Closing Tabs started as a weekly look at news we didn’t cover on the site throughout the week. As the site has grown, however, we’ve moved away from reporting most news (you can catch most of it regurgitated on other sites anyway) in favor of more original opinions and editorials. Still, that news is out there, clogging up the tabs on our browsers, so now we offer the column as a Tuesday/Thursday... 

Closing Tabs started as a weekly look at news we didn’t cover on the site throughout the week. As the site has grown, however, we’ve moved away from reporting most news (you can catch most of it regurgitated on other sites anyway) in favor of more original opinions and editorials. Still, that news is out there, clogging up the tabs on our browsers, so now we offer the column as a Tuesday/Thursday... 

Remember last week when we really didn’t touch on the news that Nicolas Cage was leaving The Green Hornet (it did make it into our Closing Tabs weekly column)? Well, that story just got a lot more interesting. In fact, The Green Hornet just got a heck of a lot more interesting altogether. Cage was originally signed to play The Green Hornet’s baddie. Details on the part have been sparse, but we... 

Each week we take note of some stories circling the Internet that for some reason, whether it be time or fate or lack of personal interest, we don’t wind up covering on the site. By the end of the week, we wind up with a bunch of tabs open on our browsers and newsreaders that just end up sitting there waiting for more attention. Here’s our attempt to put them to some use, allowing us to close the... 

James McAvoy followed up his rise to stardom with something rather common – he disappeared from the limelight. After a year that saw McAvoy nominated for a powerful performance in Atonement and shooting the wings off of flies in Wanted, the actor kind of disappeared. McAvoy’s not gone, however; he’s making his return in the drama I’m With Cancer. The movie, which will co-star Seth Rogen... 

If Battlestar Galactica accomplished only one thing (and believe me, it did more than that), it rekindled my fondness for Edward James Olmos (aka “The Man”). Olmos has always been an actor I’ve enjoyed watching work, starting with my first introduction to him in Blade Runner, but I’ve always felt he was sort of underappreciated and outside of a lot of people’s radar. With Galactica at a close,... 

It’s been a rocky road for The Green Hornet. The project has jumped around over the past few years before settling at the feet of Seth Rogen. Suddenly all seemed like it was going well for the upcoming movie, until Stephen Chow left the film – first as director, and then in his co-starring role as Kato, sidekick to the Green Hornet. Chow was replaced as director by an equally interesting choice... 

We take a cue from Sesame Street this week, with the letter F used repeatedly throughout the show as we talk about Funny People, preliminary reviews of the upcoming G.I. Joe, and a new wave of remakes that includes Harvey and The Secret of NIMH. You’ll also hear part of our upcoming interview with Psych stars James Roday and Dulé Hill (thanks to Joshua Bozeman of The Blue Site.com for letting... 

Funny People is a step in a new direction for writer/director Judd Apatow. While his previous two films relied more on raunch comedy and some shock value, both The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up had a strong story at their heart. Funny People takes a less shocking approach to its story, covering more serious territory. While the absence of the raunch comedy doesn’t damage this movie (and there... 

Judd Apatow’s latest movie Funny People challenges his usual fans to stay with him on a deeper subject than he has broached before. With Knocked Up he explored parenthood and the coming of age; now he tackles the subject of life, death, and fame in Funny People starring Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen. Sandler’s character, George Simmons, is the famous comedian/movie star that finds out he is ill and...