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Movie Reviews Never Say Never

Movie Reviews Never Say Never

It's curious that in all of the reviews of Never Say Never , which chronicles the meteoric rise of 16-year-old Justin Bieber from his obscure roots in Stratford, Ontario, Canada to his sold-out performance in...

News posted in on 14th February 2011

3d Replaces Language In New Wim Wenders Film

3d Replaces Language In New Wim Wenders Film

Other directors have used 3D to enhance scenes of their films, but director Wim Wenders ( The Buena Vista Social Club; Paris, Texas ) says that 3D was absolutely crucial in the making of his...

News posted in on 14th February 2011

Fox Hails One Of Its Biggest Weeks

Fox Hails One Of Its Biggest Weeks

Needless to say, Fox TV, which drew the largest U.S. audience in TV history with this year's Super Bowl telecast (111 million viewers) and cashed in afterwards with the post-game show and a special edition...

News posted in on 9th February 2011

Empty Seats Likely At Theaters On Super Bowl Weekend

Empty Seats Likely At Theaters On Super Bowl Weekend

With the Super Bowl sucking up the movie-going audience this weekend -- what with party preparations on Saturday and the actual game on Sunday -- movie studios are releasing two films, both of which are...

News posted in on 4th February 2011

John Hawkes Is The Surprise Oscar Nominee For 2011

John Hawkes Is The Surprise Oscar Nominee For 2011

John Hawkes, the 51-year-old American actor whose previous roles have included appearances on 'Psych', 'Monk' and 'Without a Trace', has been nominated for the 'Best Supporting Actor' award at this year's Academy Awards. Hawkes' was...

News posted in on 25th January 2011

Mean Girls 2 - Mean Girls 2 Receives Positive Reviews After Abc Premiere

Mean Girls 2 - Mean Girls 2 Receives Positive Reviews After Abc Premiere

Mean Girls 2, the long awaited sequel to the 2004 hit movie 'Mean Girls', premiered on Abc Family last night (23th January 2011) to a surprisingly warm reception from audiences and critics alike. The movie...

News posted in on 24th January 2011

Gervais "I Don't Care What People Think Of Me"

Gervais "I Don't Care What People Think Of Me"

Ricky Gervais insists that he is not concerned about the negative reaction from members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to his stinging jokes during Sunday night's Golden Globe presentations. In remarks taped for airing...

News posted in on 20th January 2011

Cbs Again Dominates Weekly Ratings

Cbs Again Dominates Weekly Ratings

Some 50.55 million viewers tuned in to CBS's telecast of the AFC Divisional Playoff game between the New York Jets and the New England Patriots on Sunday, and while Nielsen did not include the primetime...

News posted in on 20th January 2011

Sawyer Lands Husband Of Wounded Congresswoman

Sawyer Lands Husband Of Wounded Congresswoman

Certifying her reputation as queen of the "gets" -- especially now that Barbara Walters is, for all intents and purposes, out of the competition -- Diane Sawyer has landed the first interview with Mark Kelly,...

News posted in on 17th January 2011

Hbo's Boardwalk Empire Big Winner At Golden Globes

Hbo's Boardwalk Empire Big Winner At Golden Globes

HBO's lavishly produced series Boardwalk Empire , set in Atlantic City during Prohibition, won the Golden Globe Sunday night as television's best dramatic series, while its star, Steve Buscemi, won the best actor award in...

News posted in on 17th January 2011

Gwyneth Paltrow Performs Duet With Cee-lo Green

Gwyneth Paltrow Performs Duet With Cee-lo Green

Gwyneth Paltrow, the 38-year-old American actress who is currently starring as a washed up musician in her new film 'Country Strong', hosted Saturday Night Live this past weekend (15th January 2011) and performed a duet...

News posted in on 17th January 2011

Wikileaks Founder Says He's Holding Murdoch Files As "Insurance"

Wikileaks Founder Says He's Holding Murdoch Files As "Insurance"

Wikileaks head leaker Julian Assange said Wednesday that he has withheld release of a stack of presumably damaging files about Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation as "insurance ... if something happens to me or to...

News posted in on 13th January 2011

Bet Draws Best Ratings In Its History

Bet Draws Best Ratings In Its History

In three seasons on the low-rated CW broadcast network, the sitcom The Game never averaged more than 2.3 million viewers, and in its final season, it averaged a measly 1.68 million, but in its debut...

News posted in on 13th January 2011

David Nelson Of Ozzie And Harriet Fame Dead At 74

David Nelson Of Ozzie And Harriet Fame Dead At 74

David Nelson, who remains locked in the memories of many older Americans as the older brother on ABC's The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet has died of colon cancer in Los Angeles at age 74....

News posted in on 12th January 2011

Ghostbusters 3 Hinges On Bill Murray Return

Ghostbusters 3 Hinges On Bill Murray Return

GHOSTBUSTERS 3, the highly anticipated new movie in the supernatural-comedy franchise, will only be made if Bill Murray reprises his role as 'Peter Venkman', however, a final script has been sent to him for his...

News posted in on 12th January 2011

Coens Claim They Won Because Of Timing

Coens Claim They Won Because Of Timing

Joel and Ethan Coen have attributed the success of their latest film, True Grit , to the accident of fortuitous timing. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Ethan Coen remarked, "We were kinda lucky...

News posted in on 10th January 2011

Anger Rises Over U.k. Soap Episode About Sids

Anger Rises Over U.k. Soap Episode About Sids

A public outcry has failed to diminish over the plot of a British soap opera concerning the mother of a victim of sudden infant death syndrome who swaps her dead baby with a healthy one....

