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Jon Stewart did his level best to minimize the Hillary Clinton email scandal last week, a mess even MSNBC and The New York Times immediately slammed as significant. It’s what he’s done for 16-plus years — smite the right and

Bill Maher has been one of the left’s most reliable supporters. Lately, he’s been picking fight after fight with his fellow progressives.

Lee Daniels has seen the light, and he curses the U.S. for keeping him in the dark so long. Daniels, the director of Precious and Lee Daniels’ The Butler, spent the past week as jury head of the Dubai International

“All you celebrities out there who poured ice water on your head … here’s a chance to do something else,” says Samuel L. Jackson in a new video. The Pulp Fiction star posted a video clip over the weekend asking

China is flexing its censorship muscles anew. The tightly restricted country already has say over not only the number of movies shown in Chinese theaters but the content of the films in question. Now, Chinese broadcasting officials say their gimlet

Chris Rock recently dubbed President Barack Obama’s tenure as “Hall of Fame” worthy in an interview at Vulture.com. That after the president’s disastrous rollout of ObamaCare, a series of foreign policy debacles, the ugly sight of Democrats refusing to admit

Comedian Dana Carvey understands why comedians initially tread carefully when joking about President Barack Obama, the nation’s first black Commander in Chief. What the former Saturday Night Live standout can’t fathom is why fellow comic Dennis Miller got taken to

Quentin Tarantino is threatening to take his encyclopedic knowledge of popular cinema and call it a career, according to Deadline.com. The Pulp Fiction auteur told reporters this week that once he wraps his 10th feature film – he’s currently working

Hollywood is suffering nearly as much as the Democratic Party tonight. Not only did the industry’s Texan favorite Wendy Davis get clobbered in her run for governor, Kentucky Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes went down quietly in her attempt to oust

Angelina Jolie just gave the press reason to badger her with political questions for the foreseeable future. The Oscar winner told Vanity Fair magazine she is “open” to running for office some day. It’s the kind of answer that could

Can’t we all just get along? If we keep the topic restricted to AMC’s The Walking Dead, we just might. TheWrap.com reports that a survey conducted by Facebook shows liberals and conservatives see eye to eye on some things. Namely,

Turns out adding a mean-spirited personality who embraces the ugliest conspiracy theory in modern times isn’t good for a show’s ratings. The press dutifully hyped Rosie O’Donnell’s return to The View last month as the addition of a smarter, kinder

DENVER–Citizens United President David Bossie introduced a documentary detailing Colorado’s shift to the left to a full house Wednesday night in Colorado. The fact that the movie could be seen in the first place took legal muscle, cash and a

George Lucas knows a Force more sinister than the Death Star or Darth Maul: Hollywood studios. The Star Wars creator told CBS News his iconic space western would never be made today due to the corporate nature of the modern film

Adam Carolla isn’t just burning bridges to Hollywood. He’s lining them with C4 explosives before dropping a lit match. The comedian and podcast king is set to speak at the American Film Market Nov. 9, but before then he granted

If anyone doubted Scarlett Johansson’s box office might, the summer film Lucy silenced them once and for all. Not only does Johansson stand tall in The Avengers and Captain America, she can carry an action movie on her slender shoulders.

The faith-based film genre isn’t going anywhere. In fact, it just keeps growing. The current year has been a breakthrough for faith-friendly films, witness the runaway success of God’s Not Dead, Son of God and Heaven is for Real. Now,

John Cusack is biting the hand that feeds him, and he’s not alone. Cusack, a progressive actor unafraid of criticizing like-minded souls, is savaging Hollywood in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter. The Say Anything star understands the need

The best way to watch Jon Stewart’s nightly “news” show is to remember what the Comedy Central host chooses to leave out of any discussion. The Daily Show exists, in part, to defend beleaguered Democrats and savage Republicans. To do

Barbra Streisand is singing President Barack Obama’s praises like it’s 2008 all over again. Back then, the country appeared enamored of a leader who promised hope, change and the fundamental transformation of the nation. Today, with Obama’s poll numbers crashing,

Nicolle Wallace admitted she was a Republican on her first day on The View Monday. She didn’t need to make that declaration.  A host of media outlets rushed to tell us just that, even if they forgot to label everyone

Celebrities are rushing to Twitter today to recall the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Many are sharing their condolences to those who lost loved ones that day. A few couldn’t resist scoring partisan points despite how the attacks united

Box office observers probably thought things couldn’t get worse than the recently wrapped summer movie season. They were wrong. The weekend’s box office results are in, and the numbers were bad even by the most modest of expectations. The weekend

How could a pair of food-related films like Chef and The Hundred-Foot Journey compete with the summer’s noisiest blockbusters? Talk about an unfair fight. Yet both Chef and Journey, films that traffic in the wonders of a well-cooked meal, are hanging

Veteran director Ivan Reitman says the knee-jerk nature of social media, and our politically correct times, makes producing edgy content more challenging. Reitman, the man behind Ghostbusters, Stripes and Kindergarten Cop, notes how sites like Twitter pounce on artists when

The Netflix series House of Cards put the streaming giant in the content big leagues, right alongside HBO, AMC and FX. Orange Is the New Black showed Netflix was no fluke in the original programming arena. Yet both the political

Billy Crystal stood on the Emmy stage Monday night, tasked with paying tribute to Robin Williams. Audiences had mourned Williams’ loss for weeks on social media following the comic’s suicide. Now, a longtime pal and colleague had to make audiences

Seth Meyers kept politics out of his Emmy opening monologue Monday night, but he aimed most of the jokes at the industry crowd, not audiences at home. We’re in a gold-plated age of television, witness the crush of great shows

The Occupy Wall Street movement, which blazed brightly two years ago amid a sea of arrests, vandalism and attacks against the wealthy, is coming back in the form of an online TV channel. Occupy Television, in conjunction with FilmOn Networks,

Russell Brand, who recently called MSNBC an “extremely conservative” news outlet, thinks Fox News star Sean Hannity is out of his depth when it comes to political commentary. Brand’s film career hasn’t realized the potential from his funny supporting turn

Singer Lauryn Hill, whose career of late has taken a back seat to her legal woes, is using one of her songs to spotlight the tensions in Ferguson, MO. The former Fugees star uploaded a song called Black Rage (Sketch)

President Barack Obama’s unwillingness to give up golf while the world churns and burns finally caught the attention of the late night crowd. Jimmy Fallon mocked Obama’s golf obsession on Thursday’s The Tonight Show, mixing humor with the serious notion that

Did you know harshly criticizing the looters who are ransacking the businesses of innocent, hard-working Ferguson, MO residents is both “racist” and “insane?” So says Salon.com, dealing the race card against conservative actor Kevin Sorbo for daring to call out

James Cameron’s Avatar thrilled crowds with its intense action and groundbreaking special effects. You didn’t need those 3-D glasses to see the eco-messages careening off the screen, though. Cameron, who once said he “loves eco-terrorism,” used the film as a

An exhaustive peek at an updated edition of Live from New York, a portrait of Saturday Night Live, reveals the intractable biases that shape the show’s comic agenda. Washington Post television critic Tom Shales and James Miller wrote the SNL tell-all in 2002. Now, with

Don’t tell Jim Caviezel that inspirational sports movies can’t make a difference. The Passion of the Christ star tells Breitbart News how he leaned on 1986’s Hoosiers as a senior playing point guard for his high school’s basketball team. He remembers