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Looking For An Hbo Go Password?
Some fans of HBO series like Girls, Game of Thrones, and Boardwalk Empire have been watching those shows on mobile devices via the HBO Go app by obtaining the password from relatives, friends, and Facebook...
By Lew Irwin on 01 June 2012
James Cameron Only Interested In Avatar Movies
James Cameron plans to only make 'Avatar' movies for the rest of his career. The director - who was Oscar-nominated for the first film, which tells the tale of humans exploiting the natural resources of...
By Bang Showbiz on 08 May 2012
Movie Reviews The Pirates! Band Of Misfits
The unlikely winner of the award for best-reviewed movie of the weekend is Aardman Animation's The Pirates! Band of Misfits . Of the major critics, only Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel sends it to...
By Lew Irwin on 28 April 2012
Mixed Reception For Ghost On Broadway
Another Hollywood movie has been recreated on Broadway as a musical, producing widely disparate reviews from critics. Charles Isherwood of the New York Times calls the music that was added to the movie's plot "rudimentary"...
By Lew Irwin on 24 April 2012
Jon Hamm Believes He'd Be A 'Terrible' Father
Jon Hamm believes he would be a ''terrible'' father.The 41-year-old 'Mad Men' actor and partner of 14-years Jennifer Westfeldt have never tried for children - and with good reason according to Jon.He said: ''I'd be...
By Bang Showbiz on 26 March 2012
Jeremy Irons To Join Cast Of Beautiful Creatures
Jeremy Irons is in final negotiations to join the cast of 'Beautiful Creatures'. The 63-year-old actor will join a star studded ensemble including Viola Davis, Emma Thompson, Emmy Rossum and Thomas Mann in the supernatural...
By Bang Showbiz on 14 March 2012
Lady Gaga Helps Dad In Restaurant
Lady Gaga has been helping her father with the opening of his restaurant.The 'Judas' hitmaker - real name Stafani Germanotta - has been advising her dad Joe Germanotta on what to put on the menu...
By Bang Showbiz on 26 January 2012
Cynthia Nixon Chose To Be Gay
Cynthia Nixon says she "chose" to be gay.The former 'Sex and the City' star is engaged to her long-term partner Christine Marinoni - with who she has an 11-month-old son Max - and despite angering...
By Bang Showbiz on 24 January 2012
Cbs Reports Paterno Death Prematurely
Penn State football coach Joe Paterno died Sunday morning, although CBS News, using the technology that pushes news of major breaking events to mobile phones and tablets and to Twitter and Facebook users, posted word...
By Lew Irwin on 23 January 2012
Movie Reviews Red Tails
If, as George Lucas has announced, Red Tails , his take on the all-black Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, turns out to be his last Hollywood movie, he's going out in a blaze of...
By Lew Irwin in Movies / TV / Theatre on 20 January 2012
Lucas To Retire From Blockbusters, Make "Personal" Films
Apparently disgusted with his treatment by Hollywood studios when he approached them to finance Red Tails, his film about World War II's famed Tuskegee Airmen, featuring an all-black cast, George Lucas has told the New...
By Lew Irwin on 18 January 2012
Tv Reviews The Golden Globes
In the end, the TV critics concluded, Sunday night's Golden Globes telecast amounted to yet another letdown, not so much because of the choice of winners -- best drama The Descendants ; best comedy or...
By Lew Irwin on 16 January 2012
Cbs Launches New Morning Show
CBS, which has never been a major competitor in the early-morning hours dominated by NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America is trying again. On Monday it raised its old banner CBS This Morning over...
By Lew Irwin on 10 January 2012
Joy Behar Battles Hln Cancellation -- On Hln
Canceled by HLN, comedian Joy Behar is making the most of her last days on the network by discussing the its decision to fire her during monologues on the show, during interviews with guests, and...
By Lew Irwin on 16 December 2011
Movie Reviews New Years Eve
New Year's Eve boasts a skillful comedy director, Garry Marshal, and an imposing cluster of stars, including Halle Berry, Hilary Swank, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Cary Elwes, James Belushi, Penny Marshall, Matthew BroderickBon Jovi,...
