Major Literary Prize Loses Its Main Sponsor
One of the longest running cultural partnerships in the U.K. broke up for good Tuesday, threatening a major suporter of female novelists worldwide if ...
One of the longest running cultural partnerships in the U.K. broke up for good Tuesday, threatening a major suporter of female novelists worldwide if ...
The Huffington Post | Christiana Lilly | Posted 05.21.2012
O Cinema celebrates Rakontur films with a 10-year retrospective that includes cult favorites "Cocaine Cowboys" and "Square Grouper." The filmmakers --...
The Huffington Post | Christiana Lilly | Posted 03.13.2012
Although the Miami International Film Festival is over, the line up for this week's movie houses are just as eclectic. Also, some special events are p...
AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 04.13.2012
LONDON — Silent movie "The Artist" had a night to shout about Sunday, winning seven prizes including best picture at the British Academy Film Aw...
John Lopez | Posted 03.31.2012
Oscar prognosticating is a hard habit to break. Sure enough, I stumbled across the SAG and DGA awards results this morning, and much like finding that emergency cigarette stashed in your winter coat's breast pocket, I couldn't help lighting up.
Posted 01.28.2012
Tilda Swinton visited Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" this week. Watch to learn about Swinton's relationship with her teens and which profession she c...
Dan Lybarger | Posted 03.28.2012
The film hasn't received any Oscar nominations, but Ramsay demonstrates that her uniquely Scottish sensibility translates remarkably well stateside.
Posted 12.28.2011
Fact: A show or movie hasn't truly made it until it's given a genre-bending YouTube trailer. Okay, maybe that's not true, but to this day, what has th...
Posted 02.18.2012
Tilda Swinton earned a Golden Globe for her role in the upcoming parental nightmare film "We Need To Talk About Kevin," but in this new trailer for th...
Marshall Fine | Posted 02.12.2012
Actress Tilda Swinton seems caught in the role of mother of troubled teens and shepherdess of similar lost sheep. She's played them with quiet panic ...
Posted 02.07.2012
While her film "We Need To Talk About Kevin" has been racking up critical praise, Tilda Swinton has always had people talking. The actress is feat...
Constantin Bjerke | Posted 01.03.2012
The run away success of the BFI London Film Festival was, without a doubt, We Need to Talk About Kevin. Poignant, highly anticipated and helmed by British legend Lynne Ramsay the film won Best Film and has since been enthralling cinema goers around the country. While We Need to Talk About Kevin may have been the showstopper let's not forget the other films debuting, namely opening night choice 360.
John Farr | Posted 01.01.2012
Believe it or not, in a pop culture filled with mindless reality shows and slick formula franchises, there are still a few players out there whose work offers a glimmer of hope that originality and intelligence can prevail. Tilda Swinton is one such player.
Posted 12.31.2011
What happens when your sweet little boy... isn't? That's the question presented by festival favorite indie flick, "We Need To Talk About Kevin," wh...
E. Nina Rothe | Posted 12.27.2011
I constantly crave a place where great world cinema plays nearly uninterrupted all day long and a great buffet of international food is served. I ended up finding it all in Abu Dhabi, during the fifth annual Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
Posted 12.23.2011
Lynne Ramsay is shaking up Moby Dick in a way that will get modern audiences to actually pay mind to the most-famous-book-no-one-reads (this guy aside...
Posted 10.13.2011
Tilda Swinton stars in "We Need To Talk About Kevin," as a mother dealing with her grief after her teenage son opens fire on his high school, killing...
Posted 10.09.2011
There are some films that really know how to burrow themselves in your mind--you're too afraid to go outside and too afraid to sleep--and that is, ult...
The Daily Beast | Posted 07.25.2011
One of the hot properties at Cannes was the film version of Lionel Shriver's bestselling We Need to Talk About Kevin, but it's the rare book that make...
Posted 07.12.2011
Right now all eyes are on the French Riviera. The 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival rolled out its red carpet and opened on May 11th with Woody Allen's...
The Millions | Kevin Frazier | Posted 05.25.2011
With her new novel, So Much for That, Lionel Shriver strengthens her already credible claim to the title of best living American writer. This won't s...
The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011
As Hilary Mantel's Booker prize-winning novel Wolf Hall enters the final straight on even odds to take the Orange prize this evening, Lionel Shriver's...
Lionel Shriver | Posted 05.25.2011
I think fiction is the only form that can animate the current healthcare debate, which otherwise gets lost in the dulling details of tax credits and Medicare fee structures.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.22.2012