While there has always been a psycho/sexual theme in various guises throughout the work of famed filmmaker David Cronenberg, he has become a bit more refined with his movies of late. But where "Eastern Promises" was one of his most accomplished pictures to date, "A Dangerous Method" feels stagnate and ends up suffering from a severe case of identity crisis. Is the film a highbrow pseudo-intellectual drama, a tale of twisted sexual practices or just an examination of the deep dark secrets within us all? Problem is on all such levels the boring Method fails – trying to please everyone is d...

Two Jews on Film - By Joan Alperin-Schwartz: Sigmund Freud... Carl Jung... So what comes to mind when you hear these two names? Certainly not, the director David Cronenberg. who's more known for making twisted, dark horror/scifi ('The Brood', 'Scanners' 'The Fly) than cerebral relationship dramas.

But with his new film, 'A Dangerous Method' that's about to change. This is the story of three people, Sigmund Freud (Viggio Mortensen)...Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and their extraordinary, patient/associate, Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) who eventually came between them.

First, I ha...

Outrageous comedian Russell Brand, Bradley Cooper, Beyonce have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The trio of non-Oscar winners joins a class of 175 actors, moviemakers, executives and artists who will be added to the membership list in time to vote for the Academy Awards in 2012. A further three notables will become associate members - and will not be among those voting.

The invitees also include photojournalist/filmmaker Tim Hetherington, who was killed in action in Libya in April. Hetherington was nominated for a Best Documentary prize at the 2010 ...

There is no doubt that the immense pressure to succeed in the world of professional ballet can be crippling for those who chose it as their calling. Parents and instructors are intrusive enough with their expectations; however an even larger source of stress is rivalry with other dancers for the top slots in stage productions.

Nina (Natalie Portman), the main character in Darren Aronofsky’s intense psychological thriller “Black Swan,” has to deal with all of this external drama, none of which compares though to the mess she has cooked up in her own head. This is because Nina literall...

It’s become clear to me what Darren Aronofsky’s approach is on story-telling. Something about this man thrives on a little bit of everything – you name it! Perversely playful and always looking to expose characters’ inner-demons in the most astute ways ever, I’m labeling him Hollywood’s Shrink! With a solid resume of films that psychologically undertake ones’ attention-span, Black Swan doesn’t stray too far from Darren’s foundation, and sets the pace when around the beginning of the film a line is thrown out during dialog about how they’re going to explore and unleash ballet’s darkest exist...

'Black Swan' directed by Darren Aronofsky, simply put, is a masterpiece. Natalie Portman, in the performance of her career. Portman portrays Nina, a beautiful, fragile ballerina with The New York City Ballet. Like all great artists, Nina is obsessed with perfection. When she gets the chance to to dance the lead in a new ballet created by the artistic director, the wonderful Vincent Cassel, this obsession takes her and the audience on a journey into a dark, nightmarish world. Aronofsky has cast this film perfectly. Barbara Hershey portrays Nina's controlling, suffocating mother, Mila K...

Hollywood's favorite bumbling Brit, Hugh Grant, is the toast of Thursday as he turns 50.

The "Four Weddings & A Funeral" star is so beloved among film fans, he's mostly forgiven for his liaison with prostitute Divine Brown 13 years ago - a scandal that would have ruined many men.

Instead, Grant bounced back with a string of hit movies like "Notting Hill," "Two Weeks Notice" and "Bridget Jones's Diary," in which he played the perfect cad.

Away from Hollywood, he has dated two of the world's great English beauties in Elizabeth Hurley and Jemima Khan and he's a huge fan of golf, soccer and ...

Actress Monica Bellucci is celebrating after giving birth to her second daughter on Friday.

The Italian star and her actor husband Vincent Cassel welcomed little Leonie in Rome.

A close friend of Bellucci tells People magazine both mother and daughter are doing "marvelously".

Bellucci and Cassel already have a daughter, five-year-old Deva.

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Being a celebrity is hot. Being the wife to a celebrity is hotter. Being a celebrity wife is even hotter. Here's the list of the hottest celebrity wives!

12) Adrianne Curry

Spouse: Christopher Knight

Hot for being beautiful while coming off as being able to beat the crap out of you if you do her a wrong.

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11) Jennifer Lopez

Spouse: Marc Anthony

How can I put this delicately...she is hot because of her butt and because she probably works out hours each day so as to not allow her butt to take on a life ...

Monica Bellucci's apartment was targeted by thieves while she attended the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.

