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What a shame that the day after we learn HBO’s “Game of Thrones” featured the head of President George W. Bush on a spike the network unveils a kind-hearted documentary about his father, President George Herbert Walker Bush. “41,” debuting

Greg Kinnear excels at sleaze, the kind packaged by his the crooked salesman grin he naturally inhabits in “Thin Ice.” Maybe it’s Kinnear’s lopsided smile, one that draws you in but warns you against it all the same. The film, out

The new movie musical “Rock of Ages” takes some creative liberties with the source material, a love letter to the hair metal rock of the Reagan era. But rather than draw deeper inspiration from the actual decade in question, Hollywood

Groups advocating for the mentally disabled have told us – repeatedly – in recent years that the word “retard” is offensive and shouldn’t be used. Tell that to Margaret Cho. The far-left comedienne recently appeared on Bravo TV’s “Watch What Happens

Leopold Socha might be the most unlikely hero in the canon of Holocaust films. The main character in the Oscar-nominated drama “In Darkness,” available today on Blu-ray and DVD, works as a sewer inspector and accepts bribes from Jews being

Adam Carolla earned his low self esteem the hard way. The podcast king lived in one depressing home after another, from his parents’ antiquated shacks to bachelor pads lacking ventilation, air conditioning and other core amenities. “Not Taco Bell Material,”

The 1997 comedy “As Good as It Gets” served as James L. Brooks’ formal apology for the train wreck known as “I’ll Do Anything.” But “Gets,” which finally hits Blu-ray this week, reminds us that Brooks’ creative powers were clearly

Being Cher gives one special powers, apparently. How else could the Oscar-winning singer/actress look at a crowd and determine if the people in it are gay or not? Cher let loose with her latest anti-Mitt Romney Tweet today – she

Director Peter Berg admits the big-budget “Battleship” sunk his inner auteur. The movie, which drew mostly withering reviews, has hauled in $59 million over four weeks of release, according to boxofficemojo.com. That’s hardly in line with either the film’s enormous

Anyone who knows how Bill Murray operates won’t be surprised to learn he nearly turned down his first starring role. “Meatballs,” out June 12 on Blu-ray, revisits the dawn of Murray’s big screen career. The film itself is a kid-friendly

Remember when comedians used to look at the president and say, hmmm, what jokes can I tell about him? Now, elite stand-ups like Chris Rock simply spin on behalf of the Commander in Chief. Welcome to the Age of Obama. Rock

Jane Fonda swears that she didn’t live the hippie lifestyle back in the 1960s despite her attachment to the era’s anti-war movement. But she must have inhaled something back then to refer to the Occupy Wall Street movement as both

Oscar-winning producer Gerald Molen hasn’t heard back from the principal at Ronan High School in Montana since the official told Molen his conservative views made him unfit to give the school’s commencement address. But Molen is hearing plenty from his

Director Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece “Alien” quarantined audiences in a spaceship where seven crew members faced a threat not of this earth. “Prometheus,” the director’s sorta-kinda prequel to that landmark film, takes some “Alien” DNA and grows a franchise reboot

For better or worse, Jane Fonda was born to play the hippie grandma in “Peace, Love & Misunderstanding.” Director Bruce Beresford’s new film casts Fonda as Grace, a relic from the Woodstock era who still abides by that Flower Power

President Barack Obama must be cutting back on his golfing. How else does he have time to meet with so many celebrities? Last night, he hobnobbed with Reese Witherspoon, Jane Lynch and Julia Roberts at a fundraiser held at the

Don’t let the fanny pack throw you – Frank Vega is one ornery senior citizen. “Bad Ass” stars Danny Trejo as a depressed hot dog vendor whose life changes after he defends a fellow senior citizen. It’s a throwaway feature

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is best known for gritty dramas like “The Social Network” and politically charged projects such as “The West Wing” and “The American President.” It doesn’t take a gimlet eye to spot Sorkin’s political inclinations. He’s unabashedly liberal.

