Zero Dark Thirty controversy: Jessica Chastain star in Kathryn Bigelow’s political thriller. Zero Dark Thirty: Controversy boosts weekend box office Familiarity may breed contempt (if you’re around the wrong person),…
Persepolis controversy: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud animated feature offends – some of – Tunisia’s Fundamentalist Muslims. Persepolis Broadcast: Tunisian Television Station President Apologizes to Offended Muslims Three days ago…
Two Marilyn Monroe movies for the price of, well, two – which quite possibly means $50 by the time they come out. One, to be called Blonde, will star King…
Kathryn Bigelow. The Hurt Locker‘s Best Director Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar acceptance speech: “This really is… There’s no other way to describe it, it’s the moment of a lifetime. First of…
Jeremy Renner in Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker. Below is our complete 2010 Oscar Predictions list. If we’re correct, The Hurt Locker will win a total of…
Oscar war movies: The Hurt Locker. If Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker wins the Best Picture Academy Award on Sunday, it’ll be the eighth out-and-out war movie…
Indie Spirit Awards: Helen Mirren, Anne-Marie Duff, Paul Giamatti in The Last Station ‘Indie’ Spirit Awards’ mostly mainstream winners The Academy Awards show will be held on Sunday. The Razzie…
Jeff Bridges’ The Dude is back, now as a country music singer. This year’s probable Best Actor Oscar winner, Jeff Bridges, who plays troubled country singer Bad Blake in Scott…
Richard Buckley, Tom Ford, Livia Giuggioli and Colin Firth. Firth was the Best Actor winner for his portrayal of a bereaved gay professor in 1960s Los Angeles in Ford’s A…
My Name Is Khan movie with Kajol and Shah Rukh Khan: Cricket League comment leads to Hindu nationalist outrage and fat box office receipts. ‘My Name Is Khan’ movie: Solid…
Avatar performance capture: Zoe Saldana as a Na’vi. Actors with faces but without voices can’t be nominated for Oscars. Actors with voices but without faces can, but don’t get nominated…
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…
Sundance movies: Anna Paquin and Josh Duhamel in The Romantics. As usual, the upcoming Sundance Film Festival will screen numerous world premieres; one of them is writer-director Galt Niederhoffer’s The…
Helen Mirren, The Last Station In the last 15 years, SAG’s best female actor nominees have been identical to the Academy’s Best Actress line-up only five times. Well, in addition…
BAFTA nominations: Hollywood productions rule. Above: Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker. Some people complain that the Hollywood Academy is enamored of British productions and talent. Well, then…
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