News Source: BBC
| about 4 hours ago
In order not to coincide with the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, the 2010 Oscars will take place a fortnight later than this year's were. It will also boast not one but two hosts, the comedian Steve Martin sharing the presenting duties with actor
News Source: Tulsa World
| 1 day ago
There are Academy Award hopefuls (Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela; the musical “Nine” features six Oscar winners). There are crowd-pleasers (Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes just sounds right). And then there’s “Avatar,” both the 800-
News Source: The Huffington Post
| 2 days ago
During the opening moments of director Clint Eastwood's Invictus , when Nelson Mandela (played by Morgan Freeman) is inaugurated as president of an after-apartheid South Africa, it dawned on me, it was a bigger twist of fate for Mandela to be
News Source: Miami Herald
| 3 days ago
Every year Hollywood saves its best for last, and the holiday films of 2009 are a highly promising bunch. Chances are good that many of next year's Oscar winners lie within this list, including our early pick for Best Picture: Up in the Air . Here
News Source: News Press
| 3 days ago
Brothers" is an American version of a celebrated Danish film of the same name. When a soldier (Tobey Maguire) is reported missing in action in Afghanistan, his ne'er-do-well brother (Jake Gyllenhaal) straightens up to look after his distraught
News Source: The Guardian
| 3 days ago
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has been forced into an embarrassing climbdown over its allegation that an African leader concocted a bogus endorsement by the anti-apartheid hero. There was anger – and worldwide astonishment – when Denis Sassou-
News Source: The Guardian
| 3 days ago
Radu Tinu, who has admitted to spying on Müller as head of the secret police (or Securitate) in the Romanian city of Timisoara, where the Romanian-born German-speaking writer lived until 1987, told a newspaper she was suffering from mental delusion.
News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 4 days ago
Yesterday brought five new movies to Pittsburgh: "Old Dogs," a comedy with John Travolta and Robin Williams; "The Road," the long-anticipated version of Cormac McCarthy's novel shot partially in Pittsburgh; "Fantastic Mr. Fox," a delightful