Blogs: Star Crazy

In director Antoine Fuqua’s action film Olympus Has Fallen, actor Dylan McDermott (The Campaign) plays Forbes, a Secret Service agent who is caught in the middle of a terrorist plot when a group of North Koreans ambush the White House and take the U.S. President (Aaron Eckhart) and his cabinet hostage. During our interview,...
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In the drama Filly Brown, actress Gina Rodriguez (Go For It!) plays Majo Tonorio, a L.A. street poet who attempts to crossover into the music industry as a hip-hop artist. The film, which is the closing night screening at CineFestival 2013 on March 2, also stars late banda/norteña singer Jenni Rivera as Majo’s incarcerated...
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Someone warn the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Comedian Kevin Nealon, 59, is on his way to San Antonio for the first time in his 30-year career and has his sights on infiltrating the Alamo. Nealon, best known for his stint on Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1999 and for his role...
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In the film Beautiful Creatures, actors Alden Ehrenreich (Tetro) and Alice Englert (Ginger & Rosa) play Ethan and Lena, the main couple at the center of the supernatural love story where dark secrets are uncovered in a small Southern town. During an interview with me, Ehrenreich, 23, and Englert, 18, shared their thoughts about...
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In director Walter Hill’s new action film Bullet to the Head, actress Sarah Shahi (Old School) plays Lisa Bobo, the daughter of Sylvester Stallone’s character Jimmy Bobo, a Washington D.C. detective who goes after the man (Jason Momoa) who killed his partner. During our interview, Shahi, 33, who can also be seen on the...
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Based on the novel Flashfire by Donald Westlake, the new crime thriller Parker stars English actor Jason Statham (Expendables 2) as the title character. In Parker, Statham takes the reigns as the iconic professional thief who seeks revenge on a crew that double crosses him. Parker opens at theaters Jan. 25. There have been a...
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From making commercials at his production company in Spain, Argentinean filmmaker Andres Muschietti has found his way to Hollywood for his first feature film of his career. In Mama, a psychological thriller based on a short film he made in 2008, Muschietti tells the story of Annabel and Lucas (Jessica Chastain and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), a couple...
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Miami Heat fan Larry McGuinness blames the San Antonio Spurs for ruining his night last Nov. 29. He only chuckles when asked if he at least had fun at the game. Probably not. McGuinness, a lawyer based in Miami, filed a class-action lawsuit on Monday against the Spurs for alleging the team violated Florida’s...
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Current film critic Kiko Martínez shares his reaction on this year’s nods.
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Best known for winning an Academy Award for writing the song “Evergreen” for the 1976 film A Star is Born and for the song “Rainbow Connection,” which Kermit the Frog sings in The Muppet Movie, singer/songwriter Paul Williams has never lost his passion for the craft that made him a cultural icon in the...
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Taking a page from filmmaker Roy Ward Baker’s 1972 horror mystery Asylum, in which four separate patients at a mental institution are interviewed by a psychiatrist, the new psychological thriller Sanitarium follows the stories told from the unstable minds of three insane inmates under the care of Dr. Stenson (Malcolm McDowell). While the anthology...
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Thirty-two years after saving Earth from the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless, actor Sam Jones, who played Flash Gordon in the 1980 sci-fi movie, is back to show how much his comic action hero character has become a cult icon over the last three decades. In the comedy Ted, Jones has a cameo as...
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