The Beginning or the End 1947 with Robert Walker and Tom Drake. Hiroshima bombing 70th anniversary: Six movies dealing with the A-bomb terror Seventy years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945,…
Academy members receiving new blood: Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything. Academy members to become more ‘diverse’? More than 300 invited to join A.M.P.A.S. The Academy of Motion Picture…
Godzilla 1954 a.k.a. Gojira, with Takashi Shimura and Momoko Kôchi. Somewhat surprisingly, Ishirô Honda’s monster movie tackles the sociocultural upheavals in post-World War II Japan, as the young daughter (Kôchi)…
Filippo Timi and Giovanna Mezzogiorno in Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere. The Social Network, director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s retelling of the founding of Facebook, was voted the Best Film…
Mainstream – “at best, mainstreamish” – critics group picks: Lisa Cholodenko’s audience-friendly The Kids Are All Right topped three New York Film Critics Circle award categories, including Best Actress honors…
German Film Awards: The White Ribbon. The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke’s depiction of rural Germany on the eve of World War I – and how the cute (if dangerous) little…
Mother with Kim Hye-ja. Bong Joon-ho’s Mother, a Spirit Award nominee and the winner of Korea’s 2009 Blue Dragon Award for Best Picture, has received widespread critical praise. At Salon.com, the…
Mother with Kim Hye-ja. The Blue Dragon Film Awards’ Best Korean Film (and Best Foreign Film Spirit Award nominee), Bong Joon-ho’s Mother strangely ended up taking home only two other…
Gotham Awards: Catalina Saavedra in The Maid. Gotham Awards winners “Kudos to you, great performance,” Rosie Perez told Willem Dafoe, after saying that Lars von Trier’s Antichrist, a dark, sex-filled…
Horror sound effects: Forbidden Planet lobby card (top); Lon Chaney in the 1925 version of Phantom of the Opera (middle); Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project (bottom) “The Sound…
Asian Film Awards nominations The nominees for the 1st Asian Film Awards were unveiled on Jan. 29. The awards ceremony, to be held on March 20, will open the 31st…
The Go Master: Chinese political controversy at the Golden Horse Awards. ‘After This Our Exile’ tops Golden Horse Awards Patrick Tam’s Fu zi / After This Our Exile won this…
LA Weekly and Village Voice Critics Poll names The Social Network the Best Film of the year. Armie Hammer in the cast, along with Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, and Andrew…
Shutter Island with Leonardo DiCaprio: Things and people aren’t necessarily what they seem to be in Martin Scorsese thriller. ‘Shutter Island’ to become biggest Martin Scorsese-Leonardo DiCaprio box office hit?…
Hong Kong Film Awards: Patrick Tam comeback movie After This Our Exile tops April 15 update: After This Our Exile / Fu zi, Patrick Tam’s first directorial effort in 17…