Movie Review: The Ides Of March
Two actors, two faces and a two sided story. I smell an Oscar nod for Gosling…I see audience rejection of the film.
Movie Review — Restless
It’s October. A time when Ghoulies, Ghosties and Long-Legged Beasties roam the earth. But if you start seeing the ghost of a World War II Japanese kamikaze fighter pilot, you’re probably Enoch Brae, the central character of Restless. And that’s not a bad place to be. Enoch is an odd kid. If your name is Enoch [...]
Movie Review — Real Steel
“Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots” get their day on the big screen in Real Steel, a movie that transcends the one-joke premise and is instead a heartwarming, fist-pumping mechanized fairy tale of a father and son coming together amid some of the baddest technology you’ll ever wish was really available. Not to bad for a [...]
It couldn’t be any more official. No less an authority than the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, recently published a story last week celebrating the 20th anniversary of “The Simpsons.” The article, entitled “Aristotle’s Virtues and Homer’s Doughnuts,” says the dysfunctional family patriarch represents “a mirror of the indifference and the need that modern man feels [...]
The engrossing Showtime series about the reign of England’s Henry VIII kicks off its fourth season Jan. 3. Tune in to see who survives. The Tudor court is full of ambition and intrigue — personal, political religious, and often all three mixed together. This is office politics writ large as those close to Henry, spouses and [...]
Charlie Sheen was arrested Christmas morning in Aspen, Colo., on felony domestic assault charges, the Denver Post reported. The “Two and a Half Men” star was released about 10 hours later on an $8,500 bond. Police did not identify the alleged victim. But TMZ and other celebrity gossip websites say it was Sheen’s wife, real [...]
Eight Guidos and Guidettes, the beach, a bar called “Karma” and a plot driven by drunken hook-up attempts, what more could you want? Not much, apparently. Between its debut Dec. 3 and its fourth episode last week, the audience for MTV’s new Jersey Shore series has grown from 1.4 million to 2.5 million, according to [...]
Jerry returns to the airwaves this spring with “The Marriage Ref,” his first series since the immensely popular “Seinfeld” signed off 11 years ago. In a twist on real life, where a whole industry caters to ordinary people’s interest in dissecting the problems in celebrity marriages, “The Marriage Ref” will offer a forum for celebrities [...]
Disgraced former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is expected to compete on the next Celebrity Apprentice season. Multiple media outlets say it’s so, though NBC has not officially confirmed. Other contestants on the series debuting Sunday, March 14, will reportedly include 80s singing sensation Cyndi Lauper of “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” fame, Rock of [...]
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