Windblown nuclear melodrama is earnest attempt at period piece

Manhattan is an earnest attempt to dramatize the lives of the scientists and their families living in tactical isolation and under strict security in Los Alamos, N.M., during the latter part of World War II.

The United States is racing to design and build an atomic bomb before the Germans can develop the devastating next-generation weapon themselves.

The action centers on two teams competing for primacy, funding, and resources. John Benjamin Hickey (who plays Chumhum founder Neil Gross on The Good Wife) gives an intense performance as Frank Winter, a scientist completely consumed with the project.

The Last of Us: First movie poster shown, Game of Thrones Arya Stark to play Ellie?

We've long heard rumors of The Last of Movie being a real thing, it appears now as if those rumors are true. Today, Sony tweeted what appears to be the official poster for the movie, and fans are going coo-coo for cocoa puffs already. 

The poster only revealed Ellie with backpack on her back and a knife in her hand. It didn't say much, nor did it give us an idea who will end up playing the character. What the poster did tell us, however, is that The Last of Us movie is a real thing, and it could be ready for prime time by 2016 if production begins next year. 

When it comes down to who will be playing who in The Last of Us film, we have no concrete idea apart from some rumors we've come across. From what we understand, it appears Sam Raimi will be directing the movie, and Neil Druckmann is expected to pen the script. 

Working with Woody intimidating: Emma

LOS ANGELES: Actor Emma Stone says she felt intimidated by filmmaker Woody Allen while working in his directorial venture Magic in the Moonlight. The actor stars alongside Colin Firth in the film. For the 25-year-old, working under Allen’s direction was nerve-racking because the team weren’t given time to get comfortable with him.  Firth plays a celebrated stage magician, asked to debunk an American clairvoyant named Sophie Baker (Stone), who appears to have hoodwinked a rich American family in their home on the Riviera.

“It was hugely intimidating. I think after a while you get your sea legs a little bit, but there’s no rehearsal process, there’s no real getting-to-know Woody at all. You are just terrified. It’s all cold,” said Stone.

The Amazing Spider-Man star, who claims Allen “goes to great lengths” to keep his scripts under wraps, didn’t even meet with the director before she was offered the part.

Did Beyonce's sister Solange attack Jay Z in that lift fight over Rihanna?

Shocking CCTV footage of Queen Bey's hubby Jay being attacked by Solange in a lift after the Met Ball was leaked earlier this year - and we've been dying to find out what the row was about ever since

THAT lift fight between Beyonce's sister Solange and Jay Z was over Rihanna, it has been claimed.

Shocking CCTV footage of Queen Bey's hubby Jay being attacked by Solange in a lift after the Met Ball was leaked earlier this year - and we've been desperate to find out what the row was about ever since.

Bel Kaufman dies at 103; author of bestseller ‘Up the Down Staircase’

Bel Kaufman, who turned her experiences teaching in the New York City public schools into the comic novel “Up the Down Staircase,” one of the best-selling books of the 1960s, which was later made into a film, died July 25 at her home in Manhattan. She was 103.

Her daughter, Thea Goldstine, confirmed the death to news outlets. The cause was not disclosed.

With pitch-perfect tone, “Up the Down Staircase” captured the humor, pathos and administrative nonsense of the urban high schools in which Ms. Kaufman had taught for 15 years.