New York magazine film critic David Edelstein is public enemy number one after publishing the first negative review of the much-anticipated and lauded The Dark Knight. Batman fans and fellow critics are firing back, saying he just didn’t “get” the film. Edelstein gave the film a negative review due to violence and “morbid” factors that seem related to Ledger’s untimely death:
The momentum doesn’t carry through, though. The Dark Knight is all fits and starts—fitfully suspenseful, fitfully scary, one jerky episode after another with jolts of brutality to keep you revved up. When Burton’s Batman came out, some prominent critics griped that the film was too violent for kids. Wait’ll they get a load of this.
[ NY Magazine ]
Many of the latest superhero movies are not for kids. The films are a darker take on the masked hero genre and are aimed at an adult audience.
It is unfair of me to judge the sole negative review of the film based on t...
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jCauty&SON are holding a Splatter exhibition at The Aquarium in London. The multi-media art show focuses on “the plausible impossibility of death in the mind of cartoon characters”. The Slash Film website posted some hysterical photos today from the exhibit such as the one below. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ON /FILM…
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A fetus, in our Mary-Kate Olsen? It’s more likely than you think. NZCity reports:
The 22-year-old star – who shot to fame alongside twin sister Ashley in hit US TV show ‘Full House’ aged nine months – has sparked rumours she is expecting her first child after her weight shot up to 102lbs, according to National Enquirer magazine.
A source said: "Mary-Kate has been looking a lot rounder recently. It is good she has put on weight, because she previously suffered from anor... more
Yeah, RIGHT! From: bestcelebscoop.com Post Date: 2008-12-01 12:11:00
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The Post-Chronicle reports that Mary-Kate Olsen is pregnant.
The 22-year-old star - who shot to fame alongside twin sister Ashley in hit US TV show ‘Full House’ at nine months old - has sparked rumors she is expecting her first child after her weight shot up to 102lbs (WHOOP-DE-DOO!), according to National Enquirer magazine.
A source said: “Mary-Kate has been looking a lot rounder recently. It is good she has put on weight, because she ... more
Law and Order, a well watched weekly serial about homicide detectives reportedly will rip another episode from the headlines, by making an episode that will be based loosely on Ledgers death
The storyline will be based around a male model (Ryan Locke) who “has a great career and gets all the ladies” dying from a drug overdose.
A source told Page Six that the plot is “supposed to be about Heath Ledger”, adding: “leaves a club with a girl. They have sex and do d... more
Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo get lost in thought - but are still lookin’ damn good - while sitting courtside as the visiting Los Angeles Lakers beat the Dallas Mavericks 79-74 Tuesday at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Tex.
Drillbit Taylor says English is his native tongue. Jessica Simpson, however, isn’t so sure. She’s been know to not speak so… good.
Perhaps Jessica Simpson is feigning interest in sports - or that she has a brain - in order... more
Britney Spears joined her mom Lynne and her father Jamie for a bite to eat at the Paradise Cove Beach Café in Malibu, California, last night.
Lynne — who recently visited the set of CBS’ How I Met Your Mother, which will mark Britney’s return to TV next week — threw a coat over her eldest daughter’s head to shield her from the swarm of celebrity news photographers.
Monday, Lynne (who is divorced from Jamie Spears) spent time with her two little grandchildren, Se... more
They manage to often evade celebrity gossip photographers, but Ashley Tisdale and Jared Murillo were spotted last night at a taping for America’s Best Dance Crew.
The cute couple could probably win that competition if they tried, but the duo appears content to sit this one out.
While not as exciting as Audrina Patridge nude photos, it’s still nice to see Ashley Tisdale and Jared Murillo out and about.
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After skyrocketing to instant notoriety and fame in the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal, America’s most famous call girl, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, recently received a $1 million offer to pose and tour with Girls Gone Wild.
Little did GGW magnate Joe Francis know that she’d already gone wild !
Inside the video vaults of Girls Gone Wild is footage of an 18-year-old Ashley Dupre naked and cavorting on the GGW bus and doing scenes with another woman in 2003, the video company announced ... more
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