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Reo Speedwagon played their final show on Saturday (December 21st) at Las Vegas’ Venetian Theatre. However, the same exact band lineup will continue to tour next year, billed as Kevin Cronin.

Earlier this year, it was announced that Reo Speedwagon would cease touring after 2024 due to “irreconcilable differences” between singer Cronin and bassist Bruce Hall, and that the Vegas gig would be their last.

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That said, Cronin recently announced a co-headlining 2025 North American tour with Styx, and will perform with the same musicians — just not under the Reo Speedwagon name. Hall stopped touring with the band in 2023, so he wasn’t part of Reo Speedwagon’s most recent lineup anyway. It appears that for legal reasons, Cronin and company can’t use the name Reo Speedwagon moving forward.

The final lineup for Reo Speedwagon consisted of Cronin, lead guitarist Dave Amato and drummer Bryan Hitt,...

Bob Yerkes, the acrobatic stunt performer who slid down a clock tower cable for Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future and hung around the Statue of Liberty under repair for Fred Ward in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, has died. He was 92.

Yerkes died Tuesday of natural causes in Northridge, Darlene Ava Williams, a stunt performer and one of his many mentees, announced.

The amiable Yerkes, who started out in the circus and was a skilled trapeze aerialist and tightrope walker, also plummeted from a helicopter through a roof in Breakout (1975), starring Charles Bronson.

“I was getting ready for the stunt and the guy said, ‘Break a Leg!,” and I broke them both,” he recalled in a 2017 interview. He said he also broke legs while working on Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Her Alibi (1989), but, in a career that spanned eight decades, that was the extent of his serious injuries.

I’ve loved gangster movies since I was four years old and saw Humphrey Bogart and Sylvia Sidney in Dead End (1937) on TV, and Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) at the movies (My dad pinched a lobby card for me). Every Friday night, a local NYC station ran old crime flicks on a slot called “Tough Guys.” Bogart, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, and George Raft were the faces over the title. Today that might be Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, and James Gandolfini.

The gangster and crime genre produced some of the most influential films in cinema history. Mervyn LeRoy’s Little Caesar (1931), William A. Wellman’s The Public Enemy (1931), and Howard Hawks’ Scarface (1932), get a lot of credit for breaking ground in topics beyond criminality, shattering sexual taboos as well as the boundaries of acceptable visual violence. High Sierra (1941) and White Heat...

In his autobiography, "The Ragman's Son," "Spartacus" star and cinema luminary Kirk Douglas makes much of his longtime friendship with the hulking legendary actor Burt Lancaster. The two first worked together on Lisabeth Scott's 1947 noir classic "I Walk Alone," which sees Lancaster's convict battle his former bootlegging, currently two-timing business partner (Douglas).

Their second big-screen pairing was in "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," a John Sturges Western chronicling the storied 1881 Tombstone, Arizona shootout. Therein, Douglas would play the ailing gunslinger Doc Holliday to Lancaster's tenacious Wyatt Earp, two tough men whose tense alliance would blossom into diehard loyalty. Though the duo would go on to star in a handful of movies together it was on the set of the 1957 American Western where the two actors really hit it off.

"The Ragman's Son" carries the details of production, a shoot largely oscillating between the historically-relevant location of Tucson, Arizona, and Paramount Studio sets back in California.

At long last, the Cannes Film Festival returns this July. While it remains to be seen just how many journalists outside France will actually be able to attend, their lineup, with a competition jury chaired by Spike Lee, has now being unveiled.

With a few selections already confirmed––such as the highly anticipated trio of Leos Carax’s opener Annette, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta––Pierre Lescure, President of the Cannes Film Festival, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate, presented the rest of the Official Selection of the 74th Cannes Film Festival.

See the line up below and check back for Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week announcements.

Competition

Annette (Leos Carax)

The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson)

Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)

A Hero (Asghar Farhadi)

Tout S’est Bien Passe (Francois Ozon)

Tre Piani (Nanni Moretti)

Titane (Julia Ducournau)

Red Rocket (Sean Baker)

Petrov’s Flu (Kirill Serebrennikov)

France...

