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Entertaining RSS FeedsCloverfield - Contenders: All Content: Simulate mass destruction on an intimate scale -- "Cloverfield" updated the monster movie with CG effects and a DIY sensibility, but when production designer Martin Whist had to design a destroyed apartment for a climactic scene, he found no substitute for old-fashioned demolition. pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=D4tWaT"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=D4tWaT" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504738188" height="1" width="1"/...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com Cast set for 'Monday Night Othello' - Legit News: Cumming, Turturro set for readings -- Alan Cumming, John Turturro, Michael Potts and Michael Cumpsty will take part in ?Monday Night Othello,? a series of readings at Off Broadway?s Classic Stage Company.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=9VH8Gj"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=9VH8Gj" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504738189" height="1" width="1"/... The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Contenders: Picture: Blur the line between practical makeup and CGI -- To present Brad Pitt as a 6-year-old pipsqueak with the wrinkled skin of a septuagenarian, age makeups creator Greg Cannom and his team sculpted a series of head casts from young to old, which were then scanned for digital rendering.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=c7tN98"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=c7tN98" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504738190" height="1" width="1"/... Defiance - Contenders: Picture: Find the right forest for its trees -- In "Defiance," the Bielski brothers fight the Nazis from the Belarusian forests. Helmer Edward Zwick wanted the forest to be a central character in the film, since it's of paramount importance to the survival of the resistance fighters.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=hALVIb"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=hALVIb" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504738191" height="1" width="1"/... The Duchess - Contenders: All Content: Be faithful to an 18th-century fashion icon -- Regency aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, subject of Saul Dibb's period drama "The Duchess," is widely recognized as one of the first true influencers of fashion, her giant plumed wigs and sprayed-on gowns sparking copycat trends across 18th-century Britain.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=YnnX2N"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=YnnX2N" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504738192" height="1" width="1"/... Frost/Nixon - Contenders: Picture: Persuade Langella to use wig and makeup -- "Finding a happy middle ground was probably one of the most difficult things," says star Frank Langella's makeup artist, David Anderson.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=QXZ2J8"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=QXZ2J8" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504738193" height="1" width="1"/... Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Contenders: All Content: Design creatures worthy of its bigger budget -- Having won an Oscar for their work on "Pan's Labyrinth," professional partners David Marti and Montse Ribe had more time and money for "Hellboy II." They also had more collaborators and less work to do.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=jhqb3c"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=jhqb3c" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504738194" height="1" width="1"/... Hunger - Contenders: All Content: Enhance Fassbender's weight loss using makeup -- Makeup artist Jacqueline Fowler has assembled a variety of nicks and cuts over the years -- a collection of ready-made prosthetics that add small, vital touches to an actor's appearance.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=SyBiwM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=SyBiwM" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504738195" height="1" width="1"/... The Other Boleyn Girl - Contenders: All Content: Clothe the royal court on an indie film budget -- Finding inspiration is never a problem for costume designer Sandy Powell, who has worked on such sartorially demanding projects as "The Aviator" and "Gangs of New York." With "The Other Boleyn Girl," the challenge had more to do with finding resources.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=tNUX8f"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=tNUX8f" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504723548" height="1" width="1"/... Revolutionary Road - Contenders: Picture: Evoke an era of suburban life without overdoing it -- Set in the Manhattan advertising world and Connecticut suburbs of the mid-1950s, even a synopsis for "Revolutionary Road" evokes iconic, nostalgic images of quaint Americana.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=Och3dY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=Och3dY" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504723549" height="1" width="1"/... W. - Contenders: Picture: Adapt Bush's Situation Room to the bigscreen -- After 20 years of collaborating with Oliver Stone on such films as "JFK" and "Born on the Fourth of July," production designer Derek Hill knows what the director wants.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=wpeBYr"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=wpeBYr" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504723550" height="1" width="1"/... Academy lauds Ed Catmull - Film News: Pixar guru to receive Gordon E. Sawyer Oscar -- Disney-Pixar's Ed Catmull has been tapped to receive the Gordon E. Sawyer Oscar for technical contributions to the industry.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=12rHJx"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=12rHJx" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504723551" height="1" width="1"/... Studios send a message to Academy - Contenders: Picture: Hollywood develops a thing for social problems -- Several 2008 movies -- "Milk," "Gran Torino," "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" among them -- deliver big messages of social justice, and deliver them in highly sophisticated ways.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=kTVarS"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=kTVarS" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504704615" height="1" width="1"/... Lou Fusaro on 'Frost/Nixon' - Contenders: Picture: Ron Howard approached "Frost/Nixon" a bit like a documentary. The way in which he told the story made me feel that I was getting an insider's look at what really happened to allow David Frost to pull this off.