Galley Molina may have led a tough life, but he finds it hard to compose himself when he realizes part of his past can now be seen in theaters nationwide. Molina spent several years in jail on federal drug trafficking
Rapper Eminem is no stranger to controversy. He thrives on it. That was then. Now, as the rapper’s latest CD is about to be released, some lyrics on his newest effort are being called into question. Little gay-looking boy /
Comedian Richard Lewis is known for dressing in black and baring his neuroses on the stand-up circuit. This week, he’s dubbing the GOP chock full of hatred on Twitter for daring to disagree with the Obama administration. He also hinted racism
Consumers have come to expect fawning celebrity profiles in their favorite magazines. Actors get to promote their latest projects while the magazines get beautiful people to grace their glossy pages. Vanity Fair threatens to shake up the cozy ties between
Chris Noth, best known for playing Mr. Big in the Sex and the City franchise, blames the government shutdown on racism leveled against President Barack Obama by Tea Party politicians. Perhaps Noth is unaware the government has shut down before
Watching The Purge on Blu-ray is an incomplete experience if you want the film’s full, albeit muddled, message. For that, consider not the Blu-ray extras but interviews director James DeMonaco conducted during the movie’s theatrical release. DeMonaco told the press
The former star of ABC’s Lost is behind a new, crowdfunded video campaign to make people aware of the intrusive nature of the current NSA domestic spying program. In short, it’s an affront to the U.S. Constitution and rights we
Liberal activist Ronan Farrow, the son of actress Mia Farrow, is fed up with D.C. gridlock and TV news in general. So the photogenic Farrow is going to join MSNBC, the network already featuring hate Tweeter Alec Baldwin and the
Parents in the U.S. military are often on the move, leaving their children to worry about losing old friendships and making new ones. So Sesame Street teamed up with the USO to help those kids deal with that swirl of
Miley Cyrus is leaving the competition tongue tied. The 20-year-old singer, who discarded her teen pop past by appearing mostly naked on television and in print in recent weeks, now has the number one album in the country with the debut
Barack Obama burst onto the national stage promising to be a different kind of politician, one who could work with Republicans and bring a bipartisan spirit back to D.C. Nothing in Obama’s resume backed up such lofty talk, and in
A day after a Saturday Night Live cast member blamed the show’s lack of a black female comic on a thin talent pool the sketch series hired a black actress to headline the program. Kerry Washington, the star of ABC’s
Hollywood is starting to embrace faith-based content, witness a wave of new projects aimed at church-going crowds. The risk, of course, is that those projects won’t accurately reflect the source material or, worse, prove downright offensive. So plenty is riding
Should Saturday Night Live wish to run a sketch featuring First Lady Michelle Obama they’ll have to hang a Help Wanted shingle outside the NBC studio. The cast lacks a black female comic again this season, and one of the
President Barack Obama has a loyal friend in The Late Show host David Letterman. The comic, known for his stinging jabs at President George W. Bush, has held his fire when it comes to the current Commander in Chief. Letterman
Adam Carolla is one of the few comics to notice the punitive nature of the current government shutdown, and he places the blame on one Beltway figure–President Barack Obama. Carolla, alongside his podcast partner Dr. Drew Pinsky, railed against the
Before Cameron Diaz applied that funny hair gel in There’s Something About Mary Monty Python served up a dozen or so equally gross moments in The Meaning of Life. And, of course, one unforgettable scene set in a posh restaurant.
