Oct 10
“It Came From Yesterday” will have its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater tonight for a VIP audience and Monday and Tuesday for the public.
It’s a sci-fi feature, starring and directed by Jeff Waltrowski, about a professor who — with the help of his sidekicks, Buddy and Penny Precious of The Electric Club — must unravel a mysterious plot of interdimensional, insect-like creatures intent on enslaving the human race.
On Monday, moviegoers at the Dormont theater can have a souvenir photo taken in front of a green screen, and they will then be inserted into a commemorative screenshot from the movie.
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Aug 27
Yankees star Derek Jeter, 37, and Charlie’s Angels actress Minka Kelly, 31, have called it quits after three years together.
Kelly’s rep confirmed the split to People magazine.
“They care about each other and it was amicable,” a source told the magazine. “They’re still friends.”
Kelly, who has been in Miami filming ABC’s remake of Charlie’s Angels, was cheering alongside Jeter’s family last month at Yankee Stadium when the shortstop got his 3,000th hit.
The couple, who tried to keep a low profile, were often the subject of engagement rumors and reluctant to talk about their relationship. Read full article…
Aug 27
Writer-producer Luc Besson gives us a parody of his earliest hits “La Femme Nikita” and “The Professional” with “Colombiana,” a lady-assassin star vehicle for “Avatar’s” blue angel, Zoe Saldana.
See Zoe kill. See Zoe strip. Many times. See Zoe shower — a PG-13 shower. See Zoe dance seductively all by herself. See Zoe slip into a cat suit to carry out a hit from inside a jailhouse. See Zoe go for a swim. With sharks. In a sexy swimsuit.
“Colombiana” is a laugh-out-loud exploitation film about a young girl who, with bravery and confidence and physical skills beyond her years, escaped from the drug lords who killed her drug-lord daddy in Bogota, only to travel to America where she grows up and becomes a “tag killer,” somebody who marks her victims with a Cataleya orchid, because Cataleya is her name.
Cliff Curtis (“Sunshine”) is the uncle who trains her and arranges her business affairs — her hits.
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Jul 26
Showtime packages online episodes into half-hour comedy
Not that it’s a competition (because we all know how much they love one another), but Lisa Kudrow has certainly had the most varied career of her “Friends” colleagues.
In the seven years since the show ended, Kudrow had done film roles and a star turn in the fabulous and tragically short-lived series “The Comeback.” She also executive produces the American version of the popular British show “Who Do You Think You Are?” and three years ago ventured into the brave new world of webisodes.
“Web Therapy” is a semi-improvised series in which Fiona Wallice (Kudrow), Wharton grad turned “therapist,” sees her patients via three-minute video chats.
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