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Happy Pi Day! 3.14 reasons to celebrate

Mar 14, 2010 11:26am

Today is March 14, which means one thing: It’s Pi Day! (For those of us who slept through math, pi = 3.14 = March 14) To celebrate, I thought we’d break out the number’s 3.14 greatest pop culture moments: 1. The Net (1995) This cyberthriller starred a young Sandra Bullock as a...

‘The Antonio Treatment’: Yet another addictive HGTV show?

Mar 14, 2010 10:00am

I am addicted to HGTV, which is strange considering I don’t have a bathroom that needs to be remodeled, my 18th floor apartment doesn’t have a backyard to landscape, and I’m certainly not looking for a second home in some far-off land (as awesome as that would be). But despite...

Dakota Fanning: The red carpet’s next big thing?

Mar 14, 2010 9:15am

I totally agreed with my colleague, Tim Stack, when he predicted Avatar star Zoë Saldana would be this year’s most promising fashionista. That was then, when she wore that magnificent Roland Mouret gown to her film’s London premiere. But after two extremely disappointing turns, first at the Golden Globes and...

SXSW Film Festival: ‘Barry Munday’ and the legend of Judy Greer

Mar 14, 2010 8:36am

The biggest delight of Day 2 of the Austin-based film festival was the world premiere of Barry Munday, director Chris D’Arienzo’s big-hearted debut about a rugby-wearing, boob-leering office drone who loses his testicles in a freak accident. Stay with me, people! Barry, played with great oafishness by Patrick Wilson, is...

Jimmy Kimmel’s Handsome Men’s Club sketch reairs tonight!

Mar 13, 2010 10:30am

The Handsome Men’s Club sketch from Jimmy Kimmel Live! is like the gift that keeps of giving. For those who missed it, you can check out the re-airing of this hilarious bit — along with Kimmel’s entire post-Oscars special — tonight at 10 p.m. EST on ABC. To prep you...

SXSW Film Festival: ‘Kick-Ass’ premiere, ‘Predators’ first look

Mar 13, 2010 7:35am

The line of movie geeks eager to celebrate Friday’s opening night of Austin’s SXSW film festival coiled around the grand Paramount theater. The draw was the world premiere of Kick-Ass (in theaters April 16), Matthew Vaughn’s cheeky take on the superhero movie genre. Based on Mark Millar’s popular comic book...

This Week on Stage: ‘Phantom’ sequel ‘Love Never Dies’ fails to haunt

Mar 13, 2010 6:35am

This week saw the London opening of Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s eagerly awaited sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. EW’s Mark Shenton described the show as “frequently clunky and clumsy,” with a score “that seems like a rehashed parade of pastiche and throbbing crashing-chord melodies.” (He gives...

‘Remember Me’ twist ending: What did you think?

Mar 13, 2010 6:30am

In case you haven’t heard, there’s a twist at the end of the new Robert Pattinson movie, Remember Me. A big twist. The kind that makes half the people in the theater go “Wha…?” in unison the moment it hits. Plenty of bloggers have already gone down spoiler road, so...

‘Caprica’ Recap: My brain hurts so good

Mar 12, 2010 11:00pm

I try not to talk too much about Battlestar Galactica in these recaps. I feel that I’d be doing Caprica a bit of a disservice; this new show is still barely half a season old, while BSG exists now as a complete story, in 75 chapters (plus webisodes.) Moreover, since...

‘Community’ recap: That’ll do, that’ll do

Mar 12, 2010 5:04pm

As pleasant as a midsummer’s breeze, last night’s Community was a soothing affair with a number of cleverly written zingers. If the episode’s story lines didn’t quite work (especially with regard to Britta’s foolhardy determination to please Troy’s grandmother), the show compensated with some mighty fine dialogue — lines that...