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We Bought a Zoo

<i>We Bought a Zoo</i>

If, while watching writer/director Cameron Crowe’s latest project, you should happen to forget the name of what you’re seeing, the film will happily remind you, three times. Twice via a precocious little girl (Maggie Elizabeth Jones) with just the right amount of sugar in her cadence. While this cinematic no-no is cringe-inducing, it’s only one of the problems with We Bought a Zoo....  read more

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Scarlett Johansson Cast in Once Director's Newest Musical

Scarlett Johansson Cast in <em>Once</em> Director's Newest Musical

It feels like it was just yesterday when Scarlett Johansson’s musical chops seemingly came out of nowhere with her partnership with Pete Yorn on the duo’s 2009 record, Break Up, but the actress has continued to tap into her talent and has just been confirmed as a cast member in Once director John Carney’s newest big screen musical....  read more

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A Few More Notable Bob Dylan Collaborations

A Few More Notable Bob Dylan Collaborations

During the 2011 Grammy Awards ceremony on Sunday night, Bob Dylan performed with Mumford & Sons and The Avett Brothers. In honor of the occasion, we decided to take a look at some of Dylan’s more notable collaborations throughout his legendary career....  read more

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Norah Jones, Ben Harper, Scarlett Johannson Many More Appear on Autism Documentary Soundtrack

Norah Jones, Ben Harper, Scarlett Johannson Many More Appear on Autism Documentary Soundtrack

Antony, Vincent Gallo, Ben Harper, Norah Jones, Scarlett Johannson, Carly Simon, Steven Stills, Bob Weir and more appear on the soundtrack for Wretches & Jabbers, an autism documentary that was released today, Jan. 11, on iTunes....  read more

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Scarlett Johansson, Maeby Fünke, Tegan & Sara Cover Steel Train

Scarlett Johansson, Maeby Fünke, Tegan & Sara Cover Steel Train

Scarlett Johansson has released more than a few cover songs in recent years, and her latest foray into this world is an appearance on an upcoming album of Steel Train covers....  read more

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Iron Man 2 Review

<em>Iron Man 2</em> Review

Director: Jon Favreau Writers: Justin Theroux (screenplay), Stan Lee (comic book) Cinematographer: Matthew Libatique Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke Studio: Paramount Pictures Starting to rust...  read more

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Paste Casts the Five Remaining "Lost" Stanley Kubrick Films

<em>Paste</em> Casts the Five Remaining "Lost" Stanley Kubrick Films

Last week, word emerged that one of Stanley Kubrick’s long lost film scripts, Lunatic at Large, would be brought to the big screen, some 50 plus years after Kubrick abandoned the project to work on Spartacus. According to The New York Times, the film, a mystery about a mental asylum escapee set in New York City during the ‘50s, was found by Kubrick’s son-in-law among trunks of papers left behind after the filmmaker’s death in 1999. The main story centers on an ex-carnival worker with anger-management issues who seduces a bar floozy. Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell have signed on...  read more

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Watch the New Iron Man 2 Trailer

Watch the New <em>Iron Man 2</em> Trailer

Back in December, we showed you a trailer for the upcoming Iron Man 2. Well, scrubs those images from your brain, dear reader, because that trailer is old news! Last night (March 7), Robert Downey, Jr. debuted an updated, flashier version on Jimmy Kimmel’s show....  read more

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Scarlett Johansson to Make Broadway Debut

Scarlett Johansson to Make Broadway Debut

Scarlett Johansson is confirmed to make her Broadway debut early next year, slating her name among this season’s all-star cast lists....  read more

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Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson: Break Up

Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson: <em>Break Up</em>

I hated Scarlett Johansson's Dave Sitek-produced Tom Waits covers album...  read more

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