TV and Movie News (page 1491)
In the Yidio Oscars Spotlight, we take a look at the key races at this year's Academy Awards, starting with Best Director.
Best Director
A crowd pleaser and a critical favorite go head-to-head in the most competitive director's race in years.
Past Winners
Oscar has had a pretty good run with Best Director over the past decade, handing the award to Steven Soderbergh ("Traffic"), Roman Polanski ("The Pianist"), Peter Jackson ("The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King"), Clint Eastwood ("Million Dollar B
In Yidio's Academy Awards Best Picture Focus section, we take an in-depth look at all 10 films nominated for the 2011 Oscar. Today we take a look at Mark Wahlberg's pet project "The Fighter," directed by David O. Russell.
About the Film
"The Fighter" tells the true story of professional boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's (Mark Wahlberg) rise from never-was to Welterweight Champion, but focuses heavily on Ward's family, including his brother, former-boxer-turned-crack-addict Dicky Eklund.
Not so sure about all the films featured in Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony? Having trouble deciding on who to pick on your own Oscar ballot? No problem!
Throughout the week we'll be offering up detailed analysis of the key races, including in-depth looks at each of the 10 Best Picture nominees and a category-by-category breakdown of each of the major races.
We'll also have breaking news and comments from the stars leading all the way up to the ceremony and the red carpet.
Robert Downey, Jr. is one of the finest actors working today, but ever since seeing fame and fortune in "Iron Man 2" he has been content with blockbusters and high-profile comedies.
Now, The Hollywood Reporter thinks it's looking more and more likely that he'll come back to his roots with a role in Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of the Thomas Pynchon novel, "Inherent Vice," this fall.
Writer/director Bax Luhrmann has publicly taken his time with his adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous work, "The Great Gatsby."
In 2008, shortly before his film "Australia" came out and tanked, he bought the rights to the novel. Late last year, he began workshopping the project in New York, with Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, and Rebecca Hall as Daisy Buchanan.
Tim Allen gets sort of a bum rap. Sure, he's the far less accomplished member of the "Toy Story" duo, as Ricky Gervais memorably pointed out at the Golden Globes in January.
But he's still made some time for the finer things in entertainment, from the it-still-holds-up "Galaxy Quest" to a really fun little movie called "Who Is Cletis Tout?" to starring in a David Mamet film (albeit not one of Mamet's better films).
Apparently "American Idol" isn't democratic enough, what with their auditions in select parts of the country and such. NBC is hoping to one-up the competition by drawing contestants...from their couches?
"The Voice," set to air this spring, gives potential contestants the chance to audition right from their living room. All you need is a microphone and a webcam, common components to any laptop these days.
This week's episode opens with Liz, following her breakup with Carol, walking in with a cat. Uh oh.
Yep, it seems that Liz has "given up". Fanny pack, adopted cat, CBS viewing...she is moving into spinster-hood. After a joke about "the merger", we're off.
The theme (and title) for this week is "It's Never Too Late For Now", as illustrated by Pete and Frank's impromptu song as Pete recounts his rock star days as part of "Loverboy".
Remember how Pierce was unconscious on a park bench at the end of last week's episode? Well, that was no joke.
This week's ep opens up in a hospital, where Pierce was taken after overdosing on pills. The writers (and Chevy) really took this storyline to the extreme: what you might not know is that Chevy Chase was actually addicted to painkillers back in the 1980's and had to go to rehab for it.
After 11 years of filming, editing, re-shooting, and re-editing, Michael Scott finally screened his action magnum opus, “Threat Level Midnight” on last night’s episode of “The Office.”
The short film stars Michael as Agent Michael Scarn, Dwight as Scarn's sidekick Samuel L. Chang and Jim as painted evil-doer "Goldenface."
It’s “Goldfinger” meets “Youngblood” meets “The Maltese Falcon,” with a twist of “Thriller.
