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The Good In its Seventh Season, this show really tried to stretch itself. The Bad Are bloopers really to be considered an extra feature? Home Improvement: The Complete Seventh Season finds the Taylor family at a crossroads. The kids are growing up and Tim (Tim Allen) and his wife Jill (Patricia Richardson) find themselves experiencing some growing pains of their own. Tim no longer seems to be happy with his family life and his work on his Tool Time show....

A Private War, without a doubt, was made to shake us out of our escapism – and comfort-oriented culture. It tells a powerful, haunting story about front-line journalism and gives voice to civilians living in war zones. Filmmaker Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land, City of Ghost) makes us question our own courage, solidarity, and willingness to face the harshness of the world. He opened up about the difficulty of making A Private War to Indie Wire by saying, “Your human instinct is to put the camera down and give someone space....

When a serial killer is finally caught, investigations into their crimes reveal much about the society that allowed their prolific offenses to occur. It is seldom the case that a murderer is some sort of criminal mastermind, perfectly covering their tracks to avoid detection. Rather, a combination of external factors allows them to leave such staggering body counts in their wake. A serial killer might prey on overlooked communities or seek targets that lack familial connections, hoping that a lackluster police presence in an underserved area or the absence of concerned family members will allow them to kill without scrutiny....

RuPaul Charles, also known simply as RuPaul, is an iconic drag queen, musician, and model. RuPaul was a popular fixture in the LGBT nightclub scene of New York and became internationally known after his debut single, “Supermodel (You Better Work),” which came off of his debut studio album, Supermodel of the World (1993). RuPaul went on to become the first drag queen to land a major cosmetic campaign when he became a spokesperson for MAC Cosmetics in 1994, raising money for the MAC AIDS Fund....

Actor Idris Elba is set to play South African leader Nelson Mandela in the biopic Long Walk to Freedom, with Naomie Harris in talks to portray Nelson Mandela’s wife, Winnie Mandela. Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl) is in negotiations to direct Long Walk to Freedom, from a screenplay by William Nicholson (Les Miserables). Anant Singh is producing alongside David M. Thompson. Long Walk to Freedom is scheduled to begin production in May, on location in South Africa....

“Bleeding” is the first video from Ignite’s new album Our Darkest Days just released on Abacus Recordings. Ignite who have been crafting some of the most definitive melodic west coast hardcore over the past decade and also known for their no holds barred social and politically engaging lyrics. This song and video is no different as the subject deals with the Iraq occupation by the U.S. As bassist Brett Rasmussen explains, it is about “the lies our Government told us to get us into a war without taking the rest of the world’s consideration into it....

A&E Network is developing a reality series based on celebrity garage sales created and hosted by Illeana Douglas, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The cable network has shot a pilot for the project, titled Celebrity Garage Sale, which features Douglas trying to help her famous friends get rid of their unwanted junk, personal items and dusty memorabilia by having their own garage sale. The premise of a show in which celebrities hold garage sales for charity is said to have long been a “pet project” for Douglas....

We have a brand new video with footage from the brand new trailer of Inglourious Basterds, which is currently set for release on August 21. Click below for some footage for the first trailer that is said to premiere tonight on Entertainment Tonight. Keep your eyes peeled here as we’ll surely post the new, full trailer as soon as it’s available. UPDATE: (2/11/09 1:45 PM PST) We now have the full teaser trailer from this new Quentin Tarantino film right here for your viewing pleasure....

Valerie Bertinelli (pre-Jenny Craig) stars as Claire, a mother of two daughters who has a special gift. She is psychic. She has “visions” which are, at times, troubling. She has had this gift since she was a young girl, but lately the visions lead to something horrific. When Claire and her family move back to her husband’s childhood home in a small town everything begins to unravel. The day after they move in her husband drowns and Claire “sees” him drowning in one of her visions, but by the time she summons help, in the form of her friend the sheriff, he is too late to save the man....

Could Christina Bale’s days as Batman be numbered? A recent report from Australian news site news.com.au suggests that Bale may lose out his role to his Terminator Salvation co-star, Sam Worthington. Worthington’s star is on the rise with his role in Terminator Salvation and his upcoming role in James Cameron’s Avatar. Gossip suggests that Bale’s blow-up on the Terminator set may have damaged his credibility as Batman, and that they may be looking for a replacement for the star of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight....

