A woman winning the Oscar for best directing is one of those cultural milestones that would pass better unremarked. Sadly, it didn’t. “The moment has come!” chirruped Barbra Streisand, emoting harder than any of the actresses who were nominated that night. “It’s Kathryn Bigelow!” Newspapers and magazines hurried to trumpet this historic landmark; I would have kept it quiet. ... read more >>
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Kathryn’s Oscar comes too late
Monday, March 15th, 2010
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Friday, March 5th, 2010
He is Britain’s newest national treasure: but he presumably won’t be accepting a TV viewers’ award from Ant and Dec any time soon, or making libertarian interventions in the smoking debate, or writing an annual Christmas Diary for the London Review of Books or posing alongside his mum with his CBE outside Buckingham Palace in his grey topper and chimp mask. Perhaps his mum would have to wear a chimp mask as well. ... read more >>
He is Britain’s newest national treasure: but he presumably won’t be accepting a TV viewers’ award from Ant and Dec any time soon, or making libertarian interventions in the smoking debate, or writing an annual Christmas Diary for the London Review of Books or posing alongside his mum with his CBE outside Buckingham Palace in his grey topper and chimp mask. Perhaps his mum would have to wear a chimp mask as well. ... read more >>
Lowe to join ‘Parks’ cast
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Hollywood actor Rob Lowe has signed up to appear in several episodes of the TV comedy “Parks and Recreation,” sources told EW.com. Lowe has starred in the TV series “The West Wing” and “Brothers & Sisters.” His film credits include “The Invention of Lying,” “Wayne’s World,” “St. Elmo’s Fire,” “The Outsiders” and the “Austin Powers” film franchise. ... read more >>
Hollywood actor Rob Lowe has signed up to appear in several episodes of the TV comedy “Parks and Recreation,” sources told EW.com. Lowe has starred in the TV series “The West Wing” and “Brothers & Sisters.” His film credits include “The Invention of Lying,” “Wayne’s World,” “St. Elmo’s Fire,” “The Outsiders” and the “Austin Powers” film franchise. ... read more >>
Will James Cameron tell us the truth about Hiroshima?
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
A project on the bombing of Hiroshima that could have been James Cameron’s next Oscar-winning blockbuster has had to be canned. The director responsible for the world’s biggest box-office hit and multi Oscar contender, Avatar, had bought the rights to a book on the atomic bombing of the Japanese city. But any plans he harboured of making an historic drama to match Titanic using Charles Pellegrino’s The Last Train From Hiroshima have bitten the dust. ... read more >>
A project on the bombing of Hiroshima that could have been James Cameron’s next Oscar-winning blockbuster has had to be canned. The director responsible for the world’s biggest box-office hit and multi Oscar contender, Avatar, had bought the rights to a book on the atomic bombing of the Japanese city. But any plans he harboured of making an historic drama to match Titanic using Charles Pellegrino’s The Last Train From Hiroshima have bitten the dust. ... read more >>
War movies and the Oscars: It’s always hell
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
If “The Hurt Locker” wins the Oscar for best picture Sunday night — and at this stage, the race is really down to either “Avatar” or the Kathryn Bigelow-directed film about bomb disposal experts in Iraq — it will be the first war film to earn the academy’s top honor in nearly 25 years. In the past 40 years, only three bona fide war films have won the top Oscar — 1970’s “Patton,” 1978’s “The Deer Hunter” and 1986’s “Platoon.” ... read more >>
If “The Hurt Locker” wins the Oscar for best picture Sunday night — and at this stage, the race is really down to either “Avatar” or the Kathryn Bigelow-directed film about bomb disposal experts in Iraq — it will be the first war film to earn the academy’s top honor in nearly 25 years. In the past 40 years, only three bona fide war films have won the top Oscar — 1970’s “Patton,” 1978’s “The Deer Hunter” and 1986’s “Platoon.” ... read more >>
How Danny Huston accidentally became a star
Friday, February 26th, 2010
If you don’t already know whose son Danny Huston is, the fastest way to figure it out is to close your eyes and listen to him speak. The words waft towards you on a breathy cloud, lent colour and character by a detectable lifelong smoking habit (no emphysema like the Old Man had, though, not yet). In a faded American accent that sounds as if it’s been acquired or borrowed or even half-forgotten in exile. ... read more >>
If you don’t already know whose son Danny Huston is, the fastest way to figure it out is to close your eyes and listen to him speak. The words waft towards you on a breathy cloud, lent colour and character by a detectable lifelong smoking habit (no emphysema like the Old Man had, though, not yet). In a faded American accent that sounds as if it’s been acquired or borrowed or even half-forgotten in exile. ... read more >>
