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All posts by Wes Lawson
Birthday Wishes: Obligatory “Hey Girl, It’s Ryan Gosling’s Birthday”
Ryan Gosling, born 1980, is 33 today. A former Mouseketeer, the infamous star of The Notebook, the infamous star of the "Hey Girl" meme, co-owner of a Moroccan restaurant in L.A., member of the band Dead Man's Bones, the man everyone is in love with... it's so...
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Weekend Box Office: “Thor” Hammers Hard
With a healthy boost from the Avengers-earned cache and the relative lack of competition on either side of it, Thor: The Dark World opened to $86.1 million, up 31 percent from the opening of the first Thor and the best opening for a Marvel film that didn't hav...
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Birthday Wishes: You Obviously Don’t Know Parker Posey’s Dog
Parker Posey, born 1968, is 45 today. Appearing in big and small films alike, she was once called "Queen of the Indies," and the title still fits. She's another one of those actresses whose mere appearance in a film brings a little spring to the proceedings, b...
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Cinemark Has Record Attendance In Third Quarter
In a time with endless debates about where movie theaters are going in our streaming HD society, at least one of the megaplex chains can feel confident that there's still people who want the big screen experience.
On Thursday, the Plano, Texas-based Cinemar...
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Birthday Wishes: Saint Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton, born 1960, turns 53 today. A recent favorite of Roger Ebert, she's attended his annual Ebertfest twice, this year leading the audience in a conga line through the infamous Virginia Theater. Aside from her charity work (such as appearing in Russi...
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Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart together again for “American Ultra”
Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart's last film together was the surprisingly entertaining and not at all what the ads said it would be Adventureland, where Eisenberg played that nerdy,verbose type he's honed to a science and Stewart demonstrated that her affe...
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Birthday Wishes: Daran Norris, That Voice
Daran Norris, born 1964, turns 49 today. He's been steadily working since 1988, though admittedly, as a live-action actor, he's been more of a "Hey, it's that guy!" His two biggest roles in the flesh were on television shows - he played Gordy the janitor on Ni...
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Birthday Wishes: Ben Foster
Ben Foster, born 1980, turns 33 today. One of the most valuable and underappreciated actors of his generation, Foster has had an excellent 2013, starring in Ain't Them Bodies Saints and playing Willam S. Burroughs in Kill Your Darlings. And in 2014, he'll be i...
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Box Office Reports: “Grandpa” Unseats “Gravity”
After three weeks in the top spot, Gravity lost its place to the indomitable Jackass franchise. Their latest offering, Bad Grandpa, racked up $32 million, showing that 11 years after the premiere of the original film, there is still a market for dirty jokes an...
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Birthday Wishes: A Real Mensch, Adam Goldberg
Adam Goldberg turns 43 today. With 79 credits spanning across movies, music videos and TV, he is one of the quintessential supporting actors of our generation, bringing his distinctive brand of nerdy fast-talking charm to every role he plays.
Some might not k...
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