The Last Station Articles

Best Actress – Drama Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side Who would have thought a mere six weeks ago? I don’t believe many were expecting The Blind Side to earn even one quarter of what it has so far ($220m at the domestic box office and counting) or that Sandra Bullock would be named the top moneymaking star of 2009, the first woman on that spot [...]

George Clooney in Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air Topping the crowded and highly eclectic Golden Globe field with six nominations, Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air was shortlisted as a drama, not a comedy (or musical). James Cameron’s blockbuster-in-the-making Avatar also made the cut in that category, which basically meant that Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones and Clint Eastwood’s Invictus went out the window. [...]

Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man (top); James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren in The Last Station (middle); Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel in (500) Days of Summer (bottom) The nominees for the 25th annual Spirit Awards have been announced. Two of the best picture nominees also happen to be this year’s most nominated films: Lee Daniels‘ Precious and Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station, with five [...]

2010 Golden Globe Predictions – Best Supporting Actor George Clooney, The Men Who Stare at Goats (with Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges) A man with a (goat-)killer stare Matt Damon, Invictus A rugby player attempts to Save His Nation Christopher Plummer, The Last Station Leo Tolstoy, wine-drinking radical ideologue Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones A man with some serious issues Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds A Nazi [...]