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Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, Natalie Cole and More to Perform at White House Civil Rights Concert

This year, to celebrate February as Black History Month, the Obamas have planned something special—and we’re all invited. On Feb. 10, Barack and Michelle will host In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement, including performances by Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, Natalie Cole and John Legend. Morgan Freeman and Queen Latifah have been tapped to emcee the event, which will be broadcast on PBS at 8 p.m. EST on Friday, Feb. 11 (the night after the actual concert)....  read more

The 10 Best Film Portrayals of God & The Devil

Actors sometimes are born to play a role, and I'm not sure what it says about the following 10 men and women that their particular role is either of unending love or eternal torment.  read more

Clint Eastwood Casts Bryce Dallas Howard Alongside Matt Damon in Hereafter

Although his much-anticipated and highly praised Invictus only opened Friday in the U.S., Clint Eastwood is wasting no time lining up a cast for his next project....  read more

Nelson Mandela Endorsed Morgan Freeman 15 Years Ago for Invictus

Clint Eastwood’s Invictus, out today, chronicles the real-life story of the 1995 South African rugby team’s underdog race for the World Cup, and President Nelson Mandela’s efforts to heal his post-apartheid country by forging a relationship with the star of the team. Morgan Freeman plays Mandela, and Matt Damon plays the rugby MVP, Francois Pienaar....  read more

Watch the Trailer for Invictus: Is This the Next Best Picture?

It’s a movie about the transformation of the racial culture of South Africa. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. Anybody else feel like they know where this is headed?...  read more

Ten Television Commercials Featuring Voiceovers by Famous Actors

For those of us who still don’t have TiVo or a DVR (And there are dozens of us!), our television-watching habits naturally include some commercial viewing. And occasionally, a disembodied voice emanates from the screen that is so familiar, it drives you crazy until you are able to place it. Here, we identify 10 commercials featuring voiceovers by famous actors, to ease your no-doubt frustrated mind....  read more

Wanted 2 coming to a theater near you

Despite being limited by the graphic novel's original story, Wanted is primed to return with a whole new storyline and in Wanted 2. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Pooh’s Heffalump Movie's Evan Spiliotopoulos has been tapped to help flesh out a new storyline, something that might prove as a challenge, since most of the characters died in the first film....  read more

Sundance 2009: Film Round-Up

Sundance Film Roundup Narrative Films An Education Nick Hornby wrote the script for An Education, so you’d expect the dialogue to be superb, and it is. (Although, it’s a strange choice to adapt someone else’s book instead of one of his own; he’d “rather mess up other people’s stories.”) And newcomer Carey Mulligan is spectacular in the leading role, so good that if I had seen the film earlier I would have made a point to see The Greatest, another Sundance selection starring Mulligan. In this one, though, she plays a schoolgirl who begins to spend time with an older...  read more

Morgan Freeman injured in car accident

Sunday evening reports came from CNN that actor Morgan Freeman was seriously injured in a car accident over the weekend. According to the report, the Oscar-winning actor was driving down a highway south of Memphis with Demaris Meyer when their car veered off the highway and flipped several times. Freeman had to be extracted from the wreckage using the jaws of life....  read more

Wanted

If you thought this past weekend at the multiplex offered a reprieve from...  read more