The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the final 10 contenders for the Visual Effects Oscar today eliminating five previously announced candidates. The Visual Effects committee has decided tha...
The Producer's Guid of America announced their 2012 PGA Awards nominations for film this morning and studio fare ruled the day. Unlike the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which may have anywhere from ...
The hype surrounding Meryl Streep's turn as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd's "The Iron Lady" has been relatively constant since her involvement in the project was announced...
After Hollywood churned out more prequels and sequels in 2011 than almost any other year, how exciting is it that only six made HitFix's most anticipated list of 2012? Yes, there are a few remakes and new versio...
The Academy released the official poster for the 84th Academy Awards today and boy is it a snoozer.
Featuring bubbles of former Academy winners including "The Sound of Music," "The Godfather," &qu...
If anyone deserves the 2011 comeback of the year award it may just be Kenneth Branagh.
The four-time Oscar nominee burst upon the scene in 1989 with his acclaimed adaptation of "Henry V." It was...
If you happened to head to the local multiplex on Sunday there's a good chance the movie you ended up seeing was "War Horse." Before the holiday, Steven Spielberg's 2 hour and 26 minute epic was projec...
I already ranked my top 10 films of the year last week, but taking a page from In Contention's own Kris Tapley I've decided to post my own picks in some of the major award season categories. Just for fun, I've also in...
Aren't you glad that's over? Yes, 2011 was clearly one of the more mediocre and likely unmemorable years in cinema in quite awhile. Sure, there were some amazing films released over the last 12 months, but...
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It's still hard to believe that on Dec. 22, 2008 with the economy in the crapper, Drew McWe...
