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10 Things You Didn't Know about Tom Cruise
25 December 2009 5:16 AM, PST
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Find out facts about Tom Cruise, like which actor he's related to on "Lost" and more!
10 Things You Didn't Know about Tom Cruise10. Screen Name
Tom Cruise was born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962.
9. Parents
Cruise was 11 when his parents divorced in 1974.
8. Family Ties
Cruise’s cousin actor William Mapother played Ethan Rom on ABC’s “Lost.”
7. Extracurriculars
Cruise knew he wanted to go into acting after starring in his high school’s production of “Guys and Dolls,
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Blog: Daybreakers - Vampire Culture Is Here To Stay
20 December 2009 2:24 PM, PST
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If I were a Zombie I would be jealous. Vampires have all the popularity and are clearly all the rage these days. Of course this trend didn’t begin just now but boy has it taken off with lightening speed. One could say it began with True Blood where due to the availability of the right type of blood, vampires went from scary monsters to ordinary and sexy citizens practically overnight. Or was it The Twilight Saga books turned to movies that offered us a series of romance fantasy films? And then there is always The Vampire Diaries series on regular television (as opposed to HBO), a series that is clearly a mix of teen drama and the supernatural.
Daybreakers, the new movie from Lionsgate, written and directed by The Spierig Brothers, refreshingly takes the genre to a new type of vampiric world while managing to continue some of our more beloved myths.
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Marla Newborn)
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Sedgwick Unhappy With Hollywood Star
7 December 2009 5:31 PM, PST
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Kevin Bacon's actress wife Kyra Sedgwick is unhappy with the placement of the power couple's stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - because they're in a "shady" part of Los Angeles.
Sedgwick unveiled her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6356 Hollywood Boulevard in June, inches away from her husband's pavement honour outside a busy nightclub.
But the Born on The Fourth of July actress admits she was less than thrilled with organisers' efforts not to split the couple - because now her accolade will only be seen by stumbling drunks.
She explains, "They put us right next to each other in this shady area. It's right outside of this nightclub... Isn't it wonderful when people stumble out at three in the morning they're going to throw up on both of our stars?"
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The Year of Apolitical Cinema?
3 December 2009 11:57 AM, PST
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In 1989, Spike Lee picked up a trashcan and hurled it into the front window of Sal's Pizzeria, stirring chaos in Bed-Stuy and sending movie audiences into a tizzy about race relations in America. That same year, Oliver Stone and Brian De Palma were reopening heated debates about Vietnam ("Born on the Fourth of July," "Casualties of War"), while Steven Soderbergh and Peter Greenaway were making us squirm by challenging conventional moral codes ("sex, lies and videotape," "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover"). Jump ahead 20 years: today's watercooler cinema holds nary an ounce of subversive content. On the contrary, the most talked-about upscale American films of the year uphold such conservative myths as the sanctity of family and community.
Much has already been written about the reactionary elements of Lee Daniels' "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," which, despite its confrontational scenes of rape,
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- Anthony Kaufman
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[DVD Review] Natural Born Killers: The Director’s Cut
29 October 2009 2:00 PM, PDT
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Natural Born Killers is the black sheep of the Oliver Stone filmography. Though it has received some critical acclaim, it has never received the same treatment as Stone’s more prestigious films like Platoon, Born on The Fourth of July and JFK. This comes from a host of factors. First, at the time of its release, the movie ironically became the primary target for a movement against violence in television and film. Second, and more importantly, it doesn’t really feel like an Oliver Stone film. Stone’s films are typically epic and historic, larger than life in their content and the lessons they teach. Nbk is larger than life too, but in a very different way. It attacks our sensibility about culture and the way we sense things. It tests our understanding of good and evil by proposing that no one is good.
The film follows Micky (Woody Harrelson
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- Michael Epstein
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Oliver Stone to show us the Secret History of America
19 August 2009 12:47 PM, PDT
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While he started off as a screenwriter of some hit-or-miss movies (try watching 1981's The Hand sober and you'll soon know what I mean), Oliver Stone remade his professional persona by writing and directing one of the biggest critical successes of the 1980s, the Oscar-winning Best Picture Platoon. Ever since Stone hasn't shied away from rocking the boat and making films which showed us the way he views America and its political landscape. JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Nixon, Wall Street and World Trade Center all deal with real life people or events that still create uncomfortable ripples in the psyche of many Americans.
