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Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique in Precious (top); Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart (bottom) Lee Daniels' urban family drama Precious swept the 25th Spirit Awards held this evening at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles. Precious won a total of five awards out of five nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Gabourey Sidibe), Best Supporting Actress (Mo'Nique), and Best First Screenplay (Geoffrey Fletcher). Upon receiving his [...]

Gabourey Sidibe in Lee Daniels' Precious John Cassavetes Award winner Lynn Shelton, Best First Film Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper, and Precious screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher all shed tears when accepting their awards. But the most emotional moment of the evening was the standing ovation given to Roger Ebert, who presented the Chaz and Roger Ebert Truer Than Fiction award to Bill Ross and Turner Ross' [...]

Brian Geraghty, Kel O'Neill in Easier with Practice What about Davy Rothbart's autobiographical GQ article made you decide to adapt it into a movie? I just really love the way he took this lurid story of having a phone sex relationship and told it through a voice that had honesty and sincerity and humility. It wasn't about being explicit or risque as it was about [...]

Brian Geraghty, Kel O'Neill in Easier with Practice Easier with Practice, Kyle Patrick Alvarez's feature-film debut based on an autobiographical article written by Davy Rothbart for GQ, has been getting some pretty good buzz. This psychological drama about human connections in the early 21st century has won the Grand Jury Award at CineVegas and the Best New International Feature Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival, [...]