Valkyrie

August 22, 2009 at 7:39am PST
Photos: United Artists, Universal Pictures

Brad Pitt is taking a ride on the Trash Talk Express.

The actor insists that his new film, Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds, is the greatest World War II movie ever made, and that it's much better than Tom Cruise's Valkyrie.

Pitt told German magazine Stern: “The second World War could still deliver more stories and films, but I believe that Quentin put a cover on that pot. With Basterds, everything than can be said to this genre has been said. The film destroys every symbol. The work is done, end of story.”

February 4, 2009 at 5:28am PST
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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes attended the premiere of his film Valkyrie in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil yesterday and we can’t help but pull a do-you-see-what-we-see.

Maybe we’ve been reading too much US Weekly but the body language expert in us is desperate to come out and play.

Do you notice how Katie is pulling the lower half of her body away from Tom?

Seriously, how much do you think she gets paid a year to be his beard?

—Sasha Perl-Raver

December 17, 2008 at 2:10pm PST
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Now that people have grown weary of criticizing Valkyrie star Tom Cruise for his couch jumping antics and Scientologist rants and what they could mean for audience’s reaction to the film, they needed a new target.

The latest round of criticism is landing on the film’s director, Bryan Singer, for his decision to maintain Tom Cruise, Tom Wilkinson and Kenneth Branagh’s actual accents. Cruise is American while Wilkinson and Branagh are both British and they maintain they’re regional speech in the film, even though they play German characters.

December 16, 2008 at 2:56pm PST
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Damn! 

Valkyrie co-stars Thomas Kretschmann and Tom Cruise were lookin’ mighty comfy at the film’s New York premiere at Rose Hall in Manhattan last night.

There’s nothing like someone cupping your bosom and whispering sweet nothings in your ear to put a stop to persistent gay rumors.

December 15, 2008 at 11:52am PST
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Three and a half years since Matt Lauer and Tom Cruise came to verbal blows on the Today Show over the use of anti-depression medication (“You’re glib, Matt”), they sat down again this morning.

“This is not a rematch,” Lauer was quick to say. “This is not Rocky II.”

Indeed, it wasn’t.

In fact, these two were so patty-cake nicey-nice, we expected them to start giving each other reach-arounds.

December 11, 2008 at 8:05am PST
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Attention, Citizens of Toronto!

Tom Cruise has lost his Blackberry. We repeat, Tom Cruise has lost his mind.

We mean, Blackberry.

If found, please return to…

Oh please, who are we kidding?

Tom Cruise did lose his cellphone while in Toronto promoting his new film, Valkyrie, but we all know that if it is found, it’s not getting turned into the lost and found like a stray mitten at Woolworth’s.

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