There is a reason why, in 2008, Meryl Streep, after thirty years as a working actor, is doing her best work. She has allowed herself to evolve as a human being, a woman, deep lines and all, and an actor.  Actresses who prevent themselves from aging naturally do so at their own peril. Yes, by preserving their youth they will feel as though they’ve beaten back...
Over at Hollywood-Elsewhere, Jeff Wells reports that both Milk and Frost/Nixon are pretty good, in his estimations. He gives them both about an 8.5 on a scale of one to ten but says he doesn’t understand what the early impressions of Frost/Nixon were about and the so-called bad buzz he heard about Milk was also unfounded. In the comments, Scott Feinberg, wrote: Jeff,...
Looming Large 2008 is shaping up to be another year of an Oscar season that echoes the 1970s. At this stage of the game, when so many of the big guns have held their movies back in an unusual, somewhat daring move, two films still seem to define both the era in which we are living and the Oscar year we are about to live through.  The Dark Knight and Wall-E. Both films...
Welcome to the first State of the Race column of the 2008 season. What does that mean? Not a whole lot, full disclosure. It is still way too early to count any chickens or Oscar contenders, despite how good they look on paper. We start this year as we’ve started every year for the last ten, with the presumption that in summer and until December, hope springs eternal....