Next To No Ado About Something... Whedon's Shakespeare?
I woke to some potentially thrilling news this morning. It seems that somewhere before during and/or after The Avengers production Joss Whedon brushed up on his Shakespeare. He's completed principle...
View ArticleSteve McQueen's Oscar Loss and Workout Win
Each year come awards season we see hundreds of frozen grins and hear hundreds of ever so slight variations on that autopilot soundbyte "I'm just so honored to be ______." But how do the losing stars...
View ArticleOscar Horrors: Redressing Dracula
HERE LIES … Eiko Ishioka’s costume work for Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), which smothered the rest of the nominees with reams upon reams of flamboyant fabric to slither away with the statue that year....
View ArticleQ&A: Blondes & Brunettes, Silents & Sequels
Each week in the Q & A column I choose Aaron: If "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "Lost in Translation" had been released in different years, do you think Scarlett Johansson would be a two-time...
View Article"New Year's Eve" Countdown...
In 45 days Gary Marshall's all star New Year's Eve opens. We haven't talked about it at all. So now a quick correction. A spontaneous train-of-thought light reading of the film's poster, left-to-right...
View ArticleLondon: W.E., Oslo and Japan
David here, reporting from the final week of the London Film Festival. If there's one name guaranteed to grab my attention, it's... The sight of Madonna's name heading up movie credits is a slightly...
View ArticleOscar Horrors: Carrie White Burns In Hell
In the daily Oscar Horrors series we're looking at those rare Oscar nominations for horror movies. Happy Halloween from Team Film Experience. Here lies… Sissy Spacek’s Oscar for Best Actress in Carrie...
View ArticleJames Franco Cracks Me Up
Just when you think you've seen it all when it comes to James Franco's uncanny ability to keep himself embedded in the popular conversation, even when he doesn't have a movie out (an increasing rarity...
View ArticleCurio: Horror Movie Posters by Stephanie and Mark Welser
Alexa here. One of my favorite ways to decorate for Halloween is by throwing up a few great horror movie posters. I'm no longer goth enough to have them up all year long (although things were a bit...
View ArticleJack-O-Linkin'
<-- Ooh look The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo poster. There are so many posters for every movie nowadays that I think the word "official" has lost all meaning. But I like it. The tag line sounds...
View ArticleTop Ten: Actress Centerfolds
Given the recent cancellation of The Playboy Club which we mourned mainly because Laura Benanti deserves to be famous.... Given James Franco's Flaunting and pants-dropping... Given the waves the...
View ArticleJohn Hawkes "Marcy's Song"
What is it about singing actors?I can never get enough. Related: Best Supporting Actor
View ArticleOscar Horrors: Makeup for the Recently Deceased
Daily Oscar Horrors until Halloween! HERE LIES...Beetlejuice which heard its name repeated just once at the 1988 Oscars when it won Robert Short, Steve LaPorte and Ve Neill the award for Best...
View ArticleCentennial: Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia's voice heals the blind in "St Louis Blues"Mahalia Jackson was born 100 years ago on this very day in 1911 New Orleans as Mahala Jackson (she added the "i" sometime in the early 1930s). After a...
View Article"Shame" on the Ratings System?
Anyone familiar with the basic history of the MPAA ratings board could have predicted it before seeing the movie. Anyone familiar with the concept and players of Shame, Steve McQueen's NYC-based drama...
View Article"the human head weighs 8 lbs"
<--- Blog Stage Awwww, tiny cute person Jonathan Lipnicki (Jerry Maguire) is all grown up. Just celebrated his 21st birthday.Empire file this one under: extremely odd news. Seems that Lynne Ramsay...
View ArticleSuper Hulk ?
Is it just me or does this look more like Henry Cavill as Bruce Banner than Henry Cavill as Clark Kent? click the image for many more I mean torn pants and raggedy ass is so much more like Bruce After...
View ArticleOscar Horrors: Roman Polanski's Chalky Undertaste
In the Oscar Horrors series we're celebrating Oscar nominated or Oscar winning achievements of or related to the Horror genre. Daily through Halloween! HERE LIES… Roman Polanski’s screenplay for...
View ArticleFive Linky Pieces
• Empire The original Hobbits reunite for The Lord of the Rings 10th anniversary photoshoot.• Pajiba ten favorite 'screen couples on the lam' • The Lost Boy Peter Knegt is bragging about his fabulous...
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