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REVIEW: Leading Ladies Lift Lovely Letters to Juliet

Gary Winick’s Letters to Juliet is such a gentle romantic comedy that it barely feels like a romantic comedy at all, at least not in the way we currently define the genre. There’s no Amy Adams hilariously slipping through the mud in her high heels, no Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey uproariously pretending not to like each other as they traipse around some tropical island in their shorts, no dueling brides catfighting about who’s going to have her dream wedding at the Plaza on a specific day. Letters to Juliet also has the distinction of featuring a marvelous performance from the woman who is, in my view, our greatest living actress.

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REVIEW: Leading Ladies Lift Lovely Letters to Juliet

At Cannes: Mathieu Amalric Hits the Burlesque Trail with Tournée

After the self-indulgent and ludicrous Robin Hood , which screened out of competition, the real festival competition began with a healthy dose of zaftig T&A. Although the press gave actor/director Mathieu Amalric’s English/French-language burlesque film Tourn

Hollywood Ink: …And Starring Jamie Foxx as Motherf*cker Jones

Blanket Jackson: From Moonwalker to Skywalker

Sharlto Copley’s Prosthetic Snit Fit

Why was Sharlto Copley replaced by Timothy Olyphant in DJ Caruso’s I Am Number Four ? Variety says “scheduling conflicts,” but FilmDrunk has the much more fun behind-the-scenes story , where Caruso wouldn’t let Copley wear a prosthetic nose and Spock ears to play the film’s inconspicuous, human-looking alien. For the District 9 alum, it’s apparently alien-human hybrids or bust! [ FilmDrunk via Slashfilm ]

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The Hills Reality Check: Heidi and Spencer Should Be Arrested For Hosting a Children’s Birthday Party

If you’re an MTV reality star, you can throw over-the-top birthday parties for whomever you want; why, just last night, Heidi threw an a lavish soiree for a seven-year-old of no blood relation to her! For Heidi, the fete was an excuse to crowd her home with creatures who could not judge her: an elephant, children with no understanding of plastic surgery or mental illness, and clowns. But for the rest of the world watching last night’s episode, “Elephant in the Room,” the birthday soiree was just another depressing glimpse into Heidi’s fun house of delusions. Which moments rang truest and falsest?

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The Hills Reality Check: Heidi and Spencer Should Be Arrested For Hosting a Children’s Birthday Party

REVIEW: Ugly, Interminable Robin Hood Steals From Audiences

In days of yore, the myth of Robin Hood was embodied by brave and noble men: Douglas Fairbanks outwitting the king’s thugs by sliding down the length of a slippery medieval brocade curtain; Errol Flynn striding jauntily into a great hall with a dead stag draped around his shoulders like a royal’s stole. But, as Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood suggests, those are heroes from a lost age. Today’s Robin Hood is far more complex, a tortured soul suffering from repressed-memory syndrome, a freedom fighter whose perpetual scowl speaks of a highly attuned sense of justice. Today’s Robin Hood is the spirit of freedom disguised as a grumpy gus in a leather jerkin, and he carries something far heavier than legend — or even Errol Flynn’s stag carcass — on his shoulders: a backstory.

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Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar Afterglow Plagued by Piracy Suits, International Outrage

Not to be outdone by Jeff Bridges’ $24,000 federal tax lien , Kathryn Bigelow has both domestic and international quarrels affecting her post-Oscar profile these days. And while you could argue that this year’s groundbreaking Best Director isn’t technically on the front lines of the war on Hurt Locker piracy, she faces a bit more personal skirmish in her attempt to make her follow-up, Triple Frontier .

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Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar Afterglow Plagued by Piracy Suits, International Outrage

Mad Genius Builds SimCity Mecca (Video)

Filed under: Videos , Gaming While you were gunning down zombies on Mars, Vincent Ocasla, an architecture student living in the Philippines, constructed a city to support 6 million people in Sim City 3000 . In an interview with Vice , Vincent explains how he was inspired by Buddhism and the movie Koyaanisqatsi . But are his Sims happy? He doesn’t care! They don’t rebel, or cause revolutions and social chaos. No one considers challenging the system by physical means since a hyper-efficient police state keeps them in line. They have all been successfully dumbed down, sickened with poor health, enslaved and mind-controlled just enough to keep this system going for thousands of years. 50,000 years to be exact. They are all imprisoned in space and time. Woof. Share via:// Viceland Continue reading →

Ryan Murphy Demands an Apology From Newsweek, Urges Readers to Boycott

Add Glee creator Ryan Murphy to the laundry list of people offended by Ramin Setoodeh’s Newsweek editorial, in which the author proclaimed that gay actors cannot convincingly portray straight characters. Murphy released a scathing open letter to Newsweek last night, in which he scolded the publication for not issuing an apology to readers, suggested a full-on Newsweek boycott and invited Setoodeh to the set of Glee for a sing-along of Madonna’s “Open Your Heart.” Click through for the full letter.

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