Stanley Tucci has had his ups and downs this year, he enjoyed critical favored roles in both The Lovely Bones and Julie & Julia. Although, not all has been good for the versatile actor, whose wife died last April after a fight with breast cancer. Tucci plays the main villain in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of […]
The Academy Awards are a curious event, an actor like Christopher Plummer, with an illustrious career can go almost his entire career without receiving a nomination. The 80 year old actor is receiving his first Oscar nomination for his role as Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station. Plummer plays the famed author and philosopher in […]
Gritty dramas based around the Iraq War were a popular subject in films in 2009. Dominating the award season is The Hurt Locker. Which means another film based in all of the Iraq War drama has been passed up, The Messenger. Staff Sergeant William Montgomery (Ben Foster) and Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) are part […]
Jeremy Renner is enjoying his first Academy Award nomination with Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker. Renner plays Sergeant First Class William James who is the slightly reckless leader of an EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) unit, and follows him and his crew who are winding down their last days of their tour in Iraq. This tense […]
Veteran British Actor is up for his first Academy Award nomination for the Tom Ford directed picture, A Single Man. Set in 1962 A Single Man tells the story of George Falconer an openly gay professor who is dealing with the death of his partner, Jim (Matthew Goode). The film is told through a single […]
Jeff Bridges is a veteran Hollywood actor who was just recently nominated for an Academy Award for his work as Bad Blake in the film Crazy Heart. In the film he plays the down on his luck ex-Country superstar who has been reduced to playing backwater bars, and in some cases bowling alleys. When interviewed […]
Sci-fi series have never really enjoyed blockbuster ratings on TV, even the original Star Trek series didn’t last because of low ratings. Although, they do manage to keep a tight cult following. It seems there is a sci-fi show that has a petition to keep it from being canceled every year. This year there is […]
Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland set a new high for March openings. The film brought in $41 million including its 3D and IMAX 3D screens, making it the biggest Friday on record for March, and puts it on pace to easily beat the previous weekend record in March, which up until this point was held […]
After recently renewing Parks and Recreation it came as no surprise to anyone that NBC quickly renewed the rest of its Thursday night comedy line up. The three shows are freshman comedy show Community starring Joel McHale, critical darling 30 Rock, and NBC’s only ratings king The Office. Despite some average to low numbers on […]
I may not have enjoyed New Moon, but I do like director Chris Weitz, despite what you might think he is a man who puts thoughts into his adaptations. There is many things across the internet detailing just how badly he was screwed by the studio in his Golden Compass adaptation. Although, I will never […]