For the second weekend in a row, it’s family time at the multiplex. But that “Ft” tag is true on both levels since Love On The Rocks was an adult “dramedy” and Eternal Beauty was a dark tale of conflict and tragedy. The latter focused on sisters while the former featured a “caper” involving a father (and grandfather) and his daughter (also a mother). This new flick almost wears its “PG” rating as a beacon welcoming in “all ages”. It does concern three generations of a family, and it’s a comedy full of “gross-out” gags, slapstick pratfalls, and elaborate pranks to appeal to the tots and “pre-teens” weaned on annual holiday reruns of the Home Alone movies. Oh, but things aren’t all “tears and hugs” as the youngest lad in this household starts The War With Grandpa.

The aforementioned “son” Peter (Oakes Fegley) is pretty excited to...

The word rang out yesterday, vibrating through the canyons of Los Angeles, much like the echo of thousands of voices sixty years ago that proclaimed “I am Spartacus!”. Perhaps the last of the leading men of Hollywood’s pre-1950 Golden Age is now with his long-departed peers. Here’s how the town’s Hollywood Reporter broke the news:

” Kirk Douglas, the son of a ragman who channeled a deep, personal anger through a chiseled jaw and steely blue eyes to forge one of the most indelible and indefatigable careers in Hollywood history, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 103.

“It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas left us today at the age of 103,” son Michael Douglas wrote on his Instagram account. “To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the Golden Age of movies who lived well into his golden years,...

Los Angeles – From his chiseled-from-marble good looks to his actor intensity on screen, Kirk Douglas defined the very concept of Movie Star. The actor also broke records for longevity, living to the ripe old age of 103. Kirk Douglas died of natural causes on February 5th, 2020, at his home in Los Angeles.

Douglas was known for his fierce commitment to his craft, and his independent spirit … he formed his own production company after dissatisfaction with the movie studio system of his era. He made several classic films, even a popular Walt Disney live action feature. He was father to Oscar-winner Michael Douglas, as well as three other sons from two marriages (his was married to his second wife for 66 years). He also committed his life to several charitable causes.

I Am Kirk Douglas: The Actor in ‘Spartacus’

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Douglas was born Issur Danielovich in Amsterdam, New...

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Kirk Douglas, an icon of Hollywood's Golden Age, was as heroic as some of the characters he played.

Stage and screen actor, producer, director and writer Kirk Douglas, whose career spanned more than 60 years, died Wednesday at the age of 103, according to Variety.

“It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas left us today at the age of 103,” his son, actor Michael Douglas, said in a statement.

“To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to. But to me and my brothers Joel and Peter he was simply Dad, to Catherine, a wonderful father-in-law, to his grandchildren and great grandchild their loving grandfather, and to his wife Anne,...

Emmy nominated actor Grant Aleksander, best known for portrayal of Phillip Spaulding on Guilding Light is replacing two other daytime drama leading me, Robert Newman (Guiding Light) and Richard Shoberg (All My Children), in Off Broadway's longest running play, "Perfect Crime." Aleksander is returning to the role of Detective Asher (a role he took on this spring) and begins performances tonight at The Theater Center.

Grant Aleksander is a four-time Emmy nominated actor who is best known for his work as Phillip Spaulding on CBS soap opera Guiding Light. His other daytime roles include Alec McIntyre on All My Children and D.J. Phillips on Capitol.

Aleksander's other television credits also include the pilot Dark Mansions, produced by Aaron Spelling, and guest spots on Life on Mars, Who’s the Boss?, Hardcastle and Mccormick and The Fall Guy. His film credits include Fields of Freedom, Big Bad Swim and Tough Guys.

Darlanne Fluegel, the actress who starred in films like “Once Upon a Time in America,” “To Live and Die in L.A.” and “Running Scared,” has died. She was 64. Fluegel’s daughter Jenna Carey told The Hollywood Reporter that Fluegel died Dec. 15 at her home in Orlando following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

The actress played Robert De Niro’s girlfriend in “Once Upon a Time in America” (1984) as well as Kirk Douglas’ love interest in 1986’s “Tough Guys.”

Fluegel also starred on the NBC drama “Crime Story” that aired from.

Darlanne Fluegel, who starred in such 1980s films as Once Upon a Time in America, Tough Guys, To Live and Die in L.A. and Running Scared, has died. She was 64.

Fluegel died Dec. 15 at her home in Orlando after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, her daughter, Jenna Carey, told The Hollywood Reporter.

The alluring Fluegel portrayed Robert De Niro's girlfriend in Sergio Leone's epic Once Upon a Time in America (1984) and was Kirk Douglas' flame in Tough Guys (1986). In William Friedkin's crackling crime noir To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), she played a police informant...

