Hollywood officials associated with the Cannes Film Festival surely know how to market the weeklong event. A clip from the new Alexander Payne movie "...
I've never been one to have the patience for movies about people. You know the ones I'm talking about: no action or no real plot... just all character development.
While this year's best-picture winner may in fact have played at TIFF 2012, there was no huge critical groundswell around a realistic contender, the way there was last year.
If you haven't seen "SLC Punk!," starring Matthew Lillard, then you may not want to read any further -- although, you should really consider adding it...
Bryan Cranston tried out for a role in Alexander Payne's next project, the road-trip movie "Nebraska," but probably won't get the role, the director t...
It was a mini-"Bridesmaids" reunion as Ben Falcone came to "Up All Night" (Thu., 9:30 p.m. EST on NBC) as one half of a cool new gay couple Reagan and...
Native Hawaiians have traded in for a religion that, though it varies in its particulars from Catholic to Protestant to Mormon, unites in its focus on the hereafter. Who cares if this world goes to hell, so long as you go to heaven?
The author of "The Descendants," Kaui Hart Hemmings, may not be very happy that the film adaptation of her book was overlooked for Best Picture last n...
"It's a wonderful time for Oscar, who will win?" Billy Crystal belted out, complete with jazz hands, at the beginning of the 84th Academy Awards, henc...
When I was a kid growing up in Central Minnesota, I was totally obsessed with the Oscars. I loved the statues, the dresses, the drama -- even the long acceptance speeches. It was a spectacle that took me out of my rural, small-town life, and I relished every single minute.
For each of this year's five Academy Award-nominated films that began as paperbound stories, we've found one reviewer who has only read the book, and ...
The 2012 Oscar nominations are chock-full of family-friendly films. From the magic of Martin Scorsese's Hugo to the swashbuckling adventure of Puss in...
I wish I could call up every single person who told me, "Sleep while you can!" and inform them that their advice was terrible. I wish I had used all that nap time to go to the movies, because I miss it a whole lot.
This archipelago of cucumber slices and diced fish gives us the taste of paradise, without having to get on a plane. It's a version of poke; ; the classic Hawaiian dish found in most pupus.
Meryl Streep isn't the only Hollywood star sitting on nearly three decades of Academy Awards losses. Woody Allen has been nominated nine times in the ...
Although George Clooney's name is on the tip of more than a few tongues as he vies for the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in "The Descendants," ...
George Clooney is an insomniac, but he could suffer from worse ailments. After all, he wrote one of the most memorable lines in 2011's "The Ides Of Ma...
According to George Clooney, "The Descendants" breakout star Shailene Woodley is well on her way to becoming Hollywood royalty. And what Clooney says,...
Shailene Woodley may be a fresh face in the award show circuit, but she's an old pro on the red carpet. The 20-year-old "The Descendants" star stunned...
George Clooney didn't take the role of Matt King in "The Descendants" because he knew it would earn him an Oscar nod -- he took it because it was chal...