Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl, Killers. June 8 update: This past weekend, the 2010 North American box office was down 24 percent from the equivalent weekend last year. Memorial Day weekend…
Prison dramas: Luis Tosar and Juan Oliver in Cell 211. Daniel Monzón’s Celda 211 / Cell 211, a drama set during a prison riot, was the big winner at the…
Betty White, Sandra Bullock in The Proposal (Kerry Hayes / Touchstone). Sandra Bullock, up for a best actress SAG Award for The Blind Side, will present the Screen Actors Guild’s…
The Consequences of Love: Italian Oscars’ surprise favorite. Paolo Sorrentino’s psychological mafia thriller was the big winner at the Italian Academy of Cinema’s David di Donatello Awards, topping five categories.…
The Sea Inside movie review: One of the year’s biggest hits in Spain and the winner of 14 Goya Awards, Alejandro Amenábar’s capably assembled, generally well-acted, but overly sentimental euthanasia…
Independent Spirit Awards: Sleeper hit Sideways among winners. Alexander Payne’s Central California Wine Country-set road movie about two men-babies discovering their inner adult wholly dominated this year’s Independent Spirit Awards.…
Based on real-life events, Alejandro Amenábar’s pro-euthanasia drama and the Goya Awards’ record-breaker The Sea Inside revolves around a tetraplegic man’s fight to end his own life. The box office…
Culture clash movies have dominated this year’s socially conscious European Film Awards: Fatih Akin’s German-Turkish drama Head-On was named Best European Film, while euthanasia and abortion dramas topped the acting…
Entries from 49 countries are in contention for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Yet arcane rules have prevented two well-received non-English-language features starring Gael García Bernal from being even…
Venice Festival: Starring Imelda Staunton as a one-woman abortion clinic in 1950s England, Mike Leigh’s abortion drama Vera Drake was this year’s Golden Lion winner; Staunton took home the Best…