‘Heroes’ Finds Its Dark Nature or SomethingThe show was effective, finally, at blurring that line between good and evil, with pretty much every major character discovering his darker inner nature, save Hiru, who remains a charming saint.
‘Rendition’: Jake Gyllenhaal Is Trying to Tell Us Something, But What?It’s pretty clear that we’re all going to learn a very important lesson from director Gavin Hood’s Rendition when it comes out on October 12, but as we watch this just-released trailer, it’s still unclear what that lesson is.
There’s Something About MamieRising actress Mamie Gummer talks to the magazine this week about her breakout role in Lajos Koltai’s new film Evening, about which New York’s critic David Edelstein had less kind things to say than he did about the character portrayed by both Gummer and her real-life mother Meryl Streep.
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Alan Cumming Finds Hilarity in Unexpected Places“There is a long sequence where I torture him … and there are all these blood spurts, and then you think I am going to set him on fire. It’s funny — almost hilarious in parts.”
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Tom Cruise’s New Movie Flops on ‘Entertainment Tonight’Led by Nikki Finke over at Deadline Hollywood, the movie industry is buzzing over Tom Cruise’s first film for the newly relaunched United Artists, Lions for Lambs, a political thriller coming out in November. Starring Cruise, Meryl Streep, and Robert Redford, and directed by Redford, the movie — about the Stateside debate caused by the wounding of two Army Rangers behind enemy lines in Afghanistan — certainly has pedigree and brains to spare. So why did Cruise and UA’s publicity machine debut the film’s teaser on Entertainment Tonight, where the full ET synthesizer-and-voice-over treatment makes it seem totally stupid?
