Did you know, Kim Jong-Il, the now-dead slave master of North Korea, loved Hollywood films? “The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature. As such it is a powerful ideological weapon for the revolution
JAMES GARNER’S DAUGHTER OPENS TRIBUTE SITE TO HER AWESOME FATHER The Mighty James Garner’s daughter, Gigi Garner (a successful talent manager in her own right), has opened a tribute website to her father. She seems to be updating it fairly
—– Terrible news: Blues singer Etta James, best known for classic songs like “At Last” and “Tell Mama,” is terminally ill and her live-in doctor is now asking for prayers. The 73-year-old has been in fading health in recent years.
By this time next week, six new tentpoles will have opened wide: “Tintin,” “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” “We Bought a Zoo,” “The Darkest Hour,” “War Horse,” and “Mission Impossible 4.” It seems as though, despite good weather and
GLAAD is a cancer on all things free speech. They make the backers of the old Production Code and those anti-Communist Blacklisters look like look like Marxist libertines. The ABC comedy “Work It” doesn’t even premiere until Jan, 3, and
This weekend was supposed to turn all that bad box office news around for Hollywood, but both saviors that went into wide release yesterday are not only trailing their predecessors (as you’ll see below), they are falling well below expectations.
The level of cruelty with which the leftist media attacks conservative women never seems to hit bottom. Again and again, we’re told by leftists that the sexual revolution liberated women to be women. Burn your bras! Sleep around! What they
‘BURN NOTICE’: SEASON FINALE Did you enjoy it? Because it was my brother who edited this awesome episode — spoilers below: Michael, as we saw in tonight’s episode, was willing to do just about anything to keep Fiona out of
—– The death of Christopher Hitchens hits like the 2008 death of Tim Russert. Both were men you really wanted to hear from during a looming presidential election. The word being tossed about in reference to the passing of Hitchens
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on the end of the war in Iraq: He said that the war was worth the price in blood and money, as it set Iraq on a path to democracy. … They’re going face challenges
His name is Stephen Bloom and he teaches journalism at the University of Iowa (that’s right, he’s on the taxpayer teat). Because he sees Iowans as little more than supporting players in “Deliverance 2: The Caucus,” he hates the idea
WERNER HERZOG TRASHES ‘LAWRENCE OF ARABIA’ Whuh? German director Werner Herzog (Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Nosferatu; Cave of Forgotten Dreams) has disparaged Lawrence of Arabia as “not really that good anymore.” Herzog criticized the screenplay by Robert Bolt for
Donchaknow, Alec Baldwin was so awesome and open and funny and beloved on Twitter… until the American Airlines thing. There was a slightly manic quality to it. Baldwin tweeted as if he couldn’t get enough of the hits of instant
—– This is NOT a prequel to “Alien.” Well, it’s 95% not a prequel… —– Here’s the IMDB synopsis: A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the
***UPDATE: A good six or seven hours after the report first aired, Chris Matthews apologized for MSNBC’s “bad judgment” in making this comparison. —– Normally, I don’t concern myself too much with MSNBC. They’re an openly liberal network and therefore
I see Black and Hispanic people. Do you see Black and Hispanic people? Photo editing, even for a failing newspaper nobody likes, is a painstaking and deliberate process. A whole lot of thought goes into each selection. So you have
‘L.A. TIMES’ TO INSTITUTE PAYWALL IN FIRST QUARTER OF 2012 No one reads this rag now, but now by not reading we’ll save money. Nice. PODCAST WITH ‘RISE OF THE APES’ SCREENWRITERS The married screenwriting team of Rick Jaffa and
Here’s Clooney’s big stand. It’s Oscar season, Clooney desperately wants and Oscar, and he’s taking part in a one-night play to support same-sex marriage. In Hollywood, that’s about as much of a big stand as joining the most popular fraternity
Not that 20th Century-Fox or anyone involved in the production of “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” cares, but earlier in the year as the promotion ramped up, I was very hard on this prequel/sort-of remake. The story looked
Because I was 19 in 1985, like a lot of films that revolve around adolescence from that time period, the original “Fright Night” holds a special place for me because of its ability to capture what it was to be
One of the many wonderful services Fox News has done for America has been holding up to the light the ongoing war on Christmas being waged by the left in this country. It’s hard to imagine how bad things would’ve
SIX REASONS ‘STAR TREK: VOYAGER’ NEVER REALLY WORKED Wow. This nails it. Back in 2001, I gave “Voyager” two seasons before giving up. The political correctness was beyond undermining to the show’s plots, it was stifling and insulting. Political correctness
—– This does look as though it might be a better movie than the first one, not that that’s a very high bar. That closing line from Bruce Willis is hilarious and telegraphs that the new installment might add something
The Wrap openly wonders if the recent collapse at the box office is more about a dwindling audience for films as opposed to a lack of titles moviegoers are interested in. If that proves to be the case, and we’ll
This is BuzzFeed today, a site co-founded by Jonah Peretti, who also co-founded the Huffington Post. A match made in heaven for our infamous JournOlister, Ben Smith. Don’t click that BuzzFeed link and laugh, though. What looks like a goofy
