Interview: Jessica Chastain Talks Poker, Women, and Working with Aaron Sorkin in Molly’s Game
"I'm learning a lot and that's what a good writer does. Aaron started writing Molly's Game a few years ago, ...
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Oscars 2016: Best Supporting Actor – SAG Awards and Golden Globes rule when it comes to a winner
While on a suddenly aborted podcast with Erik Anderson and Jeff Wells, we began talking about Best Supporting actor. "There ...
Ukraine Revolution Erupts in Fresh Violence
Despite Russian reassurances that Moscow’s troop buildup along Ukraine’s eastern frontier is for a military exercise, its growing scale is ...
The Ukrainian Revolution's Neo-Fascist Problem
Pentagon officials say they believe there could be close to 50,000 Russian troops bordering the former Soviet republic and inside ...
Ukraine 2014 Parliamentary Election Results
Washington got those assurances that the Russian troop buildup was only an exercise from Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu a ...
Ukraine Revolution Places Elites Back In Power
There is no plan to involve the U.S. military in what is happening in Ukraine, even if Russia takes more ...
The State of the Race: Darkness and Light
When this year began with The Artist, and after I saw it at Cannes, my immediate thoughts about 2011 Oscar ...
Oscar Roundtable 2011 – Take One
Welcome to our annual roundtable, third year running. We pose some questions to some of the writers and bloggers ...
Oscarwatch: For Your Consideration
Why does it seem like the beginning of October is already too late to push through an Oscar contender? If ...
Moneyball – Even the Losers Get Lucky Sometimes
There is a reason we have long since married our American spirit to baseball, and a reason why it's the ...
The State of the Race — The Directors: Gods & Demigods
(Top: Spielberg, Scorsese, De Palma, Lucas, and Coppola, 1994. Bottom: Hooper, Russel, Aronofsy, Nolan, and Fincher, 2010) Last year's slate ...
Oscarwatch: Best Actress Heats Up
There probably isn't a better actress working in Hollywood who hasn't yet won an Oscar than Glenn Close. Charlize Theron, ...
Oscar Buzz on the Web
I am often asked on Twitter that so and so says so and so is the frontrunner or is going ...
The State of the Race: Big Oscar Movies Lying in Wait
The ongoing and ever-increasing fascination with the Oscar race has shifted the way movies are consumed, appreciated, written about and ...
Oscar Flashback: Sex and Oscar
The idea that Academy members are prudes is deeply rooted in their voting history. The way most people talk about ...
Faust Wins The Golden Lion at the Venice Film Fest
Golden Lion - Faust Silver Lion - Shangjun Cai Cinematography - Wuthering Heights Screenplay - Alps Volpi Cup Actor - ...
Oscarwatch: On Genre Movies
Since there aren't five Best Picture nominees to be had this year, although the rapid about-face the Academy did from ...
The State of the Race – And Then Toronto Happened
Usually the Oscar race feels a bend in the road right about now, with Toronto making or breaking several titles. ...
From Sideways to Upright: Alexander Payne Evolves with The Descendants
Sideways is a perfect film. The more you watch it the more of itself it reveals. It is a story ...
Telluride Film Festival – Day One
The idea to drive into Albuquerque and make the nearly six hour drive to Telluride turned out to be a ...
Don't the exact same arguments apply to Nolan and (with the exception of The Departed and two acting awards 30-45…
To paraphrase Chasing Amy, Snyder isn't an artist, he's a tracer
it was painfully easy to predict the "twist" just from the trailer alone.
The "war against white guys"? The same year Irishman went 0 for 10, Marty got a standing ovation at the…
I've always wondered if Dark Knight would have been viewed more objectively if Ledger had lived.
