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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

When it comes to film-making, there are a few rules that should never be broken. Using sentimentality as a crutch to support an otherwise unremarkable film should be one of these unbreakable laws. Unfortunately, it appears director Stephen Daldry was feeling defiant while making Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close....  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

The Blind Side Review

Release Date: Out Now Director: John Lee Hancock Writers: Hancock (screenplay), Michael Lewis (novel) Cinematographer: Alar Kivilo Starring: Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron Studio/Runtime: Warner Bros., 128 mins. The Taylor Swift of Oscar nominees This is the story of a blonde female on the bleachers. And if you’re thinking of Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me,” you’re wrong—but you’re close. The Blind Side, another seemingly innocuous story set in Tennessee, is also less about sports and more about relationships. And despite the rising acclaim of their artistic adversaries, both the film and Swift remain crowd favorites....  read more

Is Sandra Bullock Bringing Back the Marquee Hollywood Star?

The business sense in Hollywood of late is the inability of any star, save Will Smith, to open a movie. Names like Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, Jim Carrey—who once demanded $25 million along with profit-sharing deals with studios—are now a fleeting shadow of what fiscal power they once held....  read more

The Proposal

In trying to keep from being deported back to Canada...  read more

Trailer Stash: Wolverine, I Love You, Man, Two Lovers, G-Force, All About Steve

And now, a brief look at a few of the latest movie trailers to hit the web: ...  read more