The Costume Designers Guild is one of the latest specialty awards to come to the party.
"The Artist" received a number of Academy Award nominations, has already been chosen as the best film of the year by a number of critics and looks to be on target to remain, at least temporarily, to be the front runner. All of which raises the question.
Consarnit, you almost missed Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day again, dagnabbit! January 24, 1848, is the date in history that not only guaranteed Joe Montana would someday always be referred to as a 49er, it is also the day that handed us Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day.
I could start this article that hopes to reveal for the first time to many the very existence of the Political Film Society Awards by complaining that "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is not even among the films listed among those eligible to receive a nomination in 2012.
David Macias says that the Grammy Award nomination for Linda Chorney serves to dilute the Grammy's credibility. Such a thing is patently impossible: the awards have no credibility!
Dateline: Pensacola, Florida. 2009. A wealthy Florida couple is murdered in their home in the middle of the night while a dozen adopted children sleep inside the house.
Zombie movies and TV shows are all the rage. With the exception of vampires, no other supernatural or occult figure is such a popular culture icon of choice at the present moment.
There are some who think that Ricky Gervaisi is hysterically funny. Those people really need to catch an episode-any episode will do-of a show-any show will do-featuring Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge.
Monday, January 16, 2012, is a big day for movie awards. This day represents another step in the continuing history of awards that have been collected in the past by such movies as "Showgirls" and such actors as Tom Selleck and Madonna.
When it comes to comedy, the genre is the ugly stepsister who may get invited to the party, but never goes home with Prince Charming.
Now we know the real reason that the young Asian girl adopted by Cam and Mitchell on "Modern Family" aged exponentially between the second and third season of the show. The writers needed to put young Lily on the aging fast track so that she could become a speaking character.
Way back around the early middle of June 2011, something happened inside a theater in New York City that must have lifted Steven Spielberg's heart and taken his mind off the fact that more Americans could probably identify the Kardashians' resident plastic surgeon than could iden …
Are you a documentary filmmaker looking for a subject almost guaranteed to result in your boring millions of people to death when you accept your Oscar? Or have you always wanted to get in on the lucrative documentary movie business? Oh boy, do I have an idea for you! If I wer …
With three movies made back to back to back, Casey Affleck came of out nowhere to stake a claim that he could one day be considered the best actor of his generation.
When I claim that "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" was my most essential movie of 2011 I don't make any claim toward it being the best, though I do think it was the best movie I saw.
Marx and Weber are the two titanic figures in the sociological arena of social class. A hundred years later and status is still assigned based on occupation.
January 10 is Peculiar People Day.
They say that the United State Senate is the most exclusive club in America. If you are considering things in terms of how only rich people who are overwhelming white and male have been allowed in, that is probably true.
Nobody is exactly sure of the origins of National Play God Day, but what is definitely known is that it can be celebrated on January 9.
An examination of two of Billy Wilder's best movies and how each is representative of film noir.
Ever tried to hit a pitcher with a great screwball? Not many pitchers are masters of the screwball, but those that are tend to have incredible statistics. The screwball may not be quite as unpredictable as the knuckleball, but who would want to see a knuckleball comedy anyway?
Quick: name the greatest villain in Walt Disney animation history? A number of candidates come to mind, but if you pick anyone but Maleficent, you are wrong. Sorry. But that's just the way things are. Yeah, yeah, I know.
"Loosies" opens the movie year of 2012 as an addition to a very constricted genre of movies that, despite their underwhelming numbers, have proved to be a gold mine for artistic interpretation.
Query: name the woman who was nominated for an Oscar every year from 1949 to 1967. As if that weren't impressive enough, consider that in many of those years she actually received nominations in two separate categories for different movies.
Much has been written about the disappointing box office figures of the last quarter of 2011. An article in the Chicago Tribune asked six so-called experts about the drop in box office revenue for the year in general. Amazingly enough, two words never popped up.
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