By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
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Bruce Willis remains a die-hard at the box office.
By now it's clear that nothing and no one can kill Bruce Willis, whose fifth film in the "Die Hard" franchise, the horribly titled "A Good Day to Die Hard," opens this week.
Is the title of the latest installment on the aging "Die Hard" franchise a wry comment on romantic entanglements?
"Beautiful Creatures" _ The genders have been reversed but the supernatural, star-crossed teen angst remains firmly intact in this drama that clearly aims to pick up where the "Twilight" franchise left off. Writer-director Richard LaGravenese's film, based on the first novel in the young adult series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, oozes Southern Gothic eccentricity and some amusing if inconsistent touches of camp. But a strong cast of likable and, yes, beautiful actors can only do so much with the formula in which they're forced to work. And, like the "Twilight" movies, the special effects are all too often distractingly cheesy. The setup breathes some new life into such familiar material, though, as co-stars Alden Ehrenreich and Alice Englert feel like actual awkward teens enjoying the fraught thrills of first love. Once the plot machinations start grinding in the second half, though, "Beautiful Creatures" as a whole grinds to a halt. Spells and scenery-chewing can be a hoot; watching other people sitting around scouring ancient tomes for clues, not so much. Ehrenreich plays a restless teen in small-town South Carolina who's smitten by Englert's mysterious new girl. Turns out she's a witch _ and she's probably doomed _ but could true love with a mortal save her? Emma Thompson, Emmy Rossum and Viola Davis co-star. PG-13 for violence, scary images and some sexual material. 123 minutes. Two stars out of four.
It's supposed to be a parody of itself, right?
Maybe Bruce Willis is the man to unite divided Republicans.
As rising GOP stars prepare to deliver competing, stereophonic versions of the fissile party’s response to President Obama’s State of the Union message Tuesday night, Bruce Willis continues to speak out in mono, on message, in a language common to all Republicans.
Bruce Willis says he's against new gun control laws that could infringe on Second Amendment rights. The "Die Hard" star also dismisses any link between Hollywood shootouts and real-life gun violence.
Bruce Willis says he's against new gun control laws that could infringe on Second Amendment rights. The "Die Hard" star also dismisses any link between Hollywood shootouts and real-life gun violence.
'Make him stop'
'Make him stop'
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"Die Hard" action hero John McClane's dirty undershirt is moving in with America's favorite movie memorabilia.
ONLINE EXCLISIVE: Moviegoers lined up for 1988's "Die Hard" to see an ordinary Joe, or John as it were, fight terrorists with bare knuckles and a few well-placed "yippee-kai-yay" expletives.
McClane also repeatedly laments "I'm on vacation!" just as things are about to get hairy.
