Movies
The 15 Best and Worst Oscar Speeches of All Time
With only 3 weeks until the ceremony, this month I’ll be focusing on the Oscars. (Big change, I know.) Starting things off are my picks […]
Temple Prof with “Silver Linings” Role Kissed by Bradley Cooper. Sort of.
On the cheek, on the cheek. Settle down everyone. Temple professor and prominent Philly theater actress Cheryl Williams, in case you weren’t aware, played Jennifer […]
9 Best Clips of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice at the Movies
It’s a big week for Jane Austen acolytes. Monday, you might have read, marked the bicentennial of every old English major’s comfort read: Pride & […]
Philly Might Get TKTS-Style Booth at City Hall
This wasn’t on Victor Fiorillo’s list of stuff Philly should steal from New York, but it should’ve been. Curbed Philly notes that the Dilworth Plaza […]
12 Movies, TV Shows That Ruined Your Childhood
“I don’t even like that goat-thing,” said my friend Carrie as our conversation turned to Pan’s Labyrinth. As it often does. It is one of […]
Bradley Cooper Wants to Play Lance Armstrong in the Movie
We don’t even know yet if there will be a “Lance Armstrong’s fall from grace movie”—Just kidding! There totally will be!—but the competition for casting […]
Silver Linings Playbook Could Replace Rocky As Source of Philly Movie Cliches
If you’ve ever been to the Philadelphia Museum of Art on a halfway warm day, you’ve no doubt noticed the waves and waves and waves […]
Cinedelphia Film Festival Offers First Lineup Details
It’s apparently a day for dreaming of warmer times and cultural happenings. The Cinedelphia Film Festival today revealed the first details of the lineup for […]
The Movies, TV Shows and Books You Should Be Excited About in 2013
As the awards season slowly comes to an end, we can finally stop looking back on 2012 and start looking forward to what’s to come […]
Pacino to Play Paterno in “Happy Valley”
Lead Actor: Al Pacino. Director: Brian De Palma. Setting: Penn State. Based off: Joe Posnanski’s Paterno. Premise: “This story of a complex, intensely righteous man […]
Chuck Norris Endorses Bibi Netanyahu
America’s political system suffers from “permanent campaign syndrome,” which causes candidates to never stop running for office. But right now, in that little window of […]
Local Romance Alert: T-Swift and Bradley Cooper?
Lovesick (Reading native) Taylor Swift, ever eager to taste the flavor of the day, has her sights set on (Jenkintown native) Bradley Cooper. Swift, who […]
Golden Globes Recap: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Within moments of the start of the 70th annual Golden Globes, I knew that I wanted Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to host every awards […]
WSJ: Silver Linings’ Jacki Weaver Nails Philly Accent
After Australian “Silver Linings Playbook” actress Jacki Weaver was nominated for an Oscar this week (she plays Bradley Cooper’s mom), she was interviewed by the […]
Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar Snub and Other Academy Award Surprises
At 8:30am yesterday morning, Emma Stone and this year’s Oscar host Seth MacFarlane announced the nominations for the 85th annual Academy Awards, taking place Sunday, […]