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