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Awesome of the Day: Guy Watches Julie & Julia Every Day for a Year, Blogs About It

As we all know, in Julie & Julia, Amy Adams’ character Julie Powell tackled a new Julia Child recipe every day for a year and blogged about it. Now, Lawrence Dai, a Northwestern student who apparently has a lot of spare time on his hands, has committed himself to watching Julie & Julia every day for the next year and blogging about it....  read more

Real Talk: Why the Oscars Love Actors Playing Actual People

For every Oscar winner, there are hundreds of supposedly surefire strategies for winning nominations and awards. Make sure you have a big, teary scene. Make sure you have a Weinstein in your corner. Make sure you’re James Cameron. Or, as Tropic Thunder so eloquently instructed, go “full retard.” Of course, you could also delivering a sensitive, nuanced, and original performance, but ha! Talk to Ok-bun Kim of Thirst and Julianne Moore of A Single Man to see how well that worked out for them....  read more

Julie & Julia

Julie & Julia is a delectable cinematic concoction...  read more

Shopgirl director finds new muse in Amy Adams

Perhaps that project Anand Tucker announced recently—The Danish Girl with Nicole Kidman playing a transsexual—was a bit too heavy for his liking. While he's still attached to the project, Tucker's announced he's in talks to direct another picture that's, shall we say, a bit more commercial....  read more