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In last night's episode of Fox's animated hit American Dad , heartless CIA agent Stan Smith is transformed into a My Morning Jacket fanatic who worships frontman Jim James.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, and Kenneth Branagh star in a film written and directed by Richard Curtis.

You get the sense that some filmmakers really like people. You can tell by the way they depict characters who, despite their flaws, still manage to be endearing.

Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" looks surprisingly Anderson-like for a stop-motion animated movie based on the classic Roald Dahl story.

The new trailer for Nine is all Kate Hudson most of the time. Yes, we get shots of Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, and Fergie's breasts, but it's Hudson's "Cinema Italiano" production number that's the focus.

The rock 'n' roll flick "Almost Famous" wasn't Kate Hudson 's first movie, but it was the first that made big audiences give her a big "wow." As Penny Lane , she was almost perfect as the groupie young enough to get someone arrested, but fabulous enough to get away with it.

I feel a bit like the kid from Cameron Crowe's film, Almost Famous. I'm at Web Directions South in Sydney, satchel and recorder in hand, trying to pin down the conference co-founder and CSS development leading light, John Allsopp for an interview.

Movie Review: Pirate Radio , starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Nighy November 13, 2009 at 11:56 am by Joe Bardi When you strip away all the pomp and circumstance from rock 'n' roll - the fashion and politics and drugs and groupies and stardom and burnout - what's usually left is a few simple chords and a tune you can hum.

"Pirate Radio" is a painful little mistake of a movie. It's a salute to jubilant classic rock that's as boring and stiff as a Britney Spears lip-synch concert.

No movie can be all bad when juiced up with a soundtrack of more than 50 classic rock tunes.

Richard Curtis, director of "Love Actually" and writer of "Four Weddings and a Funeral," has created a movie that is purely enjoyable to watch-"Pirate Radio" The film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a radio DJ who, with the help of an assortment of other rock-enthusiasts with lax morals, broadcasts rock music from a station called Radio Rock on a ...

Today, All Things Digital debuts a new feature called "Almost Famous" in our Voices section.

Ironbound Films, creators of the Sundance and PBS sensation The Linguists , announced today that Emmy Award-nominated actor Rainn Wilson, who stars as Dwight Schrute on NBC's comedy series The Office , will narrate its feature documentary The New Recruits .

Kate Hudson was left feeling miserable when she recently quit smoking - because the extra weight she gained during her nicotine battle fuelled a string of pregnancy rumors.

According to People, Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner are spending a lot of time together.

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The Hollywood Gossip staff is proud to bring back Tale of the Tape , in which we break down prospective matchups within the celebrity gossip world.

More ways to look like Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen besides being super skinny, wearing fur, clinging to Starbucks like your life depended on it, and dressing like Kate Hudson in Almost Famous .

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step right up and see the blood-chilling horror of another movie not screened for critics by WW deadlines! It opened yesterday! It is terrible! Cirque du Freak: The Vampirea s Assistant When the inevitable Simpsons on Ice tour takes to the road, John C. Reilly will be a shoo-in for the role of Sideshow Bob.