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Link Time - Elizabeth Olsen Cast in Red Lights

BuzzSugar — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:30:54 PST

Sundance darling Elizabeth Olsen lands a role in Red Lights - Vulture
The King's Speech won the Producer's Guild of America award, possibly boosting its shot at Oscar's best picture - Moviefone
Savage Love columnist Dan Savage is working on an advice show for MTV - Inside TV
Want to know the big secret Oprah Winfrey is revealing on her show today? - PopWatch
MTV's teen soap Skins continues to lose advertisers - The Wrap
Hilarious! Watch Kathie Lee Gifford do a keg stand at The Tonight Show - TV Squad
James Gandolfini gets three roles: Twylight Zones, Cogan's Trade, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - The Playlist
Gwen Stefani's beauty evolution - BellaSugar

Entourage's Mark and True Blood's Joe Welcome Boardwalk Empire to the HBO Family

PopSugar — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PDT

Small screen stars came out in force last night for the NYC premiere of HBO's Boardwalk Empire. The show ranked among our five must-watch Fall series, and we're loving the eye candy to be shown on Sunday's debut episode. True Blood's Joe Manganiello showed some love for HBO during a break from his Fashion Week rounds with the girlfriend he's so fond of, and we grabbed a minute at a recent Alice + Olivia party to get the scoop on his next season. The Entourage crew was well represented with Adrian Grenier and Mark Wahlberg, who's front and center in the new trailer for The Fighter. Mark also stole a minute to catch up with Diddy. Steve Buscemi was the star of the evening, but he still managed to greet his old Sopranos costars James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, and Lorraine Bracco. Mick Jagger even made a cameo with his lady friend L'Wren Scott, while over in London, his bandmate Keith Richards grabbed a meal with Johnny Depp.

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Link Time - Jennifer Lopez Finally Signs American Idol Deal

BuzzSugar — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:30:05 PDT

Breaking news: Jennifer Lopez signs her deal to judge American Idol - People
Ryan Reynolds to produce a comedy for NBC - Deadline
Missed the Bachelor Pad finale? Here's who won - TV Squad
Saoirse Ronan and James Gandolfini join Violet & Daisy - Slash Film
The Community music video remix! - TV.com
The 10 best heist movie disguises (Sugar and Spice is still my No. 1!) - Moviefone
Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi, and more join crime thriller Rampart - MTV Movies Blog
Friday Night Lights fan Diablo Cody interviews Kyle Chandler - Movieline
Read up on the books featured in last night's Gossip Girl premiere - TrèsSugar

Welcome to the Rileys Trailer: Kristen Stewart Is a Lost Soul

BuzzSugar — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:30:50 PDT

Bella Swan aside, Kristen Stewart has made a name for herself playing angsty teenagers in indie movies. She's got that twitchy teen girl bit down cold, and she's showing it off yet again in Welcome to the Rileys. It's not all about Stewart, though: the film really belongs to James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo as the titular couple who are grieving the loss of their daughter.

When Mr. Riley seeks solace from his depressing home life in New Orleans, he finds an unlikely bond with Stewart, a young stripper. He takes her in and tries to straighten her out, seemingly as a way to fill the void left by his daughter's death. The film got decent buzz at the Sundance Film Festival, and the heavy subject matter has potential to bring out big performances from the actors. And like I said: this is Stewart's forte. Watch it for yourself after the jump.

NYC Is Where Spike, Blake, and Tom Check Out the Wild Things

PopSugar — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:30:52 PDT

Blake Lively was one of the few ladies at last night's NYC premiere of Where the Wild Things Are. It's only Wednesday, but this was already Blake's second red carpet of the week after turning out to support boyfriend Penn Badgley Monday at his screening of The Stepfather. Blake was in rather impressive company, as Tom Hanks and Forest Whitaker also turned out to see Spike Jonze's latest film. Spike took his turn in the limelight to pose with the young star Max Records and author Maurice Sendak, who wrote the famous children's book on which the movie is based. The movie opens Friday - make sure to check out the latest trailer - and there is a huge promotional effort underway, including related lines of home furnishings, children's Halloween costumes, and even clothes for adults.

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Images include: Catherine O'Hara, Tom Hanks, Forest Whitaker, Martin Short, Spike Jonze, Max Records, James Gandolfini, Blake Lively, Keisha Whitaker, Catherine Keener, Maurice Sendak

The Taking of Pelham 123: The Taking of Our Time, 104 Minutes

BuzzSugar — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:30:58 PDT

I wanted The Taking of Pelham 123 to be great, or at least kinda fun - full of thrills and interesting characters with a few little one-liners tossed in. Expecting too much? Maybe. But I was disappointed nonetheless because it turns out this movie is predictable and forgettable. It managed to keep my attention for a while, but mostly it's just blah.

