For starters, there was already a movie called The Karate Kid that everyone loves. It’s the tale of Jersey boy Daniel LaRusso who moves to Reseda and learns how to defend himself against the town dicks from his Japanese handyman. Other than the fact that Japanese handymen are hard to come by these days, there’s [...]

Well, to be quite honest, this is pretty much the only thing I could read about a Jackie Chan movie that would make me want to see it. You might be tempted to rebut with, “well what if you heard he and Chris Tucker were doing another Rush Hour?” And to that I would say, [...]

In Variety Friday, Clifford Coonan writes about a new film, The Great Cause of China’s Foundation, an epic, feature-length homage to Mao’s revolution starring every huge mainland star. 2009 marks the 60th anniversary of the communist revolution and I guess, what better way to convince a country of a billion people that Mao was a [...]

I love Steve Martin. He’s one of the funniest, smartest, talented performers of all time. He acts, he sings, he writes and he is an amazing banjo player. In fact, he’s such an amazing banjo player that he was asked to perform one of the songs from his new banjo album The Crow: New Songs [...]

Don Imus, the grouchy 67-year-old disc jockey, returns to radio Monday morning after an 8-month banishment for making racially charged remarks. New York’s conservative talk radio station WABC-AM has hired Imus to fill its 6-9 morning slot with the “Imus in the Morning” program and like his old show on WFAN, the new show will [...]

I remember my first flight to China like it was yesterday. It was an American Airlines flight from Chicago to Shanghai. I had a whole row to myself, about 6 movies to choose from and about 13 and a half hours to wish I was there already. The flight attendants on this trip were all [...]

A disturbing rumor made its way into the pages of two of the Western world’s least trusted names in news Sunday, sending shocks from London to Los Angleles to the most remote villages in mainland China. According to Rav, “Britain’s Hottest Showbiz Reporter” at News of the World, Britney Spears is considering adopting a pair [...]

Medical professionals in China are warning those who watch the uncensored version of Lust, Caution against replicating the sexual positions seen in the film. Chinese film buffs have taken to illegally downloading the uncut version of Ang Lee’s latest film, a spy thriller based in occupied Shanghai, because the sanitized version playing in Chinese movie [...]

I’ve been waiting for this since last summer when I saw ads on the Showtime network pitching its newest show, “Californication” starring David Duchovny. As soon as I saw Mulder cruising down a California highway with the word “Californication” plastered on the screen, I had a thought. Well two thoughts actually. The first was, “whoa, [...]

If you wake up Tuesday morning in Shanghai and something is amiss, perhaps the air has a tinge of the Can Can fragrance and off in the distance you can hear faint utterances of “that’s hot,” it may be because there’s a certain heiress in town. Fresh off a stint in jail, Paris Hilton arrives [...]