The Rev. Al Sharpton ripped Hollywood after the Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning, with black actors completely shut out of each of the four top acting categories for a second straight year.
REUTERS – Plans to save Big Bird, the fuzzy yellow character on U.S. public television’s “Sesame Street,” from possible extinction are taking shape in the form of a puppet-based protest next month dubbed the “Million Muppet March.” The demonstration is
This movie really did creep me out, bless its scabby little head. “Sinister” is a deft assemblage of genre ready mades–haunted house, slasher, found-footage–bound together in an atmosphere of bleak portents that sometimes recalls “The Shining,” among other, admittedly better,
Will Smith was arguably the most popular movie star in the world until the 2008 movie “Seven Pounds” underwhelmed at the box office. He licked his wounds, took several years off, and returned to theaters a few months back with
Zombie fans have a common gripe about AMC’s horror series “The Walking Dead.” Sometimes an entire episode will go by without so much as a single “Walker” getting some blunt force trauma to the brain. The show waxes on about
The minds behind “Atlas Shrugged: Part II,” opening today in theaters nationwide, didn’t bother screening the film for mainstream movie critics. Matt Atchity, the editor in chief of the film review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, understands why. “It’s sometimes a
Add rapper Shyne to the small but growing list of celebrities giving up on Team Hope and Change. The Jewish rapper says his frustration with President Barack Obama over Syria as well as his own personal deportation issues have him
Actress Melanie Griffith isn’t as busy as she was during the ’80s when she starred in films like “Working Girl” and “Something Wild.” She isn’t making her career any easier for herself by disparaging half of her audience via her
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Actor/director Peter Berg is hopping mad at Team Romney. Berg, who directed the film version of “Friday Night Lights” and served as the executive producer on the long-running television show of the same name, claims the Romney campaign is using
GOP candidate Mitt Romney just earned Lindsay Lohan’s vote. Scoff if you like, but Business Insider contends Lohan represents the “low information” voter who might play a major role in selecting the next president. Lohan said that the reason she
Celebrities took President Barack Obama’s disastrous, drab debate performance pretty hard last week. So they were understandably delighted to watch Vice President Joe Biden display a pulse during last night’s faceoff with GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan. Who cares
Director Ben Affleck made one critical mistake in the otherwise superlative new political thriller “Argo.” Affleck didn’t fight hard enough to secure a different leading man. Ben Affleck, the maligned movie star, simply isn’t worth headlining a movie of this
“Seven Psychopaths” is twisted, demented and gratuitously violent. It’s also one of the best surprises of 2012. Starring Colin Farrell and a scene-stealing Christopher Walken, this violent drama about a dog kidnapping is an escapist pleasure that is more fun
MMA fighters can be ripped … or they can be a little doughy around the edges. And then there’s Kevin James, the husky comic cast as a reluctant MMA fighter scrapping to raise money for a very good cause. It’s
Sensei watched as “Taken 2” easily took last weekend‘s box office crown. There’s plenty of new releases vying for the top spot this time around. This weekend’s predictions and revenue results go as follows. 1. “Taken 2″ ($24 million) – Easily
