Archive for April, 2008

Defiant and colorful to the end, the accused Hollywood wiretapper Anthony Pellicano told jurors in his racketeering trial that he was simply a diligent private eye.

The move spotlighted the company’s future as a pure content provider and signaled a renewed focus on its Warner Brothers movie studios and Turner Networks.

The stage is set for a new and more difficult phase in the showdown between actors and producers over a contract to replace the current deal, which expires June 30.

A blockbuster of a documentary, Errol Morris’s “Standard Operating Procedure” is an inquiry into the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib.

Georgina Scott Heather Graham is a 33 year old, who sends her boyfriend , Zak Tom Ellis packing when it has become apparent that he doesnt share her desire for a bundle of joy. Zak sets off on a documentary shoot and hopes that shell cool off in his absence. But Georgina discovers that early menopause runs in her family and heads to a specialist with her reluctant best friend Clem Mia Kirshner, iThe L Wordi, in tow. Learning that her baby making days are numbered, Georgina enlists Clem and their camp pal, Justin Orlando Seale, to make the most of it. A battle plan is drawn up but their escapades become increasingly frantic as Georgina explores internet sperm donors, night clubbers, a love struck co-worker and funeral-goers in her despirate and hilarious attempts to beat the biological clock.

Prosecutors told jurors that Anthony Pellicano was a “very well-paid thug” who used wiretaps and crooked police officers to dig up dirt for his celebrity clients.

By the end of his film Jon Favreaus Iron Man is a light and fluffy character, a superhero colored in with bright bits of crayon, but he doesnt start out that way. Ironically its early on in the story when Tony Stark, the man inside the bright red suit, is still a carefree playboy and globe-trotting arms merchant that he has the most edge. Its there that Favreaus superhero movie works best.

Foreign DVD sales of “Shrek the Third” were stronger than anticipated, helping DreamWorks report a 69 percent increase in quarterly profit.

The embrace of a rural tale may be a rebuke of Nicolas Sarkozy’s chic ways.

Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges... Review: There's no rust on this baby. Iron Man kicks off summer on a blazing high note and practically dares the competition to measure up. It's been years since a movie superhero was this fierce and this funny. All praise to acting dynamo Robert Downey Jr., who brings so much creative juice to the party that Iron Man achieves instant liftoff. Even if you know diddly about the character Marvel built in 1963, Downey and director Jon Favreau — just the right swinger for the job — will get you up to speed pronto. Hard to believe that Iron Man and his alter ego, Tony Stark, have never been exploited as movie subjects before. Could it be that Stark, the boozing, lecherous, right-wing manufacturer of WMDs, scared off stars less willing to take a risk than Downey? Screw 'em.... Rating: 3 Stars