Ben-Hur 2016 Trailer: Jews for Jesus in Fast and Furious, CGI-filled version of religious epic with Jack Huston mimicking Christian Bale Batman voice.
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Nelson Mandela Movies: South African guerrilla fighter turned political prisoner turned president portrayed reverentially by American or British actors.
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Irish Film Awards: Brendan Gleeson in The Guard Irish Film Awards: Winners Michael Fassbender & Saoirse Ronan John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard, reportedly the most successful independently made Irish production…
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Michelle Williams and Elle Macpherson: Golden Globes’ Best Actress and Top Model as Marilyn Monroe spirit revisited.
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Gregory Peck, Brock Peters in Robert Mulligan’s To Kill a Mockingbird. This list of AFI Life Achievement Award winners was culled from Wikipedia. The number on the right represents the…
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‘What Is the Tea Party?’ Morgan Freeman accuses far-right Republican group of racism: Dolphin Tale box office affected? Morgan Freeman, Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winner for Million Dollar Baby,…
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Michelle Bonev-Silvio Berlusconi Venice Film Festival controversy plus showings of risque Louise Brooks silent and history-making Jessica Tandy Oscar winner.
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Jackass 3D box office: This (sorta) record-breaking Paramount comedy provides further evidence that moviegoers want creative and quality fare.
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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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Clint Eastwood’s ‘inspirational’ 2009 sports drama Invictus has suffered a dispiriting debut at the domestic box office. Matt Damon stars.
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Creationist fanatics are going after IMAX theaters’ nature documentaries. Why? Anti-science Christians are enraged by evolution being presented as an empirical fact.
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Hilary Swank Oscar triumph #2: The Million Dollar Baby actress is the 21st century’s first double winner in the Academy Awards’ acting categories.
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Best Actress SAG Awards: Boxing-ring star beats stage diva in fierce rematch, while Katharine Hepburn has her first competitive Screen Actors Guild ‘win’ ever.
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Million Dollar Baby (movie 2004) review: A superlative Hilary Swank can’t beat the odds against Clint Eastwood’s cliché-ridden boxing and surrogate father-daughter melodrama.
Swedish lesbian film: Ruth Vega Fernandez and Liv Mjönes in With Every Heartbeat. AUDIENCE AWARDS Breakthrough Section (award accompanied by a $5,000 cash prize) WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT by Alexandra-Therese Keining…
Paul Mazursky career highlight: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, with Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould, Robert Culp, and Dyan Cannon. Paul Mazursky: Los Angeles Film Critics Career Achievement Award…
Cloverfield box office: The latest Godzilla-inspired horror thriller has become the year’s first notable hit. J.J. Abrams produced, Matt Reeves directed.
Jehane Noujaim’s Al Jazeera documentary Control Room has sparked outrage at the first edition of the Dubai Film Festival.