‘Village Voice’ Critics made a number of off-beat choices. One of them was their Best Actress runner-up: Nina Hoss in Phoenix; Hoss trailed Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years. ‘Village Voice’:…
Stranger by the Lake: Sexually explicit gay thriller with Pierre Deladonchamps and Christophe Paou. Winner of a Cannes side award regrettably named Queer Palm, Alain Guiraudie’s erotic thriller Stranger by…
Inside Llewyn Davis review: Oscar Isaac Is last failed folk singer in Joel and Ethan Coen classy music drama. Carey Mulligan and Justin Timberlake costar.
Roger Deakins: ‘True Grit’ cinematographer has no Oscar to call his own. Oscar Predictions: Best Cinematography - Roger Deakins, ‘True Grit’ Although Inception‘s Wally Pfister won the 2011 American Society…
Synopsis: West Texas, 1980: A hunter (Josh Brolin) stumbles upon numerous dead bodies, a stash of heroin, and $2 million in cash lying about in the region’s arid wasteland near…
Revolutionary Road with Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. Directed by Sam Mendes – Winslet’s husband and the director of the 1999 Oscar-winning Suburbia Hell effort American Beauty – the dysfunctional…
Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon. Gus Van Sant’s 1997 Best Picture nominee Good Will Hunting will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’…
Featuring a superficial Denzel Washington as jailed U.S. boxer Rubin Carter, Norman Jewison’s contrived biopic The Hurricane is probably his worst film.
True Grit 2010 movie review: Far superior to the 1969 John Wayne version, as Joel and Ethan Coen Western is much more than the sum of its parts.
No Country for Old Men with Josh Brolin. Joel and Ethan Coen’s somber, brutal thriller is easily this awards season’s top Best Film choice. Besides Josh Brolin, the cast includes…