Steve Jobs (movie 2015) review: Michael Fassbender is outstanding in Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin’s vigorous biopic. Kate Winslet costars.
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Christopher Nolan and Wife Emma Thomas, Danny Boyle: Outrage at Oscars? Batman trilogy filmmaker yet to get Best Director nod.
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127 Hours (Movie 2010): Harrowing + Unsatisfying Tale
4 minutes read127 Hours movie review: James Franco Great as Aron Ralston in Harrowing survival Story marred by Danny Boyle hyperkinetic direction.
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The Gay Divorcee: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical. It’s too bad I’m posting this a little too late, as the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus Theater welcomed the year …
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Paul Mazursky career highlight: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, with Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould, Robert Culp, and Dyan Cannon. Paul Mazursky: Los Angeles Film Critics Career Achievement Award …
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Cruz + Almodóvar + Haneke Return: European Film Awards
16 minutes readThe White Ribbon by Michael Haneke. Six films are vying for the top prize at the 2009 European Film Awards. They are: Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, about a teenager (best …
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Oscar Best Picture Nominees Major Rules Change + Political Satire Tops Italian Awards
24 minutes readOscar Best Picture Nominees Major Rules Change: Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold in Frank Capra’s You Can’t Take It with You, the Best Picture winner of 1938. …
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Slumdog Millionaire Awards: Critics’ Best Film Favorite
35 minutes readSlumdog Millionaire and Social Inequalities in Superpower-in-the-Making India + Screen Actors Guild Strike Rift pits Matt Damon et al vs Ed Harris et al.
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Meryl Streep-Amy Adams Slander Drama to Open AFI FEST + Tilda Swinton & Danny Boyle Tributes
9 minutes readDoubt, the much-anticipated drama directed and adapted by John Patrick Shanley from his own Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, and starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and …
For Colored Girls Box Office: All-Star Tyler Perry Drama Performing Well Below Expectations
For Colored Girls box office: The latest Tyler Perry drama has been a major commercial disappointment despite its stellar cast (Kerry Washington et al.).
Oscar Luncheon: Amy Adams and Marisa Tomei plus Penélope Cruz + Kate Winslet Lead or Supporting? And did Bette Davis really name the Oscars?