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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Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg movie 2 Guns: Disappointing box office pairing. Denzel Washington Mark Wahlberg movie 2 Guns: Below par box office receipts Aug. 3: A limp “low $20…
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Starring the Bourne movies’ Matt Damon, Paul Greengrass’ Iraq War thriller Green Zone is Universal’s latest box office bomb.
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Sandra Bullock. Best Actress Sandra Bullock’s Oscar acceptance speech “Did I really earn this or did I just wear you all down? I would like to thank the Academy for…
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SAG Awards: British Dames Julie Andrews and Helen Mirren are top winners + immigration and identity theft drama wins Sundance + Gong Li leads Hong Kong.
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Academy Awards: Mexicans Invade the Oscars and the British are back in one of most international Oscars in history while Pedro Almodóvar shockingly snubbed.
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What are the Golden Globes? Babel set with Alejandro González Iñárritu and Gael García Bernal. What are the Golden Globes? One possible answer: An awards season ceremony that, at least…
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Dark Fantasy Tops NSFC while raunchy Kate Winslet film wins Iowa + is Al Gore global warming documentary going to change Americans’ warped views?
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The Dixie Chicks vs George W. Bush + Freedom of Speech Issue surprising awards season wins + San Diego Film Critics reject groupthink selections.
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Romanian actress + suburban Emma Bovary and 1969 French World War II drama + the Great Kazakh hope: Major surprises among US film critics choices.
Crips and Bloods: Made in America. In the 1980s and into the first half of the 1990s, gang violence in American urban centers grabbed nightly news headlines with a distant…
James McAvoy in The Last King of Scotland. This year, the British Academy decided to support two (at least part-) British “royal movies”: Stephen Frears’ The Queen, starring Helen Mirren…
National Board of Review Best Film winner Letters from Iwo Jima, with Ken Watanabe. Clint Eastwood’s accompanying piece to Flags of Our Fathers shows the battle of Iwo Jima from…