We’ve seen this story before come Oscar season. A film based on actual events hits theaters, generates glowing reviews and then critics complain that the movie doesn’t mirror reality. Consider A Beautiful Mind, the Ron Howard feature on troubled genius
Had director Michael Moore ambled into The Stage Theatre Thursday for the world premiere of Just Like Us, he might have muttered, “Man, that was a one-sided production.” So goes Just Like Us, a relentlessly pro-amnesty polemic that buries its
The singer best known for taking off her clothes is suddenly getting a reputation for putting her foot in her mouth. Earlier this week, Miley Cyrus declared that
Hollywood is doing all it can as a community to promote President Barack Obama’s “signature,” “historic” health care program. We’ve seen a galaxy of stars, from Amy Poehler to Olivia Wilde, promoting Obamacare via Funny or Die videos and social
Pair liberal Tom Hanks and the director of the progressive fantasy Green Zone and you get … an unabashedly pro-gun, pro-U.S. military adventure on the high seas. Screenwriter William Goldman famously warned, “no one knows anything” in Hollywood, but the
Sweetwater breathes sour but satisfying life into the vigilante film genre. The western, available in select theaters as well as video on demand outlets, casts Mad Men’s January Jones as a former prostitute with an unquenchable hunger for justice. Jones
The Machete franchise is a loving ode to the Grindhouse movies of yore, brimming with blood, gunplay and the hulking presence of action star Danny Trejo. It’s also an unabashedly pro-amnesty movie franchise. Machete Kills, the second film in what
Conservatives applaud Comedy Central’s South Park for daring to mock both the left and the right. This week, it was the left’s turn to see some of its favorite targets shredded by those foul-mouthed pre-teens. This week’s new episode gave
Funny or Die finally found something comical to say during its Obamacare propaganda videos, but it’s not the kind of laughter the humor destination had in mind. The site’s second video hawking the unpopular, buggy legislation features a “man on
It’s hard to imagine what film critic Andrew O’Hehir wanted to see when he screened Captain Phillips. The new Tom Hanks movie is based on real events–the 2009 kidnapping by Somali pirates of an American-based container ship. The truth offers
How fitting that a documentary about a sports underdog would stand tall against the biggest movies Hollywood has to offer. Linsanity: The Movie, chronicling the improbable rise of Asian-American basketball player Jeremy Lin, scored the second-highest per-screen average at theaters
James Woods belongs to an elite group of actors with decades of experience in a variety of film roles. He’s a character actor who can slip easily into a leading man part when asked, witness roles in projects like Citizen
Katie Couric spit-polished her standing among her media peers when she conducted a condescending chat with then Vice President candidate Sarah Palin in 2008. Today, Couric’s much ballyhooed talk show teeters on the edge of cancellation in large part because she
The Emmy-winning comedy Modern Family appears to be another cog in the left’s commitment to changing the face of the traditional family unit. The show’s three-clan structure features a gay couple and their adopted child, and for four years conservative
The new Tom Hanks film Captain Phillips recalls the true story of how Somali pirates kidnapped the crew of a shipping vessel hoping to squeeze a ransom out of its U.S.-based company. The pirates aren’t an imposing lot. They’re young
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart spent last week mocking the GOP for opposing Obamacare, ignoring legitimate concerns Republicans raised about both the health care legislation itself and its bungled launch. Turns out the funny man did hear the GOP’s complaints. Stewart
Diablo Cody’s directorial debut may double as the year’s worst movie. Cody’s screenplay for the 2007 smash Juno showcased her ability to wring fresh insights from shopworn themes. She has yet to live up to that early potential, but even her
Screenwriter William Peter Blatty jokes that every October inquisitive reporters hound him for new details of what many call the scariest film of all time–his 1973 shocker The Exorcist. The Exorcist also matters for its respectful treatment of the Catholic
Russell Simmons’ Twitter feed features life affirmations meant to inspire his social media followers. Earlier today, the hip hop mogul sent out this Tweet: “Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted” Yet
In the Age of Obama, even agreeing to do what the government tells you to do sometimes isn’t enough. John Ondrasik, the rocker behind Five for Fighting, decided to spend part of his current promotional tour in D.C. by jogging
Saturday Night Live returned to its GOP-bashing ways this weekend, blaming the current federal shutdown on the Republican-led House. The sketch comedy show wasn’t finished. SNL ran a faux music video portraying Rep. Michele Bachmann in a slutty fashion and
Charles Barkley famously complained that he isn’t a role model, and he was right–technically. Sports figures don’t earn their pay by telling kids to stay in school or modeling appropriate behavior. They’re hired to score touchdowns, smack home runs and
The hashtag to promote President Barack Obama’s health care legislation is #getcovered, but after several days of nonstop computer glitches within the new system it might as well be #websiteerror. That isn’t stopping a number of celebrities from shilling on behalf