The Italian actress, who is married to French actor Vincent Cassel, had jewelry, her passport, laptop computers and other items worth around $112,000 snatched from her Paris property while she was in the French Riviera.

Bellucci was at the event to promote her forthcoming movie Don't Turn Around, in which she co-stars with former Bond girl Sophie Marceau.

A police spokesperson has confirmed that an unknown number of burglars entered the buildin...

French actor Vincent Cassel’s bid to go gay by dying his hair blond in new movie Eastern Promises backfired on him - studio bosses hated the look. The star plays the closeted gay son of a Russian Mafia boss in the film, and felt the best way to present his character was by dying his hair.

He says, "When I first got on the set I had this idea that I wanted to do this little not over the top thing, but a feminine thing for a Mafioso, and so I came on the set blond.

"The first time (director) David Cronenberg saw me he freaked out and said, `I'm not sure about that.' We did the scr...

French actor Vincent Cassel is to play France's most notorious mobster in a new biopic. The Ocean's Thirteen star, who has a string of bad guy roles to his credit, will play 70s gangster Jacques Mesrine in a new film based on bestselling autobiography Death Instinct, which Mesrine wrote in jail.

Cassel says, "He was France's Public Enemy Number One and he got executed in the middle of the street by police, in front of everybody. For the movie, we got involved with everybody, like Mesrine's ex-wife, his kids, the people who came out of jail 30 years later, who were involved with him at ...

"I run around the house naked with heels all the time. It's so funny... I love running around in kimonos and jewelry or naked with jewelry." Actress Mary-Kate Olsen likes to strip off.

"I was horrible at negotiating the deal because I was in his lap, licking his face, begging him to do the show about two minutes after meeting him. So, I'm doing it for free." Pamela Anderson on how illusionist Hans Klok managed to win her services as his full-time assistant on stage in Las Vegas for free.

"We're past the honeymoon period. The truth is, it's crazy to be able to kiss your best friend...

French actor, singer and dancer Jean-Pierre Cassel has died following a long illness. He was 74. The star, whose talent was discovered by Gene Kelly, died at his home in Paris yesterday.

The father of actor Vincent Cassel and father-in-law of Italian actress

Monica Bellucci will be best remembered for his role in late 1950s comedy Phillippe de Broca - but he also started in English-language films including Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Murder on the Orient Express and the Three Musketeers films.

Cassel is survived by his three children, actors Vincent and Cé...

Acting couple Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel were once approached to star in a pornographic movie together - but feared fans would brand it a cheap "stunt." The pair married in 1999 and were keen to extend their relationship to a screen partnership. However, despite being tempted by director Gaspar Noe's raunchy offer, Cassel concedes the film was inappropriate.

He says, "When we sat down and watched (porn) movies together and saw the sex scenes we thought it wasn't right. People would think it was a stunt. So at the last minute we pulled out of that and ended up doing Irreversib...

Italian actress Monica Bellucci is the one actress who gets Samuel L. Jackson's pulse racing because the cool star thinks she's "drop-dead gorgeous." Jackson has been a fan of the sultry European star for many years and thinks her partner, French actor Vincent Cassel, is one of the luckiest men in the world.

He says, "She's full-bodied but not girlie-girlie or kind of cutie cutesy-cutesy. She is drop-dead gorgeous. I don't care if you see her early in the morning or late at night, which I had the opportunity to do when I was on the jury at Cannes (Film Festival) this year. I'd see her...

Vincent Cassel will be the Master of Ceremonies at the Cannes Film Festival. He will launch the 59th edition on May 17, 2006, by welcoming the President of the Jury Wong Kar Wai and his Jury onto the stage of the Palais des Festivals. He will equally host the Closing Ceremony on Sunday, May 28, when the awards are announced.

Vincent Cassel was invited for the very first time to the Festival de Cannes in 1995 for Mathieu Kassovitz's Hate, which launched his career and became a cult movie for an entire generation. Considered as the muse of young French cinema, he notably shot, along with...

Monica Bellucci disliked her husband when they first met. The beautiful star says she thought French actor Vincent Cassel was pretentious when she saw him on the set of L'Appartement. She revealed: "It was not love at first sight. In fact, it was the opposite. I thought, 'This guy is very pretentious - who does he think he is?' But we got to know each other over time. I realized he was not as he seemed. He put up a public face, like many of us."

The 36-year-old former model added: "He also told me later, 'I thought you were just a model pretending to be an actress. Then, I realized you...