'Beautiful Creatures': Life's Bewitched
Today we review the new supernatural young adult romance Beautiful Creatures.
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Today in entertainment news: Reese Witherspoon's first sci-fi movie seems to be a go, Leo DiCaprio reteams with an old friend, and Steven Spielberg is adapting a video game.
Today we review the new supernatural young adult romance Beautiful Creatures.
Goodbye Hollywood! Idol's grueling second round of auditions ended last night, with twenty men and twenty women being chosen to march bravely to the front lines, where all but one of them will be shot to shreds and blown to smithereens.
Today in celebrity news: Amanda Bynes tells us interesting things, Hoda and Kathie are in a fight, and Drake and Chris Brown deny everything.
Today in showbiz news: Whitney Cummings gets a show canceled, Ron Weasley heads to TV, and Peter Dinklage is joining the X-Men.
During a speech about preschool education on Thursday, President Obama jokingly suggested that his older daughter was going on dates. But who might she be dating? And what to do on the date? Let's speculate.
Today we review the new Die Hard movie, the fifth in the series called A Good Day to Die Hard.
We may all hate lists, but sometimes they are necessary. Here's a list of things from last night's Idol that we observed.
Yesterday the New York Post interviewed some true fashion luminaries about the tizzy over fashion designer John Galliano's maybe Hasid-mocking outfit.
Today in celebrity gossip: A Kennedy scion has been hauled away by the police, Lady Gaga cancels her tour, and Tiger Woods finds love on the slopes.
Today in show business news: A new reality show about Martha's Vineyard has us excited, The Killing gets more obvious, and a first look at Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson's new Google-based comedy.
Flowers delivered to offices, couples crowding up restaurants, hand-holding everywhere. It's going to be a nightmare. So how can you survive the year's most heartbreaking day? Here are some suggestions.
A win for Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln seems inevitable, but there is another way. Hasn't Hugh Jackman really earned this thing?
Today in celebrity gossip: The fashion designer may have done something awfully offensive at New York Fashion Week, Taylor Swift has a lot of beef, and Steve Martin has a baby at 67.
Today in showbiz news: DVR might save FX's new spy drama but not Fox's The Following, Nicolas Cage listens to his agent, and yet another show about Danish murder has been adapted for the American market.
With the Academy Awards quickly approaching, we're going through each of the major categories and pretending we're Academy voters. Forget who will win, we have a decision to make.
While everyone was worried about "female breast nipples" and other sexual horrors at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, over on HBO Lena Dunham, star and creator of the acclaimed series Girls, was busy baring it all with impunity. And the Internet went crazy!
Today in celebrity gossip: Brand and Angie's kid is making big bucks, Justin and Jay-Z head out on the road together, and Kim & Kanye sorta party with Will Smith.
Today in show business news: The average price of a movie ticket is (relatively) expensive, The Walking Dead is (currently) watched by more people than ever, and The CW stays in the vampire/ghost hunter/sexy superhero business for another (long) year.
Today in celebrity gossip: Taylor Swift had a great time at the Grammys, Anne Hathaway had a less great time at the BAFTAs, and Kim and Kanye want to buy lots of houses.
After all the swag and hot beatz and rockin' dudes on the Grammys last night, it was strange to jump right into a whopping two-hour episode of Downton Abbey, but they made it worth our time, didn't they?
Today in Hollywood news: FX's new spy show took a dive in its second week, American Horror Story shores up more of its cast, and Jacki Weaver makes a bad decision.
Today we review the new comedy Identity Thief.
NBC has set a date for the finale of its venerable comedy series The Office, the one true ratings hit in the network's well-respected but fading Thursday night comedy bloc. It will come to an end on May 16.
Finally we've arrived back in Hollywood, city of dreams and possibility. Yes, American Idol has entered the second phase of the season, when all the golden ticketed people descend on California like singing bugs.
Today in famous person gossip: Rihanna offered moral support to Chris Brown on his day in court, Tiffani Thiessen has an awkward run-in with an old costar, and Marilyn Manson might not be well.
Today in show business news: ABC has an exciting new murder-based reality show in the works, MTV renews its hillbilly show, and Ryan Seacrest is going to work with some young men.
