By Drew Grant 2/07 1:26pm

Antisemitism and Celebrities

Mila Kunis (Getty Images)

Ukrainian Anti-Semitism and Mila Kunis: Complicated by Facebook, Dictionaries

Sometimes there are so much information about the world, it’s hard to keep it all in your head. How many municipalities does Greenland have? Who owns the Canary Islands? Do we know anything about Madagascar except for cars and that animated movie with comedian Chris Rock?

So we can forgive you for forgetting that Ukraine has been beseiged in its parliament by the All-Ukrainian Union “Svoboda” movement, a nationalist uber-right-wing Slytherin-esque party that is really interested in bloodlines and keeping up the traditions of the neo-Nazis. For the past several years, Svoboda has been gaining momentum with its anti-Russian sentiment, gaining 12 percent of the national vote in the last election cycle.

Which is all terrible, but you know, the anti-Semitic Svoboda party has been rising to power for some time. Why do we suddenly care?

We care because they started attacking on our own territory. We care, in short, because one of their leaders started going after Mila Kunis. Read More

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 1/16 1:32pm

Ad Men

Banned ad for body cream featuring Mila Kunis

British Body Cream Will Not Give You That ‘Mila Kunis Esquire Look’

A U.K. ad campaign featuring Mila Kunis has been banned for misleading consumers into thinking that a skin cream could make them look like the actress named “the sexiest woman alive” by Esquire in 2012, The Guardian reports. The campaign claimed that by rubbing British skin company Rodial’s £75 pound lotion onto the skin twice a day for four weeks, you could get a “body to die for,” just like Ms. Kunis.  Read More

By Drew Grant 7/13/12 11:26am

MOVIE TRAILERS

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James Franco Reveals Inner Huckster in Oz: The Great and Powerful (Video)


It’s great that Disney and Sam Raimi finally sorted things out with Warner Bros. (who hold the old MGM copyright to The Wizard of Oz) so that the prequel, Oz: The Great and Powerful, could finally be released in theaters as it was meant to be seen.

If you weren’t aware, Warner Bros. claimed that the new film couldn’t make the Wicked Witch green, since that was something specific to their film, and not L. Frank Baum’s children’s books. So instead we get a Glinda-riffic Michelle Williams all in white, a fashionably red Mila Kunis, and a darkly chic Rachel Weisz (channeling Charlize Theron in Snow White and the Huntsman) as the hottest witchy witches since Idina Menzel took the stage as Elpheba in Wicked. Read More

By Rex Reed 6/26/12 5:00pm

movies

Wahlberg and Ted (voiced by MacFarlane) in Ted.

Ted the Triumphant: MacFarlane’s Silver Screen Debut Tickles This Critic’s Fancy

Wonders never cease. Who ever dreamed I could (or would, even on a dare) sit through a two-hour movie about Mark Wahlberg and a talking teddy bear? Or that I would (or could, even at gunpoint) possibly enjoy it so much? But here is Ted—a genre-screwing Donnybrook that defies description and guarantees, I swear, open-mouthed hilarity. It is refreshingly oblivious to the kind of political correctness that is going to be the death of us all. It is rude, raunchy and repellent to the point of almost being a send-up of the Farrelly Brothers, Judd Apatow, Adam Sandler and the rest of the ozone polluters giving movies a bad name. (Address your complaints to the nearest sewer.) It contains dialogue and depicts situations that cannot be described in a family newspaper—including the ones that are read only by the Addams family. It has nudity, profanity and X-rated detritus unsuitable for anyone with an I.Q. of 50. It is also creative, adorable, ingenious and devilishly, thigh-slappingly hilarious. Do not take my pulse. It must be the heat. Read More