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The horror genre sure could use a boost right about now. We’ve already run through the slasher phase, the torture porn parade and, most depressing of all, the wave of ’80s-era remakes. If there’s a worse reboot than the recent

The boys of “Entourage” are back for another round of inside Hollywood hijinks. But don’t cue the trumpets just yet. The first episode of the show’s seventh season, debuting tonight at 10:30 p.m. EST on HBO, might make viewers wish

[Ed. Note: Since this appreciation piece is what gave me the idea for the We Love Pixar series, I asked Christian to kick things off for us. Much, much more to come.] You never forget your first Pixar film. For

The Fox show “24” had the ticking time bomb plot device virtually all to itself for eight seasons. Just how far do you go interrogating a suspect with information about a nuclear bomb ready to blow? “Unthinkable” addresses the very

Seeing “Saving Private Ryan” again is enough to make one forgive star Tom Hanks’ ill-conceived comments regarding racism and World War II. The 1998 film, just released on Blu-ray for the first time, stands as one of director Steven Spielberg’s

In many ways George Ciampa is like any other documentary filmmaker. He’s passionate about his work and constantly searching for funds to complete his next film. But Ciampi also is racing against time. The World War II veteran will be

It’s been roughly a week since actress Sigourney Weaver blamed his lack of breasts as the reason James Cameron lost out to Kathryn Bigelow in the battle for the Best Director Oscar. Yet, there’s been no media feeding frenzy as

Director David Nixon says Hollywood should stop being shocked when a no-budget, faith-based movie makes a profit. “This has been an under served audience, with ‘The Passion of the Christ’ opening the door,” Nixon tells Big Hollywood. “Millions of people

Michael Moore gets the Michael Moore treatment in a new documentary created by a fellow Michigan resident. Accountant turned filmmaker Kevin Leffler isn’t a dyed in the wool Republican trying to score cheap shots off the liberal gadfly. He’s just

Megan Mullally isn’t happy to see a late night host reach out to the other half of the country. Liberals already have David Letterman, Jon Stewart, George Lopez, Stephen Colbert and countless others on their side. But that’s not enough

The 2010 Oscar ceremonies have come and gone without a word spoken about “The Stoning of Soraya M.” The searing drama, based on true events, follows the torture of an innocent Iranian woman charged with adultery. It’s the kind of

At least the latest Glenn Beck cover story wasn’t as bad as that Time Magazine hit piece from last year. USA Weekend, the magazine supplement that comes with many Sunday newspapers, ran a front-page story on the Fox News dynamo

Larry Post doesn’t mince words regarding Michael Moore’s body of work. Post recalls seeing Moore’s first documentary, “Roger & Me,” which blamed corporate misconduct for the decline of the auto industry his hometown of Flint, Mich. “I consider myself pretty

Should we start passing the hat around for writer/director Kevin Smith? Smith, the mind behind the low-grade classic “Clerks” and last year’s “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” says he can’t get the funding together for a new project dubbed

Larry Gatlin recalls learning about the story of Cynthia Ann Parker’s 1836 capture by Comanches during a hunting trip with fellow crooner Red Steagall. “Being a Texan I had grown up knowing a little bit about it … not a

The new Disney feature “The Princess and the Frog” is old school in more ways than one. The animated film, number one at the box office over the weekend, uses hand-drawn animation to tell its magical story. It’s a technique

The Oscar-nominated movies in recent years have been enough to make a grown man cry… Or worse. Consider “There Will Be Blood,” “No Country for Old Men” and “The Reader” as a sampling of the morbid films jockeying for Oscar

Actor Robert Davi feels a responsibility to tell you what he thinks about the latest headlines. He just happens to do so from the Right. The actor, best known for roles in “License to Kill,” “Die Hard,” “The Goonies,” and

Actress Rachael Leigh Cook entered the lion’s den in the summer of ’08 – the Republican National Convention in her home town of Minneapolis. For a dyed in the wool liberal, that took some effort. But she’s a member of

Did you know celebrities have a right to speak their minds about politics courtesy of The First Amendment? Or that the 1960 Kennedy/Nixon televised debate changed the way we saw politicians forever? “Poliwood,” a new film “essay” from director Barry

Director Richard Harrah couldn’t believe his good fortune when the forestry service gave him and his crew permission to shoot in the Grand Canyon for his first feature film, “The Canyon.” So Harrah began scouting locations for the film, which

The horror smash “Paranormal Activity” is scaring audiences silly without spilling so much as a spoonful of blood. “The Canyon,” in turn, delivers chills not with supernatural shocks but the very real dangers within the Grand Canyon. Who needs ghosts

Matthew McConaughey won’t be in the mix for any Oscar nominations this year, and probably not in 2010 or 2011, for that matter. But the routinely shirtless actor has one up on some of his A-list peers. At a time

CORRECTION: This post failed to include numerous essays on the site critical of the filmmaker’s actions. While the site did include several strong commentaries speaking out in favor of Polanski, the site’s anti-Polanski posts outnumber them. I should have dug

It’s bad enough that one of the snarkiest comedy outlets around, The Onion, can’t seem to find anything funny about President Barack Obama. But the faux newspaper hit a new low this week by insulting former President Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s

A gaggle of concerned musicians has banded together to warn the world about global warming. Huh? Is the world getting warmer? I had no idea. You would think the media, or the movie industry or any other information outlet for

The September 11 attacks reset plenty of people’s ideological clocks, with Dennis Miller being one of the more prominent folks to reconsider their views. For me, the attacks showed me a new side of some of the country’s most respected

Director Michael Moore has a new movie coming soon – “Capitalism: A Love Story.” It could only mean one thing – OK, many, many things: Rave reviews from at least 80 percent of film critics. And I’m being conservative. More

Hard to believe the lovely actress Cindy Morgan was once told she belonged behind the camera, not in front of it. Morgan, who became a pop culture sensation by playing Lacey Underall in “Caddyshack,” started her career in broadcasting. “I

The upcoming documentary “Not Evil Just Wrong” skewers global warming alarmists in the media and around the world. But filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer contend their movie isn’t a conservative one. “It’s a liberal, socialist film. It’s about poor

Red-blooded males aren’t supposed to stock their CD shelves – or iPod Shuffles – with songs by handsome crooner Chris Isaak. But I’ve got plenty of Isaak’s music spread throughout my eclectic collection – being a fan of both Dwight

The folks at Entertainment Weekly see little wrong with the tabloid exploits of blogger Perez Hilton. The fevered mind behind Perezhilton.com, a site that makes US Weekly look like The Economist, gets a glowing feature article in this week’s edition.

Director Spike Lee’s third film, “Do the Right Thing,” hasn’t aged a day since its 1989 release. The film’s misguided views on violence were wrong-headed the second it hit theaters. And the election of President Barack Obama surely puts some

Note: Part 1 of this 2 part interview can be found here. The execution scene at the heart of “The Stoning of Soraya M.” is all force and little subtlety. Some audiences might flinch at the visuals, while others may