For the brand new Blu-ray and DVD offerings coming out on Tuesday, July 18th, we have an eclectic assortment of titles, both new and old. As far as cult classics go, The Bat People, Freeway, Stalker, and Stormy Monday are all making their HD debuts on Blu this week, and if you missed Kong: Skull Island, Free Fire or Buster’s Mal Heart during their theatrical runs, now you’ll have a chance to catch up with these films on their home entertainment releases.

Other notable release for July 18th include Resident Evil: Vendetta, Another Evil, Lake Alice, and The Expanse: Season Two.

The Bat People (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)

Half Man, Half Bat, All Terror!

From director Jerry Jameson (Airport 77, Raise The Titanic) comes a high-flying horror from the darkest corner of the drive-in: The Bat People!

When Dr. John Beck and his wife Cathy fall into an underground cave,...

Vin Diesel turned the La premiere of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 into a family affair when he stepped out with his kids Hania and Vincent on Wednesday. The Fate of the Furious actor held his children's hands as they walked the red carpet, and the trio struck a couple of silly poses for the cameras. Sadly, his longtime partner, model Paloma Jiménez, and their daughter Pauline were not in attendance, though Vin often shares adorable family moments on Instagram. Related15 Hollywood Tough Guys Who Turn Into Mush Around Their Kids It's been a busy month for Vin, what with the premiere of The Fate of the Furious. Not only did the movie have the biggest global box office opening of all time, but it also reignited interest in Vin's rumored beef with costar Dwayne Johnson. Vin addressed the feud in a recent interview with USA Today, saying, "things...

“C’mon out, Rocky. You haven’t got a chance!” 70 years of parodies haven’t dimmed the luster of this much-beloved Warners gangster saga that pretty much defined the crime movie as we knew it for a generation. Followed by a sequel, Angels Wash Their Faces, and countless programmers featuring the Dead End Kids as The East Side Kids, The Little Tough Guys and‚ The Bowery Boys– 89 movies for three different studios!

The premiere of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story took over La on Saturday and brought out a handful of celebrity families. In addition to the Backstreet Boys' Kevin Richardson hitting the red carpet with his son, Terry Crews showed up with his 9-year-old son, Isaiah. Not only did they look super stylish, but they appeared to have the best time as they jumped in the air while posing for pictures. Check out the trailer for the film before it hits theaters on Dec. 16. Related:15 Hollywood Tough Guys Who Turn Into Mush Around Their Kids...

Kirk Douglas celebrated his 100th birthday with a party attended by some of the biggest names in Hollywood.

His son, Michael Douglas, and daughter-in-law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, were in attendance, as well as other members from the Douglas clan, including Michael and Catherine’s two children, Dylan Michael and Carys Zeta.

About 135 guests arrived to a private room in the Beverly Hills Hotel at about 2:30 p.m. on Friday before later gathering at tables named after some of his favorite films. Kirk’s family table was named, “Lonely Are the Brave.”

“It’s Kirk’s favorite film of his,” a source tells People.

Italian-American actress and director to head Un Certain Regard jury.

Isabella Rossellini is to preside over the Un Certain Regard Jury at the 68th Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24).

The Italian-American actress and director will head a jury that will judge 20 films, set to be announced when the full line-up is unveiled on April 16.

At this year’s Cannes, Rossellini will take part in a tribute to her actress mother by attending the screening of Ingrid Bergman, in Her Own Words‏, a documentary by Stig Björkman being shown as part of the Cannes Classics. (This year’s Cannes poster features Bergman)

She will also launch her own ‘Ingrid Bergman Tribute’ to celebrate the centenary of her mother’s birth. The show, directed by Guido Torlonia and Ludovica Damiani, will be based on both her autobiography and her correspondence with Roberto Rossellini.

With the help of a soon-to-be-announced jury made up of artists, journalists and festival...

We've heard of returning to the scene of a crime, but this guy went straight to his Facebook arrest warrant!

Andrew Dale Marcum was wanted by the Butler County Sheriff's Office on multiple warrants.

Post by Butler County Sheriff's Office.

Andrew has brown hair, Hazel eyes, and presumably nothing in between, because he went and posted This comment on the Facebook post.

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Not to mention his profile picture is one of the selfies from the police post.

Post by Andrew Marcum.

