When Jeff Bridges' name was announced as a nominee for Best Actor, the camera cut to Leonardo DiCaprio. Some viewers may have believed that they were seeing a case of Hollywood plastic surgery gone shockingly right.
The Golden Globe awards are often the best of the awards shows, because they're more freewheeling and it appears no one really takes them seriously.
Robert Downey Jr. won the award for Best Actor in a Movie Abomination for pretending to play Sherlock Holmes. These awards really are meaningless. He shouldn't be rewarded for that film; he should be punished.
The Golden Globes are always unpredictable and entertaining. The show will likely continue the trend next Sunday, when Ricky Gervais hosts. First prediction: he'll kill. Now here's the rest.
The US now has the longest work hours in the developed world -- and in a recession, those of us with jobs scamper ever faster in our hamster-wheels.
Here's this critic's holiday "gift" to readers: my Top 10 shows of the almost-past decade, from The Sopranos' uncommon excellence to Jon Stewart's comedy gold.
New York City can be a funny place. Last week the city was hilarious thanks to the sixth annual New York Comedy Festival, a week-long celebration of stand-up comedy.
British comic Ricky Gervais has one kicky concept behind his directorial debut, The Invention of Lying. On an alternate earth, humanity lacks the capacity for lying so truth-telling is just telling.
Gervais and his co-writer/director create one premise, then seem to shift to something else - and then to something else again. But the conceptual problems are less troubling than the essential shortage of laughs.
In past film fests, we could usually thank foreigners for savaging the U.S. But this time around, it's mostly American filmmakers whose spot-on critiques of the zeitgeist double as razor-sharp entertainment.
The past day's crop of films has ranged from moderately interesting to guilty pleasure.
Sunday in Toronto saw three films back to back that offered powerful, sometimes disturbing ruminations on the idea of family.
8. You've always heard that Tracy Morgan is a lunatic on stage, but you've never experienced it for yourself.
The Oscar telecast was a bloated and overdone spectacle that left us bewildered, unenthusiastic and exhausted. The show wasn't a complete train wreck, but it came pretty close.
Did you know that, like the actors who receive Academy Awards for their outstanding performances, each of us plays the leading role in our own life's movie?
In sixty years there's never been worse hosts. Suffering through that excruciating opening was like reliving my Uncle Lou's 75th birthday party at Sr. George's Smorgasbord.
British talent excelling in Hollywood is not a new phenomenon. But as the downturn takes hold there are fewer roles and fewer quality films: that makes British success all the more striking.
It's the simplest idea imaginable: a blue collar family in England flops down on the couch and watches the telly. Quite literally, that's it for The Royle Family , a hillariously brilliant classic.
James Spader over James Gandolfini??? Sally Field over Edie Falco? Ricky Gervais over Alec Baldwin?? Thomas Hayden Church over anybody??? What was the Television Academy thinking??
