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    Mike Hogan

    Mike Hogan

    Digital Director, Vanity Fair

  • This Year's Best Director Race Is A Boys' Club

    Welcome to For Your Consideration, an unapologetically obsessive weekly conversation about the Oscar race. Between now and March 2, 2014, Vanity Fair digital director Michael Hogan and Huffington Post senior entertainment editor Christopher Rosen will survey the landscape in advance of the 86th annual Academy Awards.

  • Is 'Saving Mr. Banks' The Next Best Picture Front-Runner?

    Welcome to For Your Consideration, an unapologetically obsessive weekly conversation about the Oscar race. Between now and March 2, 2014, Vanity Fair digital director Michael Hogan and Huffington Post senior entertainment editor Christopher Rosen will survey the landscape in advance of the 86th annual Academy Awards. This week ...

  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus: James Gandolfini Was 'A Gentle Giant'

    A lot of women feel that way! What was it about him that made women react like that? I think he has a thoughtfulness, a kindness, and a powerfulness that is irresistible.

  • 'I Could Not Have Been That Bad'

    There are two heroes in "Rush," Ron Howard's motor-revving new movie about the 1976 Formula One season. James Hunt, as embodied by?hunky Australian Chris Hemsworth, may be the guy on all the posters, but we care at least as much about his nemesis, Niki Lauda, portrayed by German-Spanish actor Daniel Brühl. Lauda knows all about gaining an edge, especially when the competition is Hunt.

  • Fassbender's Hidden Talent

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  • The Year's Most Buzzed-About Performance

    In the film, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival last month and went on to pick up substantial Oscar buzz at the Toronto International Film Festival, Ejiofor plays Solomon Northup, a free black man from Saratoga, N.Y., who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana. "I wanted to tell that story as specifically as I could, and to see if I could get the audience to even fractionally feel that they had connected to what [Northup] went through," Ejiofor told HuffPost Entertainment during a sit-down interview in Toronto. Ejiofor, whom U.S. audiences will recognize from his roles in "Children of Men," "Salt" and "American Gangster," found the Louisiana locations where "12 Years a Slave" was shot both haunting and inspiring.

  • Josh Brolin Almost Played Batman

    The "No Country for Old Men" actor really was in the running to play Batman opposite Henry Cavill's Superman in Zack Snyder's upcoming sequel to "Man of Steel." Asked if he'd had conversations with Snyder about the role, Brolin told The Huffington Post, "We did. I didn't have conversations about it, but Zack, that was part of his idea.

  • 'Breaking Bad' Secrets Revealed

    You don't have to be an art history major to know that "Breaking Bad" looks like nothing else on television. As the director of photography for Breaking Bad since its second season, Michael Slovis is the man responsible for setting up those shots.

  • Could The White House Really Go 'Down'?

    Despite its illustrious setting, Roland Emmerich's "White House Down" is a mindless summer blockbuster for the most part. Is it really possible to storm the White House and take the president hostage? Could a hacker really use the White House computer system to launch missiles?

  • Was Hastings' Car Hacked?

    The peculiar circumstances of journalist Michael Hastings' death in Los Angeles last week have unleashed?a wave of conspiracy theories. Clarke said, "There is reason to believe that intelligence agencies for major powers" -- including the United States -- know how to remotely seize control of a car. "What has been revealed as a result of some research at universities is that?it's relatively easy to hack your way into the control system of a car, and to do such things as cause acceleration when the driver doesn't want acceleration, to throw on the brakes when the driver doesn't want the brakes on, to launch an air bag," Clarke told The Huffington Post.

  • Arya Stark On Finale Shocker: 'It's Horrible'

    This was the season we learned to love Arya Stark. The younger daughter of Ned and Catelyn Stark, Arya, who is portrayed on HBO's "Game of Thrones" by the 16-year-old English actress Maisie Williams, came into her own over the course of Season 3, falling in (and out) with the Brotherhood Without Banners, stirring up enough chemistry with her traveling pal Gendry (Joe Dempsie) to?inspire a legion of Internet "shippers"?and eventually joining forces, however reluctantly, with one of the men on her infamous kill list, Sandor "The Hound" Clegane (Rory McCann). Arya?wasn't present for the Red Wedding, thank heaven, but she witnessed enough to know that her life will never be the same.

