Michael Fassbender is outstanding in director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s vibrant biopic Steve Jobs. Kate Winslet costars.
David Fincher
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Greg Plitt: Workout and diet motivational speaker, fitness trainer. Workout and diet motivational speaker Greg Plitt dead at 37: Plitt was the ‘body’ of Dr. Manhattan in Watchmen movie Actor,…
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Gone Girl: David Fincher Biggest Opening Weekend Ever? Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike fight it off with demonic doll Annabelle.
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Bruce the Shark to leave Universal + The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Filmmakers vs. Critic spat and slavery in 20th-century America at Sundance.
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Heidi the Cross-Eyed Opossum Picks Oscar winner Colin Firth. Many have complained that the 2011 Oscar ceremony was dull. That hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco were out of their…
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Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network When a movie, in subsequent viewings, not only sustains the brilliance one saw in it through the first viewing but reveals itself as a more…
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Tom Hardy in Inception. The BFCA voters usually get it right, e.g., The Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire, Sean Penn for Milk, Heath Ledger for The…
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Facebook movie The Social Network wins more U.S. film critics’ Best Picture awards: Jesse Eisenberg stars as controversial Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. David Fincher’s widely acclaimed The Social Network (a.k.a.…
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Mark Zuckerberg: Time Person of the Year. Will the Time magazine Person of the Year cover give an awards season boost to Sony Pictures’ The Social Network? Directed by David…
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Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone. Debra Granik’s low-budget indie drama set in a drug-infested, poverty-stricken area of the United States that is hardly ever seen in American movies – or…
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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…
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Groupthink or absolute masterpiece? David Fincher’s Facebook drama The Social Network, about the sad, ugly, greedy beginnings of the social media giant, has been winning just about every single Best…
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L.A. Film Critics’ Best Actress winner Kim Hye-ja in Mother. A television star in South Korea, Kim, whose acting career dates back to the early 1960s, was the surprise choice…
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National Board of Review Awards: Hereafter, starring Matt Damon and Bryce Dallas Howard. Directed by NBR favorite Clint Eastwood, the poorly received metaphysical drama is listed as one of the…
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Helen Mirren, John Malkovich in Robert Schwentke’s Red. Nov. 1 Kevin Greutert’s gory horror flick Saw 3D topped the North American box office chart this past Halloween weekend (Oct. 29-31),…
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A Bloody Disgusting writer reports the recent arrival at his doorstep of a package containing an unidentified USB flash drive. It turned out the flash drive featured a viral clip…
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Sylvester Stallone Brazil comments leaves Twitter abuzz: The Expendables. On Thursday, at Comic-Con (a.k.a. Nerd-Con) 2010 in San Diego Sylvester Stallone explained (quote via ScreenCrave) why he chose Brazil to…
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Anna Paquin, Cindy Lauper, Whoopi Goldberg, are some of those featured in a new PSA for the Give a Damn campaign, started by Lauper’s True Colors Fund which fights for…
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Meryl Streep in Doubt. Academy Award Predictions: In case she gets another Academy Award nomination in early 2009 – her 15th – Meryl Streep will tie with Katharine Hepburn for…
Roger Deakins: ‘True Grit’ cinematographer has no Oscar to call his own. Oscar Predictions: Best Cinematography - Roger Deakins, ‘True Grit’ Although Inception‘s Wally Pfister won the 2011 American Society…
Natalie Portman Black Swan dress: Perfectly attired but mentally unbalanced ballerina in Darren Aronofsky’s psychological thriller continues to wow U.S.-based film critics, as Natalie Portman remains their Best Actress favorite…
The Tillman Story. Amir Bar-Lev’s San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award-winning documentary The Tillman Story revolves around the U.S. military’s lies and cover-up attempts following the death of football player…
Geoffrey Rush gets career award while Jennifer Lawrence and Colin Firth are Critics’ Winners plus Pixar vs. Animated Film Society fight to worsen?
The Expendables film: Sylvester Stallone with Jason Statham and Randy Couture. The Expendables & other Sylvester Stallone movies: ‘I always believe the violence is justifiable’ Actor, director, producer, screenwriter Sylvester…