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Ralph Fiennes spoke at the New York Film Festival NYFF
Read MoreASJA Celebrity Journalism Panel: Dorri Olds is an award-winning writer who has published hundreds of articles for web and print markets including The New York Times and The Forward. Olds is also a featured writer for The Fix. Olds interviews A-list stars and writes movie and book reviews. In addition, her site’s three blogs: Movies, Dogs, and OldsNews have a large audience. Her YouTube channel boasts nearly 200,000 views. She’s a whiz with web design, branding, marketing and social media.
Read MoreWritten for TheBlot Yesterday TheBlot caught up with director Stu Zicherman and actor Adam Scott to talk about their Indie, “A.C.O.D,” which opened in theaters today. A.C.O.D. stands for Adult Children of Divorce and this is a darkish comedy about Carter (Adam Scott), a self-diagnosed, well-adjusted restaurateur in a stable relationship with a beautiful girlfriend (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). Carter … Read more
Read MoreSexy Chris Hemsworth stars as race car driver James Hunt in Ron Howard’s movie ‘Rush.
Read MoreAnd While We Were Here is an indie starring Kate Bosworth as Jane, a writer whose marriage is strained-to-breaking. She is aching to find meaning in her life. Jane accompanies her husband Leonard (Iddo Goldberg) to Italy’s Amalfi Coast paradise where she has decided she will spend the time revisiting a recorded interview she did with her grandmother (narrated by Claire Bloom) and mold the WWII stories into a memoir. We find out through a casual remark how bored Jane has been with writing fluff pieces for a magazine. – See more at: http://theblot.com/movie-and-while-we-were-here-breathes-life-into-sad-cliches-774319#sthash.7pkYaQQe.dpuf
Read MoreSeptember 7th is the 480th birthday of Queen Elizabeth I, also known as Good Queen Bess. From November 17th, 1558, until her death on March 24th, 1603, Queen Elizabeth I was the queen regnant of England and Ireland. She has been depicted in over 20 films and more than twice that amount of television series and miniseries. After so many performances, only the best stick out, so to celebrate the Virgin Queen’s birthday, here is a list of the top 5 actresses to portray her.
Read MoreTop Ten Serial Killers Who Murdered Together: Alton Coleman and Debra Brown, David and Catherine Birnie, Faye and Ray Copeland, Fred and Rosemary West, Gerald and Charlene Gallego, Jens Söring and Elizabeth Haysom, Judith and Alvin Neelley, Michelle Michaud and James Daveggio, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, Ricky Davis and Dena Riley
Read MoreNative New Yorker Josh Pais shines in Showtime’s “Ray Donovan” as creepy rich guy Stu Feldman. He is also starring in writer director Lynn Shelton’s 2013 Sundance Official Selection indie, “Touchy Feely.” Abby, a massage therapist (Rosemarie DeWitt), has a commitment-phobia attack that gushes out sideways. She’s caught the heebie-jeebies and can’t touch other people’s skin—awkward in her line of work. Abby’s brother Paul (Pais) is a sad, uptight, socially inept dentist with a floundering practice. Ellen Page plays his encouraging and emotionally-stunted daughter. The talented cast includes DeWitt’s real-life hubby Ron Livingston, and Allison Janney as the healer who loosens Paul up. “Touchy Feely” is about living in one’s skin, both figuratively and literally.
Read MorePatrick Wilson, star of the sleeper hit of this summer [note: this interview was in 2013], The Conjuring, has secrets to tell and rumors to confirm. All six-foot-one of him sauntered into our interview last week in Midtown Manhattan. His swimming pool eyes are even more piercing in person than they are onscreen. The hunky Wilson … Read more
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