Best Picture tie surprise: Gravity was one of the winners. Producers Guild of America Awards: ‘Gravity’ & ’12 Years a Slave’ tie for Best Picture Earlier this evening, Jan. 19,…
Kristen Stewart in Camp X-Ray. ‘Camp X-Ray’: Kristen Stewart & Peyman Moaadi praised, but mixed reviews for Sundance political drama The Guardian‘s Xan Brooks wasn’t too crazy about first-time feature…
PGA Awards 2013 winners Update: Ben Affleck’s Argo wins Theatrical Motion Picture PGA Award. Argo producer Ben Affleck tells Steve Pond “I had totally convinced myself they were going to…
‘Kill Your Darlings’ Daniel Radcliffe: Gay poet Allen Ginsberg. Daniel Radcliffe gay poet in ‘Kill Your Darlings’: Sundance movies Beasts of the Southern Wild, Keep the Lights On, Middle of…
Bruce the Shark and director Steven Spielberg, the de facto Jaws stars. Universal Studios Orlando is getting rid of the Jaws ride, starring Bruce the Shark, so as to replace…
Catherine Deneuve & Roman Polanski: César Awards’ Nominations Best Film HEARTBREAKER produced by Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun, directed by Pascal Chaumeil OF GODS AND MEN produced by…
Sex-starved housewives everywhere are represented by Agnes Kittelsen, who also happens to be the “perfect” housewife, in Anne Sewitsky’s Happy, Happy / Sykt Lykkelig – one of the 2011 Sundance…
Kristen Stewart: “I’m not ‘playing a stripper.’ It’s really not a stripper movie at all. It sort of just opens your eyes about people that don’t have options. I know…
Gay Orthodox Jews in Haim Tabakman’s Eyes Wide Open (upper image); teens go wild in Ruben Östlund’s Involuntary (lower image). The 2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival, which was held…
Sexual abuse family drama Precious with Gabourey Sidibe: Rare Sundance double winner. Adapted by Geoffrey Fletcher from the novel Push by Sapphire (a.k.a. Ramona Lofton), Lee Daniels’ sexual abuse family…
Californians will be voting on Proposition 8 this coming Tuesday. Considering how religious beliefs are the engine behind the anti-gay marriage proposition, and that according to numerous reports the Mormon…
Frozen River with Melissa Leo and Mark Boone Junior: Sundance Film Festival Awards. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, first-time filmmaker Courtney Hunt’s…
Marie and Jack: A Hardcore Love Story: 2002 Tony Comstock documentary features adult film stars Marie Silva (a.k.a. Aria) and Jack Bravo (a.k.a. Jack Spade), who happen to be married…
Julie Andrews: British dames top SAG Awards. “If my life is any guide,” SAG Life Achievement winner Julie Andrews remarked backstage at the 2007 SAG Awards ceremony, “the chances are…
Iraq War & censorship among topics of documentaries still in the running for the Academy Awards. Image: Iraq in Fragments. Blind mountain climbers, female African judges, Israel’s withdrawal from the…
The Secret Life of Words with Sarah Polley and Tim Robbins. A modest box office performer in Spain ($4.09 million) and an even more modest performer elsewhere, Isabel Coixet’s Spanish-Irish…
Ra’anan Alexandrovicz’s The Law in These Parts Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild, the story of a young girl growing up in Louisiana (to be released by Fox Searchlight)…
Sundance movies: Anna Paquin and Josh Duhamel in The Romantics. As usual, the upcoming Sundance Film Festival will screen numerous world premieres; one of them is writer-director Galt Niederhoffer’s The…
Gay Sundance: I Love You Phillip Morris with Jim Carrey as the titular “I,” real-life con artist Steven Jay Russell, and Rodrigo Santoro as a wet and thirsty “friend.” Update:…
Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct 2. Are gay slurs just that, (vulgar, offensive, insensitive) gay slurs, no matter the occasion? This somewhat esoteric question is neither asked nor answered in…
Sundance winners include a pregnant Amy Adams and a father-son love triangle reportedly inspired on a Satyajit Ray classic, plus an attack on America’s endless wars.