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About a week ago, AMC Entertainment offered viewers the opportunity to get a refund for their ticket if they saw, but didn’t like Cinderella Man directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger and Paul Giamatti. This was a rare thing, which AMC started with a money-back guarantee …

Ninety-one countries ranging across the geographical, economic and cultural spectrum have been invited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to submit their best films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 78th Academy Awards. In 2004, 50 countries submitted films for consideration, and the …

Much to their mutual relief, director Steven Spielberg and star Tom Cruise are hitmakers again with their remake of War of the Worlds. With over $113 million at the North American box office and an additional $102m elsewhere for its first six days of release, War has already earned more …

This is the entertainment product, television shows on DVD. The marketplace has been flooded by media companies emptying their vaults. Variety reports that “Americans spent $2.8 billion buying TV shows on DVD in 2004, up from just $160 million in 2000, making TV product the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. …

Directed by Martin Scorsese Written by Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese In celebration of the 10th anniversary of its release, Universal has re-released Martin Scorsese’s Casino on DVD. The film fictionalizes the story of how the mob lost their casinos in Las Vegas, due in part to the relationship between …

Initially appearing as a two-hour CBS television special, Elvis by the Presleys is a two-disc set features over four hours about the life of Elvis Presley told by those who were the closest to him. It is filled with interviews of family and friends, famous performances and footage of Elvis, …

Directed by Ko Nakahira Screenplay by Shintaro Ishihara based on his novel Crazed Fruit, the directorial debut of Nakahira, is a Greek tragedy set amongst the idle rich kids of postwar Japan. They drink and carouse, wandering aimlessly through a lazy summer looking for kicks and cheap thrills. This 1956 …

A concert in the Key of Me is far more rewarding. You can feed your ego while appearing to do something important.

American Idol judge and unhappy manicure consumer Paula Abdul spoke passionately yesterday in favor of legislation before the California Senate Business and Professions Committee that would establish safety standards for manicure and pedicure equipment and rewrite state regulations mandating that nail shops follow sanitary practices. In urging legislators to pass …

Tom Cruise continues his tear through the media machine, promoting his new film War of the Worlds, which opens nationwide tomorrow. When we last spoke of such things he sparred with The Today Show’s Matt Lauer on matters of religion and psychopharmacology, calling psychiatry a “pseudo-science.” He also blathered on …