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=djqAMS"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=djqAMS" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504704616" height="1" width="1"/... Sara Colleton on 'Doubt' - Contenders: Picture: "Doubt" is a morally complex story. I love the fact that it offers no easy solace. To me, it wasn't about religion. It wasn't about pedophilia and the priesthood. It examines something that's very morally complex, which is doubt.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=OhCQ3a"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=OhCQ3a" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504704617" height="1" width="1"/... Robyn Goodman on 'Slumdog Millionaire' - Contenders: Picture: Hats off to Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy for creating a joyous and heartbreaking film filled with all the horrors and triumphs of a life of poverty. This Dickensian fable beautifully juxtaposes brutality against romance and compassion.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=msUd3f"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=msUd3f" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504704618" height="1" width="1"/... Gary Scott Thompson on 'Iron Man' - Contenders: Picture: Everybody talks about Robert Downey Jr.'s performance, which I think was fantastic, but overlooked is Gwyneth Paltrow. Her subtlety, with which she did that role, was exceptional.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=s1KHn4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=s1KHn4" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504692638" height="1" width="1"/... David Stone on 'Milk' - Contenders: Picture: "Milk" has an incredible sense of time and place; it makes you feel as if you are right there walking down the Castro in bellbottoms in the mid-1970s. "Milk" is also the first mainstream picture that is truly and unapologetically queer from top to bottom. But, mostly, "Milk" is a film about passion.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=Kp6HIU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=Kp6HIU" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504692639" height="1" width="1"/... Larry Kaplow on 'The Wrestler' - Contenders: Picture: "The Wrestler" is a story of a guy who knows he's done nothing. Who's achieved nothing. Mickey Rourke's character has no nice clothes. No home. And yet, just out of his reach is anything and everything anyone could ever want -- a girlfriend, a daughter, a family.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=QEJ3Tp"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=QEJ3Tp" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504692640" height="1" width="1"/... Dilution of eSun halted - International News: Passport Capital blocks efforts by company -- Wall Street investment fund Passport Capital is blocking a share dilution by eSun, the holding company that owns Hong Kong film producer Media Asia.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=uZ2FB2"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=uZ2FB2" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504692641" height="1" width="1"/... United States of Tara - TV Reviews: Despite the boldfaced names behind the scenes -- Steven Spielberg! Diablo Cody! -- it's the woman at its center who ensures "United States of Tara" is more than a gimmick with a cutesy name.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=H12Qrg"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=H12Qrg" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/504670957" height="1" width="1"/... Howie Do It - TV Reviews: Although NBC has temporarily closed the case on "Deal or No Deal," Howie Mandel soldiers on -- here in a loud and mostly obnoxious Canadian co-venture that brings his penchant for hidden-camera pranks to the fore. Inasmuch as Mandel has showcased similar material on "The Tonight Show," consider this a foretaste of NBC's plan to turn its primetime lineup into TV's version of a discount mart -- a cheaper way to lose on Fridays than with scripted fare like "Crusoe."
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=lvPa8T"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=lvPa8T" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/503895817" height="1" width="1"/... 13 -- Fear Is Real - TV Reviews: To say that "13 -- Fear Is Real" is superior to "Estate of Panic" -- Sci Fi Channel's recent attempt to reshape the conventions of horror movies as a reality TV competition -- is the essence of damning with faint praise. Try as the producers (among them director Sam Raimi) might to gin up terror with grainy, shaky, "The Blair Witch Project"-style photography, it's hard to escape the pervasive sense that this is just a grown-up camping trip with handheld cameras and a $66,666 prize.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=nnziQt"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=nnziQt" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/503887815" height="1" width="1"/... La Rondine - Legit Reviews: Not seen at the Met since 1936, Puccini's "La Rondine" makes a welcome return bolstered by the star power of its real-life husband-and-wife leads Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=FvAeta"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=FvAeta" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/503678048" height="1" width="1"/... Lost and Found Orchestra - Legit Reviews: Who'd have guessed? Barbra Streisand turns out to have been a revolutionary. In her 1973 TV special she sang "The World Is a Concerto" accompanied by everything her arrangers could find from a pop-up toaster and variable speed blenders to alarm clocks and vacuum cleaners.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=XRvyNl"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=XRvyNl" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/498046880" height="1" width="1"/... Seven Pounds - Film Reviews: "Seven Pounds" is an endlessly sentimental fable about sacrifice and redemption that aims only at the heart at the expense of the head.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=MpVdIf"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=MpVdIf" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/487938570" height="1" width="1"/... The Tale of Despereaux - Film Reviews: Kate DiCamillo's delectable novel about rodents, royals and the restorative properties of soup gets the star-laden, CG-animated bigscreen treatment in "The Tale of Despereaux."
