Marion Cotillard

Marion Cotillard naked and doomed: Psycho shower scene scream that turned Janet Leigh into a film icon. Marion Cotillard naked & screaming in ‘Psycho’ shower scene A few years ago – more exactly, in Feb./March 2008 – Vanity Fair published…

Meryl Streep in Hope Springs. In movies since the late 1970s – she was first seen in a small role in Fred Zinnemann’s Julia (1977) – Meryl Streep seems to get at least one annual Golden Globe nomination. This year,…

Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone. The SAG Awards usually bypass performers in non-English-language films. This year, however, could be a major exception thanks to two well-received French-language dramas: Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone and Michael Haneke’s Amour. The former…

Best Actor Oscar: Joaquin Phoenix a potential contender. 2013 Oscar predictions Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, Daniel Day-Lewis Joaquin Phoenix and Daniel Day-Lewis look like the two shoo-ins for the 2013 Best Actor Oscar at this stage. Phoenix’s nod will be…

The Dark Knight Rises: Christian Bale in Batsuit. ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ passes $600 million milestone at the worldwide box office Sept. 10 update: The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan’s third and final Batman movie, is lagging far behind its…

‘The Dark Knight Rises.’ The Dark Knight Rises right-wing politics? July 27 update: In Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, Who represents You People? (Did you read the remarks by U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s wife last week?) So,…

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ poster. The Dark Knight Rises box office: $300 million milestone Aug. 1 update: Christopher Nolan’s third and final installment in his Batman movie franchise, The Dark Knight Rises, raked in $8.77 million on Tuesday, July 31,…

Batman Movie Trilogy Marathon: The Dark Knight (2008) June 22 update: The Dark Knight Rises viral campaign is now in full swing. Directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Christian Bale (Bruce Wayne / Batman), Anne Hathaway (Selina Kyle / Catwoman),…

Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills: Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur While delivering her intro for the Cannes Film Festival awards ceremony, Mistress of Ceremonies Bérénice Bejo waxed poetic: “If festivals are the parentheses, films are the words, the exclamation points…” In…

First lesbian kiss? Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace go for it in Passion. Rachel McAdams kisses Noomi Rapace in Brian De Palma’s thriller Passion, a remake of Alain Corneau’s Crime d’amour / Love Crime. McAdams replaces Kristin Scott Thomas; Rapace…

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ villain: Tom Hardy as the unintelligible Bane. ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ villain: The unintelligible Mr. Bane Regarding the villainous Bane’s oftentimes unintelligible dialogue in The Dark Knight Rises prologue and trailer, director/co-screenwriter Christopher Nolan has recently…

Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche: ‘The Players’ posters and 9/11 joke removed. World Trade Center 9/11 joke removed from Jean Dujardin sex comedy ‘The Players’ “Jean Dujardin, already Oscared, can now breathe again: his little secret was kept to the…