Daniels follows Precious with another look at racial and cultural injustice, but this film is mired in its too-wide collection of themes.
All five nominees have won an award before. So, who’s taking home another?
Here’s our continuing look at Woody Allen.
We are a little less than two weeks from the Oscars, and some of the biggest races are being run between two (maybe three) strong candidates. So, who you got for Best Actress? Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Lining’s Playbook Odds on: At twenty two, Lawrence has already garnered two Oscar nominations, with the first one coming for […]
Sick of Valentine’s Day? Need a day to purge the cloying bombardment of flowers, cards, and chocolates?
Christopher Walken and Al Pacino are perfectly cast as Doc and Val, respectively. On screen, both actors have embraced their caricaturized selves, distancing our recognition of them as Michael Corleone or Nick from Deer Hunter fame.
Despite the fact that she has the IRS breathing down her neck, her recent film The Canyons has been rejected by Sundance, and she’s an all-around pain the ass to work with (according to this in-depth yet rather damaging article in the New York Times), Lindsay Lohan has turned down an offer to join the cast of […]
A lot has been made about the Academy’s snub of Ben Affleck’s direction of Argo, despite wide acclaim for the movie. The subsequent criticism of the Academy is certainly warranted, particularly if you want to focus on the fact that Affleck provided a movie that is essentially about a half-dozen people getting on an airplane and dealing […]
The Razzie Award nominees were announced on January 8th, but does anyone really care about a group that selects the most clearly awful films that weren’t trying to be good anyway? There is nothing like staying as close to the tree trunk as possible by picking an Adam Sandler-produced movie (which they did) or an Eddie Murphy […]
The fervor over Zero Dark Thirty, the allegations that it condones torture, and its alleged factual inconsistencies have seemingly come to a head. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Senators Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levine, and John McCain “are raising the possibility that the CIA might have misled director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal and are demanding that […]