Variety has a run down of the documentaries short-listed for Oscar consideration this year.
There are always a bunch of interesting documentaries being produced every year, but we only get to see a few of them on theaters and generally don’t even notice when they eventually come out on DVD with little publicity attached. […]

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Can we please not pretend to care about the NBR awards? I mean, if you are so desperate about being first that you are willing to release your best of the year awards almost a month before the year ends, you shouldn’t be taken seriously.
And do I need to remind people that this is […]

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NYT 

With some early reviews lauding the audacity and innovation of Mel Gibson’s bloody Mayan epic, “Apocalypto,” Hollywood’s tight-knit community of Oscar voters may find itself facing a difficult dilemma in the coming weeks: Will they consider the film for an Academy Award
  No.
Also, jump the gun much? The article itself says that most […]

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Apparently, the Poltergeist remake isn’t in the works right now.

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Georgle Clooney’s longtime pig, Max, died Friday. CNN has the story. I’m sure it will be all over the news today.
It’s been a tough year for Clooney, who also lost his dog Bud earlier this year. He did win an Oscar and was crowned sexiest man alive by People tough, but I’m sure the […]

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Loved Volver? Want more from Almodovar? Well, here is what Variety has to say:
Pedro Almodovar is focusing on vengeance drama "La Piel que habito" as his next film, with the idea of casting Penelope Cruz in a starring role.
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The movie is a long-mooted Almodovar project, an adaptation of the 1995 novel "Mygale" […]

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Apparently some people think that Rocky can appeal to Christians:
Sylvester Stallone and the creators of the final addition to the Rocky stable have gone all out to market the movie, not to sports fans, but to Christians. Rocky, it turns out, is a metaphor for Jesus.
Hopefully with the bad results of the Nativity Story […]

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Some movement in the Deadman project:
Warner Bros. has hired tyro scribe Gary Dauberman to work with director-producer Guillermo del Toro in penning the script for the bigscreen adaptation of DC Comics’ "Deadman."
Project is a potential directing vehicle for del Toro, who is producing with Angry Films’ Don Murphy and Murphy’s partner Susan Montford.

I’m interested […]

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This edition will be short because, really, did anybody think those movies were going to be anything but bad? The Nativity Story It’s the greatest story ever told! Told badly! Really, I know that since Passion hit so big we are bound to have a bunch of half-hearted attempts by Hollywood to produce religious […]

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Rudin to Remake Cleopatra, The Blob

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