Jose Antonio Vargas, 12.21.2009
Technology and Innovations editor, Huffington Post
Technology has never looked so human in film. James Cameron has created a wholly believable, realistic world, at once marking a new cinematic era and expanding the possibilities of film in our technology-dependent, digital entertainment-driven 21st century. From here on out, movies will be divided into two epochs: B.A. and A.A. Before "Avatar," After "Avatar."
Scott Mendelson, 12.20.2009
Film Critic and Pundit for Film Threat, Huffington Post, and Mendelson's Memos
The 3D work is truly immersive, creating the kind of 'you are there' effect that was before only achieved in cartoons like Coraline and The Polar Express.
Mike Ragogna, 12.16.2009
music biz vet, entertainment writer
We're at album number four and Alicia Keys still mesmerizes. This project clicks better as a body of work than two of her three previous albums, and it avoids sounding like a smattering of singles across a CD.
Scott Mendelson, 12.16.2009
Film Critic and Pundit for Film Threat, Huffington Post, and Mendelson's Memos
When you consider the publicity that this film received for its 'groundbreaking' African American characters, I'm pretty sure Disney was hoping for a bigger opening for The Princess and the Frog.
Christal Smith, 12.14.2009
Award winning broadcast journalist
Through the experiences of Dr. Tom Krueger, we are given a front row seat to the desperate pace and the unrelenting horror of what war causes men to do to other men.
Wendy Diamond, 12.10.2009
TV Personality, Pet Lifestyle Expert, Animal Rescue Advocate
Has your furry friend been naughty or nice this year? These animal loving superstars are just a few of the celebrities who appear in a new calendar sponsored by Pup-Peroni® and the ASPCA that promotes local animal shelters.
Scott Mendelson, 12.10.2009
Film Critic and Pundit for Film Threat, Huffington Post, and Mendelson's Memos
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Brad Balfour, 11.29.2009
Veteran Interviewer and Pop Culture Chronicler
Michael Shannon's so quiet and reserved in person you wonder how he made the leap to stage acting. Yet when unleashed by a role, his presentation can be so overpowering that it often overwhelms other performances.
Michael Russnow, 11.29.2009
Screenwriter, former Member Writers Guild West Board of Directors
Should the Salahis be boiled, flogged, or has the media made it much more than it really was?
Carole Carson, 11.23.2009
Carole Carson, dubbed "An Apostle for Fitness" by the Wall Street Journal, is a fitness advocate and ...
Between 60 and 70 percent of those age 65 and over are diabetic or prediabetic -- half are unaware they have the condition because they are symptom free.
Evelyn Leopold, 11.17.2009
Veteran reporter at the United Nations
Torture victims often lose their voice twice: first during the torture itself and then when no one listens to their ordeal, Actress Emma Thompson says...
Brad Balfour, 11.14.2009
Veteran Interviewer and Pop Culture Chronicler
The Messenger -- being released this weekend -- is a film in which Harrelson tests his mettle and shines. Is it Oscar-worthy? "I think I did an okay job," Harrelson says.
Patricia Zohn, 11.13.2009
Journalist, screenwriter and producer
He is the unbearable lightness of being a director, producer, actor, mentor. He is the most effervescent of gentlemen, one who has that gene for making it all look easy.
Mark Blankenship, 11.09.2009
Pop Culture Critic
Warning: Major spoilers ahead
I loved the movie Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire because it told me two moving stories at once.
The ...
Diane Tucker, 11.13.2009
Writer/producer/director living in Washington DC
The situation for women who want to make movies is grim. Despite the fact that film schools graduate as many women as men, just 4% of Hollywood directors are women.
Andy Borowitz, 11.04.2009
BorowitzReport.com
Voters in Maine turned out in record numbers yesterday to repeal a law legalizing same-sex Oscar hosts, throwing the plans for this year's Academy Awards into turmoil.
Marshall Fine, 11.03.2009
Author and film critic, hollywoodandfine.com
That Evening Sun starts out as if it had been plucked from a Sundance time capsule circa the early 1990s: an elderly person raging against the indigni...
John Farr, 11.04.2009
Writer, editor and lecturer on timeless film
Even as today's high school and college students are pushed harder in school, they cannot write an essay or use descriptive language nearly as fluently as their parents and grandparents could.
Reyne Haines, 10.19.2009
Appraiser - Dealer, 20th Century Decorative Arts, CBS Early Show, NBC Art of Collecting
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to win an Oscar?
Or just to own one and place it on the mantle for all the world to see.
The Academy ...
Suzanne O'Malley, 10.21.2009
documentarian, author, lecturer
The documentary American Casino, made by Leslie and Andrew Cockburn, follows plain folk with subprime-mortgaged homes as their properties become bundl...
Tom Matlack, 10.15.2009
Co-founder of The Good Men Project
After a Boston premiere of the film The Boys Are Back, I caught up with director Scott Hicks by phone to compare notes on manhood.