Humpday Articles

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 [...]

2009 Edinburgh Film Festival Awards 2009 Edinburgh Film Festival: June 17-28, 2009   After spending three years at a moon base extracting a gas needed to reverse Earth's energy crisis, an astronaut (Sam Rockwell) is about to return to his home planet when he starts seeing and hearing things. His company has apparently come up with an eerie retirement plan of their own.   Michael [...]

Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor in I Love You Phillip Morris Gay boycott or no, Sundance 2009 has several films dealing — at least to some extent — with gay characters. The most publicized gay-focused film at Sundance is I Love You Phillip Morris, about a scary-looking ex-cop (Jim Carrey) who becomes a criminal and is arrested. While in jail, he falls for a fellow inmate [...]

Sundance 2009: US Dramatic Competition   Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon in The Greatest   Adam (Director-screenwriter: Max Mayer) A strange and lyrical love story between a somewhat socially dysfunctional young man and the woman of his dreams. Cast: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison. Amreeka (Director-screenwriter: Cherien Dabis) When a divorced Palestinian woman and her teenage son move to rural Illinois [...]