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Universal just may have assembled the most beautiful movie cast this side of Twilight. The studio has signed three of-the-moment stars -- Friday Night Lights' Taylor Kitsch, True Blood's Alexander Skarsgård, and, most recently, pop idol Rihanna -- for Battleship, an action film based on the Hasbro board game that's set for release on May [...]

Eat, Pray, Love is a pop culture phenomenon. It was #1 on the New York Times bestseller list for 57 weeks, so now, of course, it's a movie. The film has three things that will kill with women: the beloved book; Julia Roberts; and the creator of Glee, Ryan Murphy, [...]

I've always thought of Justin Timberlake as the second coming of Michael Jackson. Like the late, great King of Pop, Timberlake started out as the lead singer and youngest member of a hugely successful boy group, and emerged as the breakout star with a solo career that transcended his boy-band [...]

As an actress, Angelina Jolie always has had a bit of a split personality. There's Jolie, the acclaimed Oscar-winning star of Girl, Interrupted, who first came to Hollywood prominence in the late '90s with Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated TV roles in George Wallace and Gia. In recent years, this side of [...]

Twelve days ago, on this very blog, I asked, Will Inception finally get Leonardo DiCaprio and Oscar past first base? We'll have to wait until early next year to find out if he scores, but Inception's $60.4 million opening weekend (DiCaprio's best ever -- yes, even better than Titanic, which, in [...]

I've had a couple -- really, only a couple -- of people push back at me when I've said that CDOs and other exotic financial instruments exist only to enrich their creators, and are societally useless at best, destructive at worst. Okay, you defenders of useless paper, let's hear you make [...]

I've never had much use for Mel Gibson. I've occasionally liked his movies (Gallipoli, Hamlet, and -- cough! cough! -- What Women Want), but in general, I'm not into action films, those buddy/cop things, historical epics featuring swords, spears and/or horses, or Biblical vanity pieces with gruesome crucifixion scenes. So [...]