Thursday, February 18, 2010 - Posts
Seeing is believing but hearing also plays a key role in making things real in "The Hurt Locker."
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Comedian Cheech Marin, one-half of the most famous pot-smoking duo of the 1970s, lent his celebrity to a medical marijuana convention that opens on Friday in Los Angeles, and used the occasion to plug a new movie.
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It would be one thing if the show fixated on Ellis Grey's long-ago affair with Richard because there was something riveting to say about it, but they’re using it because everything else is a snooze.
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The "Survivor" heroes are turning into the villains, and the villains into heroes, and that ended in a shouting match at that made us wonder even more who the actual heroes are.
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The year's first big prestige film hits theaters Friday as Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio take moviegoers to "Shutter Island."
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When producer Rick Rubin awkwardly describes Johnny Cash's latest album as "otherworldly," he's not kidding. The country titan has been dead for almost seven years.
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Kathryn Grayson, a singer and movie star of the 1940s and 1950s best known for MGM musicals such as "Kiss Me, Kate," has died at age 88, her secretary said on Thursday.
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"Jew Suss: Rise and Fall" is as fascinating as it is frustrating.
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Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
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The singer’s annual Oscar viewing party is a little more than a week away, and his interview with Parade magazine is certain to help put a spotlight on the event.
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Acerbic judge thinks Lady Gaga is currently the most relevant pop artist in the world, and also explains what skills his replacement will need to have.
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Confirming Internet rumors, a source close to the show tells Access Hollywood that the former “Baywatch” babe will strut her stuff for “Dancing’s” tenth season.
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A delusional fan who unleashed his crude fantasies about Ashanti in a battery of text messages to her mother was sentenced Thursday to two years in jail.
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Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg says Brown hasn't missed a session of domestic-violence counseling and has done 32 days of hard labor in his home state of Virginia.
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A film about the making of one of Nazi Germany's most notorious anti-Semitic propaganda films was booed on Thursday during a screening at the Berlin Film Festival.
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That indie-film specialty, the comic drama about dysfunctional family reunions, has come to this: Parker Posey and Demi Moore cleaning up after Rip Torn's poo.
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U.S. film star and Twitter celebrity Ashton Kutcher encouraged Russians on Thursday to share ideas through social media websites during a visit by U.S. technology leaders to Moscow.
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Leonardo DiCaprio says at the age of 35 he is just beginning to absorb his heady acting career alongside the likes of Jack Nicholson and Daniel Day Lewis.
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“American Idol” contestant Chris Golightly is upset after being deemed “ineligible” to compete as one of the Top 24 semifinalists on the Fox reality competition.
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Kathryn Grayson's beauty and lilting soprano brightened MGM musicals of the 1940s and 1950s including "Anchors Aweigh," "Show Boat," "The Desert Song" and "Kiss Me Kate."
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The Newsroom - This past Monday morning on "The View," Barbara Walters announced that 2010 will mark her last "Oscars Special." "When you do it, youâve got to do it," the legendary newswoman mused on retiring, leveling a pointed look at the camera â
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Kathryn Grayson, whose beauty and lilting soprano brightened MGM musicals of the 1940s and 1950s including "Anchors Aweigh," "Show Boat," "The Desert Song" and "Kiss Me Kate," has died. She was 88.
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A big-budget German-Austrian production depicting the fate of the lead actor in Joseph Goebbels' 1939 propaganda film "Jew Suss" was booed at the Berlin at the Berlin film festival.
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A judge says Lindsay Lohan is in full compliance with the terms of her probation for a drunken driving and drug case.
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Facing elimination in a budget-cutting move, the head of the Vermont Film Commission says his agency should be spared because it brings movie producers, TV commercials and others who spend money and promote Vermont to outside audiences.
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Tina Fey tells The Associated Press that she'll probably reprise her impression of Sarah Palin when she hosts "Saturday Night Live" in April.
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AFP - A big-budget German movie about the Nazis' most successful propaganda picture and the pact with the devil sealed by its lead actor premiered to boos Thursday at the Berlin Film Festival.
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Newsarama.com - Marvel's Astonishing line relaunches and expands in May, 2010 with a new take on Astonishing X-Men with the superstar team of writer Warren Ellis and artist Kaare Andrews. Andrews, whose dynamic, animation-inspired style has mostly been
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One half of the Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt twins born in France in July 2008 made a rare public appearance in Venice, Italy, on Thursday and the paparazzi didn’t miss the shot.
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In a startling turnaround from the night before, the Olympics clobbered “American Idol” in the ratings Wednesday night, the first time in six years that anything has beaten the nation’s No. 1 show head to head in the ratings.
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AFP - Isabella Rossellini had to undergo therapy after splitting up from film director David Lynch, the "love of my life," the actress and model told a German weekly on Thursday.
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Hollywood actor and Web-savvy activist Ashton Kutcher says he will "crowd source" questions about the Kremlin's push to develop a Russian Silicon Valley to his 4.5 million Twitter fans.
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The film is long and wearying — brilliantly constructed yet dramatically a piece of pulp schlock that's been overdressed to disguise a ponderous and absurd story.
