Avengers: Age of Ultron review: Chris Evans as Captain America and Chris Hemsworth as Thor in gargantuan, by-the-book The Avengers sequel. ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ review: More of same in ‘The Avengers’ gargantuan sequel Someday somebody’s going to make a superhero tentpole movie that doesn’t involve the…
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Labor Day weekend box office verdict: Scary Sept. 3 update: Labor Day is generally a slow holiday at the North American box office. Why? Good question. Perhaps that’s merely a Hollywood tradition – as the tail end of the movie summer season, Labor Day weekend…
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Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, The Avengers. The Avengers are here. Have no fear. Scroll down for the extended Super Bowl Avengers trailer, and feel free to start laughing. For to call the Avengers trailer silly would be quite an understatement. Robert Downey Jr’s deadpan delivery…
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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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Mark Wahlberg and wife Rhea Durham on the Oscars’ Red Carpet. Mark Wahlberg and wife Rhea Durham: Academy Awards’ Red Carpet Mark Wahlberg and wife Rhea Durham are pictured above on the 2011 Oscars’ Red Carpet, just outside the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The Oscar…
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Luncheon for Oscar nominees Annette Bening, Jeff Bridges and (partially) Nicole Kidman. Annette Bening, Jeff Bridges photos: Oscar Nominees Luncheon 2011 Best Actress Academy Award nominee Annette Bening sits on Best Actor nominee Jeff Bridges’ leg at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’…
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Mainstream – “at best, mainstreamish” – critics group picks: Lisa Cholodenko’s audience-friendly The Kids Are All Right topped three New York Film Critics Circle award categories, including Best Actress honors for Annette Bening, admittedly outstanding as a lesbian wife and mother fighting to maintain the…
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Charlie St. Cloud with Zac Efron and Amanda Crew is major box office disappointment: Where were the teens this past weekend? Box Office: Zac Efron ‘Charlie St. Cloud’ a major disappointment, Paul Rudd and Steve Carell ‘Dinner for Schmucks’ a minor one Starring Leonardo DiCaprio,…
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Edward Norton Hulk drama: Better days, with Norton as Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk. July 12 update: First Marvel’s Kevin Feige lambasted Edward Norton, who played Bruce Banner in Louis Leterrier’s 2008 The Incredible Hulk, in a missive sent to hitfix.com. Feige bluntly explained…
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Gay indie actor Matthew Montgomery and Steve Callahan, Role/Play (top); Montgomery in Robert Gaston’s Flight of the Cardinal (bottom). Described as “an unheralded superstar in the American independent gay filmmaking scene,” gay indie actor Matthew Montgomery, among whose credits are Gone, But Not Forgotten, Back…
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Shutter Island with Leonardo DiCaprio: Things and people aren’t necessarily what they seem to be in Martin Scorsese thriller. ‘Shutter Island’ to become biggest Martin Scorsese-Leonardo DiCaprio box office hit? Feb. 28 update: Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo, Martin Scorsese’s thriller Shutter Island has…
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AFI FEST: Joanna Cassidy & Julia Ormond + Meryl Streep & Amy Adams ‘Doubt’ Premiere AFI FEST 2008 opening night premiere of Miramax Films’ Doubt held at ArcLight Hollywood on Oct. 30. Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, John Patrick Shanley Meryl Streep Amy Adams Amy Adams,…