While some fans of “The Hunger Games” have arrived at the conclusion that heroine Katniss Everdeen’s stylist, Cinna, is gay, the guy who plays him on screen, Lenny Kravitz, tells Celebuzz in an interview that the theory never crossed his mind. When Kravitz would tell kids that he’s playing the masterful fashion designer in this [...]
Interminably long, dull and incomprehensible, “John Carter’’ evokes pretty much every sci-fi classic from the past 50 years without having any real personality of its own. You could say much the same about the title character, as uncharismatically played by the unfortunately named Taylor Kitsch of TV’s “Friday Night Lights.’’ Even in 3-D, he’s barely [...]
GUS RUELAS/ReutersFormer “Desperate Housewives” actress Nicollette Sheridan is scheduled to testify Thursday in a courtroom battle with the show’s producer-writer over the TV killing of a character she played for five seasons. Sheridan, 48, is locked in a courtroom battle against Mark Cherry and ABC Entertainment, claiming their decision to kill off Edie Britt, her [...]
Sure, the Best Picture Oscar-nominee “The Artist” is, for all intents and purposes, a silent film. But its filmmaker, Oscar-nominated director, screenwriter and co-editor Michel Hazanavicius, is more than happy to make up for the words you won’t hear while watching it. “I’ve never talked so much about a movie and ironically, it’s a silent [...]
Austrian Markus Schleinzer makes an impressive directorial debut with “Michael,” the disturbing story of the title character, a 35-year-old pedophile who keeps a 10-year-old boy, Wolfgang, prisoner in the basement of his suburban home. Under the circumstances, the lad’s life could be a lot worse. His subterranean room is neat and clean, and it has [...]
REUTERS/Mario AnzuoniJ.C. Penney is standing by its decision to make openly gay talk show host Ellen DeGeneres its new spokeswoman despite protests from a parent group. The group called One Million Moms accuses the retailer of “jumping on the pro-gay bandwagon” after DeGeneres was announced as the new J.C. Penney spokeswoman last week. The comedian [...]