It has been a long time in coming but country music sensation Kenny Chesney has finally opened up about his four month marriage to actress Renee Zellweger. Admitting that he could not commit to marriage and his music career, Kenny didn’t know what marriage really meant and more to the point, w...

Seriously, Hollywood. Enough already. I feel like I'm drowning in some frothy pink hell made of Sarah Jessica Parker, Hugh Dancy, and lip gloss. I know I'm not alone, particularly among our Cinematical crew, nor among film chicks in general. All week, sites like Jezebel have been ranting about the N...

Movie: "New in Town" * Trailer * Official Site In Theaters: Jan. 30, 2009 Runtime: 96 minutes Directed by: Jonas Elmer MPAA Rating: PG for language and some suggestive material Gecko Rating:  Sometimes you just need a nice, non-scandalous romantic comedy to set things right in your wo...

January and February always seem to feature movies that scare the crap out of us. Makes me wonder if we’re just so horrified at what might possibly happen in the coming year that we steel ourselves with scary movies. Any theories on that? At any rate, “Taken,� the movie about a teen being sold...

News coming down the wire last night about a potential buy-out of Summit Entertainment by Lionsgate has sent shockwaves through the online film community this morning. Namely, everyone seems to want to speculate about what the blood-thirsty Execs. over at Lionsgate might do with Summit’s one a...

It's awesome, somehow, that Liam Neeson (along with some nifty marketing, it's true) can open an action movie to the tune of $24.6 million. Maybe it's the fact that Taken's debut at #1 comes after two depressing weeks when Paul Blart: Mall Cop inexplicably dominated the charts (and indeed, Paul Blar...

"Cinema should make you forget that you are sitting in a theater." -Roman Polanski I guess I should have named this series something besides, "4 Movies In 4 Weeks," because technically it has been 4 movies in 5 weeks! Oh well, whatever. Last night Alan and I went to see that last of the free movies ...

Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and quaintly Zellwegerian at the movies. This week: Liam Neeson battles the Blartocalypse, Elizabeth Banks goes bad, and The Class is in session. WHAT'S NEW: Some weeks we don't even know why we bother surveying wi...

Fresh off a wide(r) release and 10 Oscar nominations, Slumdog Millionaire seemed positioned perfectly for the backlash that goes hand-in-hand with having front-runner status. But did anyone expect it to happen so soon? This week, stories splashed all over the Internet claiming the child actors in th...

Actually, the best thing I could find out there this morning is that Lauren Graham is returning to primetime TV in something that's at least called a "comedy," part of ABC's big buy back into the sitcom game. Graham, a k a Lorelai Gilmore the elder, will play a female talk show host who urges her vi...