News: Apparently Sexy Criminals Are A Thing Now

People thought it was pretty funny.

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The Sherriff's Office had a sense of humor about it too.

Hey Andrew Marcum we've got your room ready... pic.twitter.com/iYkANLD9hZ

— Richard K. Jones (@butlersheriff) March 3, 2015

Andrew ended up turning himself in.

Post by Butler County Sheriff's Office.

The sheriff had to go and add insult to arrest.

Is it raining outside or is he teared up. [link...

Michael Mann has made movies about cops, criminals, serial killers, athletes, whistleblowers, Native American trackers and ancient Romanian demons, but all of his films have one trait in common: professionalism. The films of Michael Mann depict a tough, cold and unforgiving world where a single mistake can cost you your career or your life, but the protagonists of his films are men (and yeah, they're always men) who are properly equipped to survive this kind of life. Tough guys who take their jobs very seriously and often pay a high price for being good at what they do. With Blackhat about to hit theaters, it was time to revisit the filmography of Michael Mann and rank his films. But don't take this list too personally -- even the lowest ranked movie holds plenty of...

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You know you’ve made it when they make a onesie in your honour. Rocky’s is iconically straightforward: it is black with a red hood, it shows a pair of red gloves hanging around the neck, and across the shoulders the word ‘Rocky’ is displayed in typically solid white capitals. There is something so simple and straightforward about the whole Rocky franchise that makes it irresistible – but there is more to the story than just the commercialisation.

In truth, Sylvester Stallone’s eponymous hero was a merchandising man’s dream – or to put it another way, Stallone captured something of the American dream in his humble, heart-as-big-as-a-lion hero: American dreams have always been in fashion.

Rocky’s old-time values, his decency and his uncomplicated determination to do the right thing were a perfect token of what it meant to be American in the 1980s. Rocky was straightforwardly one of...

There's nothing particularly special about Hilla Medalia's documentary, "The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films," other than its subjects, Menahem Golan and Yorum Globus. The eponymous Israeli cousins are well known to anyone over the age of -- well, never mind. Arriving on Hollywood shores in the early 80s, this filmmaking team -- Golan was the filmmaker, Globus the moneyman -- had ambitions to make it big and despite lacking certain obvious traits (such as taste) that is exactly what they did. Getting their break in 1984 with a dance film fittingly called "Breakin," only two years later their Cannon Films was making 40-plus films, paying Sylvester Stallone $10-plus million, and bankrolling not only low-brow stars Charles Bronson ("Death Wish II"), Chuck Norris ("Delta Force") and Jean-Claude Van Damme ("Bloodsport") but the likes of John Cassavettes ("Love Streams"), Norman Mailer ("Tough Guys ...

Matthew McConaughey‘s stripping days are behind him. The Oscar winner's publicist told TheWrap that he will not return for the “Magic Mike” sequel, because his schedule did not permit due to his involvement in Gus Van Sant‘s upcoming drama “Sea of Trees.” See video: Watch Alex Pettyfer Panic When Confronted by Actual Tough Guys on Venice Beach Although his representative added that this is “old news,” McConaughey's definite departure from “Magic Mike Xxl” began circulating on the web on Wednesday after The Playlist published an article citing director Greg Jacobs as the source of the news. McConaughey's absence...

Back in their comfy armchairs and ready to talk all things trash, horror and schlock, Matt and Dom all but immediately hurl themselves into a (often stinking) pile of B-movie mayhem. Kicking off with reviews of the pretty awful Leprechaun: Origins and Jersey Shore Massacre, the guys then move on to pastures greener with reviews of Septic Man and Wer, then straight into horror Nirvana with Dead Snow 2: Read Vs Dead. As the horror season approaches, viewers need to know which films are egregious tricks and which are tasty treats – and The Graveyard Shift is crazy enough to traverse everything the horror genre has to offer in search of hidden gems!

Rounding off the show, the guys bring two beloved films from their respective collections to the table, with Matt repping 2005′s Feast and Dom adoringly pawing over Norman Mailer’s grossly under-appreciated good-bad masterpiece Tough Guys Don’t Dance.

