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Looking ahead to the 2010 Oscars

Slumdog Millionaire is yesterday’s news. Literally. So why not flip a few pages on the calendar, look at the year ahead, and take some wild, random, and completely uneducated guesses at the films we’ll be talking about a year fr [...]

Posted On : Aug, 08 2009 | Comments : 0

Oscar winner about death comes to life | 3 stars

When his orchestra goes belly up, young cellist Daigo (Masahiro Motoki) abandons Tokyo for his little hometown. He answers a help-wanted ad for a “departures” company, thinking it must be a travel agency. Only metaphysically sp [...]

Posted On : Aug, 07 2009 | Comments : 0

Oscar Winner Budd Schulberg, 95, Passes

I could tell from the choking sound on the other end of the line that the news wasn't going to be good. It took him awhile, and when he finally got it out, the best his son could manage was "He's gone..." Budd Schulberg was [...]

Posted On : Aug, 06 2009 | Comments : 0

Oscar-winning actor gets in ear of Ochocinco

It was one of those typically incestuous Tinseltown celebrity convergences, an impromptu conversation between an athlete who changed his name to enhance his fame and an actor who need only drop his first name to receive the red-carpet treat [...]

Posted On : Aug, 03 2009 | Comments : 0