Misty Upham of Frozen River fame and Juliette Lewis. ‘Frozen River’ actress Misty Upham found dead in Seattle suburb Actress Misty Upham, gone missing since Oct. 6, was found dead…
Colin Firth and wife Livia Giuggioli: Academy Awards Red Carpet. Colin Firth and wife Livia Giuggioli: Academy Awards Colin Firth and wife Livia Giuggioli arrive at the 2011 Academy Awards…
Amy Adams: The Oscars’ Red Carpet. Amy Adams Oscar photos Amy Adams is pictured at the 2011 Oscar ceremony, held on Feb. 27 at the Kodak Theatre in the fast-thumping…
Heidi the Cross-Eyed Opossum Picks Oscar winner Colin Firth. Many have complained that the 2011 Oscar ceremony was dull. That hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco were out of their…
Natalie Portman in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan Natalie Portman: SAG Awards’ Best Actress for ‘Black Swan.’ Natalie Portman: SAG Awards’ Best Actress winner ‘bleeped’ TNT and TBS bleeped Natalie Portman,…
Robert Downey Jr. ‘sex with actresses’ joke: Golden Globes vibe goes from ‘hugely mean-spirited’ and ‘mildly sinister’ to… After 2011 Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais introduced him as an actor…
Ricky Gervais’ mean-spirited Golden Globes humor eclipsed coverage of the actual winners. Among them, Annette Bening for her performance as a fierce, family-defending lesbian wife/mother in Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids…
The Fighter movie stars Mark Wahlberg as boxer Micky Ward. Wahlberg was the film’s only key cast member not shortlisted for an Academy Award. ‘The Fighter’ movie review: ‘Smart’ –…
LA Weekly and Village Voice Critics Poll names The Social Network the Best Film of the year. Armie Hammer in the cast, along with Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, and Andrew…
Facebook movie The Social Network wins more U.S. film critics’ Best Picture awards: Jesse Eisenberg stars as controversial Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. David Fincher’s widely acclaimed The Social Network (a.k.a.…
Mainstream – “at best, mainstreamish” – critics group picks: Lisa Cholodenko’s audience-friendly The Kids Are All Right topped three New York Film Critics Circle award categories, including Best Actress honors…
Kristen Stewart in ‘Welcome to the Rileys,’ with James Gandolfini. Kristen Stewart Welcome to the Rileys online controversy To date (Nov. 14), none of my posts has attracted as much…
Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford in Roger Michell’s Morning Glory. Nov. 12 update: Following a fantastic up 230 percent jump from the day before, Dreamworks’ Megamind, featuring the voices of Will…
Artistic license in ‘Breaking Dawn’: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart in Catherine Hardwicke’s Twilight. Does this man look like a “Libishomem” to you? In The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, officially two…
Kristen Stewart: “I’m not ‘playing a stripper.’ It’s really not a stripper movie at all. It sort of just opens your eyes about people that don’t have options. I know…
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Best Actress Oscar group photo: Natalie Portman, Michelle Williams, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicole Kidman and Annette Bening. Best Actress nominees Oscar Luncheon photo Best Actress Academy Award nominees Natalie Portman, Michelle…
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Tom Hardy in Inception. The BFCA voters usually get it right, e.g., The Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire, Sean Penn for Milk, Heath Ledger for The…
Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone. Debra Granik’s low-budget indie drama set in a drug-infested, poverty-stricken area of the United States that is hardly ever seen in American movies – or…
Welcome to the Rileys with James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart Directed by Jake Scott, Welcome to the Rileys, which opened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, has been greeted by mixed-to-lukewarm…
Alejandro González Iñárritu + Guillermo Arriaga’s overreaching psychological drama 21 Grams is immensely helped by 5 excellent performances.