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The death of the original screenplay...?
Wed, Nov 4 2009 8:07 AM

This week's favorite Oscar topic, besides last night's announcement that Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin will be co-hosting the awards, is where all the original screenplays have gone. The Hollywood Reporter's Steven Zeitchik points out the a dearth of obvious candidates for the "Best Original Screenplay" category. If "Up," "Inglourious... Read More...

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Filed under: Up, The Hurt Locker, Awards, Where the Wild Things Are, Inglourious Basterds, (500) Days Of Summer, Star Trek, The Hangover, Away We Go, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Oscars 2010

Mike Judge, conservative hero
Wed, Sep 2 2009 1:15 PM

Since he created "Beavis & Butthead" and made "Idiocracy," Mike Judge is pretty much one of my favorite people around. But he is also an unlikely conservative hero, something I wasn't aware of until "The Goode Family" dropped. It was then that my personal favorite insane right-wing site Big Hollywood started championing Judge... Read More...

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Filed under: The Hurt Locker, Mike Judge, Coming attractions, Miramax, Extract, Big Hollywood, The Goode Family, Barack Obama

Who will celebrate "Avatar Day"?
Fri, Aug 14 2009 12:40 PM

There was polite applause at Comic-Con when James Cameron showed footage for "Avatar" -- it was neither the rapturous reception that some would have you believe, nor was it the kind of disaster that one could easily imagine when a crowd's introduced to blue, ten foot tall blue, speckled creatures called the Na'vi from a planet named Pandora... Read More...

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Filed under: The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, Coming attractions, Avatar Day, District 9, James Cameron, Comic-Con 2009, Avatar

SXSW 2009: "The Hurt Locker."
Wed, Mar 25 2009 4:49 PM

What's bound to be one of the best action films of the year happen to be set in Iraq. Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, Guy Pearce, The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, SXSW 2009, David Morse, Point Break, Anthony Mackie, Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Renner

Venice 2008 lines up.
Tue, Jul 29 2008 10:29 AM

The 65th Venice Film Festival announced its line-up today -- among the juicy offerings are the new Darren Aronofsky film "The Wrestler," with Mickey Rourke playing Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a retired pro wrestler struggling to get back into the ring; Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq drama "The Hurt Locker"; Takeshi Kitano's comedy... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, Goodbye Solo, Burn After Reading, Nelson Yu Lik-wai, In Paraguay, Ross McElwee, Plastic City, Achilles and the Tortoise, Agnés Varda, Hayao Miyazaji, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, Venice 2008, Claire Denis, The Hurt Locker, The Wrestler, Darren Aronofsky, Kathryn Bigelow, Ramin Bahrani, Takeshi Kitano