By Lew Irwin on 09 December 2011
Movie Reviews Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan writes in his review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy that its director, Tomas Alfredson, "has come up with a film that is endlessly rich in incident, atmosphere and personality,...
By Lew Irwin on 09 December 2011
Movie Reviews The Muppets
If George Lucas had been assigned the task of staging the motion-picture comeback of the Muppets, he might have done to them what he did to Yoda, his Star Wars character originally created in Jim...
By Lew Irwin on 23 November 2011
Movie Reviews The Big Year
If you think you have seen a movie about every sport that has ever existed, think again. The Big Year is a movie about competitive bird watching and stars Owen Wilson as the champion --...
By Lew Irwin on 14 October 2011
Movie Reviews The Ides Of March
Several reviews of The Ides of March are putting first things first. While Ides of March is a political drama and director/co-star/co-screenwriter George Clooney is a card-carrying liberal Democrat, it is not a movie that...
By Lew Irwin on 07 October 2011
Movie Reviews Dream House
It's always a bad sign when a studio fails to screen a movie for critics in advance of its release. But how bad could a film starring the likes of Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and...
By Lew Irwin on 03 October 2011
Lindsay Lohan Supports Kanye At Pfw
Lindsay Lohan was in the front row for Kanye West's debut fashion show over the weekend.The 'Mean Girls' actress attended the KW by Kanye West Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2012 show yesterday (02.10.11) at Paris...
By Bang Showbiz on 03 October 2011
Rooney Mara Joins Oldboy
Rooney Mara has signed on for the female lead in Spike Lee's 'Oldboy' remake. The 'Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' actress will reportedly star as Marie, the love interest of the main character (played by...
By Bang Showbiz on 03 October 2011
Black Swan Interns Sue Studio
Two unpaid interns who worked on Fox Searchlight's Black Swan are suing the production company, claiming that they were required to perform menial work and were not given the educational experience required by law for...
By Lew Irwin on 29 September 2011
Ratings Rise At Cnn
CNN's key moves in recent months -- in particular, the decision to move Anderson Cooper into the 8 00 p.m. slot and replace Larry King with Piers Morgan at 9 00 pm. -- appear to...
By Lew Irwin on 27 September 2011
Movie Reviews Abduction
Taylor Lautner, the former teen werewolf of the Twilight movies, makes his starring debut in the John Singleton-directed Abduction . And critics, who are mostly excoriating the movie, are treating Lautner himself with a sizable...
By Lew Irwin on 26 September 2011
Movie Reviews Killer Elite
For the most part, U.S. critics are shooting down Killer Elite (no relation to Sam Peckinpah's 1975 film The Killer Elite ), which stars Jason Statham, Robert De Niro and Clive Owen. With such names...
By Lew Irwin on 26 September 2011
Dumbo Flies Again
Disney is releasing a restored Blu-ray version of its 1941 classic Dumbo today (Tuesday), and the New York Times is celebrating its releasing by republishing the late movie critic Bosley Crowther's original review of the...
By Lew Irwin on 20 September 2011
Fox Censors Baldwin's Phone-hacking Joke
Alec Baldwin has revealed that he bailed out of his appearance on Sunday night's Emmy awards telecast after Fox TV, which televised the ceremony, refused to air a pretaped joke he made about the British...
By Lew Irwin on 19 September 2011
Producer/studio Exec John Calley Dead At 81
John Calley, one of the most successful studio executives and producers in recent Hollywood history, has died at the age of 81. In its obituary today (Wednesday), the Wall Street Journal observed that at Warner...
By Lew Irwin on 14 September 2011
Movie Reviews Conan The Barbarian
The new Conan the Barbarian is getting the same sort of reviews that Arnold Schwarzenegger did when he ... left office as governor of California. Pretty awful. " Conan the Barbarian is a brutal, crude,...
By Lew Irwin on 19 August 2011
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