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What could be bigger or kept more under-wraps than a Star Wars flick? Well, Natalie Portman found out after being signed to star as Jane Foster in the film adaptation of the Marvel comic book Thor.

The production has been shrouded in so much mystery that Portman isn’t even sure who is calling her when the [...]


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[caption id="attachment_21260" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="ALICE -- Pictured: Caterina Scorsone as Alice Hamilton -- Syfy Photo: James Dittiger"][/caption]

Alice when presented by the SyFy network isn’t exactly the Lewis Carroll version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland you might remember - and it’s definitely not the kookie Disney animated feature.  This Alice is way more mature and Alice [...]


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After nearly 20 years in the business, Mariah Carey is about to receive the breakthrough performance award at the 21st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala.

Carey’s performance as the completely unglamorous social worker, Ms. Weiss, in the drama, Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” By Sapphire, has wowed not only critics, but [...]


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MOVIES ON DVD

The early years of Captain James T. Kirk and his USS Enterprise crew members are explored in the big screen movie prequel, Star Trek.
Special Features: Nine deleted scenes: featuring the young Kirk, Spock, Klingons and plenty of the hot, green girls, behind-the-scenes featurettes entitled: A New Vision (detailing Director J.J. Abrams vision), [...]


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It did come as a surprise to Nicolas Cage when screenwriter, David Goyer confirmed that a sequel to Ghost Rider was in the works.  But, just because he was caught off guard doesn’t mean he isn’t anxious climb back on his chopper.

Cage sees the sequel as a great way to expand on Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider; [...]


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Shel Dorf - RIP

 

 

You may not know Shel Dorf by name, but to comic-book fans he was a legend.

Dorf founded the uber-famous Comic-Con International comic-book convention in 1970, which has since become a gigantic event for comic book fans, but also for movie companies and moviegoers too.

The convention started out modestly, but now attracts the [...]


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Taylor Swift is just one of the celebrity names you’ll see in the new book, I Can’t Keep My Own Secrets, which is comprised of six-word memoirs scribed by teens across America.

Swift’s comment is all telling regarding living life in the spotlight, but I Can’t Keep My Own Secrets is primarily filled with deep insights [...]


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Eoin Colfer was all set to rev up the action for the sequel to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.  After all, he’s the guy who wrote the teen book series, Artemis Fowl.

With a continuation of an adult story, Colfer felt limitless with the language and situations…until he began working.

He realized that he had not only [...]


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Eoin Colfer was contacted by the widow of Douglas Adams to write And Another Thing, the sequel to his cult classic, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.  And, it’s because he loved that book and its author to much, that he hesitated.

Colfer thought long and hard about all the reasons why he was apprehensive and decided [...]


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Jim Rogatis calls his new coffee table book The Velvet Underground: An Illustrated History of a Walk on the Wild Side, a labor of love.

The journalist and author didn’t get a hefty payday for his work, but was still satisfied by all the details presented on the page because he was a fan first of [...]


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