Matthew McConaughey has spent most of the last decade starring in romantic comedy movies like The Ghost of Girlfriends Past,but in recent years his roles have been edgier,which is the case with new film,Killer Joe. Based on Tracy Letts stage play of the same name,Killer Joe has McConaughey in the title role of a cop who moonlights as contract killer in the crime thriller directed by The Exorcist maker William Friedkin. Matthew Perry,the former Friends star is making another bid for a television comeback and says his characters have got more likeable with every attempt to find success.The 42-year-old,who has largely failed to follow up his fame as the hapless Chandler Bing in the comedy that ended in 2004,returns to TV in September as a sports talks radio host who joins a grief counselling group after the death of his wife. The new comedy Go On follows the dark and short-lived series Mr. Sunshine in which Perry starred. Kurt Anderson,the best-selling authors latestnovel is about a group of friends who hatch a James-Bond-like plot amid the tumult of the 1960s in the U.S. True Believers,tells the tale of a celebrated lawyer,Karen Hollander,whose childhood James Bond games with her friends spin into real-life political intrigue during the politically charged year of 1968. Now in her 60s,Karen tries to reconcile her secret radical past with her present as she writes her memoir and bonds with her teenage Occupy activist granddaughter.
