Carice van Houten and Rutger Hauer in ‘Black Butterflies’ Carice van Houten & ‘She Monkeys’: Tribeca Film Festival Awards Writer-director Lisa Aschan’s feature film debut, the Swedish lesbian drama She…
Steven Spielberg The Color Purple Oscar snub: Whoopi Goldberg did receive a Best Actress nomination. Steven Spielberg’s Best Direction Oscar nomination for his 1985 film version of Alice Walker’s The…
Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze in Ghost Patrick Swayze, the star of Dirty Dancing and Ghost, died from complications from pancreatic cancer yesterday in Los Angeles. Swayze was 57. The Texan-born…
Goldie Hawn, Whoopi Goldberg, Anjelica Huston, Penélope Cruz, Tilda Swinton, and Eva Marie Saint. “This is not going to be 45 seconds, I can say that right now,” said best…
A Room with a View with Helena Bonham Carter and Julian Sands. The 1986 Best Picture nominee A Room with a View – my personal favorite among the James Ivory-Ismail…
The Color Purple with Whoopi Goldberg. Whoopi Goldberg will be the special guest at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Monday Nights with Oscar” screening of Steven Spielberg’s…
Is Tribeca Film Festival winner Stolen Life truly a “banned Chinese film”? Referred to in the international media as a victim of China’s censors, Li Shaohong’s social/psychological drama may not…
Mighty Times: The Children’s March: Documentary or docudrama? Bobby Houston’s now controversial Best Documentary Short Academy Award winner depicts – with the assistance of elaborate “reenactments” – the 1963 civil…
Yesterday movie (2004) review: Darrell Roodt’s AIDS drama boasts a superb performance by Leleti Khumalo as a poor, illiterate Zulu woman who discovers that she’s HIV-positive – and therefore has…
Hotel Rwanda movie review: Mixing political, social, and family issues, Terry George’s well-made but problematic Rwandan Genocide drama stars U.S. actor Don Cheadle as an Oskar Schindler-like – in terms…