Hilary Swank

Million Dollar Baby movie with Hilary Swank and Clint Eastwood. ‘Million Dollar Baby’ movie: Clint Eastwood contrived, overlong drama made (barely) watchable by first-rate central performance Fresh off the enthusiastically received – and insincere – Mystic River, Clint Eastwood went…

‘The Black Dahlia’ 2006 with Scarlett Johansson and Josh Hartnett. ‘The Black Dahlia’ 2006 movie review: Film noir homage is The Big Snooze (image: ) Stylized without being stylish, intricate without being intriguing, heavy without being dramatic. That pretty much…

Anne Hathaway: Oscars’ host with James Franco. The Oscars’ host: Anne Hathaway & James Franco combo the worst ever? While on the Kodak stage on Feb. 27, this year’s Oscar host Anne Hathaway got to sing, tell jokes (“lesbians!”), and…

Screen Actors Guild nominations: The King’s Speech received four SAG Award nods, including Best Supporting Actress for Helena Bonham Carter and Best Actor for Colin Firth. Although not a fool-proof Academy Award bellwether, the Screen Actors Guild Awards are a…

John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman in Robert Schwentke’s Red Nov. 4 Saw 3D topped the U.S. and Canada box office chart one more time on Wednesday, Nov. 3, scoring $1.26 million as per figures released at Box Office Mojo. In the…

British street gangs top San Sebastian Film Festival: Neds directed by Peter Mullan. Peter Mullan’s Glasgow-set drama Neds, about a distraught teenager who joins a street gang in the early 1970s, won the Golden Shell for Best Film at the…

Warren Beatty. Warren Beatty will receive the Art Directors Guild’s Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award, “given to an individual whose body of work in the film industry has richly enhanced the visual aspects of the movie-going experience,” at the…

Laura Neiva in Adrift. Cannes review snippets At Firstshowing.net, Alex Billington on À Deriva / Adrift (above, with Laura Neiva), screened in the Un Certain Regard sidebar: “I think I stumbled across a big Cannes sleeper hit. From the beaches…

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban. Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban on the red carpet at the 2008 Oscars. Nicole Kidman has been nominated for two Best Actress Academy Awards: Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! (2001), with Ewan McGregor, and Stephen Daldry’s…

Pat Morita in ‘The Karate Kid’ 1984. Pat Morita: ‘The Karate Kid’ 1984 martial arts teacher dead at 73 Pat Morita a.k.a. Noriyuki ‘Pat’ Morita, best known for his Academy Award-nominated performance as Ralph Macchio’s zen-ish martial arts tutor in…

Hilary Swank Two-Time Best Actress Oscar winner Hilary Swank arrives at the 2005 Academy Awards ceremony, held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on Feb. 27. Swank was the eventual Best Actress winner for her performance as an up-and-coming…

Mean Girls with Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried, and Lacey Chabert. Written by Tina Fey – partly adapting Rosalind Wiseman’s self-help book Queen Bees and Wannabes – the Mark Waters-directed teen comedy Mean Girls, replete with now popular quotes,…