Usually when actors tell you where they will put their Razzie, you’ll hear things like, “I didn’t pick it up. I’m a professional.” or “…right in the trash for my maid to pick up after she cleans my garage, the wench.,” but not for Sandra Bullock who became the first actor to win both a [...]

Summit did not pay me off, nor was I encouraged by anyone on their staff to love The Hurt Locker. The fact is, I admire the work Kathryn Bigelow and company did on the film and am happy Bigelow’s talents have finally been fully realized. She has this uncanny ability to take scripts and get [...]

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Philip predicts Oscar 2010

The delightful Anne Hathaway got up early this morning to announce the nominees for the Academy Awards and already Oscar season head scratching has begun. Can Avatar halt The Hurt Lockers march on claiming what seems like every single award in the Western world? Can Clooney oust Freeman for a second little gold man? Does having two [...]

You’ve been waiting for it, and here it is: a list of the nominees for Best Picture at this year’s 82nd Academy Awards.

Although hampered by furious snow storms in the north-eastern United States, James Cameron’s big-budget action feature Avatar took the No. 1 spot at the North American box office over the weekend.
The highly-touted sci-fi extravaganza, budgeted at around $250 million, scored $73 million domestically during its debut. Avatar undoubtedly suffered from the severe blizzards that landed [...]

Audiences have spoken: there is still very much worth to hand-drawn cel animation, as proven by The Princess and the Frog’s relative success this week.

Sports movies usually offer a shocking amount of heavy-handed melodrama designed to stir emotional responses from viewers. A lot of them, especially films that play out on the gridiron, are based on true stories, which are then pumped-full of social issues, either race or class, that can be extremely manipulative towards its viewers. While some [...]