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Sideways is a perfect film.  The more you watch it the more of itself it reveals.  It is a story...

The idea to drive into Albuquerque and make the nearly six hour drive to Telluride turned out to be a...

Jeff Wells went down the Best Picture rabbit hole, riffing on Guy Lodge's piece at In Contention. The movies Guy...

Relativity Media's Machine Gun Preacher just sent out a first look pic - which by now has hit every website...

Riding high off of last year's The King's Speech, which became the first movie in a while to do Toronto...

Spotted: Werner Herzog holding court with a gaggle of Comic-Con beauties. What is he doing here? Just looking around. The...

It is easy, as was recently done on Twitter, to dismiss Harry Potter's Best Picture chances.  If the process was...

I heard two things about Meryl Streep today. The first, I received two DMs from @dialmformovies. He said that Meryl...

David Cronenberg started making movies before the Oscar machine morphed into what it is today.  There have always been great...

Pete Hammond interviews David Carr and the LA Times' Jim Rainey If Microsoft never saw the internet coming, and Google...

Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have increased MIDNIGHT IN PARIS’ theater count to 1, 038 screens, which marks...

The AMPAS rocked the Oscar blogging world ...cough cough, sputter sputter.  Let's start that again.  The mildly interesting news announced...

Last year, Melissa Leo famously took out those ads for herself, showing her to be ONE CLASSY DAME.  I loved...

Peter over at AwardsCorner has done a fairly exhaustive rundown of Best Picture contenders and all I want to do...

Can the Tree of Life go all the way to Oscar's Big Ten?  It's a tough one, and ultimately a...

It’s only been five days and already I feel like a resident of the seaside community of Juan-Les-Pins. In my...

Some Mother's Son: We Need to Talk About Kevin So many times now we’ve had to endure another tragic news...

The weather is unusually sunny this year in Cannes, which means that if you're hurrying to a screening with your...

One of the best things about the two prominent film critics at the New York Times, AO Scott and Manohla...