I was starting to think John Hillcoat was allergic to fun.
While I admire Hillcoat's commitment to the grim aesthetic he's pursued over his last few films, "The Proposition" and especially "The Road&...
Even the most abominable of summer movie offerings can at least partially be redeemed by a well-placed curve, and in that spirit the HitFix staff brings you our picks for 22 of the hottest women hitting the silver scr...
I always look forward to Vanity Fair's annual Hollywood Issue, an unofficial but essential ritual of the Oscar season -- mostly because I'm a sucker for pretty pictures of movie stars, but partly because they're an in...
Say, what are they drinking down in Georgia? Whatever it is -- and I'll bet it's good -- can we arrange for a few thousand crates of the stuff to be shipped over to Academy voters? The state's film critics have put th...
If you've read the first two parts of this column series, you'll know by now what the drill is. Every year, the Oscar race is overwhelmingly tilted in favor of films released later in the year (one need only observe t...
This has been the week from hell. But at least we're on the down-slope of it. And yesterday's quickly developing flurry of news has left plenty of pieces across the web in its wake. And to think, I was considering ski...
The British Independent Film Awards are essentially the across-the-pond equivalent of the Spirit Awards, but they seem to grow in profile every year as a slightly hipper alternative to (and bellwether of) the BAFTAs. ...
2010's Oscar-nominated dramedy "The Kids Are All Right" is set to live again. An hour-long series based on the film is being developed at HBO.
The movie stars Annette Bening and Julianne Moore...
After barreling through the gentlemen looking like Oscar possibilities the last two weeks, today we move on to the ladies. And immediately, I have to take note of Mark Harris's latest column at Grantland, dedicated to...
Things just ain't the same. At least, that's the mantra for studios attempting to play the best picture game this year. After two years of expanded play following the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sci...
