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By Amy and Nancy Harrington, Pop Culture Passionistas On July 17, ABC Family is premiering a very important movie for teens. “Cyberbully” starring Emily Osment (“Hannah Montana” and “Spy Kids 2”) tells the story of a young girl verbally attacked so viciously on an Internet social networking site that she falls into a deep depression.…

By Amy and Nancy Harrington, Pop Culture Passionistas This week when Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake were at Fox News on a press junket promoting their film “Friends with Benefits,” the actress was stunned to learn about a YouTube video creating quite a stir on the Internet. Sergeant Scott Moore of the 3rd Battalion 2nd…

Harry Potter ends this Friday for tens of millions of fans around the world. Warner Bros. has put together a retrospective on all 8 films that plays like a single, long, epic trailer for the entire franchise. It’s thrilling, exciting, and even though I’ve already seen the film (it’s awesome and everything you hope it…

The Muppets have had a rocky decade and a half. Their films, few and far between, have either failed critically (The Muppet’s Wizard of Oz) or failed commercially (Elmo in Grouchland which, despite being utterly charming, tanked in theaters). But hopefully come November everything will be right in the Muppet world and Jim Henson can…

Kevin James stars in ‘Zookeeper,’ about the world’s greatest zookeeper who decides to leave his job in order to pursue the woman of his dreams. The animals, terrified of losing their star caretaker, speak up for the first time and start giving him relationship advice. Obvious hijinks ensue, since a monkey is probably not the…

“Brave,” Pixar’s next film, about an impetuous Scottish princess who cuts the wrong deal with the wrong witch and unleashes some very ‘wrong’ stuff upon the kingdom, finally has a teaser trailer worth watching. And boy oh boy does it look delicious. After the somewhat poor taste that Cars 2 left in my mouth, I’m…

Who doesn’t love to eat? Or cook? Beliefnet is giving away five copies of the beautiful cookbook Kosher Elegance. Check out seven outstanding kosher recipes from the cookbook that anyone can enjoy – recipes that could be great for your family or dinner guests. To enter the contest just submit a comment below with your name…

I originally saw this over at Movie Mom’s blog, run by the lovely Nell Minnow, and I knew I just had to share it with our Idol Chatter readers. Trevor Jackson is only 14 but he both sounds and moves like Michael Jackson. Kids got skillz! Check it out and hopefully it will make your…

The new film from producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin Macdonald (who directed the must-see documentary, “Touching the Void”) is an intriguing global social experiment. Last year, through YouTube, they solicited over 4500 hours of footage from 192 different countries, all of it filmed on July 24th, 2010. The final movie is composed of those…

Our music editor, Stephen Russ, put together a sweet top 10 list of inspiring songs about America just in time for 4th of July weekend. “Born in the USA” is obviously on there, as well as tunes by Neil Diamond and James Brown. You owe it to yourself to check out the list if only…
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