The following exchange took place between critics Michael Pattison and Neil Young over email between 4 and 8 August, not long after Li’l Quinquin screened at Wrocław’s New Horizons International Film Festival—following its world-premiere at Cannes earlier this year, and now playing at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Set in a village in northern France and originally made in four parts for transmission on French television, Bruno Dumont’s latest work is 200 minutes in length and chronicles an unorthodox murder investigation conducted by Capt Van der Weyden (Bernard Pruvost) under the watchful eyes of a rambunctious kid known only by his nickname, Li'l Quinquin (Alane Delhaye).

Spoiler Warning: this exchange reveals and discusses significant plot details of Li’l Quinquin

Michael Pattison: You remarked on Twitter earlier that you were still thinking about Li’l Quinquin a day after seeing it—that, having slept on it, the film...

Legendary actor Eli Wallach, best known for his role as the villainous Tuco in The Good the Bad and the Ugly, passed away in New York City yesterday at the age of 98. The actor's passing was confirmed by his daughter, Katherine.

Born in 1915 in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, Eli Wallach began studying acting after receiving a B.A. and M.S. in education from the University of Texas and City College of New York. His acting ambitions were cut short when he was drafted to serve in World War II, but he began acting in several plays upon his return to New York in 1945. In 1948, he was one of the 20 core actors who helped found The Actor's Studio, where he honed his method acting craft.

He won a Tony Award in 1951 for his performance in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo, which was directed by Elia Kazan. Tennessee Williams...

98 years old. Remarkable. I can't imagine making it to 98. I can't imagine the breadth of life experience you could have in that amount of time. Eli Wallach leaves behind a truly great filmography and a family life that is enviable, having been married to the same woman, Anne Jackson, since 1948. She had a hell of a filmography herself, and they had three children together. I am in awe of anyone who can build a life that solid for that long, never mind someone who works in the film industry, where relationships are, at best, impermanent, and at worst, inconsequential. Wallach will leave an amazing legacy onscreen, but he was part of something larger, a total shift in the way acting was approached, and telling his story is telling the story of that paradigm change. He was part of that first wave of Method actors who made the jump from their...

After a mere six episodes, HBO’s True Detective has become the breakout TV sensation of 2014, with ratings ascending each week to match the snowballing buzz over the show’s mystery (whodunit?) and its various teasing references (Yellow King? Carcosa?). In turn, the last couple of weeks has seen the rise of an oppositional force — not quite a backlash, but rather, a series of counterarguments, focusing on the show’s female characters (nude, young, incapable of resisting the balding charms of middle-aged detectives) and the grander possibility that the show’s various philosophical musings amount to a whole lot of hot air.

The 37th Portland International Film Festival runs this year from February 6th to the 25th. They’re screening 104 feature films and 24 shorts across those two weeks from countries as diverse as Afghanistan, Iceland, Nepal, and Taiwan. Check out the official site for tickets and/or more details. Our seventh trio of Piff films all hail from the same region of Europe and all feature kids fusing fantasy and reality to grow up and join genre stories usually reserved for adults. Antboy sees a boy turned into a superhero after being bitten by a special insect, but the fun he has fighting crime is threatened by the arrival of an equally powerful villain. The Tough Guys follows another boy who fancies himself a superhero but lacks anything resembling a super power. His efforts to help others lead to some tough consequences for himself. Lastly, The Zigzag Kid bypasses the comic book stuff all together in favor of a...

On January 24, two of cinema’s most iconic screen legends, Robert DeNiro and Sylvester Stallone, square off in the boxing comedy Grudge Match. DeNiro plays Billy “The Kid” McDonnen opposite Stallone’s Henry “Razor” Sharp, two retired boxers who harbor a deep resentment for each other. They get the chance to finally bury the hatchet when they are lured back into the ring 30 years later for one last, bloody bout.

We sat down with both Mr. Stallone and Mr. DeNiro in New York City to talk about the film. Both actors talk about reuniting since their last film together — the 1997 police corruption thriller Cop Land — and retraining for the ring since their roles in Rocky and Raging Bull.

We also talked about the possibility of Robert DeNiro showing up in an Expendables movie, and the status of I Heard You Paint Houses, the long-gestating mob thriller that would see DeNiro reteam with Martin Scorsese,...

Some movies have romances. They are for wimps. Tough guys watch bromances: platonic relationships developed between two dudes (or ladies!) who just like hanging out, secretly hoping the other never gets married. This year had a bevy of great entries in the bromance canon. Amazingly enough, some of them aren't even from action films. Mark Walhberg and Denzel Washington - 2 Guns Though 2 Guns' script keeps these two separated far too often for the film to become a bromance classic, it's still worth a watch thanks to the undeniable chemistry Walhberg and Washington share on-screen. Hopefully someday a sequel will capitalize on the golden pairing this film discovered.

