We are coming up on bad times. Nationalism is surging throughout Europe. In the Arab world, spring is suddenly winter and the sects, the tribes, the clans, the religious, the very religious and the military are taking a step back, eyeing one another for the coming rumble. Now comes a strong and wholly gripping film by Angelina Jolie about the 1990s’ ugly war in Bosnia. I do not know if it’s about what has passed or what is coming. I fear the latter. Read full article > >

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Angelina Jolie visited a refugee camp in Tunisia Tuesday after her Jolie-Pitt Foundation made an “important donation” to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In a statement by the U.N., Jolie urged more international aid for refugees. But…

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DreamWorks previewed its slate of animated films for 2011 in front an auditorium full of journalists recently at the Directors Guild in Los Angeles. Jeffrey Katzenberg emceed the event, which included a screening of the first half or so of Kung Fu Panda 2 and the first 13 minutes of the Shrek spinoff Puss in Boots. Although both films are far from done (spots had temporary art, color, music, etc.), they are both well on their way to their full blockbuster glory. Kung Fu Panda 2, which was introduced by its director Jennifer Yuh, includes all the original voice cast (Angelina Jolie, Seth Rogen, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Black, etc.) as well as some new featured players, such as Jean-Claude Van Damme and Gary Oldman as Po’s newest rival, the evil white peacock Lord Shen.

After hearing bits and pieces of rumors for months, Lara Croft’s return to the big screen has finally been made official. The Departed producer Graham King is re-launching the franchise that once starred Angelina Jolie with a plan to hit theaters in 2013. King told Variety, “We are very excited to be rebooting what is already a hugely successful film franchise and continuing the Tomb Raider phenomenon.” The first couple of films really helped launch Angelina Jolie as an action star, and so we expect the new franchise to do something similar for another actress. Question is: Who would you choose as the next Lara Croft? Do you go with a familiar name or an unknown? And because Hollywood refuses to create action films for actresses (unless it’s Angelina Jolie), it’s hard to… Read More Read Comments

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You want pictures of dresses? Styleite has put together a nice gallery looking at six red-carpet trends from the Golden Globes: pink (see Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore); “statement shoulders” (Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie); minimalism (Hailee…

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It’s that time again! The box office has been a bit boring these past couple of weeks – what with nothing of any significance arriving to help shove Harry Potter and Tangled down the top 10 charts. This weekend changes that with a couple of new films starring some very big names entering theaters. Let’s take a look … The Tourist What’s The Scoop: Johnny Depp stars as an American tourist who travels to Italy to help heal his wounded heart, except he crosses paths with a mysterious women (Angelina Jolie) who introduces a whole bunch of sexy danger and intrigue into his life. Why It Might Win The Weekend: C’mon, Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. Two of the biggest stars in the world pairing up on screen in some beautiful, scenic thriller! How can this… Read More Read Comments

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Angelina Jolie is asking critics to pipe down until they’ve seen her movie. An interracial love story set on the eve of the 1992-’95 Balkans conflict, Jolie’s directorial debut has drawn fire from every corner of Bosnia and suffered legal setbacks to…

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Angelina Jolie asks critics to “hold judgement” of her directorial debut after Bosnia’s culture minister reportedly revokes a permit to shoot in Sarajevo.

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Angelina Jolie has visited Nowshera in north-west Pakistan to highlight the plight of more than 20 million people affected by the country’s worst ever floods.

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Angelina Jolie has visited Nowshera in north-west Pakistan to highlight the plight of more than 20 million people affected by the country’s worst ever floods.

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Angelina Jolie has visited Nowshera in north-west Pakistan to highlight the plight of more than 20 million people affected by the country’s worst ever floods.

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The UN makes a fresh appeal for Pakistan’s flood victims as film star Angelina Jolie arrives in the country to highlight their plight.

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Angelina Jolie talks to the BBC about her new movie Salt and how she deals with filming and family

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This article titled “Salt” was written by Peter Bradshaw, for The Guardian on Thursday 19th August 2010 21.33 UTC

Phillip Noyce’s neo-cold-war action thriller Salt – the title’s conceivably inspired by Salt II – could well be this year’s top summer movie. It’s pacy, smart, subversive and knocked out with such verve and attack that you’re not in the least bit bothered by how far-fetched it all is. Angelina Jolie plays the famously gender-bendered role originally earmarked for Tom Cruise, and here we might pause to consider this sexist world in which a similar transition would be unthinkable for The Expendables. Golden Girls with Uzis maybe? Anyway, Angelina is the CIA’s special agent Evelyn Salt, who one day accompanies her hardbitten colleagues Winter (Liev Schreiber) and Peabody (Chiwetel Ejiofor) on a difficult job debriefing a Russian defector who says he’s got very important information. The CIA has apparently a Russian mole in its ranks: a “sleeper” agent ready to carry out an atrocious act, and this is Evelyn herself! Horrified, Salt has to go on the run, because no one believes in her innocence – battling both baddies and goodies to clear her name and foil an assassination plot. Kurt Wimmer’s script channels the spirit of The Manchurian Candidate, perhaps via the Jonathan Demme remake. Evelyn Salt is not merely a super-fit martial-arts ninja but a mistress of disguise: hilariously, she even at one point passes herself off as a man – a lean, wiry, smallish guy with a toothy smile and mop of hair. Short of carrying around the complete works of L Ron Hubbard, the homage couldn’t be made clearer. Very entertaining stuff.

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The UNHCR goodwill ambassador is ready to hit the road again: Angelina Jolie wants to go to Pakistan, where devastating floods have affected as many as 20 million people and left 2,000 dead.

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