Entertainment hourly.
Already seen all the big-budget Summer blockbusters and looking elsewhere for your movie fix? Lucky for you it's Tuesday, which means I've got a couple of new DVD releases to share — and one of them is very near and dear to my heart. Kick-Ass Aaron Johnson plays a teenage underdog who takes on the town bad guys with a quirky superhero disguise (a green wetsuit) and some DIY marketing (MySpace). Read more
No matter how you feel about Roman Polanski, it's not really debatable whether he's a talented director. Despite ongoing controversy, his latest film, The Ghost Writer, is still emerging, and this week brings us the trailer for the thriller. Ewan McGregor plays an author who's recruited into a lucrative deal to be the ghost writer for former Prime Minister Adam Lang, played by Pierce Brosnan. Read more
Roman Polanski's next project has brought on a recent Oscar winner, a man who portrayed James Bond, and. . . a Ghost Rider. Polanski will direct an adaptation of the Robert Harris political thriller The Ghost, with Tilda Swinton, Pierce Brosnan and Nicolas Cage set to star. Variety has more: Cage will play a ghostwriter hired abruptly to finish the memoirs of an ex-British prime minister after Read more
Maybe it was the absence of flashy '20s flashbacks, but I wasn't quite as excited by this week's episode of The Vampire Diaries. Stefan, Klaus, and Rebecca are still in Chicago, although it appears that their fun time in the Windy City is over. Back in Mystic Falls, Elena and Damon are forced to confront the fact that their attraction to each other is becoming more obvious to everyone around Read more
There's no doubt vampires are popular in entertainment, and judging from this week's reader comments there's a reason. This week, you guys were buzzing about anything and everything vampire-related, including a vampire and werewolf getting it on in the season premiere of The Vampire Diaries, possible ways the Breaking Dawn film might play out based on the trailer, and the season finale shockers Read more
It looks like Bristol Palin read our suggestions for her upcoming book. When news broke that Bristol was working on a memoir at the ripe age of 20, we noted that it could be worth a glance if she covered hiding the pregnancy early on the campaign trail, reuniting with Levi Johnston after the original breakup, and her time on Dancing With the Stars. Fresh information on Bristol's newly titled Not Read more
There's a double dose of Ryan Gosling on the September cover of Esquire. Before Ryan dyed his hair blond for The Place Beyond the Pines, he worked with photographer Perou on the Ryan-meets-Ryan concept. The results of their collaboration depict Drive star Ryan's Hollywood persona and his skeleton-obsessed private side. Ryan and one of the magazine's writers ventured to Coney Island to do the Read more
The Twixt trailer is here, and while it gives us our first look at Francis Ford Coppola's latest film, the preview is just as mysterious as the creepy town where it is set. Val Kilmer stars as horror fiction writer Hal Baltimore, who passes through a tiny town where a mass murder occurred years before and where a new serial killer may be on the loose. Baltimore decides to investigate the murder Read more
The Vampire Diaries stars dished a lot on their characters and where season three will take them at their Comic-Con panel, but no one knows what's next for the supernatural series better than the creator himself, Kevin Williamson. The show's writer and producer sat down for a chat, and he revealed what's going to happen with the Damon/Elena/Stefan love triangle, why he decided to kill off Aunt Read more
