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Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady Oscar veteran Meryl Streep may have her name already engraved on the Best Actress statuette for the 2012 Academy Awards — well, barring a Glenn Close upset — but those associated with former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher are none too pleased with Streep's performance as the free-marketeering Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, as reported [...]

The winner of 7 French Academy Awards, including best film, best original screenplay, and best actress, Martin Provost's Séraphine stars Yolande Moreau as painter Séraphine Louis, aka Séraphine de Senlis, a plain, poor, uncultured, devoutly Catholic, and emotionally unbalanced housekeeper who became known as a major artistic talent in the early 20th century. Written by Provost and Marc Abdelnour, Séraphine focuses on the artist's relationship [...]

Martin Scorsese's 2004 Best Picture nominee The Aviator is the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' "Great To Be Nominated" series. The handsome but vapid Howard Hughes biopic will be screened on Monday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Following the screening, cast members Alec Baldwin, Jacob Davich, J.C. Mackenzie, and Amy [...]

Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great, Alexander ALEXANDER Review Pt.2: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer That is the casting of Colin Farrell, who lacks the necessary charisma to make one believe that all those men would follow him for thousands of miles to risk life and limb in a fight against a much more powerful enemy, Darius' Persian Empire. Farrell looks particularly out of [...]