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Bella and Edward’s love will live on in the hearts and minds of the Twilight faithful. The romance between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, the actors who brought author Stephenie Meyer’s saga to life? That’s another story. Roughly a month

The life of notorious contract killer Richard Kuklinski is a tough sell on the big screen, especially his sudden introduction to his profession. Michael Shannon nails that pivotal moment as well as every other aspect of Kuklinski’s callous calling in

The current Cannes Film Festival lineup features one female director competing for the coveted Palme d’Or, but that’s an improvement from last year when no women directors had such a chance. Meanwhile, roles for women in Hollywood are drying up,

Comedian Jay Pharoah won’t go down as one of Saturday Night Live’s best presidential mimics. How could he? The talented comic never lays a satirical glove on the president thanks to a writing team which refuses to take tough but

When Jon Stewart lays into President Barack Obama on his Comedy Central show it’s usually followed by a swift return to GOP bashing the next night. Not this week. The Daily Show host continues to hammer away at the suddenly

Director J.J. Abrams’ 2009 prequel to the dusty Star Trek property got the space saga out of mothballs and back on the pop culture radar. Star Trek Into Darkness resumes the franchise’s penchant for futuristic allegories to modern times. Well,

Patton Oswalt is a member of Hollywood’s President Barack Obama booster club in good standing, but he’s still aghast at the scandals engulfing the administration. The comedian fired off a funny–and politically pointed–Tweet today on a pair of scandals which

Even mainstream media outlets are running story upon story about President Barack Obama’s possible ties to the government grabbing a wire service’s phone records and the IRS bullying conservative groups. Those who have been paying attention to the New Media

Gay actors George Takei and Jesse Tyler Ferguson have teamed up for a new Funny or Die video supporting same-sex marriage. Like most of the site’s videos it’s not remotely funny, but it does express plenty of intolerance while preaching

Alec Baldwin wins the stuffed Teddy bear prize for the most imaginative defense of the IRS scandal engulfing the Obama administration. Or, to use Baldwin’s Twitter turn of phrase, “scandal.” The combustible 30 Rock actor, who enjoys quitting and then

The writers at The Onion, much like the vast majority of political humorists, can’t find it in their heart to mock President Barack Obama. Call it political correctness writ large, the left’s inability to mock one of their own or the

Comedian Colin Quinn is more working class Joe than pundit. That makes his take on the current state of political comedy all the more revealing. The ex-MTV personality behind the off-Broadway show Colin Quinn Unconstitutional says today’s comics simply won’t

A leaked script from Rodham, the upcoming biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton, read less like an actual movie project and more like what a screenwriter who moonlights as an MSNBC anchor might pen. It’s that fawning … but it’s also

Will the new Star Trek sequel boldly go where much of Hollywood has gone before–bashing President George W. Bush? Benedict Cumberbatch, the British actor who plays the mysterious villain in Star Trek Into Darkness, told BBC America that the new

Jon Stewart must have had a long weekend, what with scandal after scandal engulfing the Obama administration over the past few days. When he returned to work Monday night at his Comedy Central desk, he simply had to do what’s

Just try pinning Jay Mohr down on an ideological map. The stand-up comic, sports radio host, podcaster and actor (Gary Unmarried, Jerry Maguire) is a pro-faith humorist whose act features plenty of sexually charged gags. He’s pro-gun despite a recent

Now we know why Hollywood is doing all it can to appeal to Chinese movie goers. Buzzfeed reports that China is expected to become the world’s number one box office market by 2020. We’re already seeing signs that Hollywood is taking

The 2006 film Superman Returns disappointed many when it purposely mangled the iconic line, “truth, justice and the American way.” By replacing “American way” with … “all that stuff,” the filmmakers gained an ironic chuckle but lost the sense that

You can’t blame Cher for wanting to turn back time to a news cycle without a smoking gun targeting the Obama administration’s actions in the wake of the Benghazi terror attack. The far-left singer, prone to using ALL CAPS to

Jack Bauer will be back to smash more terrorist cells, but will TV’s toughest crime fighter still pull out all the stops to save innocent lives? Fox is expected to announce a new, limited series version of the popular terrorism

Seth Meyers, the comedian who once declared Hillary Clinton “sexy” and serves as Saturday Night Live’s head writer, will take over for Jimmy Fallon on NBC’s Late Night perch. Meyers, best known for co-hosting SNL’s weekend update segment, will likely

The 1988 science fiction film They Live is either one of the worst films of the decade or a purposely zany satire which essentially started–and ended–“Rowdy” Roddy Piper’s career as a leading man. For director John Carpenter, the film had

President Barack Obama built his 2008 presidential campaign on a new brand of politics, one where the two parties could come together in the best interests of the country. Nothing of the sort transpired, as we all know now. Five

The feisty Merida in Pixar’s Brave didn’t look like every other Disney heroine. Her unruly red hair defied easy styling, and her figure hardly fit in the Barbie mold we so often see on screen. Now, Disney is giving Merida

David Letterman just can’t find anything funny about President Barack Obama. So he resorts to taking jabs at his favorite target–conservatives. Meanwhile, the soon to be unemployed Jay Leno continues to do what he’s paid handsomely to do–mock the President

Let’s hope Jon Stewart hasn’t checked in with the BBC this morning. The liberal host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show spend a portion of his nightly “newscast” Wednesday spinning madly on behalf of the Obama administration over the latest

Anyone expecting something less than a visual utopia from The Great Gatsby has never seen any films in director Baz Luhrmann’s candy-colored canon. Who better than Luhrmann to bring Jay Gatsby’s parties to life than a show-stopping auteur in an

The first third of Aftershock tests both our patience and ability to watch pretty people sling cheesy lines across the dance floor. Sure, co-writer and star Eli Roth serves up some pithy laughs, but the funny banter can’t distract us

Terrorism is back in the headlines, from the Boston Marathon bombings to the horrors of the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi. What pop culture consumers want is the return of Jack Bauer, the fictional terrorism fighter from Fox’s long-running

Hollywood denizens opened up their considerable check books for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign last fall, and now it’s payback time. A number of prestigious diplomatic posts have opened up recently, and some of the entertainment industry’s more generous donors

Piers Morgan is bringing his reverse Midas touch to Starz. The liberal host of CNN’s low-rated Piers Morgan Tonight is teaming up with the pay channel to revisit the dawn of the tabloid journalism era.  The cable network home to DaVinci’s

Hard to imagine cable customers don’t routinely look at their bills and wish they could pay for only the channels they watch. Sen. John McCain feels your pain, and he’s plotting a bill that could give cable customers the sought

Audiences have thrilled to the sight of Steve McQueen fleeing enemy soldiers on a motorbike in The Great Escape for decades. Walter Mirisch, who produced the 1963 film as well as other classics like In the Heat of the Night and

Watching Broken City on home video reminds us why some box office duds can still entertain on the small screen as well as Hollywood’s penchant for promoting liberal memes. Broken City casts Mark Wahlberg as a disgraced cop hired by

Some artists might look at the corruption and frightening levels of gun violence in Chicago and paint a bleak portrait of its current mayor, Rahm Emanuel. Not Robert Redford. The actor/director, who recently spun on behalf of The Weather Underground