Entertainment Reviews

Review: Bareilles sticks to her guns with new CD
AP – 5 mins ago

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Sara Bareilles, "Kaleidoscope Heart" (Epic) Full Story »
Music Review: Lady Saw is a reggae diva on new CD
AP – 39 mins ago

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Lady Saw, "My Way" (Toasting Music/Diva Records) Full Story »
Stephen Hawking suggests `theory of everything'
AP – Tue Sep 7, 8:31 am ET

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"The Grand Design" (Random House, $28), by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow: Cosmologists, the people who study the entire cosmos, will want to read British physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking's new book. Full Story »
Review: New murders mirror old in `Trail of Blood'
AP – Tue Sep 7, 7:57 am ET

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"Trail of Blood" (William Morrow, $24.99), by Lisa Black: The discovery of a body that appears to have been hidden for over 70 years spurs a contemporary murder spree in "Trail of Blood," Lisa Black's latest novel featuring forensic scientist Theresa MacLean. Full Story »
Italian "Gorbaciof" meticulously crafted
Reuters – Mon Sep 6, 11:45 pm ET

VENICE (Hollywood Reporter) - In 2008, consummate Italian theater and film star Toni Servillo wowed the international film world with a small but unforgettable role in Matteo Garrone's "Gomorrah" and as the titular figure of Paolo Sorrentino's "Il Divo." Full Story »
Reign of Assassins brings Mr & Mrs Smith to China
Reuters – Mon Sep 6, 11:44 pm ET

VENICE (Hollywood Reporter) - "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" relocate to ancient China in the dazzling martial-arts epic "Reign of Assassins," in which Asian superstars Michelle Yeoh and Jung Woo-Sung play an ordinary married couple, each unaware the spouse is a world-class assassin. Full Story »
"Never Let Me Go" a let-down
Reuters – Mon Sep 6, 10:16 pm ET

TELLURIDE, Colo. (Hollywood Reporter) - Mark Romanek's "Never Let Me Go" is definitely an art object, but is it a work of art? Expertly acted, impeccably photographed, intelligently written, even intermittently touching, the film is also too parched and ponderous to connect with a large audience. Full Story »
Aussie teen war drama set to explode worldwide
Reuters – Mon Sep 6, 9:49 pm ET

SYDNEY (Hollywood Reporter) - Australia may finally have a homegrown blockbuster on its hands with the terrifically engaging "Tomorrow, When the War Began," an action-packed war film for and about teenagers. Full Story »
"El Superstar" lacks satirical edge
Reuters – Mon Sep 6, 9:48 pm ET

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It bears the imprimatur of Norman Lear and George Lopez as executive producers and is distributed by Cinema Libre, known for handling social-issue films. But the satire lands softly in "El Superstar: The Unlikely Rise of Juan Frances," a mockumentary about the music-biz rise and fall of a white guy raised as a Chicano. Full Story »
"King's Speech" a royal treasure
Reuters – Mon Sep 6, 9:47 pm ET

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Lately, British filmmakers have zeroed in on personal moments and back stories that go a long way in not only humanizing their royal family but also creating a much greater awareness of the trials and difficulties faced by those in such "exalted" positions. Full Story »
Capsule reviews: 'The American,' 'Machete'
AP – Thu Sep 2, 4:18 pm ET

Capsule reviews of films opening this week: Full Story »
Writer tries to grow up in comedy 'It Must Be Him'
AP – Thu Sep 2, 3:23 pm ET

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NEW YORK - The spectacle of a morose Hollywood writer who is down on his luck shouldn't really be funny. But Kenny Solms, himself a successful, longtime Hollywood writer, takes the concept and runs with it in his amusing new comedy, "It Must Be Him." Full Story »
Review: Drew Barrymore's 'Going the Distance'
AP – Wed Sep 1, 7:35 pm ET

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In "Going the Distance," Drew Barrymore plays a quick-to-laugh, ambitious young hipster who loves cool indie bands, "Shawshank Redemption" and playing the old arcade games in bars. Jason Long, on the other hand, plays a quick-to-laugh, ambitious young hipster who loves cool indie bands, "Shawshank Redemption" and playing old arcade games in bars. Full Story »
Nazi thriller "The Debt" set in wrong period
Reuters – Mon Sep 6, 9:47 pm ET

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - As a thriller, "The Debt" performs many if not all the right moves. The suspense builds nicely, the twists come as surprises and its key characters are vivid enough. Full Story »
Review: 'Machete' serves relentless, bloody action
AP – Wed Sep 1, 3:57 pm ET

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Certainly, "Machete" is the best feature-length extension of a fake movie trailer in Hollywood history. Full Story »
David Arquette stranded in "Land of Astronauts"
Reuters – Mon Sep 6, 9:46 pm ET

MONTREAL (Hollywood Reporter) - Visually assured but chock full of cliches, Belgian-born filmmaker Carl Colpaert's "The Land of the Astronauts" is a waste of a promising premise and a game lead actor, David Arquette. Full Story »
`Brazil on the Rise' says future has arrived
AP – Wed Sep 1, 1:40 pm ET

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"Brazil on the Rise" (Palgrave Macmillan, $27) by Larry Rohter: When Larry Rohter stepped down as The New York Times' Brazil bureau chief in 2008, he was easily the most reviled foreign correspondent in the country. Full Story »
Director Peter Weir finds his "Way Back"
Reuters – Mon Sep 6, 9:46 pm ET

TELLURIDE, Colo. (Hollywood Reporter) - Peter Weir is rightly regarded as one of the world's master filmmakers, but he has not made a movie since 2003's "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," which surely reflects the growing challenges for directors who choose to follow an uncompromising artistic path in today's constricted cinematic universe. Full Story »