Posts with tag "Kick-Ass"

'Kick-Ass' Star, 19, Engaged to Artist, 43

Posted Apr 26th 2010 at 08:52 AM by PopEater Staff

Kick-Ass is getting married ... and having a baby ... with a woman twice his age. Aaron Johnson, the 19-year-old title star of last weekend's No. 1 film, tells PEOPLE he and British artist-director Sam Taylor-Wood are having their first child together this summer. Taylor-Wood, 43, is a whopping 24 years older than the young actor and already has two kids from a previous marriage. Johnson says ...

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Video: Is 'Kick-Ass' Star Hit Girl Shocking or Sweet?

Posted Apr 16th 2010 at 04:40 PM by Zach Dionne

This weekend belongs to Hit Girl. The 11-year-old action hero with a knack for murder and cussin' -- and the most hyped facet of the new movie 'Kick-Ass' -- is sure to get people talking, particularly after they've seen two hours of her dropping F- and C-bombs and racking up a kill count. With the movie out today, we showed unsuspecting New Yorkers -- generally of the parental persuasion -- the ...

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Can Roger Ebert's 'Kick-Ass' Movie Review Protect America's Youth?

Posted Apr 16th 2010 at 03:00 PM by Amber James

As 'Kick-Ass' opens in theaters, critic Roger Ebert warns movie fans in his one star review that the action flick is "morally reprehensible." Despite the film's R rating, the famed movie critic is fixated on the effect its 11-year-old main character Hit Girl will have on younger audiences. In the film, Mindy (Chloe Grace Moretz) and her father (Nicolas Cage) try to become superheroes. During ...