Now Stone is turning his attention to the platform of television and creating a 10-part documentary series for Showtime that will examine the Secret History of America. In addition to producing the series Stone will also narrate each episode as it examines culturally important
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- Patrick Sauriol
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Adam Sandler Produced Horror Film The Shortcut Coming To DVD September 29th!
10 August 2009 5:04 PM, PDT
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From Scary Madison Productions And Anchor Bay Entertainment Comes An Unforgettable Suspense Thriller 'The Shortcut', Premiering on DVD September 29th.
Beverly Hills, CA – Scary Madison Productions, a new division of the wildly successful Happy Madison Productions, has joined forces with Anchor Bay Entertainment, the undisputed leader in cult and horror titles, to bring you The Shortcut, a terrifying tale of teenage terror, making its DVD debut on September 29, 2009. Srp is $26.97.
Rated a family-friendly PG-13, The Shortcut includes such hot, up-and-coming young talent as Emmy Award® nominee Drew Seeley (Another Cinderella Story, High School Musical: The Concert, Disney’s The Little Mermaid on Broadway), Shannon Woodward (The Haunting of Molly Hartley, “The Riches”), Josh Emerson (I Love You, Beth Cooper), Katrina Bowden (Sex Drive, the Emmy Award®-winning “30 Rock”), Dave Franco (“Greek,” “Privileged,” brother of Golden Globe Award® winner James Franco) and Nicholas Elia (Speed Racer, White Noise,
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New Wave and Old Guard
1 July 2009 7:57 AM, PDT
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"The only thing important is where somebody's going." That bit of existential wisdom comes from none other than John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), the soft-spoken, bank-jacking antihero of "Public Enemies," Michael Mann's latest epic about unhappy tough guys doing what they do best. It's offered by way of flirtation, as part of Dillinger's out-of-nowhere and all-out attempt to impress a gorgeous hat-check girl named Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard) -- a pitch of woo so intense, and so divorced from what Billie considers realistic feeling, that it both unsettles and amuses her. "I'm catching up, meeting someone like you," he tells her. "Boy, you're in a hurry," she deadpans. "If you were looking at what I'm looking at," "Public Enemy" Number One informs her, "you'd be in a hurry, too."
On first viewing, I was inclined to call "Public Enemies" minor Mann, a characterization meant not as a putdown, but a simple summary.
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- Matt Zoller Seitz
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Sedgwick Lands Star Honour Next To Husband Bacon
2 June 2009 6:40 PM, PDT
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Kevin Bacon's wife Kyra Sedgwick is to be honoured with the 2,384th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Born on The Fourth of July actress will unveil her star at 6356 Hollywood Boulevard, next to her husband's pavement tribute, on Monday.
Sedgwick has been acting for almost 30 years. She made her professional acting debut at the age of 16 on U.S. soap opera Another World.
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'Celebrity Rehab' Next Stop on Tom Sizemore's Sad Career Descent
2 June 2009 9:03 AM, PDT
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In the case of most reality-show stars, it's obvious that they've found their level. Humiliating themselves on TV is the only way they'll ever be famous, and they're all too happy to dance like monkeys for a shot at celebrity.
In some cases, however, it's simply a sad, last rest stop between fame and obscurity. In the case of Tom Sizemore, who starred in a painfully raw six-episode VH1 show called Shooting Sizemore and has signed on for the new season of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, it hurts to watch the decline of a genuinely talented performer.
