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Cannes Film Festival winners: The Square with Claes Bang. “Gobsmackingly weird” Cannes Film Festival favorite may have a tough time landing a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award nomination. As an aside, Ruben Östlund’s comedy-drama is totally unrelated to Jehane Noujaim’s…

Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty. With ten wins – and three nominations – to date, relative film newcomer Jessica Chastain is the top Best Actress pick this awards season for her portrayal of a dogged CIA analyst in Kathryn…

Amour with Emmanuelle Riva. Michael Haneke’s French-language drama Amour is easily the top Best Foreign Language Film pick this awards season. Strangely, the film’s veteran leading man, Jean-Louis Trintignant, hasn’t been winning any awards in the U.S.; on the other…

Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow. The “war on terror” thriller Zero Dark Thirty has yet to open in the U.S., but it can already be labeled as one of the year’s most controversial movies, as it deals with the…

Zero Dark Thirty with Jessica Chastain. Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller Zero Dark Thirty, about the hunt for – and eventual assassination of – Osama bin Laden, has already stirred quite a bit of controversy even though it has yet to open…

Milla Jovovich Resident Evil: Retribution, Pixar’s Finding Nemo 3D underperform at the domestic box office Sept. 16, ’12, update: Starring Milla Jovovich, Resident Evil: Retribution topped the North American box office this weekend (Sept. 14-16), taking in $21.1 million (including…

Eddie Murphy dead? Then who’s hawking Beverly Hills Cop TV series? Eddie Murphy dead? Hoax continues unabated via social media outlets If Eddie Murphy were dead – according to online rumors Murphy died (again) in a snowboarding accident in Switzerland…

Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line. As country singer and Johnny Cash companion (and later wife) June Carter, Reese Witherspoon is the U.S. film critics’ top pick for Best Actress of the year. Her costar, Joaquin Phoenix (as Cash), hasn’t…

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 shoot the ultra-violent The Expendables, about a bunch of aging…

Jeanette MacDonald in Naughty Marietta. Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Gail Russell, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jeanette MacDonald, Emil Jannings, Jacques Tati, Nelson Eddy, Anthony Quinn, John Wayne, and Frank Sinatra are a few of the movie personalities to…

Golden Globes vs Oscars: Crash with Thandie Newton and Matt Dillon. A clear Academy favorite – with Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay nominations – Paul Haggis’ Los Angeles-set, race-obsessed drama Crash received a mere two Golden Globe…