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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 15 films that will compete for the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Check out the list below: Captain America: The First Avenger Cowboys & Aliens Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Hugo Mission Impossible — Ghost Protocol Pirates of the Caribbean: On [...]

Get your first sustained look at new Sparty star Liam McIntyre in action in this four-minute preview of Starz’ Spartacus: Vengeance. There’s an introduction by McIntyre and then the muscular opening scene of the new season, which gets underway Jan. 27. Check it out:

Episode 4.01 – Wednesday (Jan. 17) Episode 4.02 – Underwater (Jan. 24) Episode 4.03 – Community (Jan. 31) Source: The Futon Critic

You’re the star of a Disney Channel series, with a bit of a pop career on the side, and a boyfriend called Justin Bieber. So what’s your next project? Why, a film by the director of Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy and Trash Humpers, of course. Selena Gomez has just joined Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers. That sound [...]

Interview with Steven Moffat It’s a different feeling, being back for a second series, says Steven: “Last time nobody knew about us and there was some scepticism about ‘modernising’ Sherlock Holmes. And now look at Benedict and Martin, they are so famous in those roles! So far the series has sold in over 180 countries [...]

Sherlock: A Scandal In Belgravia Sunday 1 January 8.10-9.40pm BBC ONE BBC One’s much praised, multi-award-winning drama Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, returns for an eagerly awaited second series of three, 90-minute films – A Scandal In Belgravia, The Hounds Of Baskerville and The Reichenbach Fall. The contemporary re-imagining of the Arthur Conan [...]

Benjamin Bratt, currently appearing on the weekly television drama Private Practice, is readying a return to movie screens to play Dwayne Johnson’s nemesis in Snitch, a drug thriller shooting in Louisiana. Variety, which broke the story, says Bratt will play a significant player in a sprawling drug cartel who is outed by Johnson’s character, a [...]

1. Fugitivus Spartacus learns that being a leader of freed slaves brings great responsibilities; Spartacus tries to keep his rebellious band intact. Airdate: 01-27-2012 2. A Place in This World Spartacus and his men liberate a villa; Oenomaus throws himself into the brutal pits. Airdate: 02-03-2012 3. The Greater Good Spartacus must navigate a divide [...]