Les Misérables Reviews: Mixed views on maximalist Approach to Killer Pipes but Anne Hathaway singing sobbing Fantine total shoo-in Oscar contender.
Tom Hooper
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Les Misérables Trailer: Anne Hathaway Show-Stopper
11 minutes readLes Misérables trailer is out. (Please scroll down.) You can hear Anne Hathaway’s miserable Fantine singing “I dreamed that love would never die … I had a dream my life …
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The King’s Speech PG-13 Cut + Charlotte Brontë on Censorship
3 minutes readColin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, The King’s Speech: Censored, “family-friendly” version of Tom Hooper’s Oscar winner is a box office dud. PG-rated version of Oscar winner The King’s Speech flops …
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Hall Pass Box Office: Panned Farrellys Top Oscar Weekend
7 minutes readHall Pass box office: The Farrelly brothers’ critically panned comedy managed to top the domestic chart and be a major commercial dud. Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis star.
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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 …
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Wally Pfister Surprises, Julia Roberts Reprises Old Joke at American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards Deakins’ Oscar chances down.
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Luncheon for Oscar nominees Annette Bening, Jeff Bridges and (partially) Nicole Kidman. Annette Bening, Jeff Bridges photos: Oscar Nominees Luncheon 2011 Best Actress Academy Award nominee Annette Bening sits on …
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Ricky Gervais’ Golden Globes Below-the-Belt Barbs Targeting Gay Scientologists + Mel Gibson Eclipse Winners
15 minutes readRicky Gervais’ mean-spirited Golden Globes humor eclipsed coverage of the actual winners. Among them, Annette Bening for her performance as a fierce, family-defending lesbian wife/mother in Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids …
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The King’s Speech box office: Starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, Tom Hooper’s real-life-based period drama is the biggest sleeper hit of the year. Helena Bonham Carter costars.
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Toronto Film Festival: Rare African Cinema Spotlight
3 minutes readOverlooked in most of the world, African cinema – including Ousmane Sembene’s latest – is the focus of one of the Toronto Film Festival’s sidebars.
Melissa Leo Oscar Winner: Thoughts on Expletives (her speech has made Oscar history), Controversial Ad and presenter Kirk Douglas.
The King’s Speech (Movie 2010): Flawless Colin Firth
The King’s Speech with Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter The King’s Speech (movie 2010) review I can’t imagine what it must be like to be born into royalty. That kind …