Co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller reunite to bring Miller’s visually stunning “Sin City” graphic novels back to the screen in “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.” Weaving together two of Miller’s classic stories with new tales, the town’s most hard boiled citizens cross paths with some of its [...]
Who’s smiling a wicked smile now? Just 3 months ago, financial experts were predicting doom and gloom for Disney’s Maleficent. On April 1, Wall Street analyst Marci Ryvicker wrote that Maleficent “is maybe too dark and scary to be profitable… expectations for a Maleficent write-off seem relatively widespread.” [...]
Jennifer Lawrence is already the only girl with anything important to do in X-Men: Days of Future Past, the 2nd most successful movie of 2014 so far ($739 million worldwide). A mere 6 months later, she’ll be back as “Our Leader Mockingjay” — here to fight, not talk, in the first half of the third […]
Seriously, does this look unbelievably awesome or what. That George Miller. That Charlize Theron. That Tom Hardy. George Miller is directing the film from a screenplay he wrote with Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris. Miller also produces the film, along with longtime producing partner, Oscar nominee Doug Mitchell (“Babe”, “Happy Feet”), and [...]
So far, 2014 has been a pretty good year for women at the box office, particularly in the children’s movie department. Maleficent and Frozen have become worldwide phenomenons, while Shailene Woodley took the number one box office twice so far this year. There was also The Other Woman, which is your typical box office power […]
The Judge looks to be on track to land in the Oscar race, as its positioning at TIFF makes abundantly clear. It stars Robert Duvall and Robert Downey, Jr. The film looks interesting to me but for some reason it doesn’t have the “cool factor” attached to it. That’s fine, though. It doesn’t need really […]
Huffington Post Entertainment just posted two brand new Eleanor Rigby Posters. Yes, you might recognize the name on them. I absolutely love the one with Jessica Chastain’s iconic red hair as an outline. It’s rare to see a film — any film, let alone a love story — with women as whole human beings. Movies […]
via Funny or Die, Mary Poppins (Kristen Bell) is working for minimum wage, and really needs a raise. Mary Poppins Quits with Kristen Bell from Funny Or Die
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The Academy did not like the way the songs were campaigned for last year, specifically one song, Alone Yet Not Alone. They decided to change the rules, or enforce them, to disallow members to contact other members to campaign for their song submission. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and […]
We’ve been compiling our Contender Tracker pages slowly but we’ve narrowed down the list so far of what contenders might be showing up at this year’s Oscar race. Thanks to Kevin for the help on this. I have ordered them in terms of importance or prestige. Not all Oscar contenders are measured equally. Stars tend […]
As we head into another Oscar season you’ll see an array of representations of male characters of all ages and walks of life. Old, young, fat, thin, handsome, unattractive – you name it, they never run out of stories to be told about them. Women, such is not the case. Women have the choice of […]
While Oscar season is a long way off, and the long march to the end of the year often discards films whose buzz can’t be sustained, a good movie is a good movie is a good movie. But we don’t always measure Oscar contenders that way. We measure them, usually, by who made them, how […]
