“Crazy Heart”: Truck-stop romeo stripped down
Nothing much happens in Scott Cooper's debut film, "Crazy Heart." There's no fast cutting, no motion-capture aliens, no excessively complicated plot -- in fact, there's barely a plot at all. But the...
View ArticleThe 10 greatest Golden Globes moments
The Golden Globes is supposed to be the fun awards show, the Hollywood Foreign Press's loose, sexy and possibly drunk cousin to our stiff, self-congratulatory Oscars. The evening celebrates our twin...
View ArticleBox office report: “Avatar” hits $2 billion
"Avatar" won the box office derby for the seventh straight weekend, taking the record for the biggest seventh weekend gross ($30 million) from "Titanic" ($25 million). Dropping just 14 percent, the...
View ArticleBox office report: “Dear John” takes down “Avatar”
"Dear John" opened at No. 1 this weekend, with a stellar $32.4 million debut weekend. That gives the picture a mediocre 2.3x weekend multiplier, but the first three days alone puts the picture well...
View ArticleJeff Bridges’ redemption song
In "Crazy Heart" Jeff Bridges -- who has never won an Oscar, despite the pleasure he's given audiences in a film career that's spanned more than 40 years -- gives a performance that's so comfortably...
View ArticleHow top Oscar Winners fared at the box office
Domestic box-office totals through February for the most-honored films at the 82nd annual Academy Awards:------MOVIE: "The Hurt Locker," Summit Entertainment.OSCARS: Six, including best picture and...
View ArticleOscars: Hollywood’s war against itself (continued)
I'm grateful to have been thoroughly and completely wrong about the best-picture race -- as were a great many other supposedly knowledgeable stooges -- for a whole bunch of reasons. First and foremost,...
View ArticleWhen Hollywood breaks into song!
There was a time, long ago, when Hollywood musicals were made with performers with genuine musical aptitude. It was the era of luminaries like Judy Garland and Julie Andrews. And when a big-budget...
View Article“Crazy Heart”: Truck-stop romeo stripped down
Jeff Bridges gives the finest performance of the year in this modest but glowing country-music drama
View ArticleThe 10 greatest Golden Globes moments
A lusterless show gets a goose from Mo’Nique, Jeff Bridges and the King of Bad Awards Speeches, James Cameron
View ArticleBox office report: “Avatar” hits $2 billion
History’s highest grosser has made made $1 billion more than any movie not by James Cameron
View ArticleBox office report: “Dear John” takes down “Avatar”
But don’t believe the chicks-vs.-Cameron hype. Plus: “From Paris” and “Edge of Darkness,” official bombs
View ArticleJeff Bridges’ redemption song
How the actor turned the stock tale of a has-been crooner into an Oscar-nominated marvel
View ArticleHow top Oscar Winners fared at the box office
“Avatar” may have lost to “The Hurt Locker,” but it’s made a lot more money
View ArticleOscars: Hollywood’s war against itself (continued)
Oscar voters picked the lowest-grossing winner in history — artistic integrity or commercial suicide?
View ArticleWhen Hollywood breaks into song!
To celebrate “Les Miz,” we present the best — and worst — musical performances of the decade
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