Image Credit: Peter Iovino/CBS FilmsIs Alex O’Loughlin a movie star? That’s the question I wanted to answer when I went to see The Back-up Plan this weekend. For all my documented appreciation of his hotness, I was surprisingly skeptical. I feel like for a TV actor to make it on the big screen, his lure should be so powerful that you have to watch whatever series he appears on — and even though I’d been bitten by Moonlight, I never actually made it to Three Rivers. Read More...
One imagines that Travis Bickle didn’t have much of a celebration with friends for his 40th. But we’re not going to be so anti-social about his movie. It was on this date 40 years ago that moviegoers were asked a simple, menacing question by a troubled man staring in the mirror: “Are you talkin’ to me?” In a movie routinely regarded today as among the best ever made, that improvised line was both a challenge and a cry for help. Read More...
The 2001 Premiere of 'Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone' Gareth Davies/Getty Images Fifteen years ago Wednesday, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone arrived in theaters. After making its world premiere in London on Nov. 4, 2001, and hopping across the pond for the stateside celebration soon after, the first adaptation of J. K. Rowling's beloved series became available to viewers on Nov. 16, 2001. It would go on to make more than $974. Read More...
