Sarah Palin Movie Debut: ‘Carrie’ Remake Starring Chloë Grace Moretz for MGM, as the studio wanted a Person of Faith to play Carrie’s Mom.
Sissy Spacek
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Chris Lowell and Emma Stone, Brad Pitt and Viola Davis: SAG Awards also with Octavia Spencer. 4 of them won Actor statuettes.
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Julie Walters in Billy Elliot. Since the 1960s – by that time the Academy and its golden statuettes had been around for more than three decades – nearly every year…
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Horror sound effects: Forbidden Planet lobby card (top); Lon Chaney in the 1925 version of Phantom of the Opera (middle); Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project (bottom) “The Sound…
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Carrie movie: with Sissy Spacek. Director Brian De Palma, whose Iraq war drama Redacted earned him the best director award at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, will be the special guest…
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Screenwriter, director, and producer Costa-Gavras, 74, never one to shy away from inflammatory themes, will be honored with the second-ever Eisenstein Award handed out by the University of Southern California’s…
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Robert Altman: ‘The Player’ + ‘Nashville’ & ‘MASH’ director dead at 81 Robert Altman, whose movie career alternated between little-seen and at times poorly received offbeat efforts and award-winning film…
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Affliction (movie 1997) review: Nick Nolte delivers an overheated star turn in Paul Schrader’s well-made and great-looking but annoyingly contrived psychological drama.
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JFK (movie 1991) review: Oliver Stone bypasses the facts in his dishonest yet engrossing political thriller about the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination. Kevin Costner stars.
Casey Affleck and Sissy Spacek, Ellen Page and nominated directors: Oscar Nominees Luncheon plus humongous group photo.
An American Haunting (movie 2005) review: (Faux) ‘real-life’ ghost story fails to mine its psychological and spooky possibilities. Rachel Hurd-Wood and Donald Sutherland star.