Another day, another posh celebrity fundraiser for a leader presiding over a train wreck economy. President Barack Obama hit Hollywood – again – last night, along with Oscar winners Reese Witherspoon and Julia Roberts. Instead of dropping by George Clooney’s

President Barack Obama is zeroing in on the youth vote in the months leading up to Election Day – by relying on 40-somethings to seal the deal. First, 47-year-old Sarah Jessica Parker grotesquely hawked an Obama fundraiser at her pad

When Quentin Tarantino releases a movie it’s an unofficial holiday for film fans. Even when Tarantino stumbles, as he did with the Grindhouse misfire “Death Proof,” the former video store clerk delivers more cinematic chills than anyone in his peer

Hollywood is mostly run by progressives (like Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Harvey Weinstein), employs progressive actors (like Sean Penn, George Clooney and Tim Robbins) and produces progressive projects (like “Fahrenheit 9/11,” “Rendition” and “The Lorax”). Roseanne Barr insists her

Fifty years ago today a quartet of Liverpool lads passed their first audition. What better time for Beatles fanatic Seth Swirsky to start pre-orders for “Beatles Stories,” his tribute to the Fab Four, on Blu-ray and DVD. “Beatles Stories,” which

Amanda Bynes is in a pickle, so she’s doing exactly what the Left would advise. She’s reaching out to the government for help. More specifically, the Commander in Chief. Bynes’ legal snafu involves an accident with a police officer’s vehicle.

Joan Rivers can kvetch with the best of ’em. The hardest working woman in comedy is back with a book full of rants, the kind connecting her borscht belt roots with a warped appreciation of our Snooki-fied pop culture. “I

Burt Reynolds’ star power helped make “Smokey and the Bandit” one of the biggest hits of the ’70s. Watch it today, and you’ll swear Jackie Gleason was the reason the “Bandit” franchise ruled the roadways. The 1977 “Bandit,” out today

Could someone please tell Martin Short the GOP primaries are essentially over? Short, the star of “Saturday Night Live,” “Three Amigos” and “Father of the Bride,” appeared on “The Tonight Show” this week and proceeded to trash the GOP’s presidential

Hollywood has a heck of a time delivering family-friendly action films that don’t make adults groan for 90-odd minutes. “Journey 2: Mysterious Island,” available on Blu-ray Combo pack, DVD and for download tomorrow, struck a box office chord precisely because it

Actress Alfre Woodard threw her support to Sen. Barack Obama back in 2008. Not only will the star of “Passion Fish” and “Desperate Housewives” do the same this year, she’s just as fired up as before. And why not, since

President Barack Obama is spending his time these days hobnobbing with the likes of George Clooney, Tobey Maguire and Dave Matthews at posh fundraisers where the entrance fee can be as high as $40,000. Meanwhile, the nation’s economic news keeps getting worse,

The new documentary “U.N. Me” takes the world body to task for ignoring genocides, aiding despots and failing to stop theocratic regimes from developing nuclear bombs. Many of the tales told in the film, available now in theaters and via

Daniel Stamm is like Christopher Guest but without the laughs. Both Guest and Stamm traffic in faux documentary features, but Stamm’s films go for the jugular, not the funny bone. Stamm, who previously gave us “The Last Exorcism,” is back

Film critics have been brutal to the new film “For Greater Glory.” It’s hard to find a review where the movie’s violence isn’t spotlighted – and trashed – even though modern movies routinely dole out far more destructive sequences than

Most movie goers likely haven’t heard of the Cristero War, the Mexican uprising against draconian government measures designed to stamp out Catholicism during the 1920s. Pablo Jose Barroso, producer of “For Greater Glory,” can relate. The Mexico native knew very

Hollywood mega-producer Harvey Weinstein subbed for the mega-low-rated Piers Morgan on CNN last night, and in the process Weinstein crushed one of President Barack Obama’s biggest weapons against Mitt Romney. Was this simply a case of amateurish timing, or is