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WWE is scripted entertainment which promotes fights between men who are “tough”. But who really is the legitimate tough guys in the WWE? If you took away the script and put these men in a real fight, would they still stack up as “tough guys”? It is a question which has long been a source of fascination among wrestling fans, who really can win a fight and claim to be tough in the WWE locker room?

Let’s be honest, many guys get into WWE from acting or even modelling backgrounds. For example, The Miz, a guy who came in to WWE from a reality TV Show. But then in the past you have had guys like Kurt Angle and The Undertaker, who undoubtedly could hang with any man in a fight and display true toughness.

So, who are the legitimate tough guys in the WWE right now? Who are...

Tough guys Dolph Lundgren and Randy Couture duke it out in Giorgio Serafini’s cop actioner “Ambushed” this November 12th on DVD and Blu-ray, but why buy a copy when we have three (3) free Blu-rays of the movie to give away for absolutely free? That’s right, you don’t have to do anything at all. How easy could it be? Well, it’s as easy as reading on below for details. Now that’s easy! About The Movie: Ambushed charts the dark, seductive underbelly of Los Angeles, told from the point of view of two of its seedier denizens, mid-level drug pushers Eddie (Gianni Capaldi) and Frank (Daniel Bonjour). They want a chance to hit the big time. Unfortunately, they decide to achieve their goal by ripping off their middleman in a murderous bid for greatness, setting off a dangerous chain of events involving a ruthless crime boss, a...

Dok Leipzig’s Golden Dove for Best International Documentary went to the Us, while Norway scored a hat-trick at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck.

The top award in Leipzig’s International Documentary Competition went to Italian-born, Us-based film-maker Roberto Minervini’s Stop The Pounding Heart whose portrayal of a strict religious family was described by the jury as ¨refreshing and unsettling at the same time.¨

The Us-Belgian-Italian co-production is handled internationally by Doc & Film.

The Golden Dove in the German Documentary Competition was awarded to Carlo Zoratti for his feature-length debut The Special Need, while the newly-created Golden Dove for the animation-documentary hybrid form was presented to French director Daniela De Felice’s Casa.

A total of 18 prizes with cash awards totalling almost €70,000 ($95,000) included the Fipresci Prize for Gang Zhao’s A Folk Troupe; the Mdr Film Prize for Vitaly Mansky’s Pipeline; and the Youth Jury Prize to Joanna by Aneta Kopacz, a graduate...

The ads for this movie had me nervous because everything about it screamed laziness. The saying basically goes if it smells like shit, and looks like shit it must be shit, right? Well, not necessarily. Despite an overly convoluted plot featuring way too many switcheroos and double crosses, 2 Guns—starring Denzel Washington and Mark Walhberg—manages to float by on the chemistry of its two lead actors making for an entertaining action comedy that won’t revolutionize the genre, but one that earns it’s rightful spot in reruns on basic cable for years to come.

For all intents and purposes this is the type of middle-brow pushover movie that genuine stars like Denzel and Marky Mark make before they clear up their schedules for potential Oscar bait roles, but the surprisingly hilarious rapport between the two is established from the get go in an introductory scene with each one...

It's always important to mix things up creatively once in a while. That's why Josh Horowitz brought in "2 Guns" star Mark Wahlberg to spice it up in the writers' room of After Hours. How could the Academy Award nominee not make things more exciting?

But it goes south pretty quickly. Like, almost immediately.

The crew starts off by spit-balling some possible ideas for upcoming segments starring Jennifer Lawrence and Taylor Lautner, but those result in something called "Titty Time" and "Tough Guys," where you hit the guest over the head with an aluminum bat.

Find out just how wrong things go in the latest After Hours!

With a father like Mickey Donovan, who needs enemies?

It's almost difficult to peg exactly what Ray Donovan is trying to be. Definitely a drama, but there's crime involved, and oodles of family issues. The two often overlap and that's where I think it's really going to shine.

The more involved Mickey becomes with his son's family, as well as his own children, and the more he drags them into his own life of crime and into the lives of Mickey's clients, the more sh*t we'll see hitting the fan.

