Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated Season One, Volume 1 (Paramount Home Video-2010) The Scooby-Doo! crew has been going strong (and not growing older) for over 40 years now – in a run that has included eleven cartoon series, two live action films, dozens of made for video (or cable or whatever) movies, multiple comic books and many video games. … Continue reading
Alexandra Daddario The Next One Is Right Around the Corner by Jay S. Jacobs Copyright ©2011 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: February 27, 2011. You may have been reading all over the interwebs that gorgeous young actress Alexandra Daddario is going to be playing a vital role in David Fincher’s upcoming film version of the best … Continue reading
ELEKTRA LUXX (2011) Starring Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Malin Akerman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Timothy Olyphant, Marley Shelton, Justin Kirk, Amy Rosoff, Lucy Punch, Kathleen Quinlan, Vincent Kartheiser, Emma Bell, Jesse Garcia, Christine Lakin and Julianne Moore. Screenplay by Sebastian Gutierrez. Directed by Sebastian Gutierrez. Distributed by Sony Pictures. 97 minutes. Rated R. It’s always … Continue reading
Jennifer Lawrence Now an Oscar Nominee, the Actress Heats Up Winter’s Bone by Brad Balfour Thanks to her 2011 Oscar™ nom for Best Actress as Ree Dolly in Winter’s Bone, relative newcomer Jennifer Lawrence has now become one of Hollywood’s latest darlings. Of course, there are the perks of such attention: fancy gowns, cool parties, cute guys … Continue reading
Henry Winkler Fine Line Between Pleasure and Royal Pains by Jay S. Jacobs It’s always fun to talk with a television icon – particularly one who you grew up watching. I’d be a huge fan of Henry Winkler even if his wasn’t the first autograph that I ever got from a celebrity, because when I … Continue reading
Vik Muniz’s Garbage-Art Transforms a Waste Land Into a Nominee & Award Winner by Brad Balfour Brazilian conceptualist Vik Muniz has been making remarkable photo-constructs and garnering accolades within the fine art world for years including such places as New York’s Guggenheim Museum. But recently the artist has landed squarely in the public eye so … Continue reading
Lee Unkrich A Dual Oscar Nominee, Toy Story 3‘s Director Muses on Childhood and the Future by Brad Balfour Now sitting before me is a big box – something like a Borg cube, but not one loaded up with malevolent androids wanting to absorb me into the collective. It is the box set of the … Continue reading
Nicole Kidman The Oscar-Winning Actress Explores Loss and Grief in Rabbit Hole by Brad Balfour Everyone experiences loss and grief, but few films show it in such a naked and matter-of-fact manner as does Rabbit Hole. The Aussie actress Nicole Kidman was so passionate about David Lindsay-Abaire’s original Pulitzer Prize-winning play that she signed on … Continue reading
Shirin Taking Us Away by Jay S. Jacobs Part of the fun of writing about entertainment is that you get to discover exciting new talent before they truly catch on. For example, in fall of 2008 when I did an interview with a new and fairly unknown dance artist who had just released her first … Continue reading
THE KING’S SPEECH (2010) Starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon, Jennifer Ehle, Derek Jacobi, Max Callum, James Currie, Claire Bloom and Eve Best. Screenplay by David Seidler. Directed by Tom Hooper. Distributed by The Weinstein Company. 118 minutes. Rated R. Going just from the basic description of The … Continue reading
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