Money Monster with George Clooney and Jack O’Connell: TV celebrity and unwise investor/hostage-taker in Jodie Foster-directed socially conscious drama that is severely handicapped by a mix of pretentiousness and cowardice. ‘Money Monster’ review: Jodie Foster movie suffers from both qualitative and intellectual disconnect Sometimes there’s…
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Cecil B. DeMille Award honoree George Clooney in The Monuments Men, with Matt Damon. Produced and written by Good Night, and Good Luck. collaborators George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and directed by Clooney, The Monuments Men is a World War II drama loosely based on…
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Amy Adams’ Oscar nominations: Best Actress win for American Hustle? Adams is seen here with Christian Bale. Oscar predictions Below are our last-minute Oscar 2014 predictions. The 86th Academy Award nominations are going to be announced on Thursday, January 16, at 5:30 a.m. Pacific Time…
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‘Gravity’ film to pass $200 million at domestic box office next weekend? Oct. 23 update: Starring Academy Award winners Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, Alfonso Cuarón’s thriller Gravity will quite likely pass the $200 million milestone at the North American box office this coming weekend,…
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Twiharder poster with John Gearries, Tanya Zoeller and Christopher Sean. Twilight parody $500-million lawsuit against Lionsgate Pictures and Summit Entertainment: Serious business Twiharder, not the son of Twilight and Die Harder but just Another Twilight Parody, reportedly had a planned late 2012 release date to…
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Kirk Baxter, Tina Fey, Bradley Cooper, Angus Wall Presenters Tina Fey and Bradley Cooper pose with Oscar winners Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall backstage at the 84th Academy Awards, held at the ex-Kodak Theater at Hollywood and Highland Center on Feb. 26, 2012. Baxter and…
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George Clooney and Max von Sydow. George Clooney and Max Von Sydow chat away at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon held on Monday, Feb. 6, in Beverly Hills. Clooney is a Best Actor nominee for Alexander Payne’s The Descendants. Von Sydow is a Best Supporting Actor…
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The Nick Nolte movie that earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination this year was Gavin O’Connor’s Warrior. In the photo, Nolte, among whose movies are The Deep, 48 Hrs., Hotel Rwanda, and Arthur, is seen at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
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Meryl Streep Oscar Ad Controversy “It’s been TWENTY-NINE YEARS SINCE MERYL STREEP WON AN OSCAR. And she certainly deserves to win for her performance in The Iron Lady,” reads a Thelma Adams quote heading a The Weinstein Company ad. The ad, sent out a week…
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Diane Lane and husband Josh Brolin: SAG Award nominee and previously shortlisted guest. Diane Lane and husband Josh Brolin: SAG Awards’ Red Carpet Pictured above are Cinema Verite Best Actress in a Television Movie or Mini-Series nominee Diane Lane and husband Josh Brolin on the…
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Armie Hammer and wife Elizabeth Chambers: SAG Awards. Best Supporting Actor nominee Armie Hammer and wife Elizabeth Chambers: SAG Awards Best Supporting Actor SAG Award nominee Armie Hammer and wife Elizabeth Chambers arrive at the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards held on Jan. 29 at…
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Calista Flockhart and husband Harrison Ford: Golden Globes Red Carpet. Calista Flockhart and Harrison Ford: Golden Globes Calista Flockhart and husband Harrison Ford are seen above as they arrive at the 2012 Golden Globes ceremony held at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills on Sunday,…
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While accepting the award for Best Comedy for Bridesmaids at the 2012 Critics’ Choice Awards ceremony, Judd Apatow ended his speech with the following: “Jerry Lewis [photo] once said that he didn’t think women were funny. So I’d just like to say, with all respect,…
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Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady. The Golden Globe Awards’ Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama category will definitely include Meryl Streep for her portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd’s Thatcher-lite The Iron Lady. That will mark the…
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The Descendants with George Clooney and Shailene Woodley. Since the late 1990s, Alexander Payne has been hopping around the United States, making movies about white, presumably heterosexual, middle-aged (or middle-ageish) American men and their problems: Matthew Broderick in the Nebraska-set Election (1999), Jack Nicholson in…
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Best Cast winner Bridesmaids with Rose Byrne, Kristen Wiig, Ellie Kemper, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, and Wendi McLendon-Covey. Early this awards season, two female-centered hit movies topped the Best Cast category: the National Board of Review’s choice was Tate Taylor’s socially conscious The Help, toplining Emma Stone, Bryce…