Recent reports of Tom Cruise unleashing some sweet moves in a dance-off at the posh wedding of his Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol producer David Ellison, prompted speculative mental images of Risky Business -era Tom Cruise cutting loose on the dance floor. (Or, nightmare visions of Cruise busting out some Les Grossman-style swag. Make it stop!) Well, today brings video evidence beyond our mildest/wildest expectations. Did Cruise just do the worm??
1911 may be filled with lavish battle sequences and scenes involving masses of extras in picture perfect period garb, but the most breathtaking thing about Jackie Chan’s 100th film is how indifferent it is to international audiences. The Chinese blockbuster hasn’t needed or necessarily even sought out multinational success of late — if homegrown hits from the last few years like earthquake disaster drama Aftershock and romantic comedy If You Are The One and its sequel (all three of which happen to share the same director, Feng Xiaogang) don’t sound familiar, that’s because they’ve gotten nominal American releases or none at all. For U.S. markets, foreign still equals arthouse, and films that fall outside of that equation often confound studios and audiences who aren’t sure which niche subtitled mainstream fare should fall into.
An artist struggles with her latest work, haunted by paranoid visions to the point that she questions her sanity. Is it just us, or does Winona Ryder’s next film, The Stare , sound a little — okay, a lot — like her last film, Black Swan ? Fine. Black Swan didn’t also have James Franco portraying some sort of performer. That doesn’t sound familiar, either.
Lady Gaga is alone with her lobster. The 23-year-old “Poker Face” singer claims she’s not having sex these days (sound familiar?). “I’m single because I…
2009 marks the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street. First aired in 1969 when children’s programming was considered a quagmire of commercialism (sound familiar?), Sesame Street debuted with five one-hour test episodes..
