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If You Could Ask James Cameron One Question, What Would it Be?
Because Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson (who has appeared on such shows as “The Colbert Report” and “NOVA Science Now”), like the man who asks the genie for an ice cream sundae, would waste not...
Read More »Eastwood and Damon Ready for the Hereafter
I’d like to think that Clint Eastwood gets a dopamine rush through the bloodstream whenever he so much as senses someone’s fear. I don’t know if the same rule applies to the supernatural, but...
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X-Men to Get First Class Treatment, but will Tim Pocock be a Part of it? Updated
There has seemingly been no end to rumors and reports of X-Men spinoff films, including proposals for Deadpool and Magneto origin stories. The films just keep splitting off of each other like mitosis on...
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In Which Michael Douglas Dresses as Liberace
Just when you thought that you knew Michael Douglas, Steven Soderbergh has confirmed that the actor will play popular musical performer Liberace in an upcoming film biography. Matt Damon has filled the role of...
Read More »Sam Mendes Eyes Netherland
Variety reports that Focus Features has teamed up with Oprah Winfrey’s Harper Productions and Sam Mendes’s Neal Street Productions to produce a film version of the novel “Netherland” by Joseph O’Neill. Released in 2008,...
Read More »King James Comes to Hollywood
It is rare for a sports star to be just a sports star anymore; they also have to be multi-faceted entertainers. Shaquille O’Neil starred in the flamboyant “Kazaam” in 1996, and Michael Strahan is...
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The Great Emancipator Set for the Silver Screen
Apart from Henry King’s “Wilson” and Oliver Stone’s “Nixon” and “W.”, it’s hard to recall very many notable films based on presidents, both living and former. It’s difficult to see why. As English Bob...
Read More »Indiana Jones 5 Seems All but Certain, but will Ford be Back?
Special effects can do anything, but can they can turn a 67-year-old man into an action star? People has a snippet from Harrison Ford's interview with the French magazine Le Figaro...
Read More »A Christmas Carol Trailer
Perhaps the cinema equivalent of "Manny being Manny" is "Jim Carrey being Jim Carrey". As an actor who has somehow managed to repackage himself as different versions of the same character, audiences know what...
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