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Horror @ The Oscars: Rise/Planet of the Apes & Girl/Dragon Tattoo!!

Posted 15 years ago

Well ladies and gents it’s that time of the year again – Oscar season! With the annual Academy Awards set to kick off in just over a month the Academy did us all a solid by announcing this year’s nominees...

The 2012 Oscar nominations!

Posted 15 years ago

This morning at 8:30am EST/5:30am PST, the nominations for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards will be announced in Hollywood. Former Best Actress nominee Jennifer Lawrence will join Tom Sherak, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, to...

The BAFTA nominations are as expected as Meryl Streep’s Golden Globe win

Posted 15 years ago

BAFTA, the British Academy for Film and Television Arts, has released a list of nominees in advance of its February 12th awards ceremony. Nothing all too surprising here, with plenty of love being shown for THE ARTIST, HUGO, and TINKER...

C’mon Hollywood: C’mon Oscars! Grow a pair!

Posted 15 years ago

Chris And so, Oscar time is once again on the approach. The Golden Globes are only a week and a half away, and already, the front-runners for the Oscar nominations seem locked and loaded. George Clooney (for THE DESCENDANTS), Jean...

Review: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn), a precocious nine-year-old, loses his father (Tom Hanks) on 9/11. One year later, Oskar is still having a hard time dealing with his grief and relating to his mother (Sandra Bullock). One day, while looking...

The Genre @ 2011 Golden Globes: Drive, American Horror Story, Dragon Tattoo

Posted 15 years ago

Well folks it’s that time of the year once again – Awards season! The annual awards season just kicked off with the announcement of this year’s Golden Globes nominees! Now while the full list of nominations can be found right...

SAG nominee list has lots of surprise inclusions, omissions

Posted 15 years ago

The Screen Actors Guild Awards might not be the most relevant of movie awards ceremonies, but that doesn’t mean they count for nothing. And today, they’ve created quite a stir with their nominee list, which includes some surprises but is...

Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock have noise and proximity in the trailer for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Posted 15 years ago

Talk about an award-ready formula: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, director Stephen Daldry (THE HOURS, THE READER, BILLY ELLIOT), post-9/11 drama, a bestselling novel, a seemingly remarkable child actor, THE HELP star Viola Davis, and the immortal Max Von Sydow. Guess...

Review: The Help

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: When Skeeter Phelan (Emma Stone), a young Mississippi society gal, returns home after completing her degree, she notices, for the first time in her life, the racism and civil inequality that dominate her circa-1960’s Jackson, Mississippi hometown. She decides...

Here’s the first look at Tom Hanks in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Posted 15 years ago

Today we get out first look at Tom Hanks and the young Thomas Horn in EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE. You know what’s cool about Horn? He owned on JEOPARDY! This kid has no previous acting experience and goes from...

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