A Single Man (trailer)
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Ghristopher Isherwood was a master of the internal monologue, and the one which opens his novel A Single Man was one of his most eloquent. It’s an organ recital. As George, the book’s hero, gets up and makes his way to the men’s room, his cerebral cortex issues a series of brisk bulletins about his physical condition – the arthritic thumbs, the twinge in the left knee, the coarsened nose, the slackening skin. ... read more >>
Ghristopher Isherwood was a master of the internal monologue, and the one which opens his novel A Single Man was one of his most eloquent. It’s an organ recital. As George, the book’s hero, gets up and makes his way to the men’s room, his cerebral cortex issues a series of brisk bulletins about his physical condition – the arthritic thumbs, the twinge in the left knee, the coarsened nose, the slackening skin. ... read more >>
Abbie Cornish broke up with Ryan Phillippe over his partying, wandering eye: source
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
It’s a game of he-said, she-said between Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish, but we hear it’s the 27-year-old actress who ended their relationship for good. Although both of their reps are claiming that their client terminated the four-year union, it seems that Phillippe’s partying ways – and wandering eye – are what got him the boot from Cornish. ... read more >>
It’s a game of he-said, she-said between Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish, but we hear it’s the 27-year-old actress who ended their relationship for good. Although both of their reps are claiming that their client terminated the four-year union, it seems that Phillippe’s partying ways – and wandering eye – are what got him the boot from Cornish. ... read more >>
Bafta Awards 2010: Top 10 facts about The Hurt Locker
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker is an adrenaline-charged war film which revolves around a reckless Iraq bomb disposal expert who puts his crew in danger. Bigelow has become the first woman to ever win the best director gong at the Baftas and the Directors Guild of America awards – and now potentially the Oscars next month. ... read more >>
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker is an adrenaline-charged war film which revolves around a reckless Iraq bomb disposal expert who puts his crew in danger. Bigelow has become the first woman to ever win the best director gong at the Baftas and the Directors Guild of America awards – and now potentially the Oscars next month. ... read more >>
Owen Wilson to star in upcoming Woody Allen movie
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Woody Allen has always had a soft spot for blondes. First Mia Farrow, then Scarlett Johansson and now Owen Wilson? The crooked-nosed “Wedding Crashers” actor is confirmed to star in a new Allen film that will shoot this summer, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s “Risky Business” blog. ... read more >>
Woody Allen has always had a soft spot for blondes. First Mia Farrow, then Scarlett Johansson and now Owen Wilson? The crooked-nosed “Wedding Crashers” actor is confirmed to star in a new Allen film that will shoot this summer, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s “Risky Business” blog. ... read more >>
Writer-director Jeb Stuart can’t pin down tone in ‘Blood Done Sign My Name’
Friday, February 19th, 2010
The ambitious civil rights docudrama “Blood Done Sign My Name,” drawn from the racial tensions and awoken activism surrounding the 1970 murder of a young black Vietnam veteran in Oxford, N.C., is itself a struggle. In this adaptation of Tim Tyson’s historical memoir of being a progressive white minister’s wide-eyed son during that time, screenwriter-director Jeb Stuart laterals from the perspective of the Rev. Vernon Tyson (Ricky Schroder) — nudging his church toward acceptance of blacks — to the blooming of young teacher-businessman Benjamin Chavis (Nate Parker) into an impassioned rabble-rouser after his cousin is brutally killed by a white shopkeeper and his two sons. ... read more >>
The ambitious civil rights docudrama “Blood Done Sign My Name,” drawn from the racial tensions and awoken activism surrounding the 1970 murder of a young black Vietnam veteran in Oxford, N.C., is itself a struggle. In this adaptation of Tim Tyson’s historical memoir of being a progressive white minister’s wide-eyed son during that time, screenwriter-director Jeb Stuart laterals from the perspective of the Rev. Vernon Tyson (Ricky Schroder) — nudging his church toward acceptance of blacks — to the blooming of young teacher-businessman Benjamin Chavis (Nate Parker) into an impassioned rabble-rouser after his cousin is brutally killed by a white shopkeeper and his two sons. ... read more >>
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