The official nominations for the 87th Academy Awards were announced on Thursday, January 15th at 5:30am PST. The winners will be announced at the ceremony live on Oscar Sunday – February 22nd, 2015. Check back in with us weekly for discussion on the nominees and snubs! BEST PICTURE American Sniper Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of […]
Legendary and Warner Bros. have confirmed plans for a sequel to Godzilla (2014) via Deadline.com Godzilla’s return to the big screen has proved massively successful. His return was greatly anticipated by fans as 2014 marked the end of Toho’s 10 year break imposed on the character in 2004. Producer Thomas Tull had hinted in a […]
H.R.Giger passed away on May 12th, 2014. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, H.R. Giger changed the landscape of science fiction art direction. Although he will be most remembered for the Xenomorph creature in ‘Alien’ which earned him an Oscar, It was his original artwork “Necronom IV” that caught Ridley Scott’s […]
Check out this exclusive audio recording of a Q&A session with “Cuban Fury” Nick Frost captured at a recent advanced screening in Chicago. For Taylor Sinople’s review of “Cuban Fury” click here.
At least one of Terrence Malick’s new films (shot simultaneously over the course of several years) has a chance at debuting at Cannes this year. Malick has been working on an untitled film set in the Austin, Texas music scene, but “Knight of Cups” – a film about celebrity excess – has received more publicity […]
On March 1, 2014, Wes Anderson (adored director of such visually distinct films as “Rushmore,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” and “Moonrise Kingdom”) presented his new film, “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” to a sold-out audience at Chicago’s historic Music Box Theatre. Among an ensemble cast of Anderson-favorite such as Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman, “The Grand Budapest […]
The 86th Academy Awards Winners Are: Picture | 12 Years a Slave Director | Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity Actor | Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club Actress | Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine Supporting Actor | Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club Supporting Actress | Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave Adapted Screenplay | John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave Original Screenplay | Spike Jonze, Her Foreign Language Film | The Great Beauty, Italy […]
Nicolas Cage returns to his indie roots in this adaptation of Larry Brown’s novel. Directed by David Gordon Green, Cage plays the hard-living, hot-tempered, ex-con Joe Ransom, a man trying to find the road to redemption, until that is he meets a 15-year-old boy (Tye Sheridan , ‘MUD’) who awakens in him a fierce and tender-hearted […]
