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There’s anger out there. Serious, deep seated anger has gripped a segment of the population. The Rocky Horror Picture Show fanatics are foaming at the mouth, furious at the prospect of the most feared word in the world of film lovers: Remake.

Anne Hathaway has hacked off her hair. Will this help her win an Oscar nomination for her role as a dysfunctional sibling in a dysfunctional family in Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married ?

When all else fails to explain the bad stuff that sometimes happens do the most logical thing and blame it on a curse.

First there was the news that the final book in the Harry Potter series would be split into two films. Now the same thing is being pushed for the final “Twilight” series book by Stephenie Meyer, “Breaking Dawn,” by the author herself.

More casting announcements for the upcoming adaptation of the Oscar Wilde classic emerge. This time, the film gets its Lord Henry Wotton.

These films show us what we already know about the difficult world we live in. But they also give us hope that love is possible if somehow we can hold on and believe even when the odds are stacked against us.

Over the years the masked, caped, bat eared crusader, warrior for the soul of Gotham, has accrued a nice stash of gadgets. We’ll now take a look at a day in the life of one ordinary family who uses ten of those bat gadgets to get through their busy day.

Fans like to go to midnight showings of a big film. It’s exciting, a way to be one of the first to see a special movie, like The Dark Knight. But unless you already have your ticket to that midnight show you might be seeing The Dark Knight in the light of early morning.

Director Guillermo Del Toro likes surprising us on film, but when it comes to the people he works with he likes to keep the surprises at a minimum.

Three directors and three films about one man who terrorized Yorkshire, England from 1974 until his capture in 1981. Peter Sutcliffe was known as the Yorkshire Ripper.

Today on the Defamer the news is that Randy Quaid has been cast by a small nameless New York production company to play the late and very great newsman Tim Russert.

Yes, it’s nearly that time again! Harry Potter is returning in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Empire Magazine has a cover of Harry determined and bloodied, ready to go to battle for his beloved Hogwarts.

Columbia Pictures has announced that Sacha Baron Cohen, the actor who put Kazakhstan on the map and Will Ferrell, the master at portraying self important losers, will team up as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Our friends at Collider.com have a nice spread of photos from the new Michael Mann (The Last of the Mohicans) film Public Enemies starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger.

Legendary Pictures wants more 300. And no surprise since the film made its own history as the third highest grossing R rating movie ever.

Get out your light sabers! Get ready for the latest sequel to Star Wars! Alright, it’s not long ago in a galaxy far far away, but in Hollywood where the Stars are choosing sides, lining up to go toe to toe with each other and the two performers unions that govern their lives.

There’s a scene in The Dark Knight where star Christian Bale stands on a ledge on top of the Sears Tower. Is it real or is it CGI? It’s real; the way director Christopher Nolan likes it and the way he believes an audience should see it.

“Yeah, it’s the most fun I’ve had, playing a role.” said the late Heath Ledger in an interview with FHM Online while the actor was on location in Chicago during the filming of The Dark Knight in 2007.

Something tells me the Joker’s line “I love this job” will be a big catch phrase this summer. I imagine office workers bound to their desks, trapped in their cubicles saying it with the Joker’s sneering inflection as they toil through stacks of paper and fight the boredom of the desk job.

George Carlin, the man whose photo should be next to the word irreverent in the dictionary, died of a heart attack on June 22 after going to St. Johns Health Center in Santa Monica California, complaining of chest pains.