Bill Condon’s The Fifth Estate fails to create a three-dimensional portrait of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange. Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Brühl star.
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New Riddick movie: Vin Diesel. New ‘Riddick’ movie: Vin Diesel has underwhelming domestic debut Universal’s distribution chief Nikki Rocco may have called Riddick‘s opening-weekend figures “a great result,” but an…
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Emmy Nominations’ Oscar Favorites: Al Pacino and Helen Mirren in Phil Spector. Emmy Nominations’ Oscar Favorites The 2013 Emmy nominations were announced earlier today by the Academy of Television Arts…
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Peyman Moaadi Kristen Stewart movie Camp X-Ray reportedly gets leading man: Peyman Moaadi June 24 update: Two Kristen Stewart movie projects were announced a couple of weeks ago: Olivier Assayas’…
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No Rest for the Wicked with José Coronado Pedro Almodóvar didn’t have much luck at the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Goya Awards this evening in Madrid:…
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Carice van Houten and Rutger Hauer in ‘Black Butterflies’ Carice van Houten & ‘She Monkeys’: Tribeca Film Festival Awards Writer-director Lisa Aschan’s feature film debut, the Swedish lesbian drama She…
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Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) (top); Jordi Mollà in El cónsul de Sodoma (Steinweg Emotion Pictures) (bottom). In…
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Nuovomondo / Golden Door with Charlotte Gainsbourg. International gay characters + Bosnian War: Best Foreign Language Film Oscar hopefuls Fifty years after the creation of the Best Foreign Language Film…
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley with Cillian Murphy. British-Irish Politics Wins Palme d’Or 13th-time lucky: Veteran Ken Loach’s British-Irish political drama The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a depiction…
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Merry Christmas with Alex Ferns, Daniel Brühl, Guillaume Canet. Inspired by an actual World War I ceasefire that took place around Christmastime 1914, director-screenwriter Christian Carion’s Merry Christmas is a…
Oscar host Seth MacFarlane: Off-color jokes and dance numbers led to raised eyebrows and complaints. Oscar host debate + producers return Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will return next year…
Volver with Penélope Cruz and Carmen Maura. Pedro Almodóvar mother-daughters comedy-drama Volver – literally, “To Return” – marks the filmmaker’s Goya Awards comeback, topping five categories, including Best Picture and…
Culture clash movies have dominated this year’s European Film Awards, while Pedro Almodóvar was the biggest loser and Liv Ullmann got the longest standing ovation.