After a protracted, numbing awards season, this Sunday's Oscar broadcast promises the drama of two ex-spouses battling for Best Picture and Best Director. But…
Your self-improvement regime for the New Year likely pales next to Spiderman’s: The 28-year-old Rio kingpin, whose given name is Juarez Mendes da Silva,…
The puns fly fast and hard at the S.F. Drag King Competition, aka the Oscars of the male impersonation world. The names alone take…
The extraordinary stage actor John Cazale made just five movies, but all were nominated for Best Picture Academy Awards. It wasn’t a coincidence; he…
High-toned accents prevailed yet again at the Oscars, as Brits Danny Boyle and Kate Winslet and Aussie Heath Ledger stole the spotlight. (So says…
Artists' Television Access. OpenScreening: Open mike for filmakers. Thu., Feb. 19, 8 p.m. $5. Chant d'Amour: Jean Genet's short film and several other silent…
For the television audience, the Oscars are a night of derision, boredom, and secret, desperate longing. Primarily, though, it’s about television: You should be…
In 1984, a surge of media attention fell on homeless children via Life magazine and an Academy Award-nominated documentary called Streetwise. YouTube shows that…
If Melissa Leo were Charlize Theron with artfully applied bags under the eyes, an Oscar nomination would surely be forthcoming (Update: Leo has been…
Remember Giuseppe Tornatore, who made the overrated but harmlessly cute Cinema Paradiso, about the grumpy projectionist who made him the fabulous filmmaker he is…
