If you’ve ever wanted to see a distinguished knight of the British crown fire up the water bong and get high as a Boeing jet to the thumping beats of Notorious B.I.G., “The Wackness” is your chance.
Suffice to say, this is not a standard role for Sir Ben Kingsley.
(New York Post)

Molly Ringwald modestly resists the label “style icon,” but her quirky looks in some of the quintessential films of the ’80s spurred trends aplenty. Girls ransacked thrift stores for fedoras and gleefully took shears to their mother’s prom dresses. Ringwald spills on the good, the bad and the ugly.
(LA Times)

Critics given a peek of the summer blockbuster at the weekend have given rave reviews about Ledger’s performance as The Joker.
The Australian star completed work on the film shortly before his death from an accidental drugs overdose in January, aged 28.
He was nominated for an Oscar once during his career - for Brokeback Mountain in […]

 
Hollywood loves a good sequel, but here’s one it could do without: Another union strike just months after the town got up and running again from a devastating walkout by writers.
The contract between the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers expires Monday, and negotiations have dragged on for weeks […]

Movie stars accustomed to polite rivalry for coveted film roles and Oscar glory are taking sides in an increasingly bitter labour dispute between Hollywood’s two actors unions.
The battle of duelling movie stars has heated up as the Screen Actors Guild enlisted 67 actors, including Jack Nicholson, Ben Stiller and Martin Sheen, to back its campaign […]

From a casual viewing of the marketing material for “Hancock,” Sony’s upcoming Will Smith comic thriller, I hardly knew that Charlize Theron was even in the movie. Our crack reporter Chris Lee turned up at an early screening and offers this assessment:
“At an early screening of ‘Hancock’ at the Grove last week, Will Smith’s performance […]

George Carlin, who died on Sunday from heart failure at the age of 71, was one of the funniest and most influential American comics of the 20th century, with a wealth of wise and witty things to say about the world we live in and the way we live today, yet he’ll probably be best […]

Mike Myers, the writer and actor in the outrageous comedy The Love Guru, which some Hindus have found to be offensive, wants to star in a Bollywood musical. And he is very serious about it.“I would love to be in a Bollywood film,” he said at the press day for The Love Guru held at […]

In the big-screen adaptation of the ’60s TV show Get Smart, Alan Arkin takes on the role of The Chief, the spymaster originally portrayed by Edward Platt. Bold, resolute, and perpetually frustrated by the efforts and mistakes of the overly-enthusiastic Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell), The Chief is an ideal part for someone with Arkin’s slow-burn […]

Hello, American Girl doll franchise. Ah, what? For those outside the U. S., here’s the story of a growth industry about to get bigger with assistance from actress Abigail Breslin. Here’s the scoop.
Pleasant Company, a subsidiary of Mattel, first produced dolls, then books, and magazines for young girls and teenagers in the late 1980s and […]