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For longtime fans of Spider-Man comics, the character Gwen Stacy has a dark shadow looming over her.
In an infamous storyline in the early '70s, Spider-Man attempts to resc...
While it won't be a surprise this Saturday (if he shows up at all), Kelly's presence on Weekend One was a genuinely unexpected twist for the tens of thousands of fans who just assumed that headlining act Phoenix would...
In a couple of months Sony Pictures Classics will be releasing Richard Linklater's "Before Midnight." It's an interesting project, as you know, in that it reunites the director with actors Ethan Hawke and Ju...
Previous collaboration: “Gone Baby Gone” (2007)
Why Ben should: No disrespect to the Oscar-winning “Argo” director, who has a sure hand with actors, but he’s not his own best leading man...
What can one really say at the end of a season this contentious, this exciting, this tight every step of the way other than: "Gee, that was fun."
It's the word I settled on in the podcast this afternoon a...
Hours before last night's Academy Awards ceremony, I was called up by a UK news network that required a last-minute talking head to discuss the evening ahead. In the cab on the way to the studio, the channel's researc...
When the Academy signed Seth MacFarlane on as host, they were aiming to use the "Family Guy" creator's brand of provocation as an asset. Instead, his "edge" couldn't cut through many of the sleepil...
Nominees:
"Brave" Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
"Frankenweenie" Tim Burton
"ParaNorman" Sam Fell and Chris Butler
"The Pirates! Band of Misfits" Peter Lord
"Wreck-It...
(Welcome to the Oscar Guide, your chaperone through the Academy’s 24 categories awarding excellence in film. A new installment will hit every weekday in the run-up to the Oscars on February 24, with the Best Pic...
In the first year that BAFTA switched to the Academy's system of letting the entire membership vote across most categories, we had every reason to expect their customary quirks to disappear with branch-specific voting...
