Oscar-Winning Actor Robert De Niro Makes Sure Everybody's Fine

Brad Balfour, 12.30.2009

Veteran Interviewer and Pop Culture Chronicler

In Everybody's Fine, De Niro neither plays a character who kills someone or plays a parody of Robert De Niro as either a crook or cop who kills someone.

The True Story About the Academy Screening of Avatar

Robert J. Elisberg, 12.28.2009

Columnist and screenwriter

Avatar has done a great job promoting itself. It doesn't need the breathless help of Mr. Hammond and Mr. Pond inaccurately leading the way.

Actress Emily Blunt Reigns In The Young Victoria

Brad Balfour, 12.28.2009

Veteran Interviewer and Pop Culture Chronicler

One of the great things about English actress Emily Blunt is that she carries no vestige of her characters beyond the set -- especially not when she's playing the British Queen Victoria.

With "Avatar," Technology Has Never Looked So Human in Film (VIDEO)

Jose Antonio Vargas, 12.28.2009

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."

Huff Post Review: Avatar: The 3D IMAX Experience

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.

Hollywood Directors Go Viral

James Sims, 12.18.2009

Entertainment Reporter and Critic

I'd like to look a few directors that won't be getting much attention this awards season -- directors who recently popped up in an internet video.

Golden Globe Nominations Announced, Lieberman to Filibuster

Robert Lanham, 12.15.2009

Just hours after the nominations for the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards were announced, Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut threatened to filibust...

HuffPost Reviews: Alicia Keys, Robin Thicke, Avatar, and Pixies, Plus Conversations with Julian Lennon and Precious Composer Mario Grigorov, and more

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.

HuffPost Weekend Box Office Review: Princess and the Frog Puts Disney 2D Animation on Top

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.

Doctors Without Borders: Living in Emergency

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.

Spend 2010 With These Animal-Loving Stars

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.

Huff Post Review: The Lovely Bones (2009)

Scott Mendelson, 12.10.2009

Film Critic and Pundit for Film Threat, Huffington Post, and Mendelson's Memos

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Q&A: Michael Shannon Acts To Find Himself And His Role In The Missing Person

Brad Balfour, 12.28.2009

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.

The Frenzy About White House Gatecrashers: Did the Media Overreact?

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?

Raising Awareness Of Diabetes

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.

Emma Thompson, Helen Bamber: Finding the Silent Scream (Updated)

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...

Q&A: Actor Woody Harrelson Delivers The Messenger

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.

Culture Zohn Off the C(H)uff: Roger Corman and His Oscar

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.

The Movie "Precious" Tells Two Stories at Once

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 ...

Women-Made Films Mostly Ignored by the National Film Registry. Why?

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.

Maine Bans Same-Sex Oscar Hosts

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.