As we’ve been told time and time again, life often imitates art. And while we’d refrain from calling Gossip Girl “art,” Leighton Meester has allegedly been using her on-screen character’s controlling and manipulative tendencies behind the scenes as well. Nan Zhang, who played suspected Gossip Girl scribe Jenny, has disappeared from the New York set. [...]

Compounding (and maybe even stealing) our acute grief at the news of Short Circuit Redux, LA Times columnist Jay Fernandez today mulls over the pandemic of horror glutting the marketplace. With this week’s release of Prom Night leading the way, Fernandez counts more than a dozen do-overs en route to theaters, including the certain evisceration [...]



Seeing as contemporary genre godmother Nora Ephron wouldn’t be interviewed for today’s taxonomy of chick flicks in the New York Times, we didn’t know how or even if author Michael Cieply could compensate for the vast accompanying vacuum of perspective. But after a few moments considering the revisionist dynamics of forthcoming films like Ephron’s Julie [...]

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