The Denver Film Critics Society, of which I am a member, have announced their nominees for the 2009-2010 DFCS Awards.
Up in the Air leads the pack with seven nods.
Winners will be announced on January 27, 2010.
Best Film:
A Serious Man, directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Up in the Air, directed by Jason Reitman
Star Trek, directed by [...]
Zoe Saldana, who played Uhura in 2009’s Star Trek and that hot piece of Na’vi (if you’re into that sort of thing…) Neytiri in Avatar, told MTV that pre-production on the follow-up to Trek will begin in 2010.
The 31-year-old announced that writing duo Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci are currently in the “middle of [...]
What follows isn’t a list of the “best” films of 2009, but instead is a list of the most surprising, excellent and notable items of the year.
Bad ass director Quentin Tarantino has named his top movies of 2009, joining Reel Loop’s John “Coopin’ Cooper and Kieron “Casin’” Casey with their “best of” lists.
Tarantino selected Star Trek as his favorite film with Drag Me to Hell and Funny People in his top three. He also added Chocolate, An Education and Observe & [...]
Matt Damon turned down the role of James T. Kirk’s father in J.J. Abrams’ summer hit Star Trek, but turned it down for “gracious and understandable and logical of reasons.”
Abrams told MTV that he had contacted Damon during casting of the sci-fi revival for the role of George Kirk.
“I did [talk to Damon], but not [...]
Oh sure Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, you’re big stuff when your competition is My Sister’s Keeper, but what happens this Wednesday when Johnny Depp’s gangster film, Public Enemies is released? Explosions, bullets, and yes, some fireworks.
Just in time for our holiest of American holidays.
While Transformers 2 looks to advance its hording of box office [...]
Despite poor reviews and a subliminal case of socioeconomic mockery, Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen made $112 million over the weekend, making it the first $100 million weekend winner of 2009. This brings the action extravaganza to a staggering total of $203.8 million domestically, but love of giant fighting robots isn’t only held [...]
4.5 stars out of 5
One of the longest-running franchises in entertainment was in desperate need of a make-over. Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek series from the 1960s was groundbreaking, not from a special effects standpoint, jaw-dropping as it was for the time, but because of its outlook on the future: rejecting dystopian views for one [...]
