‘The Aura’ with Ricardo Darín: Winner of six Silver Condor Awards. ‘The Aura’ movie wins six Argentinean Film Critics Silver Condor Awards On June 26, the Argentinean Film Critics Association…
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.…
The Sea Inside movie review: One of the year’s biggest hits in Spain and the winner of 14 Goya Awards, Alejandro Amenábar’s capably assembled, generally well-acted, but overly sentimental euthanasia…
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,…
Independent Spirit Awards: Sleeper hit Sideways among winners. Alexander Payne’s Central California Wine Country-set road movie about two men-babies discovering their inner adult wholly dominated this year’s Independent Spirit Awards.…
Is Hollywood anti-Christian? Despite far-right American Christians’ hand-wringing about the awards season chances of The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson’s controversial, ultra-violent Christian drama has been shortlisted by various…
Based on real-life events, Alejandro Amenábar’s pro-euthanasia drama and the Goya Awards’ record-breaker The Sea Inside revolves around a tetraplegic man’s fight to end his own life. The box office…
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…
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.…
Million Dollar Baby movie review: 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…
Culture clash movies have dominated this year’s socially conscious European Film Awards: Fatih Akin’s German-Turkish drama Head-On was named Best European Film, while euthanasia and abortion dramas topped the acting…
Gay Republicans: How can a(n even moderately) sane person be both openly gay and a member of the United States’ openly anti-gay Republican party? Wash Westmoreland’s Gay Republicans attempts to…
Entries from 49 countries are in contention for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Yet arcane rules have prevented two well-received non-English-language features starring Gael García Bernal from being even…
Venice Festival: Starring Imelda Staunton as a one-woman abortion clinic in 1950s England, Mike Leigh’s abortion drama Vera Drake was this year’s Golden Lion winner; Staunton took home the Best…