  • New Film Looks At Where Obama Failed

    Jeremy Scahill's new documentary, "Dirty Wars," is a cinematic chronicle of one journalist's investigation into America's secret global campaign of targeted killings. It raises a stark question: Is Team Obama's aggressive expansion of drone strikes and night raids doing more harm than good? The film, co-written by Scahill and David Riker and directed by Rick Rowley, is structured like a noir detective story.

  • Behind 'Game Of Thrones's' Most Devastating Episode Yet

    Earlier this season, Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) delivered a monologue suggesting that there is a curse on House Stark -- and that it's all her fault. "She thinks they're all gone, so she has absolutely nothing to live for," Fairley said.

  • 'I Don't Need The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame'

    When this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony airs on HBO Saturday night,?Rush, Heart, Public Enemy, Donna Summer and Randy Newman, among others, will be seen joining those already enshrined in the Cleveland museum. The Huffington Post asked lead singer Paul Stanley if there's hope of a reprieve. "Well, it depends on who lives longer, us or Jann Wenner," Stanley said, referring to the Rolling Stone editor-in-chief who co-founded the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame back in the mid-1980s.

  • 'Gatsby' Director Debunks Big Leo Rumor

    Last week, "The Great Gatsby" director Baz Luhrmann sparked a frenzy of Internet speculation when he reportedly remarked that he'd like to?team up with Leonardo DiCaprio on a film adaptation of "Hamlet". "Someone said, 'Where does Leonardo go from here?' And I just said, 'After Gatsby, the only way up is Hamlet,'" Luhrmann said. "The Great Gatsby"?is Luhrmann's second collaboration with DiCaprio.

  • 'It's Kind Of Pathetic'

    Alex Gibney has directed his share of controversial documentaries. It's unlikely that many Wikileaks supporters, who unveiled the #FuckAlexGibney meme during this year's Sundance Film Festival, have seen Gibney's film, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks." But they know its depiction of the organization's founder, Julian Assange, isn't 100 percent complimentary, and that's apparently enough. "What I find remarkable, and this is why it becomes sort of a propaganda organization, is that Assange hasn't seen the film, even though he's denounced it," says Gibney, whose 2007 film "Taxi to the Dark Side" won the Oscar for Best Documentary.

  • 'DC Has Always Been Sexy!'

    In addition to "Scandal," there's "House of Cards," "Homeland," "The Americans" and "VEEP," and their stars roamed the well-appointed rooms and terraces of the French Ambassador's Residence for the?Vanity Fair-Bloomberg post-White House Correspondents Dinner party?late Saturday night.

  • Where Do Rock Stars Keep Their Wallets?

    Director Tom Berninger came up with an instant classic for "Mistaken for Strangers," his new documentary about Brooklyn indie-rock band The National. After the film opened the Tribeca Film Festival on April 17, all the writers in the room were smacking themselves in the forehead. "He asked a lot of questions like that," Matt, 42, said with a rueful laugh during an interview at the Hilton Fashion District in New York City.

  • Redford: It's Gotten Worse Since Watergate

    It also spawned one hit movie, "All the President's Men" (1976), starring Robert Redford as Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein. On Sunday, April 21, Discovery aired "All the President's Men Revisited," a new documentary that looks back on the whole crazy mess.

  • Why Sequels To His Movie Are 'Disgusting'

    "The Friedkin Connection," out April 16 from HarperCollins, is jam-packed with colorful anecdotes (who knew Gene Hackman was such a pain in the ass?), but the real joy is sharing brain space with this ballsy, unconventional force of nature as he plays career Chutes and Ladders in the company of Hollywood's A-list. Last month, Friedkin, who is married to former Paramount Pictures chief Sherry Lansing, visited HuffPost Live and?talked about the complicated legacies of his gay-themed films "The Boys in the Band" and "Cruisin'."?Last week, I had the chance to ask him about his classic films "The French Connection" and "The Exorcist," which turns 40 this year. Michael Hogan: "The Exorcist" is one of my favorite films ever, and I think it's fascinating that you say you never set out to make a horror film.