News posted in on 7th January 2011

Gwyneth Paltrow Drank Bloody Marys On Set Of Country Strong

Gwyneth Paltrow Drank Bloody Marys On Set Of Country Strong

Gwyneth Paltrow, the 38-year-old American actress who plays an alcoholic singer-songwriter in her new movie 'Country Strong', has admitted to being drunk on the film's set, reports Marie Claire Magazine. Paltrow says she drank early...

News posted in on 7th January 2011

Lost Numbers Win Lottery Jackpot

Lost Numbers Win Lottery Jackpot

In an almost metaphysical coincidence that would have seemed over-the-top on the show itself, at least 26,000 fans of the ABC series Lost have won $150 each by playing three numbers plus the bonus number...

News posted in on 6th January 2011

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Gulliver A Better Traveler Abroad Than In U.s.

Gulliver A Better Traveler Abroad Than In U.s.

Gulliver's Travels has traveled well. The film, which flopped in the U.S. when it opened last weekend and earned only an estimated $9.1 million in its second weekend, was the top=grossing film overseas, despite playing...

News posted in on 3rd January 2011

Rupert Everett Agrees "Coming Out" Can Ruin An Actor's Career

Rupert Everett Agrees "Coming Out" Can Ruin An Actor's Career

In an interview on BBC Radio, Rupert Everett appears to side with Richard Chamberlain, another openly gay actor, that "coming out" can wreck the chances of a gay actor being cast in romantic lead roles....

News posted in on 31st December 2010

Most Pirated Tv Shows Of 2010 Named

Most Pirated Tv Shows Of 2010 Named

Current U.S. television shows are being downloaded tens of millions of times via BitTorrent sites, mostly by people outside the U.S., according to the website TorrentFreak.com, which tracks BitTorrent activity. The website said Thursday that...

News posted in on 31st December 2010

Cbs A Smash During Xmas Week

Cbs A Smash During Xmas Week

During a week that saw millions of folks doing last-minute Christmas shopping instead of watching TV, network schedules that included as many reruns as a week in July, and a blizzard that knocked out Sunday...

News posted in on 29th December 2010

Films By Recently Deceased Directors Selected For Posterity

Films By Recently Deceased Directors Selected For Posterity

Less than two weeks after the deaths of directors Irvin Kershner and Blake Edwards, two of their films, Kershner's Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back , produced by George Lucas, and Edwards's The Pink Panther,...

News posted in on 28th December 2010

Apple Patents Hologram Tv

Apple Patents Hologram Tv

Apple has applied for a patent on a glasses-free 3D technology that produces what it calls a "pseudo-holographic image." As reported by the London Daily Telegraph , the invention works by tracking movements of the...

News posted in on 28th December 2010

Weather May Freeze Holiday Box Office

Weather May Freeze Holiday Box Office

A white Christmas may have been a pleasant thing for Bing Crosby to croon about, but weather conditions over most of the U.S. and Europe during this season is threatening to force many of the...

News posted in on 24th December 2010

Grinch Steals Christmas Ratings

Grinch Steals Christmas Ratings

The Grinch brought much holiday cheer to ABC Thursday night. The network, which has been struggling mightily throughout the season, saw its ratings climb with a repeat of the hit holiday movie Dr. Seuss' How...

News posted in on 24th December 2010

Nbc Ratings Champ Again

Nbc Ratings Champ Again

With 24 million viewers tuning in to the game itself and another 17 million watching the "Pre-Kickoff" telecast, Monday Night Football gave NBC its second consecutive ratings victory among the key 18-49 demographic last week,...

News posted in on 22nd December 2010

Tron Soars At Imax Venues

Tron Soars At Imax Venues

Clearly moviegoers were primarily attracted by the whiz-bang special effects of Disney's Tron -- not what critics described as its muddled plot. Veteran box-office analyst Paul Dergarabedian pointed out Monday that of the $44 million...

News posted in on 21st December 2010

Moore Blasts Wikileaked Cable

Moore Blasts Wikileaked Cable

A cable sent by U.S. diplomats in Havana to State Department officials in 2008 claiming that Michael Moore's film Sicko had been banned by the Cuban government was intended to tell tell the diplomats' bosses...

News posted in on 20th December 2010

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Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying

Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying "true to yourself" [EXCLUSIVE]

Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.

Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review

Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review

Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.

WYSE talks to us about her

WYSE talks to us about her "form of synaesthesia", collaborating with Radiohead's Thom York and the prospect of touring with a band [EXCLUSIVE]

With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...

Bay Bryan talks to us about being a

Bay Bryan talks to us about being a "wee queer ginger", singing with Laura Marling and being inspired by Matilda [EXCLUSIVE]

Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...

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Keelan X talks to us about staying true to

Keelan X talks to us about staying true to "your creative vision", collaborating with Giorgio Moroder and being "a yoga nut" [EXCLUSIVE]

Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.

Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]

Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]

Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...

Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and

Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and "going through a year of grief and sickness" [EXCLUSIVE]

Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...

Dekker talks to us about writing with Jose Gonzales, making headway in the U.S and the difficulties associated with wearing a hat! [EXCLUSIVE]

Dekker talks to us about writing with Jose Gonzales, making headway in the U.S and the difficulties associated with wearing a hat! [EXCLUSIVE]

Ahead of the imminent release of his second solo album - Dekker, aka Brookln Dekker, took time out to let us know about the musical project he...

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