The pieces of Jill’s puzzle, which she inexplicably must race to solve by morning, stack up in a manner as endlessly implicative as bad porn innuendo.
Lots of folks go missing in the movies, and some of the most memorable are right here in this list.
When it comes to film editing, marveling at how rhythmically one shot feeds another is hardly sufficient in predicting an Oscar winner.
Conventional wisdom suggested that adaptations of the biggest bestsellers would make up much of this year’s shortlist.
If some of those prophets who called the nomination for Demián Bichir still see something we don’t, then the whispering buzz that the actor is poised to pull the ultimate upset could indeed be true.
Mystery seems to shroud every aspect of Fox Searchlight’s Sound of My Voice.
Less a race than a ping-pong match, this year’s battle for Best Director has shifted favor from an obvious lock to a popular spoiler and back again.
For this list of 15 standouts, the door was open to hallucinations, inanimate objects, and even different species.
In recent years, Academy members have repeatedly favored the most high-profile, buzzed-about doc in this category, from The Cove to Man on Wire to March of the Penguins.
At this point, being a Meryl Streep diehard who also cares about Oscar hoopla is a kind of brutal self-flagellation.
It’s impossible to ignore the relevance of Reese Witherspoon’s profession in This Means War.
At the risk of milking a joke whose teets have been sore for weeks, The Artist’s musical score will do just fine without Kim Novak’s vote.
“There was never just one,” reads the tagline, desperate to assure you that the pivot to Jeremy Renner has long been in the cards.
“The most corrupt cop you’ve ever seen on screen,” reads the tagline on Rampart’s poster. These badge-defilers would beg to differ.
As evidenced by The Vow, being forced into a clean-slate courtship is a great way to cure mid-marriage malaise.
The boy wizard’s last hurrah still, however, has a better shot in this category than Midnight in Paris.
So, apparently David Lynch has added film promotion to his post-Inland Empire activities.
As long as there’s a Transformers film franchise, there’s a good chance Oscar nominations for special effects are going to be thrown at it like alien shrapnel.
Witches, wives, and even Whoopi made this list of women who sport only the darkest uniforms.
Any goodwill the film boasts is terminally suppressed, buried beneath a layer of bullshit as thick as blubber.