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The Bang Bang Club Trailer: Ryan Phillippe and Taylor Kitsch are the Sexiest War Photographers Ever

What happens when you cast two of Hollywood’s prettiest actors — Ryan Phillippe and Taylor Kitsch — as hard-bitten war photographers chronicling impoverished black South Africans? With The Bang Bang Club , we’re about to find out.

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Does Med Men Urge Us to Self-Destruct?

“I’ll admit that there are a few things I envy about Don Draper, but desultory sex in a sh*t-brown apartment with a hooker who smacks me in the face while my kids eat Thanksgiving dinner at their new Daddy’s place isn’t on the list.” And with that, the battle over what viewers can learn from Mad Men ‘s quality-of-life issues is engaged. Thanks as always, Katie Roiphe ! [ The Awl ]

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Emmy Spotlight: Is Bryan Cranston Set for a Threepeat?

In today’s edition of Emmy Spotlight , Movieline takes on the Best Actor in a Drama category. Could Friday Night Lights ‘s Kyle Chandler steal a win away from heavy hitters Bryan Cranston and Michael C. Hall, or will the Lost finale earn Matthew Fox his first win off of his first nomination? Join us for a rundown of the odds.

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On DVD: Salute Roger Corman’s Glorious Blockbuster-Ripoff Phase

Was I hallucinating last year, or did Roger Corman receive a honorary lifetime-achievement Oscar ? An unrivaled one-man schlock factory, Corman produced and/or directed hundreds of films, and if they turned out well it was mostly by accident or by virtue of his talent at hiring film-school grads to knock off pulp assignments on ridiculously stingy budgets. In fact, for several generations now Corman’s penny-crazed movie mill has been more famous for producing auteurs than terrific films.

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Nicolas Cage Decides to Make Trespass After All, Probably

Nicolas Cage just can’t make his mind up about the new Joel Schumacher thriller Trespass . Originally set to star with Nicole Kidman as a husband and wife who turn the tables on their kidnappers, Cage then decided he’d rather play the lead kidnapper before ditching the project entirely as of yesterday. Now, like a wayward Amish youth with a Rumspringa hangover, Cage has returned to the film in his original role. We give it a week before he switches parts with Nicole Kidman. [ Deadline ]

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Eva Mendes Sex Tape: It’s Real… Funny

REVIEW: Salt, Angelina Jolie Deliver the Action-Packed Summer Blockbuster Goods

Somewhere midway through Phillip Noyce’s exhilarating, over-the-top yet strangely modest action-thriller Salt, Angelina Jolie, as on-the-run CIA agent Evelyn Salt, ducks into a ladies’ room to dress a nasty-looking flesh wound — with a maxi-pad. It’s an elegant and ingenious solution to a sticky problem. But then, Salt is a do-it-yourselfer, a resourceful spy who has been trained by the best. She can fashion last-minute weapons from common household items (fire-extinguisher flamethrower, anyone?) and leap off overpasses onto moving semi-trucks with the grace of a lemur (a creature that, with her wide-open, smoky-rimmed eyes, she somewhat resembles). Salt could surely, as an old perfume commercial — borrowing straight from Peggy Lee — used to say, bring home the bacon and fry it up in the pan. But who’d want to watch that?

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Leonardo DiCaprio: My Competitors Kill Themselves

After he made Titanic , Leonardo DiCaprio had his first choice of roles, and he passed on a good many of them, including Spider-Man and Anakin Skywalker . But what was it like for DiCaprio before that breakthrough success? As he tells Rolling Stone , he had two main competitors for parts, but they’re both dead now.

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Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List Reality Check: ‘Kathy’s Smear Campaign’

Kathy Griffin returned to form on this week’s D-List , spreading her legs in front of strangers several times and seeming thrilled about it. Her “public pap smear” may have been a dorky stunt, but at least it was less self-important than her mortifying trip to Washington D.C. . Let’s forage through the blinding vajazzle of this week’s episode and figure out its most real and hacky moments.

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Why Do Our Most Technology-Obsessed Filmmakers Make Movies That are Anti-Technology?

Did the recent, eerie trailer for David Fincher’s Facebook movie The Social Network make you feel bad about spending so much of your life in front of a computer? It’s more than a little ironic, since Fincher clearly spends so much time in front of his.

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