Sure, last weekend's Voice-tacular went fine. Fine! It got much-better-than-decent ratings. But for true Super Bowl-evening sensationalism, we feel a certain nostalgia for Friends's 1996 blowout, which featured guests ranging from Julia Roberts and Brooke Shields to, uh, the voice of Homer Simpson and Jean-Claude Van Damme. It's the moment the show went from preoccupation Read More
A pinch of cinnamon, a dash of sugar or a drop of Tabasco has enhanced many a disastrous, dried-out holiday feast, but even the combined flavors of Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts can’t salvage a turkey like Larry Crowne. During a surfeit of vampires, vulgarity, 3-D action comic books, CGI effects and worse, I applaud Read More
Kristen Stewart, who can make money as a girl in love with a vampire but little else, is sticking with the mythic. She's negotiating to star in Snow White and the Huntsman, a project at Universal focusing on the relationship between Snow White and Viggo Mortensen's Huntsman. (Will Twihards accept Kristen romancing an Read More
No Strings Attached isn't just another bad Ashton Kutcher movie (though, wow, is it that). It's a movie that "could destroy everything" for would-be Oscar winner Natalie Portman, says Rex Reed. Whether or not Portman's march to the podium is interrupted, there's a long tradition of Best Actresses immediately following up their Oscar roles Read More
-- Jennifer Gould Keil has the story of Julia Robert's latest apartment purchase in the city, a penthouse co-op at 45 West 10th Street for which the famed actress paid $3.895 million. She will not be moving in, the Post reports, but is instead staying in her Gramercy Park home--when she's not bouncing around Read More
Eat, Pray, Love director Ryan Murphy isn't afraid to hype his product. He recently stated in a press conference that an eating scene in the new Julia Roberts flick "is one of the most controversial scenes ever caught on film." Murphy goes on to say that due to cultural guilt about Read More
"I don't have as much estrogen as this storyline does," David Lyons, the Australian actor who plays Ian in the Eat Pray Love adaptation, said last night on the red carpet of the film's premiere at the Ziegfeld.
Then Lyons backtracked for a second. "And that's not a bad thing-it's about rediscovering yourself."
The celluloid Read More
The list of Hollywood stars that have either appeared on Glee (Neil Patrick Harris, Kristin Chenowith) or are rumored to appear on Glee (Katy Perry, Katie Holmes, anyone else named Katie/Katy, Britney Spears) are pretty much exactly who you would expect -- some mix of singers, dancers, actors and people just famous enough to give Read More
File the over $114 million the top-three films earned this weekend under: release movies, people will come. Hollywood used the combination of Valentine's Day and President's Day to unfurl three high-powered films and the results were predictably green. As we do each Monday, here's a breakdown of the top five at the box office. Read More
For Hollywood, the long winter of discontent officially starts to thaw this weekend—never mind the foot of snow still piled in front of your apartment building. Three big studio flicks hit theaters today and, as usual, there's something for everyone. As we do every Friday, here's a handy guide to the new releases.
Valentine's Day Read More
It's 2 a.m. and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you've already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we're just like you: single.
Need a movie to Read More
We can’t say we’re all that surprised that the return of Rachel McAdams has been met with decidedly few huzzahs—after all, on the list of under-the-radar actresses, she would rank near the top—but come on! Where is even the slightest display of giddiness? Here we are on Friday with her latest film, State of Play, Read More
This weekend, bloggers and reporters who cover media and Hollywood put in a little overtime to cover a small, but important, bit of breaking news: Would News Corporation fire Foxnews.com's Fox 411 columnist Roger Friedman over a column in which he admitted to watching a bootleg copy of 20th Century Fox's X-Men Origins: Read More
Carrie Preston should be more famous. When we caught Duplicity over the weekend and saw Ms. Preston pop-up as a lonely corporate travel agent who, while drunk on Appletini’s, gets seduced by Clive Owen, we immediately knew her face—it just took us a little while to figure out why. Ms. Preston is one of Read More
Last Saturday, while almost every film blogger this side of Jeffrey Wells was sitting in a crowded theater in Austin, Texas, waiting for Joe Swanberg’s Alexander the Last to unspool before them, we were curled up on our couch in Astoria getting ready to do the same thing. The film premiered simultaneously at Read More