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Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling called on Thursday for a plagiarism case against her to be dismissed, describing it as "unfounded" and "absurd".
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A powerful Bosnian drama examines how people living in a Westernized, multi-cultural society and those observing a strict interpretation of Islam can co-exist, if at all.
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Acclaimed director is determined to continue making films that, like new "Shutter Island," will keep cast, crew and audience on the edge of their seats.
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The actor says he doesn’t mind getting intimate with his fellow male stars he does take issue with the de-gaying of his latest movie, “I Love You Phillip Morris.”
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A source close to the situation says that the network "hopes they will soon be able to film the family again," but rules out a return of the hit show, "Jon & Kate Plus 8."
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The brunette beauty confirmed she is a contender to replace Samantha Harris, who announced her departure from the show earlier this year.
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Bringing his nation to the Winter Olympics, Stephen Colbert made peace with Canada, sang with Michael Buble and persuaded Bob Costas to climb aboard a stuffed moose.
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Bridges and Waltz have dominated their categories this season in what has become a fairly uneventful actor race.
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As part of the show's "Idol Gives Back" charity effort, Allen will travel to Haiti. He’ll share a video from his visit and sing on the Thursday, Feb. 25, episode of "American Idol."
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NBC's costly gamble on the Vancouver Winter Olympics is leaving a hole in its finances but strong ratings offer a welcome showcase for the struggling TV network's revamped prime-time line-up, media analysts say.
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Roman Polanski's latest is a faithful, fairly absorbing adaptation of Robert Harris' political thriller "The Ghost," which has more than a few similarities to the troubled filmmaker's life.
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The cast of “Jersey Shore” might be proud self-described guidos and guidettes – but not all of them are full Italian – and Jenni “J-WOWW” Farley isn’t even Italian at all.
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Despite James Cameron's claims to the contrary and the success of "Avatar," not everyone thinks the performance-capture sci-fi film is good for actors, and for moviegoers.
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According to law enforcement sources, on the day Michael Jackson died, his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, made three phone calls: One to his office in Las Vegas, one to a friend, and one to a patient, Bob Russell. Russell didn't answer; voicemail
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Better known for his creativity on the screen, Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins has extended his artistic talent to the canvas, unveiling 50 acrylic and ink paintings in London this week.
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"Avatar" isn't alone out there -- motion capture has altered the landscape of motion pictures while providing some incredibly creative people with new toys to play with.
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A recent report suggesting those close to the actor believe he should follow in his wife’s footsteps and enter rehab has been shot down by the “Two and a Half Men” star’s rep.
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There's no air date for a new show for the mom of eight, but a source close to TLC says it's in the works, and one thing's for sure: It won't be a dating show.
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After picking seven singers Tuesday night, that left 17 more to reveal. Fortunately for those who were fans of the rejected, there weren’t a lot of heartbreaking scenes to watch. No time.
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Filmed in an austere, near-documentary style, "Lourdes" takes viewers deep inside one of the world's most popular religious shrines.
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A playful genre mash-up of black comedy, period drama and thriller, "Reverse" ("Rewers") takes a sly look at life in 1950s communist Poland, centering on a fateful encounter between a bookish young woman and a member of the secret police.
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AFP - Audrey Tautou, known as the kooky Parisian girl in the movie "Amelie", made her live stage debut this week as a tragic heroine -- the latest screen actor to bring star power to struggling Paris theatres.
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Iranian/British director Rafi Pitts, who trained and made his first film in France, follows up his 2006 Berlin competition film "It's Winter" ("Zemestan") with "The Hunter" ("Shekarchi"), a lesser effort altogether.
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A textbook example of a movie that would have been twice as good at half the length, "Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man" is a 163-minute slog through the grim history of Romania's anti-Communist resistance from 1949 to 1957. Episodic, stilted and
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If Roman Polanski has great insights on the notion of exile, he did not put them on-screen in "The Ghost Writer."
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It's not surprising that Timothy Tyson's riveting, race-focused 2004 memoir "Blood Done Sign My Name" made it to the screen, though the man who brought it there might raise an eyebrow.
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The Arctic Circle makes people crazy. It's hard to find any other explanation for the poor decisions and, eventually, borderline madness of one of the two characters in "How I Ended This Summer," an existential nightmare set in that frozen wasteland.
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Some of Oscar's most memorable moments have come during performances of nominated songs.
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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are stirring up some good will over at Warner Bros.
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"Letters to Father Jacob" ("Postia pappi Jaakobille") serves as a stirring example of just what can be accomplished in a mere 74 minutes.
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It's easy to see why "Reykjavik-Rotterdam," a lean and well-paced crime thriller of the one-last-job subgenre, has inspired an English-language redo.
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The rookie director of the Oscar-nominated drama "The Messenger" is in negotiations to rework the screenplay for Universal Pictures' untitled Kurt Cobain project.
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J.K. Rowling has been named in a lawsuit alleging she stole ideas for her wildly popular and lucrative "Harry Potter" books from another British author.
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