Posts Tagged ‘Oscar’
Miss Bala – Film Review
This grim metaphor for Mexico’s crime-and-corruption miseries puts an innocent beauty pageant contestant at the mercy of a murderous drug cartel. But despite numerous high-firepower shootouts, the story is more of a melancholy tragedy than an action thriller…
Young Adult – Charlize Theron and an Oscar buzz
Charlize Theron was due to start shooting a sequel to the Mad Max films but it has been postponed until next year, giving her the opportunity to star in Jason Reitman’s new movie Young Adult. Here she tells of her conflicted character…
Star Trek 2 – Movie production underway for May 2013 3D release
Star Trek 2, the sequel to 2009 JJ Abrams re-boot Star Trek, is in pre-production with filming due to start mid January 2012 and a release marked in for May 17, 2013 in 3D…
The Artist – Stars Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo on a really gutsy fantasy
Set in 1927, George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is one of Hollywood’s reigning silent screen idols, but it’s almost the end of an era and George must confront the coming of talking pictures. Peppy Miller (Bérénice Benjo) is a young dancer who meets George at a film premiere, and then becomes an extra on his latest film…
The Artist – Film Review
The Artist is so utterly charming in every way that you’ll want to be the first to tell all of your friends to seek it out and see it immediately. It’s that good…
Melancholia – How Kirsten Dunst got a psychic feeling
In Lars von Trier’s new movie Melancholia, Kirsten Dunst portrays Justine, who suffers from clinical depression. As her marriage literally falls apart at the reception, she and her family must face the impending catastrophe alone. Kirsten tells here how she would deal with the end of the world…
No Strings Attached – Natalie Portman and her really different experience
Natalie Portman has just won the Golden Globe award for Best Actress. So as a refreshing change of pace, the actress is now starring in her first romantic comedy. Here she starts by telling us what was it like doing her first romantic comedy…
Another Year – How Lesley Manville started from absolutely nothing
Lesley Manville has worked with writer/director Mike Leigh many times before but his new movie gives her perhaps her most challenging role as Mary, a lonely drunk who bemoans her disastrous love life. We spoke with Lesley in Los Angeles about her role of Mary and the movie…
Tron: Legacy – How Jeff Bridges can play himself at any age now!
In 1982, Academy Award winning actor Jeff Bridges starred as Kevin Flynn, a genius video game developer who got sucked into his own creation, in Tron. In the movie Jeff Bridges is the first actor in cinematic history to play opposite a young version of himself. Here Jeff gives his story…
Visualize Star Trek event
Want to know more about the production process films go though? Interested in Star Trek? Then this is for you especially if your in the LA area. The Academy are holding a event on Thursday, November 18 2010 about the previsualization process with guests from the film’s production crew including Writer-producer Damon Lindelof…