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Chris Hemsworth's 'Rush' Depicts One of The Most Fierce Rivalries In Sport
The Formula One thriller 'Rush' premiered in London last night (2nd Septmeber 2013). The biopic film follows the bitter rivalry that ensued between drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda from the 1976 F1 season.The two...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 3rd September 2013
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Could 'All Is Lost' Win Robert Redford His First Oscar For Best Actor? [Trailer]
'All is Lost' is a film that depicts a journey of one man fighting for survival while battling his own conscience.What began as a peaceful sail at sea quickly unravels into a fight for survival,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 2nd September 2013
Hayao Miyazaki Set To Retire From Film Making, Does He Leave On Top?
Director Hayao Miyazaki is set to retire from making feature films after his latest project The Wind Rises which was released in Japan on July 20th 2013. The announcement was delivered by the President of...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 2nd September 2013
New York's Electric Zoo Festival Cancelled After MDMA Deaths
The three-day Electric Zoo Festival in New York City has been cancelled following two fatalities apparently involving the drug MDMA.At least four concertgoers became critically ill and were placed in critical care units in area...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 2nd September 2013
Zac Efron's 'Parkland,' A Drama or Documentary?
'Parkland' is an upcoming American drama film that attempts to recount the tragedy that occurred in Dallas, Texas on November 22nd 1963, the day in which President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The film in...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 2nd September 2013
Tributes Flood In After The Death of Sir David Frost, Aged 74
Sir David Frost who recently lost his life to a fatal heart attack left a legacy to be remembered, with his memorable career getting the fitting tributes it deserves since the announcement of his death...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 2nd September 2013
Kanye West Performs For Grandson Of Controversial President Nazarbayev
Kanye West has reportedly performed at a wedding for the grandson of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev this past Saturday night (August 31, 2013) which earned him a fee in the millions of dollars. The gig...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 2nd September 2013
Bradley Cooper Cast As Rocket Racoon In Marvel's 'Guardians of The Galaxy,' Who Will He Be Joining?
Bradley Cooper is the latest A-list Hollywood star to join the cast of Marvel's new upcoming American superhero film 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' confirmed on August 30th 2013 by Marvel via official press release. Cooper,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 2nd September 2013
Mike Tyson Tells Matt Lauer, "If I Don't Get Help, I Will Die."
Mike Tyson has told The Today Show's Matt Lauer that if he doesn't get help for alcoholism and drug addiction, he will be dead before long.The former heavyweight champion of the world told a packed...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 30th August 2013
Valerie Harper "Defies The Odds," Brain Cancer Nearing Remission
Valerie Harper, the four-time Emmy Award winner who was diagnosed with brain cancer, is getting "pretty close" to remission, her physician said in an excerpt of a documentary that was shown on NBC's Today Show...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th August 2013
Seamus Heaney, The Greatest Irish Poet Since Yeats, Dies, 74
Seamus Heaney, an Irish literary giant who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, has died aged 74, according to various reports.Born near Toomebridge, Norther Ireland, Heaney worked as a teacher and then...
News posted in Books / Authors on 30th August 2013
Telluride Festival Is All About Jason Reitman's Labor Day
The Coen Brothers, Alexander Payne and Robert Redford are among those attending this year's Telluride Film Festival, premiering their latest movies in the Colorado mountains for an event dedicated to the memory of filmmaker Les...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th August 2013
China Bans Beijing Independent Film Festival, Screens DVD's Instead
The Chinese government has banned the 10th Beijing Independent Film Festival for the second year in a row. Festival director Wang Hongwei, himself an actor having starred in several Jia Zhangke films, was ordered by...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th August 2013
'Passion' Reviews: Brian De Palma, Is That Really You?
Brian De Palma, a man once considered the finest director on the planet having helmed The Untouchables and Scarface, returns this week with Passion - a thriller based on the 2010 French movie Love Crime....
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th August 2013
Scraping The Barrel? Inventor of Foam Finger Comments on Miley Cyrus.