If ever a man had his work cut out for him, it's Ray Donovan. The easiest part of his life is dealing with the dumbass celebrities like Tommy who are sex addicts and constantly need Ray to cover their ridiculous screw ups.

On the other hand, there is his family. It's surprising that he never spoke with Abby about...

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Gangster Squad, the period cop drama, has just hit store shelves on DVD and Blu-Ray. We here at Cinelinx got our hands on the latest release in order to help you guys decide whether or not this film is worth adding to your home entertainment collection.

I caught Gangster Squad when it was in the theaters, and I have to say...I wasn’t a fan. It’s an attempt to bring back the mobster laden crime dramas of old, but despite some great talent behind it, the film comes up short with a generic, cliche driven story. Even so, when Warner Bros asked me to check out the film on blu-ray, I felt like I should give it another chance. Did my opinion of the film change? Not so much.

It’s kind of heartbreaking because I love director Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, 30 Minutes or Less), and all of the...

Director Ruben Fleischer follows up two comedy films: Zombieland and 30 Minutes or Less with Gangster Squad, a cliché-ridden crime drama that borrows from every other title in the genre, while adding almost nothing to the mix, aside from the questionable decision to shoot the film digitally. Gangster Squad isn’t dragged down by its performances or its direction, but the script leaves it dead in the water before it’s even given a fighting chance.

Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) is a ruthless crime lord. He’s thirsty for blood, money and power and his rise to the top is simple; kill everyone in your way. He buys cops when needed, but prefers to just eliminate people out of the equation altogether.

Chief Parker (Nick Nolte) comes up with the idea of rounding up some of his finest men and tasking them with the assignment of bringing Cohen down, outside of the books.

Gangster Squad comes out April 23. Here is all of the details from Warner Home Video …

It’s a war for Los Angeles in “Gangster Squad,” arriving onto Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital Download on April 23 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group. A stylish retelling of true events, “Gangster Squad” follows a team of cops as they band together to bring down a ruthless mob boss— by any means necessary.

A Village Roadshow Pictures Production, “Gangster Squad” stars Oscar nominees Josh Brolin (“Milk,” “True Grit”) and Ryan Gosling (“Half Nelson,” “Drive”), and Academy Award® winner Sean Penn (“Milk,” “Mystic River”) as Mickey Cohen. The film also stars Oscar nominee Nick Nolte (“Warrior,” “Affliction”), Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Peña, Robert Patrick and Mireille Enos. The screenplay was written by Will Beall and is based on the book Gangster Squad by Paul Lieberman. The film is produced by Dan Lin,...

Deadliest Catch returns to Discovery for its ninth season on April 16 (Tuesdays, 9 p.m. Et), and as the exclusive tease premiered today at the network’s first-ever SXSW panel “Twitter for Tough Guys” shows, the theme is young vs. old. “When you’ve got guys that are hungry, that’s when things get nasty, that’s when the gloves are off,” Sig Hansen says in the tense clip below. “Especially when you’ve got experienced and inexperienced people playing in the same sandbox…. That’s when it’s a war.”

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More and more great films keep coming to the blu-ray format and details and dates for two classic films have been released, as well as details on the more recent film, Gangster Squad. Come inside to check out all the details on the latest films coming to the blu-ray format.

It's hard to believe, but it's been fifty years since Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra film released in theaters. In order to commemorate the milestone Fox is releasing a special 50th Anniversary blu-ray with never before seen footage and a slew of other features, on May 21, 2013. Read the press release below for full details:

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is proud to announce that the four-time Academy Award® winning* classic Cleopatra, will be released on Blu-ray Disc for the first time May 21 in a special golden anniversary edition and is available for pre-order at major retailers.

In honor of the iconic film’s 50th anniversary,...

Digital, Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: April 23, 2013

Price: DVD $28.98, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $35.99

Studio: Warner Home Video

Sean Penn (Fair Game) is at war with Los Angeles in the R-rated crime movie Gangster Squad.

Set in 1949 Los Angeles, the drama film is based on true events. Penn plays Brooklyn-born Mob king Mickey Cohen, who rules the City of Angels, reaping his ill-gotten gains from drugs, guns, prostitutes and, if he has his way, every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it with the protection of his paid goons, as well as the police and politicians under his thumb.

But a small crew of Lapd outsiders are determined to bring down Cohen, led by Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin, Men in Black 3) and Sgt. Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine).

