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  • June 2008

    • Love Guru Is Beyond Help

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  Jun 20, 08 8:40 AM CDT

      Love Guru Is Beyond Help

      (Newser) - Love isn't the right word to describe how most critics feel about The Love Guru , Mike Myers' first live-action comedy in 5 years. Myers stars as a self-help guru paid to revive the love life of a hockey player, but his mugging isn't enough to salvage "a collection of scattershot jokes clothes-pinned to such a slender plot," Colin Covert writes in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. More »

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      movie  • movie review  • comedy  • Jessica Alba  • Michael Myers

    • Wonderful Life's Young George Dies

      Associated Press  |  Jun 8, 08 10:25 AM CDT

      Wonderful Life's Young George Dies

      (Newser) - Bob Anderson, who played the young George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life , has died of cancer. He was 75. Growing up in Hollywood with Tinseltown relatives, he first appeared onscreen as a baby, the AP reports. At 7, he acted with Shirley Temple and in 1945 appeared in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn . But his most famous role was the outgoing, altruistic Georgie Bailey who grows up to be James Stewart in the popular classic. More »

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      movie  • film  • obituary  • death  • Christmas  • classic cinema

    • Carell, The Rock Dish on Liplock

      Associated Press  |  Jun 7, 08 9:08 AM CDT

      Carell, The Rock Dish on Liplock

      (Newser) - Steve Carell and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson dug a little liplock in their upcoming film, Get Smart , the AP reports. “He smells like strawberry shortcake,” Carell quipped. “For me, that's why they call him The Rock. He rocks people's worlds.” More »

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      movie  • film  • Anne Hathaway  • Steve Carell  • kiss  • Dwayne The Rock Johnson

    • Sex Backlash Is Mostly Sexist

      Newsweek  |  Jun 4, 08 2:36 PM CDT

      Sex Backlash Is Mostly Sexist

      (Newser) - The masses have spoken: Sex and the City is a success, a tentpole, and with a $56 million opening weekend, a blockbuster even. But if you hear men talk about it, you’d think it was the most horrible thing to ever happen to cineplexes, writes Ramin Setoodeh. They grow angry and annoyed, as though they resent these girls hijacking a summer that rightfully belongs to Iron Man, Hulk, and Indiana Jones. More »

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      movie  • movie review  • sexism  • Sex and the City  • summer  • media criticism  • Carrie Bradshaw

    • Superheroes: Ruining the Day

      Entertainment Weekly  |  Jun 4, 08 9:44 AM CDT

      Superheroes: Ruining the Day

      (Newser) - Once upon a time, summer movies appealed to everyone, not just 14-year-old nerds. They especially appealed to Chris Nashawaty, who outlines his love of big dumb action flicks in Entertainment Weekly . But now, our summers have been hijacked by an endless stream of lousy spandex-wearers, and Nashawaty is willing to be the lone curmudgeon taking the stand against them. More »

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      movie  • summer  • Spider-Man  • superhero  • Iron Man  • blockbusters  • The Incredible Hulk  • Superman

  • May 2008

    • Subject of Lorenzo's Oil Dead at 30

      Associated Press  |  May 31, 08 5:28 PM CDT

      Subject of Lorenzo's Oil Dead at 30

      (Newser) - Lorenzo Odone, the ALD-plagued child whose plight inspired the film Lorenzo’s Oil , died yesterday at age 30, the AP reports. Doctors said he would die by age 8, but he lived while taking an oil developed by his parents. Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte starred in the 1992 film about his life. More »

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      movie  • obituary

    • Murphy In for Beverly Hills Cop 4

      Variety  |  May 29, 08 2:59 PM CDT

      Murphy In for Beverly Hills Cop 4

      (Newser) - Fans of the old Eddie Murphy (you know, before the fat suits and prostheses), rejoice: A third sequel to 1984’s Beverly Hills Cop will start production next year, Variety reports. Murphy approached Paramount about the project, and the studio eagerly agreed after successfully disinterring Indiana Jones. Murphy is attached, Brett Ratner may direct, but will Judge Reinhold be back? More »

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      movie  • Indiana Jones  • Paramount Pictures  • Eddie Murphy  • sequel

    • Jessica Alba Gets Hitched

      People  |  May 20, 08 10:59 PM CDT

      Jessica Alba Gets Hitched

      (Newser) - Jessica Alba married movie producer Cash Warren yesterday in a quiet courthouse ceremony in Beverly Hills, People reports. The actress, who is expecting a girl with Warren this summer, wore a long blue dress and “looked happy but nervous,” a source says. No one else attended the ceremony. The couple met on the set of Fantastic Four and got engaged in December. More »

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      celebrity  • movie  • celebrity pregnancy  • wedding  • Jessica Alba  • producers

    • 'Sex and the City' Mania Builds

      New York Times  |  May 20, 08 10:31 AM CDT

      'Sex and the City' Mania Builds

      (Newser) - Who knew? It's 10 days and counting until Sex and the City opens and the huge surge of interest in the movie has surprised even studio execs, the New York Times reports. In the kind of film fever usually associated with people in Chewbacca costumes, groups of women across the nation are gearing up to see the film "with the gang"—and plenty of them plan to dress fabulously . More »

    • Woody Allen Refuses to Quit: Blame Europe

      Guardian (UK)  |  May 20, 08 8:17 AM CDT

      Woody Allen Refuses to Quit: Blame Europe

      (Newser) - America may have spawned Woody Allen, but “the perpetuation of Allen's zombie-like career is one atrocity for which we refuse to be held accountable,” Joe Queenan argues in the Guardian . The diminutive director’s recent films have bombed stateside; when eight people showed up for a New York screening of Hollywood Ending , Queenan writes, it signaled that “Allen was finished as a driving force in US cinema.” More »

    • Being Hated Is All But an Art for Uwe Boll

      New York Times  |  May 18, 08 1:25 PM CDT

      Being Hated Is All But an Art for Uwe Boll

      (Newser) - Uwe Boll is either the world’s worst filmmaker or its most-targeted whipping boy. Either way, the 42-year-old German, who bases his over-the-top gore films on video games, is unlikely to stop anytime soon. “The art form is, almost, in being hated,” one actor told the New York Times . “It’s his relationship with the audience that is his creation, his relationship with the critics, more than the movies.” More »

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      movie  • film  • video game  • film director  • horror flims

    • Narnia Still Casts a Spell

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  May 16, 08 8:59 AM CDT

      Narnia Still Casts a Spell

      (Newser) - The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian returns to the fantasyland 1,300 years after The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , and all is not well in the kingdom. The "darker, more conventional, and more crisply made" follow-up features "more clashing swords than all the Robin Hood movies put together," Todd McCarthy writes in Variety.   More »

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      movie  • movie review  • fantasy  • Tilda Swinton

    • Male Nudity? Cue the Nervous Laughter

      Chicago Tribune  |  May 11, 08 6:05 PM CDT

      Male Nudity? Cue the Nervous Laughter

      (Newser) - Penises are in the Hollywood spotlight these days, with both Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the new Harold & Kumar offering full-frontal male nudity. They’re guaranteed to get a nervous laugh because there’s still an uncomfortable shock to seeing one on the big screen, writes Laura Hodes in the Chicago Tribune . "It is almost a permanent adolescent reaction that is built into American movies,” says one film prof. More »

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      movie  • film  • nudity  • Judd Apatow  • Harold and Kumar Escape