I can think of no more perfect visual metaphor for Chris O'Dowd's booming career these days than his own appearance at last year's Cannes Film Festival: walking the red carpet for the midnight premiere of Australian m...
Things worked a bit differently at the very first Cannes Film Festival in 1946. The festival took place in the fall, for starters, while the top prize -- not yet named the Palme d'Or -- was shared between 11 films. Th...
Scarlett Johansson, Lindsay Lohan and, Helen Mirren were just a few of the stars who were out and about this week. Terrifying trends (relentless shine, cruel shooties, unraveling tops, disco fever, you name it) were i...
First Appearance: Marvel Preview #4 (1976)
Abilities: Half alien and half human, Peter Quill can fly, survive the pressures of space without a traditional space suit and has a limited healing factor (it is unclear h...
It's Oscar Sunday and by tonight, it'll all be over but the cryin', as they say. But as we gear up for today's festivities, I thought I'd take a look at the box office of this year's Oscar nominees for the first time ...
As In Contention's Kristopher Tapley would say, "Pencils down." Yes, it's time for the HitFix awards crew to give our final, final, "no we won't change it Saturday night" predictions for the ...
I’m scared. Why, you may ask? First, I’m wondering where on earth this year went. It seems like yesterday when Tech Support was beginning the 2011-2012 season. Next week’s wrap-up column will be the ...
In five hours, it's pencils down for the Academy. Ballots are due this afternoon and then it's five days before we find out what they amounted to.
For the most part, these races are decided. We sometimes get big, stu...
With ballots due in a matter of hours, we're in the home stretch of Oscar season. But while some of the races are decided, that doesn't mean we're not crossing our fingers for this upset or that for deserving competit...
The Gurus o' Gold collective of Oscar dorks (yours truly included) at Movie City News have offered up final-ish predictions. I imagine David Poland will give us all an opportunity to change this or that, and...
