Mia Farrow Twitpic shows far-right US presidential candidate Rick Santorum as he Bores Kids to Sleep. Despite 50+ films, Farrow has no Oscar nomination.
Political Films
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A Face in the Crowd (Movie 1957): Thwarted Political Drama
8 minutes readA Face in the Crowd (movie 1957) review: A hammy Andy Griffith and a didactic Budd Schulberg hinder Elia Kazan’s political drama with Patricia Neal and Anthony Franciosa.
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Clint Eastwood: Gay Marriage support or merely IDGAF? + Family reality show may feature ‘most fabulous’ cameo by two-time Best Director Oscar winner.
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Who Is ‘The Iron Lady’? Not Meryl Streep According to British Critics + ‘The Last Picture Show’ Revisited
8 minutes readWho is The Iron Lady? Ask Meryl Streep, who plays Margaret Thatcher in the Phyllida Lloyd-directed biopic. Oscar veteran Meryl Streep may have her name already engraved on the Best …
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Vanessa Redgrave The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will celebrate the career of Oscar winner Vanessa Redgrave, one of the most distinguished performers of the second half of …
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Glenn Close: Palm Springs Film Festival Career Achievement Award Glenn Close’s publicists must have been working round the clock these last few months. A highly likely Best Actress Oscar contender …
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Sarah Palin Movie Bombs –Again: ‘You Betcha!’
2 minutes readAnother Sarah Palin movie bombs: Nick Broomfield’s Sarah Palin – You Betcha! Sarah Palin – You Betcha! is the second Sarah Palin movie to bomb this year. Directed by sometime …
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Dominic Cooper as Uday Hussein or Latif Yahia in Lee Tamahori’s The Devil’s Double July 31 update: The Sarah Palin movie The Undefeated plummeted once again at the North American …
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Au Revoir les Enfants (movie 1987) review: Louis Malle’s Oscar-nominated Occupied France-set semi-autobiographical drama is possibly the director’s finest effort.
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Gay Blackmail Stories: Victim + The Best Man
12 minutes readSylvia Syms, Dirk Bogarde in Basil Dearden’s Victim. 30 Rock‘s Tracy Morgan is in the news today because of viciously anti-gay remarks he made while performing a comedy routine in …
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Sex Scandals & Politics
10 minutes readWeird stuff happened at the most recent MTV Movie Awards ceremony: Justin Timberlake grabbed Mila Kunis’ breasts, Mila Kunis grabbed Justin Timberlake’s crotch, Robert Pattinson kissed Taylor Lautner instead of …
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Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, Unlawful Killing. Screened at Cannes on Friday, Keith Allen’s documentary about the British royal family, Unlawful Killing, will likely fail to find the popular reception accorded …
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Atlas Shrugged Part I: Ayn Rand Film Ruined by … Critics?
4 minutes readAtlas Shrugged: Part I – the low-budget film based on the widely derided Ayn Rand bestseller – has turned out to be a total commercial disaster. Who’s to blame? Try …
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Atlas Shrugged: Part I box office: First segment in a proposed big-screen trilogy based on Ayn Rand’s objectivist novel is a box office bomb. Taylor Schilling and Grant Bowler star.
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The Conspirator box office: Director Robert Redford’s tepidly received historical drama is a commercial flop in the U.S. and elsewhere. James McAvoy and Robin Wright star.
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Jack Fisk + Nathan Crowley Production Design Seminar
6 minutes readPeter Mensah in Zack Snyder’s 300. Jack Fisk & Nathan Crowley Production Design Seminar The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ four-evening seminar series “Evolution or Revolution? Production Design …
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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days with Julia Jentsch and Fabian Hinrichs. Directed with clenched fists by Berlin Film Festival winner Marc Rothemund, who seems to have been at least partly …
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“Apostle of degradation” Ingrid Bergman and co-star Bing Crosby in Leo McCarey’s The Bells St. Mary’s Natalie Portman made history last Sunday as the first unmarried, pregnant individual to win …
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Oscar Bait Meryl Streep + Marion Cotillard Casting
3 minutes readMeryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady Oscar bait Two-time Academy Award winner and multiple nominee Meryl Streep is currently …
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WikiLeaks Cables bring out Michael Moore Revelations plus Oscar-Winning Star Wars Talent Dies and hairy-chested Adam Sandler Death Hoax.
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Top Gun movie remake or sequel? Tom Cruise as Maverick in Tony Scott’s 1986 blockbuster. Is there going to be a big-screen Top Gun remake? Or is it going to be …
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Richard Nixon ‘Presidential’ Home Movies + High Fashion on the Big Screen: Special Screenings
7 minutes readSpencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn in George Cukor’s Adam’s Rib. Home movies of scary folk such as Alfred Hitchcock and Richard Nixon (and of some non-scary celebrities and non-celebrities as well), …
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Williams as Monroe + Brittany Murphy Husband Found Dead
31 minutes readTwo Marilyn Monroe movies for the price of, well, two – which quite possibly means $50 by the time they come out. One, to be called Blonde, will star King …
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‘Outside the Law’ 2010 Angers Right-Wingers + Islamist Terrorism & Godard Meditation: Cannes Politics
12 minutes readOutside the Law 2010 with Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila. Directed by Rachid Bouchareb. ‘Outside the Law’ 2010 Cannes controversy: French right-wingers & war veterans irked Rachid Bouchareb’s Outside the Law …
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Topol, 74, a Best Actor nominee for Norman Jewison’s 1971 blockbuster Fiddler on the Roof (above), is attached to star in a Yiddish-language version of The Golem, Screen Daily reports. …
Fall Box Office: Johnny Depp + Eddie Murphy Bomb
Armie Hammer as Clyde Tolson, Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover, Judi Dench as Anne Marie Hoover, J. Edgar. Nov. 13 update: At no. 5 on the domestic box office …
Bin Laden movie & Obama Administration connection: Republican congressman wants investigation The Hurt Locker‘s Academy Award winners Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal have been receiving assistance from the Barack Obama …
Marlon Brando Jor-El Record-Breaking Salary + Nude Rooney Mara + Chinese Communist Propaganda
Nude Rooney Mara, Robert Pattinson with Oscar pedigree cast and Sacha Baron Cohen channeling Chaplin made available online.
Tim Hetherington Killed by mortar fire in Libya: Oscar-Nominated Restrepo Co-Director, Photojournalist was covering civil war.
The Queen (Movie 2006): Mirren Showcase Goes Easy on Monarch
The Queen with Helen Mirren and James Cromwell. A more sober tone would have made Stephen Frears’ filmization of Peter Morgan’s The Queen screenplay less appealing to a mass audience. …
Elite Squad 2 Box Office: Biggest Brazilian Blockbuster Ever
José Padilha’s Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within is officially the biggest blockbuster ever at the Brazilian box office, surpassing Avatar.
Oliver Stone and Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez: South of the Border Oliver Stone Rebuffs ‘New York Times’ ‘South of the Border’ Criticisms The letter below was posted at the Center …