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…
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…
Helen Mirren, John Malkovich 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…
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…
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…
Hilary Swank Oscar triumph #2: The Million Dollar Baby actress is the 21st century’s first double winner in the Academy Awards’ acting categories.
Best Actress SAG Awards: Boxing-ring star beats stage diva in fierce rematch, while Katharine Hepburn has her first competitive Screen Actors Guild ‘win’ ever.
Awards season news: In an ungodly twist of fate, Jesus + Jason + Napoleon have all lost out to Spider-Man, while Kate Winslet has nabbed a surprise win.
NSFC Awards surprise: A Clint Eastwood melodrama is the unexpectedly mainstream winner of the generally more ‘esoteric’ U.S.-based critics group.
A superlative Hilary Swank can’t beat the odds against Clint Eastwood’s cliché-ridden boxing + surrogate father-daughter melo Million Dollar Baby.
Brian De Palma’s neo-noir The Black Dahlia is a poor imitation of 1940s films noirs. Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank are the badly miscast stars.
Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood have performed an unexpected Golden Globes turnabout, while Hilary Swank and Annette Bening have an awards season rematch ‘tie.’
A crowd-pleasing Wine Country movie and an polemical political documentary are American critics’ top selections this awards season.