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=S33zlK"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=S33zlK" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/484927687" height="1" width="1"/... Cadillac Records - Film Reviews: Approaching the blues with the enthusiasm of an overcaffeinated brass band, helmer Darnell Martin nonetheless makes some kind of music with the percolating '50s biopic "Cadillac Records" -- mostly because she mines a righteous, mythic sensibility out of the story of Leonard Chess, Muddy Waters and the birth of the Chicago blues.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=n2yuuK"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=n2yuuK" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/465455177" height="1" width="1"/... The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Film Reviews: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" represents a richly satisfying serving of deep-dish Hollywood storytelling. This odd, epic tale of a man who ages backwards is presented in an impeccable classical manner, every detail tended to with fastidious devotion.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=4vP54c"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=4vP54c" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/463332274" height="1" width="1"/... Bolt - Film Reviews: An "Incredible Journey" or "Homeward Bound" updated for the superhero era, "Bolt" is an OK Disney animated entry enhanced by nifty 3-D projection. The first inhouse feature from Disney Animation since Pixar guru John Lasseter took over the studio's creative reins, this tale of a canine forced to overcome his superdog complex and learn to become a regular pooch bears some telltale signs of Pixar's trademark smarts, but still looks like a mutt compared to the younger company's customary purebreds. While punchy enough to keep parents amused, pic will probably play best to small fry and, especially with Disney star Miley Cyrus onboard, will have no trouble chasing down hefty biz through the holidays.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=cjpTHc"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=cjpTHc" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/452509296" height="1" width="1"/... Last Chance Harvey - Film Reviews: There's never a doubt that the losers-at-love of British writer-director Joel Hopkins' "Last Chance Harvey" are on intersecting arcs, that they'll meet cute and stroll off into a sooty London sunset. But stars Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson are so disarmingly charming that even the most treacly moments work an emotional magic.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=tqrrIM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=tqrrIM" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/447537126" height="1" width="1"/... Frost/Nixon - Film Reviews: "Frost/Nixon" is an effective, straightforward bigscreen version of Peter Morgan's shrewd stage drama about the historic 1977 TV interview in which Richard Nixon brought himself down once again.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=DizpuC"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=DizpuC" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/421889694" height="1" width="1"/... City of Ember - Film Reviews: A fabulously designed underground metropolis proves more involving than the teenagers running through its streets in "City of Ember," a good-looking but no more than serviceable adaptation of Jeanne Duprau's 2003 novel.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=uGtK4S"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=uGtK4S" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/417195128" height="1" width="1"/... W. - Film Reviews: Oliver Stone?s unusual and inescapably interesting ?W.? feels like a rough draft of a film it might behoove him to remake in 10 or 15 years.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=z3uHc8"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=z3uHc8" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/419799112" height="1" width="1"/... Painted Skin (Hua pi) - Film Reviews: Dubiously billing itself as "the first Eastern supernatural movie from China" -- what about "The Promise," for starters? -- costumer "Painted Skin" weighs in as an off-the-shelf drama-actioner that would have seemed much better 20 years ago. Assembled by a largely Hong Kong tech crew, but starring mostly Mainland thesps, yarn about a mysterious femme who's actually a flesh-eating fox-devil is the third and weakest pic version of the famous classical short story in the past 40 years. Opening across East Asia in late September, film scored good opening numbers in China but likely will be an ancillary item in Western markets.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=v8R7PO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=v8R7PO" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/488260092" height="1" width="1"/... Body of Lies - Film Reviews: Neither the location-based verisimilitude of Ridley Scott's shooting style nor the estimable Middle East expertise of source-material author David Ignatius can disguise "Body of Lies" as anything other than the contrived phony-baloney it is.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=eTQTgu"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=eTQTgu" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/429808301" height="1" width="1"/... The Baader Meinhof Complex
(Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) - Film Reviews: An explosive performance by Johanna Wokalek gives some relief to an otherwise long and humdrum series of characters, blow-'em-ups and prison locations in German terrorist drama "The Baader Meinhof Complex."
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=nlk8bZ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=nlk8bZ" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/488317447" height="1" width="1"/... Last Stop 174 - Film Reviews: Bruno Barreto?s "Last Stop 174" goes through the motions of depicting a deeply troubled and bereft life but adds little new to the many bigscreen portrayals of poverty and desperation at the bottom of Brazil?s society.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=kt1aY2"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=kt1aY2" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/394961179" height="1" width="1"/... Zift - Film Reviews: A widescreen black-and-white genre thrill ride navigating a stylized 1960s Sofia underworld, "Zift," from Bulgarian theater vet and first-time helmer Javor Gardev, stakes out a style somewhere between Aki Kaurismaki and Guy Ritchie, making it work through sheer chutzpah. This is an instant midnight fest fave that could see limited specialized action before finding true cult status on homevid.
pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?a=A3yyqc"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/variety/headlines?i=A3yyqc" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/headlines/~4/390214677" height="1" width="1"/... Appaloosa - Film Reviews: ?Appaloosa? is a decent Western made in an era when a Western has to be pretty darn good to rope people into a theater to see it.
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