As awards season enters the last week and a half before Oscar nomination ballots are due, the "great settling," as its been called, isn't yet upon us. This magical few days or weeks when the collective...
“Celebrity Apprentice” is back with another potpourri of sort-of-stars ready to do The Donald's bidding. The 18 contestants will compete to raise money for their charity of choice. Previous winners include...
Welcome to Oscar Talk.
In case you're new to the site and/or the podcast, Oscar Talk is a weekly kudocast, your one-stop awards chat shop between yours truly and Anne Thompson of Thompson on Hollywood. The podcast is...
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...
The quick and obligatory prelude, which is the same as the prelude that came before the Worst of 2011 Firewall & Iceberg Podcast: I watch lots of TV that's bad, but doesn't especially upset me, because it has...
It’s an annual complaint among Oscar-watchers and industry folk alike that the awards season is overwhelmingly geared towards prestige releases that land in the second half (or even fourth quarter) of the year, ...
Apple and Pixar co-founder Steve Jobs is recognized as perhaps the most visionary technological entrepeneur in history, a shrewd perfectionist who revolutionized several different industries by introducing an aestheti...
2011 has been the year of Ryan Gosling and Jessica Chastain, but the latter hasn't really been around much to enjoy it. I spoke to "The Help," "Tree of Life," "Coriolanus," "Th...
As usual, the Golden Globes make a few brave choices and many, many weird ones. Here's our list of the movies that deserved a nod (what, no love for Kermit and Miss Piggy?) and didn't get one, the stalwart contenders ...
“I am truly honored to be recognized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. "Young Adult" was a dream project for me. Collaborating with Jason Reitman was incredible. We had a great time making t...
