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Fox Searchlight reports filming has begun on Birdman, the black comedy starring Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Emma Stone, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Ryan and Andrea Riseborough. Alejandro González Iñárritu is directing the film, with shooting taking place in New York City.   Iñárritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo co-wrote the script. John [...]

Reviewed by Ian Forbes, Sobering Conclusion Parents with small children likely to be emotionally scarred by the vicious flying monkeys of Oz the Great and Powerful now have a much more appropriate film to share with the family: The Croods. Also, unlike director Sam Raimi’s lackluster prequel, this movie’s actually fun.   The premise is [...]

Reviewed by Kevin Finnerty “I’m Guy, this is Belt. We need to leave immediately, the world is ending. Everything we’re standing on right here will be gone…I’m calling it the End,” says Guy (voiced by Ryan Reynolds) to Eep Crood (voiced by Emma Stone) in the prehistoric animated/adventure film The Croods.   Her whole life [...]

Stand Up To Cancer supporters Tim McGraw, Emma Stone, Seth Rogen, Tom Hanks, Carson Daly, Ethan Zohn, Bill Hader, and many more share their support for the non-profit organization in this video in honor of World Cancer Day. The new video asks “Who Do You Stand Up For?” and features the stars sharing the answer [...]

There are more stars in Movie 43 than you can shake a stick at, which, truth be told, is a saying I’ve never really understood. Can’t you shake a stick for as long as you need to at as many items as you need to? Anyway, this new video from the January 25, 2013 comedy [...]

Ryan Gosling stars as LAPD Sgt. Jerry Wooters, a member of a secret group of cops charged with ending mob boss Mickey Cohen’s criminal reign over Los Angeles, in Warner Bros Pictures’ Gangster Squad. And in this interview video courtesy of WB, Gosling discusses what attracted him to the character. He also discusses the story, [...]

The cast of Warner Bros Pictures’ crime drama, Gangster Squad, hit the red carpet in Hollywood on January 7, 2013 for the film’s premiere. Among the stars showing up for the premiere screening were Ryan Gosling (who posed for photos with his mom), Josh Brolin, Emma Stone, Sean Penn, Mireille Enos, Anthony Mackie, Michael Pena, [...]

Reviewed by Kevin Finnerty   “We’re not trying to solve a case. We’re going to war,” says Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin), a tough, honest cop who’s been given the task of trying to drive gangster kingpin Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) out of 1949 Los Angeles in the crime drama Gangster Squad.   Cohen rules [...]

Reviewed by Ian Forbes, Sobering Conclusion 2013 is here and the first screening of the year I attended was Gangster Squad, a film about cops and criminals in 1949, “inspired by true events”. Right away, I knew I was in for some trouble and after all was said and done, 2013 isn’t starting how I’d [...]

2013 Oscar host Seth MacFarlane (who also snagged an Oscar nomination for Ted) and Emma Stone paired up to announced the nominees for the 85th Academy Awards. And if his work on the nomination broadcast is any indication, then we have nothing to worry about when MacFarlane makes his debut as the Oscar host on [...]