Just when you thought we, the media, couldn't find anyone else to quote for their take on the Miley Cyrus twerking debacle.We tried everyone, the janitor at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, some guy who...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 30th August 2013
Gary Barlow Saves Blackpool Illuminations Gig After The Script Pull Out
Gary Barlow has stepped in to headline the Blackpool Illuminations concert after Danny O'Donoghue - his former rival reality show judge - pulled out. The Take That man told fans on Twitter he would help...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 30th August 2013
Steve Carell's 'The Way, Way Back' Hailed A 'Masterstroke' By Critics
Written and directed by Little Miss Sunshine's Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, new coming of age story The Way, Way Back is being hailed by critics ahead of its release in the UK this week....
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th August 2013
A Week In News: Batfleck, Miley Cyrus at VMA's, Taylor Swift's F-Bomb
Batfleck: Well, Warner Bros caught us all off guard last week, announcing Ben Affleck as the new Batman for the Man of Steel 2 - and just as we were winding down for the week....
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 29th August 2013
Rolf Harris, 83, Charged With Making Indecent Images of Children
Rolf Harris has been charged with nine counts of indecent assault and four of making indecent images of children, reports BBC News.Australian born Harris - a mainstay on British television for years and a man...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 29th August 2013
Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones Split: Where Does His Career Go From Here?
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones have split after almost 14 years together, though hinted that it could only be a temporary measure.Michael Douglas [L] and Matt Damon [R] In 'Behind the Candalabra'"Catherine and Michael are...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 29th August 2013
Omnishambles! How Malcolm Tucker Updated The Oxford English Dictionary
Omnishambles - meaning a situation which is shambolic from every possible angle - is amongst the latest words added to the Oxford English Dictionary. It was named word of the year in 2012 after being...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 29th August 2013
Leah Remini Joins 'Dancing with the Stars,' Scientology Lets Out Huge "Doh!"
Leah Remini, the American actress and star of The King of Queens, has joined the cast of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, according to sources close to the show who spoke with The Hollywood Reporter.Now...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 29th August 2013
Movie Stars Too? One Direction's 'This Is Us' To Dominate Box-Office
Morgan Spurlock's One Direction documentary This Is Us is expected to top the box office chart following its North American release this weekend. Early ticket sales suggest it will comfortably dispose of Lee Daniels' The...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 29th August 2013
Lamar Odom Begins Long Road to Recovery in Los Angeles Hotel Room
Free-agent forward Lamar Odom has begun his battle against an unspecified drug problem in a Los Angeles hotel room, with family and friends, according to ESPN.A TMZ.com report on Sunday (August 25, 2013) suggested that...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 29th August 2013
Movie Prequel Will See Idris Elba Continue Luther's Story
Neil Cross, the creator of the acclaimed BBC series Luther, starring Idris Elba, has announced plans for a big-screen movie version following the success of the show's third season.Idris Elba as DCI John Luther"I've written...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 29th August 2013
Would Irony Be A Step Back For Daniel Craig and James Bond?
Daniel Craig says he's hoping to restore some of James Bond's traditional sense of irony in his next outing as 007, which reteams the actor with Skyfall director Sam Mendes.Craig, who's previous outing as the...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 29th August 2013
George Clooney's 'Gravity' Scores Perfect 100% After Venice Screening
George Clooney and Sandra Bullock's new movie Gravity currently holds a perfect score of 100% on the review aggregating website Rotten Tomatoes after the world's critics jetted into Venice to catch the movie's premiere at...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 29th August 2013
Phoenix Claim, "We Can Copy French Songs, People Think We're Geniuses"
Remember when everyone thought Phoenix was an American band, or a Scandinavian band? It was probably rather annoying for the Versailles rockers, though it seems as though there's one huge benefit of nobody being quite...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 28th August 2013
Critics Declare 'Gravity' Oscar Contender After Venice Film Festival Screening
Alfonso Cuaron's new sci-fi movie Gravity has received glowing reviews following its screening at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday (August 28, 2013).The world premiere kicked off 11 days of screenings at the festival, though...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 28th August 2013
Travelodge Guests Leave 1,209 Copies of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Book
E.L. James may be the highest earning author of the year, but it seems she's suffering from Dan Brown syndrome - her books are everywhere, but not necessarily on reader's bookshelves.The multimillionaire appears three times...
News posted in Books / Authors on 28th August 2013
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