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The Great Harry Potter Liveblog Epilogue: Deathly Hallows Diary

Having completed my two-day crash course in the Harry Potter franchise (with a decidedly much better second day than the first) it was time to let my newfound mild knowledge of the Potterverse to be put to the test: It was time to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 in the theater.

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The Great Harry Potter Liveblog Epilogue: Deathly Hallows Diary

The 9 Strangest Scenes From Weeds’ Sixth Season

During the sixth season of Weeds , which ended with a shocking twist on Monday, the Botwins assumed aliases, toured America in an RV filled with sex toys and realized that Silas’s biological father (spoiler!) was still alive. But there were much stranger events that transpired during the latest iteration of the Showtime series. (Yes, even stranger than the time Andy impersonated his dead brother to access a bank account .) Let’s review!

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The 9 Strangest Scenes From Weeds’ Sixth Season

Showtime Does Lady Pain Just Right [Video]

Last night’s season finales of The Big C and Weeds demonstrated what HBO’s oft-wayward younger brother does best. They make compelling, if ridiculous, drama about middle class women in precarious tight spots. More

REVIEW: George Clooney, The American Prove They Do Make Movies Like They Used To

Anton Corbijn’s The American looks and feels like a movie made by a filmmaker who hasn’t been to the movies since the ’70s — and I mean that as the highest compliment. This is Corbijn’s second feature: His first was the elegiac and gorgeously shot (by Martin Ruhe) Control, based on the life story of Ian Curtis, lead singer of the influential and much-loved Manchester band Joy Division, who committed suicide at age 23 in 1980. Before Corbijn was a filmmaker, or even a director of videos for the likes of U2 and Depeche Mode, he was a photographer specializing in rock ‘n’ roll types as subjects; he had photographed Curtis and the other members of Joy Division early in his career, having left his native Holland for England because, as he’s said in interviews, he wanted “to be where that music comes from.”

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REVIEW: George Clooney, The American Prove They Do Make Movies Like They Used To

Buzz Break: Lindsay Lohan Stars in Vanity Fair’s Confessions of a Paroled Drama Queen

Lindsay Lohan is on the cover of this month’s Vanity Fair , and she’s conjuring the dignity of the Evelyn Waugh book of the same name. Click through for more Buzz Break, as January Jones makes a smart TV choice, Joan Cusack goes to cable, Stan Lee meets Nikita , and The Situation announces he’s at a disadvantage on Dancing with the Stars .

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Buzz Break: Lindsay Lohan Stars in Vanity Fair’s Confessions of a Paroled Drama Queen

The Big C Scores Surprisingly Big Ratings

Showtime’s new cancer comedy The Big C might not have been a winner in the supporting characters department (I’m talking to you, Oliver Platt and homeless brother who eats garbage) but it scored a ratings coup last night, earning over 1.5 million viewers total. Said the premium cable network in a press release earlier today: ” The Big C delivered Showtime’s largest audience in 8 years for an original series debut (Previously: Odyssey 5 on 6/21/02 with 1.155MM).” Congrats, Laura Linney: You beat Odyssey 5 , whatever that was! [ EW ]

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The Big C Scores Surprisingly Big Ratings

REVIEW: In The Big C, Laura Linney Can’t Do It All Alone

There’s a moment at the end of the pilot episode of The Big C when Cathy Jamison (Laura Linney), finally reveals her previously pent up mixed emotions in the face of a stage 4 melanoma diagnosis. It’s a wonderful little monologue from a wonderful actress… and that it’s recited to a dog should tell you all you need to know about the major structural flaws of The Big C .

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REVIEW: In The Big C, Laura Linney Can’t Do It All Alone

Colin Farrell and Eric Bana Circling New Sheldon Turner Film

It looks like Sheldon Turner might have gotten his Oscar season frustrations out with the help of Final Draft. The Up in the Air co-writer has his directorial debut lined up: By Virtue Fall , a drama that “charts a professional and personal relationship between two characters that evolves from friendship to betrayal and retribution.” So, it’s a reality-based tale about his Academy Award rivalry with Jason Reitman? Got it. Adding to the fun: wild card Nicolas Chartier’s Voltage Pictures is setting up the financing for the indie, which may star Colin Farrell and Eric Bana. [ Deadline ]

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What’s On: Reliving Lohan

Double Exposure , Bravo’s reality series about travails in the world of professional photography, bring aboard the photogenic talents of one Lindsay Lohan. We waited all last episode for her arrival, but now she’s here and making demands. Your level of discomfort and paranoia will grow throughout the episode, and you may be concerned that you are living in a real-life Truman Show version of I Know Who Killed Me .

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What’s On: Reliving Lohan

Why Is Rob Lowe Playing Brad Pitt on Californication?

When Showtime first announced that Rob Lowe would be guest-starring on Californication as Eddie Nero, “a self-possessed, award-winning movie star,” Movieline HQ was thinking that producers would give the actor the stereotypical Johnny Hollywood treatment — you know, with the sunglasses indoors, a bevy of beautiful model-types surrounding him, an assistant that he constantly berates and ridiculous set demands — but judging from this first image of Lowe in character, producers were going for more of a “Brad Hollywood” look.

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Why Is Rob Lowe Playing Brad Pitt on Californication?