Oprah’s show is an event. She speaks directly to many consumers all over the world. But since she was once sued for going after the beef industry, she had to keep quiet about her own feelings. She did, however, encourage her audience to see the soon-to-be-Oscar-nominated Food, Inc. They are offering the DVD for a very low price on Amazon. ...
Monthly Archives: January 2010
This is the second time a notable site has decided to bow out of covering the awards race. After Brokeback Mountain lost to Crash, my favorite awards database, fennec.org, decided to call it quits.¬† IMDb and Wikipedia have pretty much taken over — but Fennec was the best. Anyway, now Film Tracks has decided that the Original Score category is so ridiculous that...
Rolling Stone’s Pete Travers gave props to Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams giving for Blue Valentine. Watch an exclusive clip on MTV’s Movies Blog. EW’s Owen Gleiberman: No movie I‚Äôve seen at Sundance this year conjures the possibilities ‚Äî or the current, gloom-and-doom marketplace environment ‚Äî of independent film more powerfully...
Emerging as one of the critic’s consensus hits at Sundance, writer-director Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are Alright stars Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as lesbian partners whose teenage children are on a quest to meet their biological father (Mark Ruffalo). Salon‘s Andrew O’Hehir says its one of the hottest tickets in Park City: All those people...
The Jewish Journal here in Los Angeles is one of the most easily read papers as it seems to be everywhere, sitting there on a rack, offered up for free. An Oscar contenders and the Jews story appeared in the latest issue, written by Naomi Pfefferman cites three films up for Oscars this year and how they have each been praised, and criticized for their depiction of Jewish...
Over at Coming Soon, our pal Ed Douglas has laid out his Oscar predictions – a risky endeavor before nominations come out. The nominations might go as predicted. But they might not. Any weird kink to throw the whole race off. And since there is now a month with final ballots outstanding, there is time to think carefully about the outcome. Either which way, Douglas’...