Bits and Bites

Nathaniel Rogers (Gurus of Gold pundit and otherwise brilliant human) has begun his Oscar Symposium. He kindly invited a few...

Kris Tapley talks to Scorsese's longtime editor, Thelma Schoomaker. Movie City News' Laura Rooney has begun compiling the big list...

Matthew McConaughey wins Best Actor from the Rome Film Fest, while Scarlett Johansson takes the prize for Actress based on...

Gravity's tops the box office for the third consecutive week. What was that thing about women not being able to...

In his excellent Grantland piece, Wesley Morris draws an eerie parallel between Trayvon Martin and Oscar Grant, but more to...

 New Poster for the new biopic about Steve Jobs, starring Twitter pioneer Ashton Kutcher.  The tagline, "It only takes one...

The goodie bag for the Oscar contenders this year is impressive. Hell, it's worth getting an Oscar nomination just to...

Oscar Podcast episode 20 with Craig Kennedy and Ryan Adams -- we talk about our Oscar predictions, such as they...

-->Nate Silver takes a crack at Oscar predictions by offering up the general consensus. He admits that in many categories...

Many films delved into history this year but only film actually changed it.  After seeing Lincoln, Mississippi finally got around to...

David O. Russell probably didn't know there was a camera on him when he heard Emmanuelle Riva had just won...

The Weinstein Oscar Playbook continues today as David O. Russell and Bradley Cooper meet with Joe Biden to discuss mental...

Leon Panetta, portrayed by James Gandolfini in Zero Dark Thirty, talks about the film and says he thinks it was...

  ***     ***   The Carpetbagger beats the drum of Les Miserables and Affleck, with some Sundance thrown...

“On the first movie I met this girl , and I can't tell this story without crying. She had scars...

“She, over a decade, kind of went down the rabbit hole, getting lost in her work, until finally at the...

Three senators protest the "misleading" content in Zero Dark Thirty Zero Dark Thirty boasts impressive opening day numbers, according to...

Tom O'Neil over at Gold Derby has compiled a list of screeners that have been going out to Academy members....

Over at In Contention, Kris Tapley points out in his tech support column that the movie Skyfall has three potential...

In case you hadn't heard, I was the guest on AwardCircuit's Power Hour this week.  We discussed the Best Actress...