Conservative culture writers can rejoice, as HBO has just supplied them with three years of new material. HBO has signed a three-year deal with Bill Maher, ensuring that liberal fans and conservatives who love to hate to watch Real Time with Bill Maher will be able to watch the acerbic left-wing comedian’s show through 2014.
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After a terrible bout of publicity that saw Mel Gibson’s image spend another week hanging from the cross, it is reported that the troubled megastar is in talks to hit screens again. Gibson is discussing taking a role in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, the sequel to 2010’s Machete. It is unknown what role Gibson is
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Lindsay Lohan is set to play a famous, volatile woman with alcohol and drug problems. Do you think she can imagine what being an unstable addict is like? Lohan has signed on to play Elizabeth Taylor in Liz and Dick, a Lifetime movie about the late movie star’s romance with English actor Richard Burton. The
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Susan Sarandon leveled an explosive charge against the government yesterday when she claimed that not only had her phones been tapped, but that she was denied entry to the White House. During a Q&A at the Tribeca Film Festival, Sarandon made both claims when asked by an audience member if she believed herself to be
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Soon, the bright blue Na’vi might be turning red. That is, they’d be red ideologically, if their communal ways couldn’t already be accused of such. James Cameron told Reuters that he is looking into placing a great deal of Avatar 2‘s production in China, where costs are lower and audiences are spending more on American
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HBO’s new series Veep, a political comedy from the director of In the Loop, is very democratically online for free. Not just free, but legally so. The series pilot, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a marginalized United States Vice President, is available online on YouTube, HBO.com, and DailyMotion.com. The well-reviewed comedy aired last night on HBO.
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When The Avengers opens on May 4, lucky comic fans will get a glimpse of both worlds. The official Warner Brothers website confirms that a new trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, the third and supposedly final film in Christopher Nolan’s series of Batman films, will begin playing in front of The Avengers.
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At first, it was hard to imagine what the director of Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan might make of an oft-told story from the Old Testament, but now that Gladiator star Russell Crowe has committed to the title role of Noah, the idea is easier to picture. Then again, this is a Darren Aronofsky film, so such
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I have a question I’d like to pose to Jim Levinstein, the hero of the “American Pie” series: did you think that was a good idea? I’d be asking about the scene midway through “American Reunion” where Jim, suffering through a sexless marriage to his wife, decides to spice things up a bit by donning
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As I wrote about earlier this week, I’m generally not big on watching clips and trailers for upcoming movies when I’m already sold on seeing them, so I’m personally skipping this one. But given how hungry our visitors seem to be for Avengers material, based on Google Analytics, I feel a duty to pass this “Iron Man
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