Monthly Archives: October 2009

Helen Mirren takes Best Actress honors at the Rome Film Festival: Helen Mirren won Rome’s Silver Marc’Aurelio award for best actress for her performance as Leo Tolstoy’s devoted wife in Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station. Gabriele Muccino presented the honour to Mirren, who brought the house down with an acceptance speech in Italian in which she...

The Big Picture brings the news that Precious has racked up another audience award, this time for the Chicago Film Fest. The Big Pic says that Lions Gate could be looking at its first Best Pic win since Crash. ...

This is a quiz for you expert readers. Feel free to answer all or any of them. 1. Name the movie: Four Oscar nominations, one win, but not Best Picture.  Hint: Someday Oscar winner in smallish but pivotal role.  Dead giveaway: Critics were meh but the Golden Globes embraced it, forever altering its course in the race.  (Extra credit, name the Oscar winner too). 2....

Man Made Movies is gunning for an Oscar nod for Sam Rockwell in Moon and has put up an online petition. With support from Slash Film and Jo Blo, they are reporting upwards of 1,000 signatures so far. They’re hoping for 1,000,000. The biggest problem here is that there aren’t enough much-needed reviews to back this up. Unfortunately, these types of things,...

Folks on Twitter find various ways to entertain themselves. What is kind of amazing to watch is how fast one of these “trending topics” spreads. The latest one is #oneletteroffmovies. They ranged from the silly to the profane. You might be surprised at how many variations people came up with, often for the same movies. I’m not even sure the humor...

Ewan McGregor interviewed in the LATimes last weekend: How much of what goes on in “The Men Who Stare at Goats” do you think is true? The LSD, the telekinesis, the military secrecy . . . Most of it’s true! In fact, the most unbelievable parts of the film are the true ones. The mundane bits are the bits we made up. The journalist in Iraq — my story,...

I am so geeked out with anticipation I will lose my mind before it’s all over with. The Avatar trailer hit theaters and moments later, hit the web — someone got a camera and filmed it, then slapped it on the web. I know this is illegal. But hey, here you go Avatards. Alas, both have been taken down! The trailer will hit the web officially soon. ...