The Consequences of Love: Italian Oscars’ surprise favorite. Paolo Sorrentino’s psychological mafia thriller was the big winner at the Italian Academy of Cinema’s David di Donatello Awards, topping five categories.…
Euthanasia drama The Sea Inside with Javier Bardem. In Alejandro Amenábar’s euthanasia drama, Javier Bardem plays a tetraplegic Spaniard fighting for the right to end his life in a country…
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea: Creationist fanatics vs. nature documentaries. Costly IMAX-geared nature movies have become the target of creationist anger for their depiction of evolution as a scientific fact.…
Hilary Swank Oscar triumph: The star of Clint Eastwood’s sentimental boxing melodrama Million Dollar Baby has become the 21st century’s first two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner. Her previous victory,…
Guild Awards: Best Film vs. Best Director split goes on unabated. This awards season, many groups selected one Best Picture – e.g., The Aviator – while opting for another in…
Director Clint Eastwood’s surrogate father-daughter boxing drama Million Dollar Baby earned SAG Awards for Best Actress Hilary Swank, who beat top competitor Annette Bening, and, more surprisingly, for Best Supporting…
One of several British Academy Awards “casualties,” Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s sweeping World War I drama A Very Long Engagement received one single BAFTA nomination – in the ghettoized Best Foreign Language…
The Aviator: Martin Scorsese’s Best Film - Drama Golden Globe winner stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Texan billionaire Howard Hughes, who made movies, dated Hollywood stars, got Hughes Aircraft off the…
Written by Tina Fey, Mean Girls quotes have become quite popular with moviegoers – the teen comedy grossed $86 million at the domestic box office – and with Writers Guild…
Awards season news: In an ungodly turn of events, Jesus Christ and Jason Bourne lost out to Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man (“Spidey” among friends/crazy fans) at the Critics’ Choice Awards.…
The NSFC Awards’ surprisingly mainstream winner, Clint Eastwood’s maudlin boxing melodrama Million Dollar Baby is unlike most of the group’s recent Best Film selections – e.g., American Splendor, Mulholland Dr.,…
Million Dollar Baby movie: The most notable non-cliched element in Clint Eastwood’s boxing-world-set, surrogate father-daughter melodrama is that its invincible champ is a woman. As the title character, Hilary Swank…
Is there a Jesus Christ & George W. Bush connection? “Hollywood observers” purportedly claim that the United States’ presidential election is somehow reflected in the Academy Awards’ Best Picture category.…