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Enough, Already, About Natalie Portman’s ‘Norbit’

Listen, let’s just make this quick: Friends With Benefits is not Natalie Portman’s Norbit . Don’t let anybody tell you differently. Of course, they won’t tell you per se — they’ll ask or insinuate or poll (or offer some epic, perverse combination of the three), pretending to be on the forward edge of a significant moral-cultural quandary that will define this year’s Oscar race for Best Actress, advancing and attempting to rationalize a conversation with no rational foundation in the first place. We’re better than this, folks, and now is the time to eradicate this non-issue from the Oscar 2010 books.

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The 10 Most Anticipated Movies and TV Shows for 2011 — Mike’s Picks

To be honest, I hadn’t given a lot of thought to anything coming up in 2011. Usually, I wait until the last minute to think about anything — Christmas gifts? That’s Thursday’s problem! — let alone a movie that might still be twelve months away. Now, being forced at gunpoint (figuratively; a literal description would be more my Gchat being on a constant loop with the words, “Where’s your list?!”), to look ahead to 2011, there are quite a few things that I’m excited about for the New Year. Admittedly, I’d like to throw on a few movies that you’ve never heard of — just to create the illusion that I possess some sort of eclectic knowledge to make myself feel better — but that would be lying. So here’s my actual, make-fun-of-it-if-you-want list.

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The 10 Most Anticipated Movies and TV Shows for 2011 — Mike’s Picks

Natalie Portman Loses Her Thong in Green-Band Trailer for Your Highness

As if on cue , Universal has released a new trailer for Your Highness , the medieval stoner comedy from David Gordon Green starring likely Oscar nominees Natalie Portman and James Franco. Let’s just get this out of the way pre-jump: Norbit , Norbit , Norbit , Norbit . Outstanding! Now onto the trailer.

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Natalie Portman Loses Her Thong in Green-Band Trailer for Your Highness

Watch Anne Hathaway Make a Bunch of Public School Kids Scream

Nicole Kidman on Rabbit Hole and How the Oscars Changed Her Life

Nicole Kidman didn’t have to search far to find a visceral connection to the character she plays in Rabbit Hole , a woman rendered utterly devastated by the accidental death of her young child. She had given birth to daughter Sunday Rose while the film was being developed from David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play and knew the timing was right precisely because of how much the material scared her.

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Nicolas Cage Goes Nuts, and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: John Cusack is Edgar Allen Poe… Awards-season scientists link cunnilingus to Oscar consideration… Philadelphia gets the reality check it deserves… and more…

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Nicolas Cage Goes Nuts, and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

CNN Accidentally Airs Dumb & Dumber Diarrhea Scene During a Newscast

Oscar Index: Social Network, King’s Speech Commence Steel-Cage Death Match

Welcome back to Movieline’s Oscar Index, your weekly, foolproof guide to the competition in the Academy Awards’ six major categories. Er, maybe not “foolproof”; this is Oscar season we’re talking about, when fools reign and underdogs crouch behind virtually every corner. Let us once again browse their ranks, yes?

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Oscar Index: Social Network, King’s Speech Commence Steel-Cage Death Match

James Franco’s Sadly Unsung Underwear Line

James Franco is truly Hollywood’s greatest multi-hyphenated entity since Barbra Streisand became a certified public notary. Actor, writer, director, Ph. D. student and even Oscar Host are just some of the entries in Franco’s C.V. And to that storied list we can now add underwear magnate. Click through for the photograph evidence.

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5 Great Performances Oscar is Bound to Overlook in 2010

If you’ve been keeping up with the Oscar Index, you’ll know that 2010 is like pretty much any other year in the history of awards-season: A handful of talent breaks out early, shifts position throughout the fall, then settles into a mostly predictable nominee bracket by the end of January. It used to annoy me, but the reality is that the system Hollywood wants is the system Hollywood gets. But at least we can dream, no?

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