However well-intentioned, Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s skillfull Detroit movie is unsatisfying as both drama and history. Will Poulter and John Boyega star.
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Scariest Movies Ever Made: Chicago Critics’ Top 100. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, tops the list but a number of strange and spooky omissions.
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Zero Dark Thirty controversy: Jessica Chastain star in Kathryn Bigelow’s political thriller. Zero Dark Thirty: Controversy boosts weekend box office Familiarity may breed contempt (if you’re around the wrong person),…
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Kathryn Bigelow and Benh Zeitlin are Best Director favorites but Michael Haneke surprisingly bypassed also for Best Screenplay despite acclaimed film.
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National Board of Review Awards make history as Kathryn Bigelow becomes 1st woman Best Director while 1 more top star is Best Supporting Actor.
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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…
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Zero Dark Thirty poster: Kathryn Bigelow’s mystery movie about the story everyone (sort of) knows The Zero Dark Thirty poster has just come out. Plot details about the upcoming Kathryn…
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Bin Laden movie & Obama Administration connection: Republican congressman wants investigation The Hurt Locker‘s Academy Award winners Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal have been receiving assistance from the Barack Obama…
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Melissa Leo Oscar Winner: Thoughts on Expletives (her speech has made Oscar history), Controversial Ad and presenter Kirk Douglas.
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Two Marilyn Monroe movies for the price of, well, two – which quite possibly means $50 by the time they come out. One, to be called Blonde, will star King…
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Jeremy Renner in Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker. Below is our complete 2010 Oscar Predictions list. If we’re correct, The Hurt Locker will win a total of…
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Oscar war movies: The Hurt Locker. If Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker wins the Best Picture Academy Award on Sunday, it’ll be the eighth out-and-out war movie…
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Jeff Bridges’ The Dude is back, now as a country music singer. This year’s probable Best Actor Oscar winner, Jeff Bridges, who plays troubled country singer Bad Blake in Scott…
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Best Actor Oscar nominees Colin Firth, Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Morgan Freeman, Jeremy Renner at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2010 Oscar Nominees Luncheon held this afternoon…
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Avatar performance capture: Zoe Saldana as a Na’vi. Actors with faces but without voices can’t be nominated for Oscars. Actors with voices but without faces can, but don’t get nominated…
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Meryl Streep in It’s Complicated, with Alec Baldwin. Those expecting to find major surprises in the 2010 Oscar nominations were in for a major surprise: there were very, very few…
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Helen Mirren, The Last Station In the last 15 years, SAG’s best female actor nominees have been identical to the Academy’s Best Actress line-up only five times. Well, in addition…
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“It’s sort of surreal,” The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow told journalists backstage when asked about her Critics Choice Award victory over former husband James Cameron, in the running for…
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Vera Farmiga, George Clooney in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount) Jan. 17 update: Hosted by Ricky Gervais, the 2010 Golden Globes ceremony will be broadcast live coast…
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Critics’ favorite films: Kathryn Bigelow, seen here with cinematographer Barry Ackroyd while shooting The Hurt Locker, is this awards season top Best Director choice. The clear Academy Award front-runner, Bigelow…
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Critics’ choices: Summer Hours with Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, and Jérémie Renier. Olivier Assayas’ French-made family drama was the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s, the New York Film Critics Circle’s,…
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Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds. Vienna-born veteran Christoph Waltz, whose big-screen career dates back to the early 1980s (Tristan and Isolde, Kopfstand), is this awards season’s Best Supporting Actor fave…
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The Hurt Locker with Jeremy Renner. The Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles film critics’ Best Picture choice is a low-budget Summit Entertainment release that turned out to be a…
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The Hurt Locker with Guy Pearce and Brian Geraghty. After being all but ignored at this year’s Venice Film Festival and at the 2008 Spirit Awards – where it received…
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Louis Delluc Prize for Violent Prison Drama + Sugar Surprise at AFI Awards while James Cameron futuristic adventure is surprising Best Picture in New York.
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…
Persepolis controversy: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud animated feature offends – some of – Tunisia’s Fundamentalist Muslims. Persepolis Broadcast: Tunisian Television Station President Apologizes to Offended Muslims Three days ago…
Kathryn Bigelow. The Hurt Locker‘s Best Director Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar acceptance speech: “This really is… There’s no other way to describe it, it’s the moment of a lifetime. First of…
Prison dramas: Luis Tosar and Juan Oliver in Cell 211. Daniel Monzón’s Celda 211 / Cell 211, a drama set during a prison riot, was the big winner at the…
Sundance movies: Anna Paquin and Josh Duhamel in The Romantics. As usual, the upcoming Sundance Film Festival will screen numerous world premieres; one of them is writer-director Galt Niederhoffer’s The…
DGA Awards make history: Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker: Iraq War drama directed by Directors Guild Award nominee Kathryn Bigelow. (Image: Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment). Kathryn Bigelow (The…
Utah Film Critics’ Best Actor winner Viggo Mortensen in The Road. The performer best known for playing Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Viggo Mortensen was…
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