Some actors, you remember the first time you saw them. But it's not like that with Sizemore. For me, it's like he was just suddenly always there. In the 1990s, he was a sort of a poor man's Tommy Lee Jones, except with his own distinct, streetwise edge -- where Tommy Lee
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- Dawn Taylor
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New York City Serenade DVD Review -- Charles says if this is the only DVD in the house, go ahead and watch it. But be ready to fast forward
22 March 2009
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According to IMDb, actor Frank Whaley plays “bit parts in big movies and successful star vehicles (Pulp Fiction (1994), JFK (1991), Broken Arrow (1996), The Freshman (1990), Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Red Dragon (2002)), and leads in mostly bad movies (Career Opportunities (1991), Cold Dog Soup (1990), and The Jimmy Show (2001)).” The implication here is that he is incapable of carrying a movie on his own. Whether or not that is true, New York City Serenade certainly shows he has similar difficulties as a writer-director (although his two earlier efforts, Joe the King and The Jimmy Show have received some favorable commentary). Where to begin with this film? Dull and depressing? Predictable and trite? Unsympathetic and uninteresting characters? All too true. This 2007 effort introduces us to Owen (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), an
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Celebrity Birthdays: 03/12/09
12 March 2009 10:45 PM, PDT
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Today, we celebrate a quintessential diva, a Hollywood staple from The Dark Knight, a seasoned television actor, a regular cast member from the television series Medium, and an unsung talent responsible for some of your favorite soundtracks. Can you guess who we're talking about from the following clues? Daughter of Judy Garland. At only seventeen years old, she appeared on stage at the London Paladium. At nineteen, she won her first Tony ward, and at the ripe age of twenty-three she won her first Academy Award. Oscars would follow and a long career that has made her a household name. Played Two-Face in The Dark Knight. (If you need more clues than that, you've been living under a rock!) Got his first big break playing a minor role in Hamburger Hill and later Sean Connery's The Hunt for Red October. He would go on to guest star in a
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- rsw@corp.popstar.com (Robert Samuel White)
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Celebrity Birthdays: 03/12/09
12 March 2009 10:45 PM, PDT
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Today, we celebrate a quintessential diva, a Hollywood staple from The Dark Knight, a seasoned television actor, a regular cast member from the television series Medium, and an unsung talent responsible for some of your favorite soundtracks. Can you guess who we're talking about from the following clues? Daughter of Judy Garland. At only seventeen years old, she appeared on stage at the London Paladium. At nineteen, she won her first Tony ward, and at the ripe age of twenty-three she won her first Academy Award. Oscars would follow and a long career that has made her a household name. Played Two-Face in The Dark Knight. (If you need more clues than that, you've been living under a rock!) Got his first big break playing a minor role in Hamburger Hill and later Sean Connery's The Hunt for Red October. He would go on to guest star in a
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- rsw@corp.popstar.com (Robert Samuel White)
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Celebrity Birthdays: 03/12/09
12 March 2009 10:45 PM, PDT
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Today, we celebrate a quintessential diva, a Hollywood staple from The Dark Knight, a seasoned television actor, a regular cast member from the television series Medium, and an unsung talent responsible for some of your favorite soundtracks. Can you guess who we're talking about from the following clues? Daughter of Judy Garland. At only seventeen years old, she appeared on stage at the London Paladium. At nineteen, she won her first Tony ward, and at the ripe age of twenty-three she won her first Academy Award. Oscars would follow and a long career that has made her a household name. Played Two-Face in The Dark Knight. (If you need more clues than that, you've been living under a rock!) Got his first big break playing a minor role in Hamburger Hill and later Sean Connery's The Hunt for Red October. He would go on to guest star in a
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- rsw@corp.popstar.com (Robert Samuel White)
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Oscar's Biggest Blunders
7 February 2009 3:26 PM, PST
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As we creep closer to the 2009 Academy Awards, prognosticators look back as much as forward to try and determine who the favorites will be. By looking back, I mean to suggest that past Academy choices perhaps unfairly paint them in a certain light, and support the group's predictability and oft-whispered bias. For instance, feel good films generally trump depressors. Oscar loves a comeback story almost as much as they love to reward seasoned veterans with lead acting awards and fresh faces in the supporting roles (particularly supporting actress). And despite a requisite surprise or two every year, they mostly play it safe. Usually painfully boringly safe. That, and the fact they get it wrong more often than they get it right. So I present a glance at the ten most egregiously shortsighted Oscars ever given.
I'm focusing solely on the big one: Best Picture. If I included anything and everything,
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- Matt Medlock
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