Now that your favorite (second-favorite?) Tudors player Henry Cavill is starring in Warner Bros.'s new Superman reboot, it's time to speculate about who can and should play Lois Lane, a character whose energy and charisma make Superman worth revisiting. Does rumored contender Kristen Stewart have the stuff to take up Margot Kidder's mantle? I'm on the fence, but let's watch Kidder's classic screen test for 1978's Superman: The Movie -- along with a handful of also-rans (including Stockard Channing and Lesley Ann Warren) -- and see where Ms. Stewart fits among the pack.
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The final season of Lost debuted on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. That means at this time last year, the words "flash sideways" weren't conjoined inside your brain, and the fates of those plucky Oceanic 815 survivors were unknown. In honor of this anniversary -- hey, if it's good enough for Back to the Future it's good enough for Lost -- let's take a look at what each cast member is up to nowadays.
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Cairo. Tunisia. Like it or not, revolution is in the air! When you finally get burned out on 24-hour-news pundits arguing about the causes, results and appropriate response to these protests, try turning to the other best place to gain perspective on life. Yep, I'm talking about the movies. To that end, here is a list of nine great films about revolt that will feed whatever revolutionary fantasies, nightmares or confusion you may have during these times of unrest.
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Fair warning: That isn't as easy as you think. Oh, sure, you'll get the cover foursome immediately -- Ryan Reynolds, James Franco, Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal (if only magazine covers translated into box office, Love & Other Drugs would have been Avatar) -- but once you reach the third panel, things get pretty tough. Here's my one hint: Robert Duvall is the bartender. Your unenviable task lies ahead.
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Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: A Stephen King classic lands on the development track... an unlikely co-star orders Leonardo DiCaprio to "pucker up"... The King's Speech acquires another defender... John Cusack gets on a roll about Egypt... and more!
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You know those nights where you're just in the mood to relax with a silly romantic comedy and you think to yourself, "Gee. I sure wish I could get some advice on what to see from the writer of American Psycho?" Well this month, Bret Easton Ellis has your back! And hold reserve all judgement; The one with the most perverse sex act is not the automatic winner here. But yeah, of course Ellis will still mention that act in his slam. Read on for the author's picks and pans.
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At this point, I'm fine with film directors taking on advertisements every now and then for money or, in a few cases, for the creative freedom it allows them. That David Lynch Dior commercial was fun, and I thought that Wong Kar Wai's spot for BMW films was some of his best work in the last decade. But recently, I saw a cheesy, totally baffling Chanel commercial at the French cinema only to find out that it was directed by Martin Scorsese. And now there's this Robert Rodriguez-directed Nike advertisement short film starring Kobe Bryant, Bruce Willis, Danny Trejo and Kanye West. Let's investigate which ad makes a better case for film directors staying away from commercials.
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Every month at Movieline, we collect the best interviews, smartest features, and most compelling reviews we've produced, and curate them in one easy-to-use table of contents called the Virtual Newsstand, which pays tribute to our print magazine history. Here's the Virtual Newsstand for January 2011.
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· This poster for Madea's Big Happy Family speaks for itself. Handle it if you can. [ONTD]
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Street artist, notorious recluse, and Oscar-nominated documentarian Banksy may not be doing much in-person press as his Exit Through the Gift Shop gears up to take on the Academy Awards - but is he campaigning nonetheless? Take a look at the Oscar-themed mural that popped up this week in Los Angeles featuring a Banksy-esque Oscar statuette and an army of Storm Trooper guards/production assistants/talking heads.
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"I actually AM living the dream, a-hole. But thanks for the snarkiness about me and my career! Because that's always fun to see..." And thus, via Twitter, Busy Philipps declined to participate in this morning's open captioning of a random-ish image of her, Harvey Weinstein and Darren Aronofsky following last night's SAG Awards. 🙁 Please don't take it that way, Busy! All I meant was that your show wasn't nominated for anything, and so that might have made you an unlikelier invitee than those two fellows. I sincerely apologize if it came out all wrong! Like White Chicks. [@busyphilipps25]
It seems like a forgone conclusion at this point that a) The King's Speech is on a direct course to a Best Picture win and that b) to capitalize on that win, the film will be re-released with some edits or "bleeps" so it can earn a PG-13 rating and play to a younger crowd. Kids today! They love a good expletive-free British period piece! Of course, the practice of cutting a few scenes actually makes sense for a movie that gets the dreaded NC-17 or X (A Clockwork Orange being one notable examples), considering how most theaters won't even carry the film in that instance. But from an R to a PG-13? Well, in that case, here is every single R-rated Academy Award winning Best Picture and some suggestions on how each and every one can be made more accessible to a wider audience.
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If you thought last year's Sundance bounty yielded a strong crop of Academy Award nominees, just wait 'til the 40+ films to get distribution out of Park City hit theaters and start campaigning for Oscar glory. Should breakout star Lizzie Olsen start composing her acceptance speech now? Which film will emerge the Winter's Bone of 2011? Movieline's panel of experts look back on Sundance and weigh in: Which Sundance films will make it to next year's Academy Awards?
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Thank God Jennifer Lawrence is one of life's great winners right now. Otherwise I'd have taken a single look at these clips from her Grand Jury Prize winning Sundance jam Like Crazy and thrown the good china at my own face. The movie simply has to be better than these make it seem, but so far it looks like that frown porno Boohoo Valentine mixed with The Family Stone 2: We All Have Cancer This Time.
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Back in December, Miley Cyrus received widespread criticism from the blogosphere (and Bill O'Reilly), after TMZ caught the star partying with a bong. That incident should have taught all of us teenage pop stars worth over $100 million something about doing drugs in front of anyone with a camera phone, a memory or crude negotiation skills. But if it didn't, maybe the following tale will scare you straight.
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