Big Hollywood

Youth, beauty, fame, wealth, chic, her own career, a musician husband and two small children… Twenty-five year-old Peaches Geldof had everything popular culture tells us is important but still went down the same tragic path as that of her mother,

— — Based on the erotic novels of E.L. James, “Fifty Shades of Grey” stars Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey and Dakota Johnson as his lover and bondage partner-in-training Anastasia Steele. The movie opens on Valentine’s Day. Fade In:  HEROINE: Enlighten

The Hollywood Reporter is surprise Sony bumped “The Amazing Spider-Man 3” a full two years, from 2016 to 2018, but they have to be in the minority. By charging ahead with the threequel of a dying franchise, Sony risked losing

The men and women featured on the American Heroes Channel’s new series would deny they belong on any show with the word “heroes” attached. The show’s subjects are humble to a fault, but viewers will disagree once they spend time

LOS ANGELES, July 23 (UPI)–Weird Al Yankovic has earned his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200. The 54-year-old parody singer released Mandatory Fun on July 15, his fourteenth studio album and a followup to 2011’s Alpocalypse. The record

The team behind America, the new film defending the country against those who blast it as imperialistic and cruel, is at war with Google over the search engine’s treatment of the film. Now, a Republican is bringing the matter to

The Hollywood Reporter writes that Summer 2014 is shaping up to be the worst in 8 years thanks to the worst year-over-year decline in three decades. With only 6 weeks of summer remaining and middling titles like “Hercules,” “Teenage Mutant

The latest trailer for the satire Dear White People offers what we’ve come to expect given the hype surrounding the film–uncomfortable racial observations and a few well-earned laughs. The snippet also features a character slamming Fox News and, by extension,

EERIE, Ind., July 22 (UPI) —A YouTube user recorded an umpire going kind of nuts with his “Strike three” calls during a baseball game. In the caption that accompanies the video, the poster wrote, “Best umpire since Leslie Nielsen! Best

Using his verified Twitter account, horror novelist Stephen King singled out the Tea Party for a lecture about Christianity as it pertains to the ongoing crisis at the Mexican border. “Revised Tea Party Gospel,” King wrote in one tweet, “‘Suffer

Added: The Smoking Gun was the first outlet to report this, and did so weeks ago.  According to the Detroit News, anti-capitalism “everyman” filmmaker Michael Moore owns 9 homes. On top of a $2 million, 10,000 square foot lakefront mansion

NEW YORK (AP) — The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled a star-heavy lineup amid increased festival jockeying for the most plum premieres of Hollywood’s fall season. Toronto’s slate for Sept. 4-14, announced in a press conference Tuesday, features anticipated performances

Failed television personality and comedian Joy Behar lashed out at the suggestion that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin could be a co-host on The View even though, as Nikke Finke reported on NikkeFinke.com, Palin has been working behind the scenes to try

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted HBO’s “misogynist and profanity-ridden” True Blood episode that demeaned “Republi-cu*nt” women and depicted a bloodbath at a Cruz fundraiser at the George W. Bush Presidential Library.  “Of all the places I never thought to be

NEW YORK, July 22 (UPI)–American filmmaker Woody Allen says there is one major reason the protagonists he creates usually view life as meaningless — because it is. “I firmly believe — and I don’t say this as a criticism —

Director Jonathan Demme felt the need to dismiss potential charges of anti-semitism this week before echoing the thoughts of many Hollywood liberals. The Silence of the Lambs auteur is aghast at Israel’s current use of force against the Palestinian people,

Over the last decade or so right-of-center types have made remarkable inroads into the world of popular culture. Almost every week it seems like a Brad Thor is releasing another best-seller, a Fox News is launching a show to  compete

Robert Davi’s embrace of the Frank Sinatra songbook is now part of our cultural fabric. Last year, nearly 12,000 people came to hear his signature take on the Great American Songbook at The Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre in Eisenhower Park, NY. The

Sir Ian McKellen doesn’t have to live paycheck to paycheck. Hardly. McKellen has a number of high-profile franchises to call his own–The Hobbit, X-Men and The Lord of the Rings. He still understands the plight of both his out-of-work peers

One of the year’s biggest box office surprises is now available on home video. Heaven Is for Real, starring Greg Kinnear as a father whose son insists he saw Heaven after a near-death experience, rang up $91 million earlier this

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin rejected overtures from True Blood‘s producers for a cameo role on the conservative-bashing vampire show. Her instincts proved to be correct after Sunday’s HBO episode in which Republican women were once again demeaned when one

NEW YORK (AP) — Singer-songwriter Conor Oberst has dropped his federal libel lawsuit against a woman who accused him of sexual assault in online comments. The Bright Eyes singer’s attorney filed the notice of voluntary dismissal Friday in New York

The most jaw-dropping comments from Kanye West’s just-released interview with GQ Magazine wasn’t that he confirmed giving a 45-minute toast to himself on his wedding day. West, who lives to poke and provoke pop culture, compared being a celebrity in

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The first trailer for the “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie will be released this week and the original Christian Grey, Charlie Hunnam, says he can’t wait for the finished product. Speaking Sunday at a Fox

This write-up is a little late. A family emergency put me a couple weeks behind on my television viewing. Catching up to the special-event series “24 Live Another Day,” though, was a real pleasure. So pleasurable in fact, the wife