If you want to learn a little bit more about Avatar, then you’ve come to the right place. Search Engine Watch was at the Microsoft Advance ‘08 where director James Cameron was on hand to discuss his new epic film. “Avatar will make people truly experience something,” said Cameron. “One more layer of the suspension of disbelief will be removed. All the syn-thespians are photo-realistic. Now that we’ve achieved it, we discovered CG characters in 3D look more real than in 2D....

Sierra/Affinity announced today that they will commence sales efforts in Berlin on the remake of the 1987 feature film Heat with Jason Statham set to star and Brian De Palma directing the action film from a script adapted by two-time Oscar winner William Goldman. Goldman also wrote the original screenplay of the 1987 version of the film which starred Burt Reynolds. Both the modern take as well as the film from the 80’s are based on Goldman’s novel of the same title....

Today MTV announced its hit reality series Jersey Shore has been renewed for Season 6. The network also released a sneak peek video for Jersey Shore: The Reunion, which airs Thursday, March 22 at 10 PM ET. Check it out as Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino walks off stage, then continue reading for more details. MTV Shows MTV gets ready for fist pumps and baby bumps, with the announcement of a sixth season of Jersey Shore....

It takes a monster, to stop a monster. And that’s what Jessica has become as all-new episodes prepare for release this spring. Today, Netflix and Marvel have finally unleashed the deadly new Jessica Jones trailer, which pushes our favorite liquored up superhero to the very edge of madness. Will she be able to pull herself back down? Netflix not only released the second trailer for its highly anticipated original series Marvel’s Jessica Jones, but they are giving us a cool new one-sheet as well....

Actors John Krasinski and Emily Blunt are well-known for being one of the internet’s favorite celebrity couples. Since tying the knot back in 2010 with a low-key ceremony, Krasinski and Blunt haven’t been shy about publicly declaring their affection for one another. More recently, The Office star sat down for a chat with Parade before the release of the latest season of Krasinski’s show, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. Unsurprisingly, Krasinski had plenty of positive things to say about his wife during the exclusive interview....

Director Steve Jacobs is adapting Disgrace, an adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s novel from a script by his partner, the actor Anna-Maria Monticelli, according to Production Weekly. It is based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by South African Coetzee and sees John Malkovich playing a disgraced university professor. Set in post-apartheid Cape Town, the film takes as its complex central character 52-year-old English professor whose preoccupation with Romantic poetry - and romancing his students - threatens to turn him into a “a moral dinosaur”....

Rick Riordan is a well-known name in young adult fantasy circles for his best-selling Percy Jackson series. Now the novelist is back in the limelight with a new deal with Netflix to develop his Kane Chronicles series as a set of movies produced by the streaming giant. Riordan took to his blog to announce the news with the following statement. Similar to how the Percy Jackson series mined Greek mythology to tell a modern tale about a half-human son of Poseidon, Kane Chronicles dips its toes into Egyptian mythology for inspiration....

Point Break director Kathryn Bigelow is currently prepping her Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty have all signed on to star in the film. The movie is based on recently declassified information about an elite Army Explosive Ordinance Disposal team in present day Baghdad that comes under sniper fire and an onslaught of bombs. Mark Boal wrote the script....

In 2011, Rupert Wyatt, director of the 2008 feature, The Escapist, reworked the iconic film Planet of the Apes. It was a grand venture, especially given the classic nature of the 1968 original screenplay with leading man Charlton Heston. However, even this earlier work was an adaptation of Pierre Boulle’s 1964 literary work, La Planete des Singes (Planet of the Apes), so expectations were tempered. There was but one prevailing question, would Wyatt’s adaptation resemble the earlier work or the 2001 adaptation?...

Spoiler Warning: Knives Out (2019) With an all-star cast, a genuinely gripping murder mystery, and social commentary blended together with hilarious dialogue and visual gags, Rian Johnson’s Knives Out became a critical and commercial success back when it was released in 2019. It is then no wonder that a sequel, Knives Out 2, was eventually set for development. Following the success of the first Knives Out, Netflix purchased the rights to the film franchise for an impressive $450 million....