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2010 Golden Globe Predictions: Best Actress – Comedy or Musical
Sandra Bullock, The Proposal
A bossy Canadian businesswoman forces her American assistant (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her so she can stay in the US.
Marion Cotillard, Nine
The wife of an Italian filmmaker (Daniel Day-Lewis, ...
Celebrities
Meryl Streep
Golden Globes
Sandra Bullock
The Proposal
Marion Cotillard
Daniel Day-Lewis
Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, with Robert Pattinson (top) and Taylor Lautner (bottom)
The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the Chris Weitz-directed Twilight sequel starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, earned $72.7 million on its first day out, including a record $26.3 ...
Celebrities
Twilight
New Moon
One Day
Clapham Junction by Adrian Shergold (top); Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth in I Can’t Think Straight (middle); Patrik Age. 1.5 by Ella Lemhagen (bottom)
Canada an egalitarian gay haven? Think again.
Marcus McCann reports in Xtra.com that Canada Border Services Agency customs officers have seized ...
Movies
2010 Golden Globe Predictions: Best Actress – Drama
Annette Bening, Mother and Child
A middle-aged woman must come to terms with her past
Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Radical ideologue Leo Tolstoy’s wife Sofya has to put up with him
Carey Mulligan, An Education
In 1960s London, ...
Celebrities
Golden Globes
Annette Bening
Helen Mirren
Michelle Pfeiffer
Push
2010 Golden Globe Predictions: Best Actor – Drama
Colin Firth, A Single Man
In 1960s Los Angeles, a gay college professor wants to end his life after learning that his lover has died in an accident.
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
By staging the Rugby World Cup in South Africa, Nelson Mandela ...
Celebrities
Golden Globes
Colin Firth
Morgan Freeman
James McAvoy
Paul Giamatti
Viggo Mortensen
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 10 semi-finalists in the animated short film category of the 2010 Academy Awards. Thirty-seven entries had originally qualified in the category. They are:
The Cat Piano, Eddie White and Ari Gibson, directors (The People’s ...
Celebrities
Sleeping Beauty
Reaper
Nick Park
2010 Golden Globes Predictions: Best Picture – Comedy or Musical
The Informant! (above, with Matt Damon), d: Steven Soderbergh; scr: Scott Z. Burns
A pathological liar helps the US government nab a nefarious agribusiness conglomerate.
Julie & Julia (above, with Meryl Streep, Stanley ...
Celebrities
Golden Globes
Matt Damon
Meryl Streep
Stanley Tucci
Kevin Spacey
2010 Golden Globe Predictions: Best Picture – Drama
The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow; scr: Mark Boal
A US Army elite unit disarms bombs in Iraq.
Invictus, d: Clint Eastwood; scr: Anthony Peckham
Newly elected South African president Nelson Mandela campaigns to stage the Rugby World Cup ...
Celebrities
The Hurt Locker
The Lovely Bones
Matt Damon
Clint Eastwood
Nelson Mandela
Noel Clarke’s Adulthood, which was screened at this year’s Karlovy Vary Film Festival, opens this week on IFC Festival Direct, a distribution outlet presenting "a collection of the best and most innovative cinema" from film festivals around the world, exclusively on demand.
Adulthood ...
Movies
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 15 semi-finalists in the 2010 Academy Awards’ Documentary Feature category. Eighty-nine films had been in the running.
And I’m really surprised that neither Yoav Shamir’s Defamation nor Michael Moore’s ...
Television
The Revolution
There are few web series that I’ve enjoyed watching; of those, Matt Koval’s "The Fuplers" is probably my favorite. The series chronicles the table-time interactions of your typical Mondo Bizarro family, with Koval playing Mom, Dad, Teen Son, and lithping, pig-tailed Little Daughter. ...
Movies
European Film Award nominee and a very likely contender for the 2010 best documentary feature Academy Award, Yoav Shamir’s Defamation opens on Friday, Nov. 20, in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other cities across the United States.
The film info below is from distributor First ...
Movies
Judy Garland in A Star Is Born (top); Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (middle); Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless (bottom)
Turner Classic Movies‘ first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival, which will be held on April 22-25, 2010, in Hollywood, will feature the world premiere of a newly ...
Celebrities
Judy Garland
The Middle
Stanley Kubrick
Directed by Andrew Jacobs, Four Seasons Lodge is currently playing at New York City’s IFC Center at Sixth Avenue at West Third Street. The film opens Friday, Nov. 20, at the Quad Cinema at 34 West 13th Street. This week, the filmmaker will be present at the IFC Center’s ...
Movies
Hamish Hamilton will direct the 2010 Academy Awards telecast, show producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman have announced. It will be Hamilton”s first time directing the Oscar show.
Among Hamilton’s credits are the “MTV Video Music Awards” and the “MTV Europe Music Awards,” in addition ...
Celebrities
Adam Shankman
The Super Bowl
The Academy Awards
A Well Paid Walk by Milos Forman (top); Vaclav Havel in Citizen Havel by Pavel Koutecký and Miroslav Janek (middle); The Karamazovs by Petr Zelenka (bottom)
New Czech Films at New York’s BAMcinématek. The series includes works by two-time Academy Award winner Milos Forman and Jan H?ebejk, ...
Celebrities
Maria de Medeiros (top); Belén Rueda (middle); Kim Rossi Stuart (bottom)
The European Film Academy (EFA) has enlisted a group of Ambassadors of European Film to cooperate in the promotion of European cinema and the European Film Awards.
From the European Film Academy’s press release, the ...
Celebrities
Moritz Bleibtreu
The Middle
Tom Tykwer
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Stephen Daldry
Up by Pete Docter
The 2010 Golden Globes will feature five Best Animated Feature contenders, as members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association voted last week to expand this year’s number of nominations for that category.
The amended rule for the Best Animated Feature category now ...
Movies
Golden Globes
Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Bryan Brown, Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson in Breaker Morant
Edward Woodward, the star of the 1980s television series The Equalizer and of the film classics The Wicker Man (1973) and Breaker Morant (1980), died on Monday in Truro, Cornwall, England. Woodward had been ...
Movies
Moolaadé by Ousmane Sembene (top); El Sur by Víctor Erice (middle); Charulata by Satyajit Ray (bottom)
The Auteurs World Cup was launched yesterday, Nov. 16. David Hudson, formerly of The Daily and GreenCine Daily, describes the AWC thus:
"It’s a competitive game measuring up national ...
