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. ‘Money Monster’ review: Jodie Foster movie suffers from both qualitative and intellectual disconnect Sometimes there’s…
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‘Closer’ film: Julia Roberts in glib ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ redux. ‘Closer’ film review: The perfect dysfunctional date movie Mike Nichols’ first feature film, an adaptation of Edward Albee’s acclaimed play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is a harrowing dissection of two married couples…
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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 The Weinstein Company releases, is now regarded as one of the Croisette’s key film events.…
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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’ futuristic adventure tale reached that milestone one day after the studio had predicted, that’s an…
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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 pair of Russell Crowe and Adolf Hitler. And they’re both mad as hell at the…
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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 the pandemic, has been a perennial “film project.” In the last couple of decades, Oscar…
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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 addition to Johansson – it isn’t clear if the FBI is involved in her particular…
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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 longer an actual film festival. In the last two years, it has remade itself into…
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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 entertainment reporter Colin Patterson. (You can listen to the interview here.) During the eight-minute chat,…
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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 big winner at the British Academy Awards a.k.a. Bafta Awards (or simply Baftas), held this…
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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 Pray Love earned more money than Sylvester Stallone’s violent actioner The Expendables at the North…
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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 grossed slightly less than estimated at the North American box office this weekend (Aug. 13–15),…
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