‘The King’s Speech’ tops Bafta Awards, Colin Firth Best Actor Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech was the…
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Vampires Suck with Matt Lanter as Edward Sullen: Twilight spoof. Sept. 1 update: It was bound to happen: on Tuesday, Aug. 31, the Julia Roberts-Javier Bardem-James Franco romantic drama Eat…
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Eat Pray Love with Julia Roberts vs. The Expendables and Sylvester Stallone. Sylvester Stallone beats Julia Roberts: ‘The Expendables’ vs. ‘Eat Pray Love’ Aug. 16 update: Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables…
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Duplicity with Julia Roberts. Three-time Golden Globe winner Julia Roberts not only is a (somewhat, considering the Hollywood Foreign Press Association) surprising nominee in the Best Actress - Comedy or…
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The Bad Sleep Well movie review: Starring Toshiro Mifune – who delivers a remarkably restrained performance – Akira Kurosawa’s 1960 corporate corruption drama, even if not as well known as…
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Hilary Swank Oscar triumph: The star of Clint Eastwood’s sentimental boxing melodrama Million Dollar Baby has become the 21st century’s first two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner. Her previous victory,…
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Closer film review: Mike Nichols and Patrick Marber’s glib Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? redux revolves around two pathologically dysfunctional heterosexual couples. Julia Roberts is the sole cast member who…