Lenny Kravitz Cast in The Hunger Games

By Caitlin Peterkin at 4:30 PM on May 24, 2011

Lionsgate has announced that rocker Lenny Kravitz will be playing Cinna in The Hunger Games....  read more

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Precious Star Gabourey Sidibe Joins Showtime's The Big C

By Anna Swindle at 1:00 PM on March 10, 2010

It seems Academy Award nominee Gabourey Sidibe, fresh from basking in the glow of her well-received performance in the film Precious, is ready for a new project. She’s going to appear in a recurring role on Showtime’s upcoming series, The Big C. Sidibe will play a sass-talking student in central character Cathy’s class....  read more

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The Total Poser's Guide to the 2010 Oscars Best-Picture Nominees

By Austin L. Ray at 7:00 AM on March 6, 2010

Uh-oh. The Oscars are tomorrow and you haven't seen a single one of the best-picture nominees...  read more

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Real Talk: Why the Oscars Love Actors Playing Actual People

By Stephen M. Deusner at 11:30 AM on March 5, 2010

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

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Film Friday: Your Favorite Movie Was Snubbed

By Robert Davis at 3:30 PM on December 4, 2009

The schoolyard taunt of the digital age is “you lost all credibility when….” It’s heard following every ten-best list and every set of award nominees. I mention it now because we’re entering what the trade journals have taken to calling award season. Like butternut squash, these awards ripen at the onset of winter, and this year I’m detaching my home from the grid and running it solely from a loss-of-credibility turbine mounted on my roof. Don’t worry about me; I’ll be toasty all season long....  read more

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Precious' Lee Daniels and Slumdog's Christian Colson Go to Selma

By Emily Riemer at 12:00 PM on November 20, 2009

Lee Daniels’ new movie, Precious, has garnered riotous praise and deafening Oscar buzz. Now, it’s time for Daniels to try his hand at another buzz-worthy, socially conscious project....  read more

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Film Friday: A Weekend of Pushing Buttons

By Robert Davis at 1:58 PM on November 6, 2009

This weekend at your local Big Screen, the movies are about pushing buttons. In The Box, directed by Donnie Darko creator Richard Kelly, a mysterious man in a long coat who appears to have been slapped in the face on more than one occasion shows up at the home of Cameron Diaz and James Marsden to ask if this attractive, cash-strapped couple wants to see what’s in his box. Spoiler: it’s a button. Push it and you get a million dollars, but when you do someone on the other side of the earth whom you do not know will be...  read more

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Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

By Robert Davis at 9:07 PM on November 5, 2009

Release Date: Nov. 6 Director: Lee Daniels Writer: Geoffrey Fletcher, (based on a novel by Sapphire) Starring: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd Cinematographer: Andrew Dunn Studio/Run Time: Lionsgate, 110 mins. Precious offers a strong performance in a familiar tale...  read more

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Tyler Perry's Precious Wins Top Award at Toronto Film Fest

By Emily Riemer at 11:00 AM on September 22, 2009

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire won the Toronto Film Festival's top honor this past Saturday, their People's Choice Award, which is voted on by filmgoers....  read more

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Bookshelf to Screen: Eight New Classics Becoming Movies This Fall (And Beyond)

By Rachael Maddux at 7:00 AM on September 20, 2009

Last week, we took a look at seven old favorite books getting the film treatment this fall (and beyond—damn you, Alice in Wonderland, March is too long to wait!). A few readers piped up to ask inquire the absence of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men in that roundup, but never fear, it wasn't forgotten. David Foster Wallace's short story collection, like the other seven picks on this week's list, just aren't quite "old favorite" material yet—but check back in ten years or so. By then, we may know better which of these titles will stand the test of time, and...  read more

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