from Facebook: Stana Katic was forced out of Castle
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Gangster Squad! In color! This is blustery postwar mythologizing about the violent birth of the modern metropolis, all pulpy-bright even when it’s night…
“There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.”
Too white, too thin, too interchangeable: the traditional cover featuring young talent on the rise always comes under massive scrutiny, and the ritual is now in full swing…
My TV viewing has decreased considerably since I arrived in London in January, so this is a tough one for me…
Plus: Cannes shocked by We Need to Talk About Kevin and Lars von Trier; family values robot from the future Arnold Schwarzenegger turns out to be a hypocrite…
The second best thing about Castle (after Nathan Fillion, of course)? Cutie Seamus Dever.
Plus: Javier Bardem to star in Chilean mine movie; Matt Damon not to star in the next Bourne movie; Napoleon Dynamite and How to Train Your Dragon going to TV; lots more…
Because Mal Reynolds is like Han Solo, only better, which shouldn’t be possible, except we’re talking about Nathan Fillion here…
It was almost exactly a year ago when we talked about whether it’s important for a movie to be shot in the place where it’s set. This was inspired by Knowing, which had just opened, and which was set in part in New York City but was shot in Melbourne, and it showed. The comments … more…