Well, it's back. NBC's much-maligned high stakes gamble of a series Smash returned for a second season last night, supposedly repaired after a backstage debacle of a first season, and was, ratings-wise, an unqualified disaster. At a certain point, one has to wonder: Should NBC just throw in the towel?
Every broadcast network has a Standards & Practices department. They're the fussy worrywarts who stringently enforce FCC rules about indecency — sexy stuff, swears, maybe violence. Basically they regulate all the fun stuff. But just how specific and needling are they?
Today in celebrity gossip: Two of your favorite teen soap stars are dating, the nation of Thailand is angry at Saturday Night Live, and Kate and Wills take a little jaunt to the islands.
Today in show business news: Everyone's favorite Parks and Rec goofball lands a superhero role, a Dexter recurring player joins the cast full time, and Meryl Streep gets a dramatic job at the Oscars.
As the Oscars draw ever closer, it's time to start thinking about the major categories. Who will win? And, more importantly, who should win? We begin with a would-be sweep in the frequently surprising (if slightly lesser) acting categories.
The CW has always struggled with creating real people. And yet somehow, on a show about the young Carrie Bradshaw, of all things, they pulled it off — and kept it up. And that has made The Carrie Diaries, surprisingly, one of the best new things on TV.
Today in celebrity gossip: Kate Middleton will soon make her second post-pregnancy official appearance, there's a young celebrity bible study group happening in Hollywood, and Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts are not fighting.
Today in showbiz news: Robin Williams has a TV pilot at CBS, Ricki Lake's talk show gets the ax, and Elementary was a disappointment last night.
The sudden, total availability of House of Cards — and more shows like it, with every episode dumped upon us, and all at once — can create a stressful, manic viewing experience. How are we supposed to keep up with one another anymore?
Lost amid last night's Super Bowl hoopla was another episode of the increasingly moribund Downton Abbey, a show that needs to pick itself up out of the mud and get to some greener pastures right quick.
Today in celebrity gossip: Bieber and Gomez can't stay away from each other, a sexy photo scandal is rocking the literary world, and some more details about Harry Styles's birthday.
Today in show business news: A new NBC show has a record-breakingly bad debut, more NCIS is on the way, and a more swear-heavy look at Spring Breakers.
Two brain activity-crossed lovers are worth rooting for in a sweet zombie romance that's just darkly clever enough to glide over its rather sizable plot holes.
Everyone seems pretty interested in the expensive new experiment from Netflix, but how is the actual show? Are the overwrought Washington machinations worth bingeing on? We took a look at the first few episodes, and these are our findings.
In which Hollywood awaits, but not before puppets and ailments and bear hugs and — oh, yeah — a guest appearance by the ancient burl-witch Steven Tyler.
Today in celebrity gossip: Katie Holmes headed to the lanes with a fella, Rihanna has a new hairdo, and Harry Styles is 19 years old.
Today in show business news: FX has itself a big new show, Kenneth Branagh is in talks for a cool gig, the inevitable rise of Cody Horn, and your first look at the Iron Man 3 Super Bowl commercial.
Oh, Idol! We are almost to the good part. Yes, last night we were gloriously informed that this week is the last of the auditions episodes, that long and frustrating Idol stretch when it feels like we are running in place.
Tonight NBC will air the series finale of its greatest show since Seinfeld, the fast flying, borderline manic, screwball masterpiece 30 Rock. Richard Lawson explains why Tina Fey's patois of obscure references and absurdist flights of fancy were so very much worth watching.
Today in celebrity gossip: Michael Lohan has a new child, Barry Manilow is causing more trouble on Broadway, and Selena Gomez is doing great.
February may not be spring exactly, but it's not January, at least. So in honor of this most terrible, frigid of months, let's take a look at the movies coming in the next few months.
Today in show business news: How I Met Your Mother officially has one more season to go, Katie Couric will keep gabbing for another year, and Saturday Night Live gets a strange host.
While on paper The Americans, premiering tonight on FX, sounds like a thrilling concept — Homeland meets The Riches meets Alias — in practice it's an inert and tonally imbalanced effort, too thrilled with its own concept at the expense of execution.
Today in celebrity gossip: Bradley Cooper causes quite the commotion at a cycling class, Ashley Judd is getting a divorce, and a cherished old TV star has been gay all these years.
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