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It’s official. Barack Obama’s “Hope and Change” campaign slogan has become “Sorry, I Have Other Plans.” In 2008 some of Hollywood’s biggest names attended the Democratic National Convention in Denver to witness Obama’s accept his party’s nomination for president. Susan

Bernie Tiede wouldn’t hurt a fly. Unless someone nagged him incessantly for months on end and did everything in her power to make his life miserable. Jack Black is “Bernie,” a charismatic funeral home director who kills the meanest woman

House boats, explains a character in the new to DVD drama “Hide Away,” are for newly divorced men looking to scratch a long-simmering itch. It’s one of many oh, too obvious observations which nearly sink this somber tale.  The always

You don’t need to consult the ghost of Walter Cronkite to figure this one out. A story breaks about the president’s half brother needing money to pay for his son’s medical procedure. The brother doesn’t pick up the phone and

Long before “Saturday Night Live” started serving up stale Mitt Romney jokes, the bad boys behind “South Park” were lampooning Mormonism with a song in their heart. Now, with Romney neck in neck with President Barack Obama for the highest

The new documentary “2016: Obama’s America” doesn’t have fancy stars or a massive budget. It simply tries to deconstruct why President Barack Obama governs the way he does. And it’s striking a chord with the public, apparently. “2016: Obama’s America:

The biggest issues in the presidential election campaign involve the economy and jobs. And, if you’re a Mainstream Media bubble dweller, Mitt Romney’s tax papers. The upcoming drama “Won’t Back Down” wants to bring another topic up for national debate

Bane, the villain in the summer blockbuster “The Dark Knight Rises,” leads an army of folks who want to take from the rich to line their own pockets. If that sounds like a refrain from the Occupy Wall Street songbook,

Tom Morello isn’t too keen on one of his most famous fans. Newly minted Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan says he counts Rage Against the Machine, the hard-left rockers led by Morello, as a personal favorite. That news didn’t set

Bill Maher is in a bragging mood these days. The liberal comedian, whose HBO series “Real Time with Bill Maher” returns with fresh episodes tonight, tells Politico he won’t apologize for his hard-hitting jokes. He doesn’t have to serve up

Thomas Haden Church’s assignment in “Killer Joe” is being the only passive person in a maelstrom of human cruelty. Not that Church’s character isn’t despicable, too. “This predator has taken up residence … in the room next door and you

I see dead people – who move a tiny bit 24 times a second. Employing stop-motion animation – the process which brought those classic Christmas stories like “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” to life – for a kiddie horror comedy verges

You win some, you lose some. Yesterday, we learned Mitt Romney can no longer use the Silversun Pickups’ track “Panic Switch” on the campaign trail. It’s hardly the first time a liberal music act put its foot down to prevent a

Arnold Schwarzenegger continues his transition back to Hollywood tomorrow with “The Expendables 2.” But the erstwhile Terminator isn’t the star. It’s an ensemble of aging action heroes, and Schwarzenegger is along for the ride. That changes with “The Last Stand,”

We’ve come a long way since Elvis Presley first started swaying his hips to lustful effect. “Bye Bye Birdie,” the film adaptation of the celebrated 1960 musical, reminds us of a simpler time when the very notion of a teenybopper

President Barack Obama continues to stiff arm the press despite his promise to oversee the “most transparent administration in history.” “Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government,” he declared at the dawn of his first

Defending the current administration is getting tougher and tougher for left-leaning celebrities. It often means endorsing pretzel-like logic, the kind that only makes matters worse. So when Vice President Joe Biden teed up an outrageous comment to a group full

Christopher Mintz-Plasse shot to fame playing McLovin, the uber-nerd in the rude comedy “Superbad.” And he looked the part, with a gangly frame and expressions that captured a young man on the outskirts of the cool cliques. So naturally directors

You just knew the moment “90 Days, 90 Reasons” launched it would deliver an endless supply of political howlers. After all, the site allows cultural heavyweights to weigh in on why the unwashed masses should re-elect President “Worst Economic Recovery

Jeffrey Ross might be the meanest comedian in the country. And that’s exactly how audiences like it. Ross forged his fame through celebrity roasts, events where the deeper the joke cuts, the better. And no one’s material cuts deeper than

Colorado residents who get their news from the print edition of The Denver Post must be scratching their heads this morning. Why is everyone talking about Vice President Joe Biden’s comments about “chains?“ You’ll have to forgive them. Denver’s paper

Kelsey Grammer’s work on the Starz series “Boss” earned him some of the best critical notice of his career. The actor won the Golden Globe for playing the embattled Chicago mayor on the cable show. Emmy voters, however, didn’t even

“The Raid: Redemption” is the best action movie of 2012 that doesn’t involve a hulking green figure or Norse god. The Indonesian import, directed by Welsh native Gareth Evans, offers the kind of explosive storytelling that turns mainstream Hollywood product

Author George R.R. Martin flexed his mighty imagination to create the world known today as “Game of Thrones.” When it comes to political philosophy, Martin more or less copies and pastes the latest Democratic talking points into his blog. Case

The upcoming film about the successful hunt for Osama bin Laden has been hounded by accusations the project was conceived as a political gift to President Barack Obama. What Obama booster wouldn’t want to see a film touting the president’s

The old Hollywood saw about never working with children or animals got updated in 1975. Never work with children, animals or mechanical sharks. The crew behind “Jaws” ignored that sound advice. Who needs a fully functional shark when you’ve got

Director Salvador Litvak was all set to approach studios about his script for a new film on Abraham Lincoln the weekend Steven Spielberg optioned historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book on the 16th president. What seemed like a cruel stroke of

British director Ben Wheatley really wants us to know crime doesn’t pay. Nor does it lead to anything remotely stylish, hip or cool. Wheatley’s wonderful debut feature, “Down Terrace,” stripped away the glamorous trappings of criminal activity. Now, with “Kill

First Lady Michelle Obama made the latest celebrity-fueled fundraiser for her husband a family affair last night. That meant glitzy types like Gwen Stefani could bring their young ones to enjoy a taste of the one-percent lifestyle. Those kiddies weren’t

The recent Priorities USA campaign commercial connecting Mitt Romney to the death of a woman from cancer may rank as the most despicable, and downright dishonest, political ads ever created. Even the increasingly left-leaning CNN torched it. So did The

The celebrity vitriol aimed at Paul Ryan, chosen by Mitt Romney to be his running mate yesterday, doesn’t compare to what Sarah Palin endured four years ago. Just give it time. For now, hip hop mogul Russell Simmons earns the

Martin Blank freaked out at the end of high school, joined the Army, got into government spy games and later started his own professional killing business. Blank tells his life story to everyone from his old high school flame to

The Wolverines are back this November, and darned if it didn’t take them forever to get here. “Red Dawn,” the remake of the guilty ’80s pleasure, will finally hit theaters in time for Thanksgiving. The film got shelved by the

In 2008 Spike Lee famously declared we would soon measure time by a new yard stick – Before Barack and After Barack. Now, the director is complaining expectations were too high for a man he dubs, “Black Jesus.” How could

President Barack Obama’s legion of liberal celebrity supporters must be getting nervous. A president with a devastatingly bad resume will do that to you. Some of the president’s most loyal, and famous, backers are rallying to the his side courtesy

Andrew Breitbart would have loved “Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry.” The new documentary chronicles the life of a Chinese artist who uses new media – and an unwillingness to accept government dogma – to inform the masses. Director Alison Klayman’s