The raunchy wedding-comedy Bachelorette, which opened this past weekend after a successful video-on-demand launch, has been garnering plenty of comparisons to those two other blockbuster wedding-planning-gone-awry movies, …
10 Lightning-Speed Celebrity Memoirs: How Soon Is Too Soon?
It seems like just yesterday that Gabby Douglas was doing back handsprings. Now, she’s writing a memoir, due out in December. Who else rushed to the presses after making a name for themselves?
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The Morning After: Back Into The Thick of It
The US and British governments, tied by history, are said to have a special relationship. So do US and British TV. Earlier this year, HBO debuted Veep, a series that attempted to translate both British government and British television to the US, by making an American vice-presidential version of Armando Iannucci’s profane government …
The Devil Made Them Stay Home: Possession Wins an Awful Weekend
Blame it on football, or bad movies, or even the Aurora Effect
Anna Karenina: Keira Knightley Takes Center Stage in Bold Adaptation
Tolstoy’s classic becomes film within theater thanks to Tom Stoppard’s script and Joe Wright’s direction
Breaking Amish: One Ex-Follower’s True Story of Moving to the Big Apple
In light of TLC’s new show an ex-Amish explains what it’s really like to leave the religious community
Argo at Toronto: An Oscar for Ben Affleck?
This true-life adventure, about a CIA escape plan to free U.S. hostages from the Iranian Islamists, has all the Academy elements. It’s just not a very good movie
Comments of the Week: September 1 – 7
The political conventions have consumed much of the past two weeks, but our commenters are always good at distracting us, at least for a little while. (Or a long while, if you actually follow through on all the movie suggestions …
Enrique Iglesias: Fourth American Idol Judge?
The Latin crooner may be poised to join the judges table
Toronto International Film Festival: Where Oscar Movies Go to Premiere
The fest marks the start of Oscar campaigning season. Which films might grab a statue this year?
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The Base, the Ratings and the Chair: The Conventions and TV
They’re sweeping up the confetti, and political reporters are already catching flights out of Charlotte and looking ahead to the debates. But America’s still processing the Republican and Democratic conventions–to the extent that it paid attention–and here are a few thoughts, in no particular order, about the marriage of TV and …
Spring Breakers: Disney Channel Girls Gone Wild
Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens shake beaucoup booty in outlaw auteur Harmony Korine’s lurid parody-tribute to MTV mindlessness
Scene Stealer Melanie Lynskey on Her First Leading Role and the Problem with Praise
She’s perennially a supporting actress, but in the sexy, funny new indie ‘Hello I Must Be Going, Lynskey gets to be the star. She’s worried you’ll hate her.