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Now that the Academy has expanded the number of Best Picture nominees to 10, and the other main Actor/Actress nominations include five other movies, it's nearly impossible to keep up without working concessions at a multiplex. Especially when there's a new Jersey Shore, Real Housewives, and The Bachelor. Every. Damn. Week. So when that Oscar party invite comes in the mail, don't panic. We've created a cheat sheet of top talking points.
Oscar Cocktail Party Conversation Guide >>
Posted 02.07.11 by reelz -
The nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards were announced this morning. Nominated for Best Picture are:
The Social Network
The King's Speech
Winter's Bone
Toy Story 3
Black Swan
The Kids are All Right
Inception
True Grit
127 Hours
The Fighter
How did we do in the Oscar predictions we made back in September 2010?
Posted 01.25.11 by reelz -
Early next Tuesday morning — 5:30 AM ET on January 25 — the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the nominees for its 83rd annual awards. If you don't plan to be up at that time, we'll have a complete list posted shortly after the announcement on our site.
Who will make the Academy's cut. We bravely posted our predictions for the 10 Best Picture nominees back in November. Today, our Richard Roeper weighs in with his movie predictions, as well as those for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Director.
watch Roeper's Oscar Predictions >> Posted 01.21.11 by reelz -
Tonight, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association hosted the 68th Annual Golden Globes. The big award winners were Glee and Boardwalk Empire on the television side; The Social Network, The Kids Are All Right, and The Fighter on the big screen. Robert De Niro received the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
See the complete list of movie winners >>
Posted 01.16.11 by reelz -
As December rolls into January, we like to look back at the year's movies — those that inspired us, awed us, or made us groan. Thankfully, YouTube user genrocks has done all of the heavy lifting for our walk down memory lane by putting together this expertly edited and mixed "Filmography 2010" video compilation of 270 of 2010's movies, including clips from Black Swan, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Iron Man 2, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, The Social Network, Despicable Me, Kick-Ass, Jackass 3D and many, many more great movie moments. Enjoy!
watch Filmography 2010 >> Posted 12.15.10 by BrentJS -
What sacrifices must be made for art? What if it’s all just an illusion anyhow, a fantasy made up to cope with the difficulties of reality? Is there a way that these issues can be dramatized with a steamy lesbian love scene? These are questions being asked by Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, but they’re also part of the equally trippy Mulholland Drive, David Lynch’s intense psychosexual drama now streaming on Netflix.
more on both movies >>
Posted 12.03.10 by reelz -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
As Britney Spears heads off for a romantic birthday weekend with beau Jason Trawick, she tweeted a message to anyone who claims Trawick "beat" on her: "Star Magazine, Radar Online, Jason Alexander and the rest of you liars, Ya'll can kiss my lily white southern Louisiana ass!"
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The Natalie Portman–Mila Kunis mouth-on-mouth kiss — pictured in this space yesterday — continues to attract interest as Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky tells MTV News he'd like to see it nomitated for the network's "Best Kiss" award, primarily because he'd like to see it happen again.
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Last night James Franco told Jimmy Kimmel he agreed to host the Oscars because it would take the "pressure off," since no one has hosted the Oscars and won an award on the same night. But there's is a first time for everything, and Franco's our pick to win Best Actor.
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"The Godfather House" is for sale. The eight-bedroom, three-bathroom Staten Island house used as the Corleone family estate is listed for $2.9M. Anything north of about $2.8M is an offer they probably can't refuse.
Posted 12.03.10 by reelz -
Acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky's (The Wrestler) new psychological thriller, Black Swan, is set in the competetive world of professional ballet, so it's only fitting that the latest clips from the movie showcase the dancing skills of the lead actress, Academy Award-nominee Natalie Portman. Portman plays Nina, next in line to become her ballet company's Prima Ballerina in the upcoming production of Swan Lake. But, when a new dancer (Mila Kunis) catches the eye of the director (Vincent Cassel), Nina begins a downward spiral into paranoia and delusion that threatens to shatter her dreams.
watch the new clips from Black Swan >> Posted 12.01.10 by BrentJS -
Acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky's follow-up to The Wrestler, Black Swan, is a psychological thriller that explores the secret world of profesional ballet and one dancer's (Academy Award-nominee Natalie Portman) struggle to land the Prima Ballerina position in her company's new production of Swan Lake while attempting to maintain her tenuous grip on reality. During a recent press conference for the movie, Portman, who had danced as a young girl, described ballet as "an expression without words" and said that she "always wanted to do a film relating to dance." Portman said that the complex role she plays in the movie was one of the few that benefited from the hiatus she took from acting to study psychology at Harvard.
what did portman say about ballet and training for Black Swan? >> Posted 11.29.10 by BrentJS -
The first clip from acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky's (The Wrestler) new psychological thriller, Black Swan. In it, we see the fragile mental state of the protagonist, Nina (Academy Award-nominee Natalie Portman), a talented ballerina who is next in line to replace her ballet company's Prima Ballerina, Beth (Winona Ryder), in the upcoming production of Swan Lake. While being fitted for the show, Nina has a frightening hallucination, but it pales in comparison to the horror she feels at discovering that the newcomer to the company, Lily (Mila Kunis), has just been made her alternate.
see the first Black Swan clip >> Posted 11.24.10 by BrentJS