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Disney withdrew from the International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood back in 2010 and even before then it was hard to put much stock in the Annie Awards. Now it’s just sort of a blip on the overall award season radar that manages headlines twice a year, once for their nominees and again for their winners,…

Best Motion Picture (Drama) Ordinary People Paramount Pictures Directed by Robert Redford Starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Elizabeth McGovern & Timothy Hutton Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) Coal Miner’s Daughter Universal Pictures Directed by Michael Apted Starring Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D’Angelo & Levon Helm BEST DIRECTOR BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE (DRAMA) BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS…

The math problem Matt Damon‘s Will Hunting solves near the beginning of Good Will Hunting looks incredibly daunting to us commoners. I mean, what are all those lines and dots and how is that math? If it took the professors at MIT more than two years to prove it how did Will do it in-between mopping the floor?…

The big news of the day is that IMDb, through a partnership with Hulu, is offering free TV shows and movies online. I quick peek at their video page shows me the following titles: IMDB.com’s site founder Col Needham said Monday, “Our goal is to show our users every movie and TV show on the Internet for free…

Iron Man 3” s $68.3 million opening day ranked as the eighth best all-time, and now the film has landed the second best three-day opening of all-time with $175.3 million, second only to The Avengers. In fact, to look at the top ten all-time opening weekends, it’s quite obvious certain franchises dominate this list with three Marvel…

Anyone paying attention to film knows the name of William Friedkin. The Chicago-born director is best known for The French Connection with its iconic chase sequence and The Exorcist, a film Friedkin frequently avoids referring to as a horror film and more as an exploration of faith and yet, nevertheless, it’s often considered one of the best horror films…

Things are moving at a quick clip when it comes to the Toronto International Film Festival so you can be assured several more posts like this will be arriving in the next few days as I have several images from all of the films that will be showing at the festival and will begin debuting…

Damn, no more than a few minutes after publishing the poster and saying the trailer should be online later this week does the trailer for Paranormal Activity arrive on Apple. The trailer makes use of night vision looks at audience reactions while watching the film, and based on those alone I can’t wait to see it. The film that…

I hadn’t heard of The Scribbler until I received an email announcing its October 21 DVD and Blu-ray release date and saw it’s a comic book adaptation that stars Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Eliza Dushku, Gina Gershon, Sasha Grey, Garret Dillahunt, Michael Imperioli and Billy Campbell, which is to say director John Suits has compiled an ensemble filled of “been there, done that” names, but they are recognizable names at…

Have you heard of this upcoming movie called Apollo 18 from The Weinstein Co. and director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego? It’s a mockumentary feature produced by Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) that will be shot in the Paranormal Activity/The Last Exorcism found-footage style, purporting to depict lost recordings from Apollo 18’s mysterious mission to our lunar friend where, suffice to say, something very,…