Emma Stone (The Amazing Spider-Man), Anthony Mackie (Man on a Ledge), Michael Pena (End of Watch), Nick Nolte...

Put Al Pacino, Alan Arkin and Christopher Walken together on screen, and it's a laconic dream team. Each is so delightfully quirky and menacing in their own unique style that it's clear the film's greatest coup is casting. Stick these guys together in a car, let them kibbitz -- in a terse, concise manner, of course -- and you're halfway to a classic. The first 40 minutes or so of Stand Up Guys plays out exactly as you'd expect, a kind of Cocoon for old gangsters, another toothless reunion film like 1986's Tough Guys. We see Pacino get released from jail in that gettin-out scene that always shows up in these films, and yet always manages to remind of The Blues Brothers, however seriously they're...

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Los Angeles — Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge.

His hard life and wartime trauma provided the basis for a prolific 50-year career as a consummate Oscar-nominated character actor, playing everyone from a Nazi colonel to the pope to Dustin Hoffman's would-be suitor in "Tootsie."

Durning, who died Monday at age 89 in New York, got his start as an usher at a burlesque theater in Buffalo, N.Y. When one of the comedians showed up too drunk to go on, Durning took his place. He would recall years later that he was hooked as soon as he heard the audience laughing.

He told The Associated Press in 2008 that he had no plans to stop working. "They're going to carry me out, if I go," he said.

Durning's longtime agent and friend,...

Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge.

His hard life and wartime trauma provided the basis for a prolific 50-year career as a consummate Oscar-nominated character actor, playing everyone from a Nazi colonel to the pope to Dustin Hoffman’s would-be suitor in Tootsie.

Durning, who died Monday at age 89 in New York, got his start as an usher at a burlesque theater in Buffalo, N.Y. When one of the comedians showed up too drunk to go on,...

New York — What was TV like in 2012?

As with every year, it was a mix of the ridiculous and the sublime, the sacred and the profane.

A TV-centric political season provided many memorable moments (President Barack Obama's missing-in-action debate performance; Clint Eastwood's empty-chair duet). Excellence persevered with series such as HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" and "Treme," AMC's "Mad Men," History's surprisingly splendid "Hatfields & McCoys," ABC's promising new "Nashville," CBS' "The Good Wife" and, of course, AMC's "The Walking Dead" with its icky charm.

Then there were stinkers like the best-forgotten ABC sitcom "Work It," which, focusing on two guys who dress as women to get jobs, was mercifully axed after just two airings. ABC's "Good Morning America" finally managed to out-fluff NBC's "Today" and stole the ratings crown. "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" wore on.

Bottom line: It's not easy to narrow down a Top 10 anything for TV.

New York — What was TV like in 2012?

As with every year, it was a mix of the ridiculous and the sublime, the sacred and the profane.

A TV-centric political season provided many memorable moments (President Barack Obama's missing-in-action debate performance; Clint Eastwood's empty-chair duet). Excellence persevered with series such as HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" and "Treme," AMC's "Mad Men," History's surprisingly splendid "Hatfields & McCoys," ABC's promising new "Nashville," CBS' "The Good Wife" and, of course, AMC's "The Walking Dead" with its icky charm.

Then there were stinkers like the best-forgotten ABC sitcom "Work It," which, focusing on two guys who dress as women to get jobs, was mercifully axed after just two airings. ABC's "Good Morning America" finally managed to out-fluff NBC's "Today" and stole the ratings crown. "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" wore on.

Bottom line: It's not easy to narrow down a Top 10 anything for TV.

New York -- What was TV like in 2012?

As with every year, it was a mix of the ridiculous and the sublime, the sacred and the profane.

A TV-centric political season provided many memorable moments (President Barack Obama's missing-in-action debate performance; Clint Eastwood's empty-chair duet). Excellence persevered with series such as HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" and "Treme," AMC's "Mad Men," History's surprisingly splendid "Hatfields & McCoys," ABC's promising new "Nashville," CBS' "The Good Wife" and, of course, AMC's "The Walking Dead" with its icky charm.

Then there were stinkers like the best-forgotten ABC sitcom "Work It," which, focusing on two guys who dress as women to get jobs, was mercifully axed after just two airings. ABC's "Good Morning America" finally managed to out-fluff NBC's "Today" and stole the ratings crown. "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" wore on.

Bottom line: It's not easy to narrow down a Top 10 anything for TV.