For the most part, what you see in the trailers is what you get, in terms of plot: A crazy guy who wants to be called Ryder (John Travolta) hijacks a subway car in New York and he demands millions of dollars in exchange for the hostages' lives. He tells the dispatcher, Walter Garber (Denzel Washington), that the mayor (played a sleazy New Yorker to a "T") has one hour to get Ryder the money and for every minute they're late after the hour, he's going to kill a hostage. Ryder becomes attached to Garber and he forces Garber's secrets to come to light during their interactions, which everyone in the Garber's room can hear - including his boss and the mayor of New York. Ultimately Ryder wants Garber to deliver the money personally, and then we wait to see whether or not Garber can stop Ryder from continuing on with his plans once he gets the money. For more of my thoughts,

In attempts to make up for the lack of drama, or to fill in the gaps between the few genuinely tense moments, director Tony Scott favors fast-paced montages of crowded subway platforms and general New York "hustle and bustle." Zooming camera shots, blurry quick-moving figures alternate with "dramatic" slow-motion and close-ups on grim faces, all set to loud tunes like "99 Problems." Because, you know, Ryder is a tough guy. This is a tough guy's game because Jay-Z says so. At first, this distracts us from the fact that we don't really care much about this story, but that wears off as the movie wears on.

Denzel Washington often brings an elegance and gracefulness to his characters, and he always exhibits a calm control over his performances. We're supposed to like Walter Garber, and we do, but this entire thriller can't rest on this particular average Joe's shoulders, no matter how nicely Washington presents him. Garber's not all that compelling. Supposedly providing the jolts of craziness (and therefore, in this case, entertainment), is John Travolta who gets a few really good lines in but who mostly seems like he's impersonating a crazy person rather than inhabiting an actual character.

Theoretically this should be an excellent Summer movie - digestible, intriguing, exciting. But I can't recommend this for a theater-going experience. It'll probably be a pretty solid rental, if you're quite bored. I wanted to be swept up in the mystery of it all (why is Ryder doing this? How will he pull it off? How will they stop him?) and the tension of the situation, but really, it's a silly movie. In order to get swept up, I'd have to be able to take the movie seriously and it just wouldn't let me do that.

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Movie Preview: In the Loop

BuzzSugar — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:30:00 PDT

The Tribeca Film Festival isn't the only celebration of cinema taking place this week. Right here in San Francisco, the San Francisco International Film Festival is underway, and it's got a long list of great movies lined up.

One of those is In the Loop, a British satire about the run-up to war. The film pokes fun at inept decision making on both sides of the pond, with a midlevel bumbling UK government minister, a self-important US official, a couple of rookie political aides, and a puffed-up Pentagon general combining for a comedy of errors (upon errors, upon errors, upon errors).

Fans of British comedy may already be familiar with one character, Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi), the raging, curse-word-happy director of communications, who's a main player on the series The Thick of It (which was actually turned into a US TV pilot with Mich Hurwitz and Christopher Guest a couple of years back). Other cast members include James Gandolfini, Mimi Kennedy, and My Girl's Anna Chlumsky. The film will open in the US in July, and to check out the trailer, just

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Movie Preview: The Taking of Pelham 123

BuzzSugar — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:30:04 PST

In The Taking of Pelham 123, Denzel Washington plays city employee Zachary Garber who gets tangled up in a dangerous hostage situation when armed men take over a subway train and try to negotiate money in exchange for releasing the trapped New Yorkers. John Travolta plays the mean mastermind behind the whole thing who gets to know Zachary Garber fairly well during their little back-and-forth.

Have you seen the original 1974 film The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw? The trailer for this remake is pretty heart-poundingly intense, actually. I'm curious to see this come June 12. What about you?

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Link Time!!!

PopSugar — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:00:27 PDT

Photos from James Gandolfini's weekend wedding! - JustJared
Tiger Woods and his wife Elin are expecting baby number two! - lilsugar
Did Pete Doherty OD in Austria? - D-Listed
Madonna and Guy pose awkwardly - Lainey Gossip
Kevin Spacey gets frisky with another man - popeater
Will Emmanuelle Chriqui be part of your Entourage? - Hollywood Tuna
There may be a Josh Hartnett sex tape - Hollywood Rag
Helen Mirren has some controversial opinions - IDLYITW
Michael Jackson is pretty? - cityrag
Lots more photos of Britney chilling poolside - Egotastic
Heidi Montag releases yet another single - MollyGood
Kiefer Sutherland is wet and wild - Pink Is the New Blog

Sugar Bits - Sarah Palin's 17-Year-Old Daughter Pregnant

PopSugar — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:30:21 PDT

Sarah Palin confirmed her 17-year-old daughter Bristol is five months pregnant and marrying the father of her child. - CitizenSugar
Tropic Thunder took the top spot at the box office again this weekend with $14.3 million. Babylon A.D. earned $12 million at number two, and The Dark Knight came in third to cross the $500 million mark on Sunday. - BuzzSugar
David Duchovny's sex addiction is rumored to be about porn and not an extramarital affair. His wife, Tea Leoni, has canceled her appearance at the Toronto Film Festival. - Fox News
A man has been arrested in London after attempting to sell intimate photographs of Prince William and Kate Middleton from a camera he says he found but is believed to have been stolen. - The Sun
Jude Law is visiting Afghanistan to promote Peace Day on Sept. 21. He has been helping director Jeremy Gilley in a documentary called The Day After Peace. - AP
James Gandolfini married Deborah Lin on Saturday at Central Union Church in Honolulu. - People
Don LaFontaine, the main voiceover man in Hollywood, died yesterday in Cedars-Sinai hospital following complications from a collapsed lung. - BuzzSugar
Amy Winehouse might suffer from brain damage after having two major drug overdoses in the past year. She is also facing legal action after canceling her appearance at a French music festival two hours before she was scheduled to perform. - Daily Mail

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