Category: "Spotlight"

Watch: Lovely Drake Doremus-Directed Web-Series ‘The Beauty Inside’ with Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Like Crazy director Drake Doremus helms this series of short centering on a young man waking up a different person physically every morning and his yearning to find a meaningful and long-lasting relationship at long last.

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Adam Sandler: The Movie Star Who Wouldn’t Grow Up

Adam Sandler’s That’s My Boy in which he plays – surprise! – an overgrown man-child is released into theaters this weekend. Therefore we ask the inevitable: is Sandler the modern day Peter Pan?

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Watch: Enchanting Trailer & Clip from Short Film ‘Pitch Black Heist’ with Michael Fassbender

Coming to the Tribeca Film Festival is the short film Pitch Black Heist, starring the omnipresent Michael Fassbender and Liam Cunningham. The BAFTA-winning film centers around two thieves planning a heist that will require them to do so in complete darkness.

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A Few Verses For Viola

Viola Davis appears to be the favorite to take home Best Actress for The Help at this Sunday’s Academy Awards. For an actress who has so often been relegated to small roles often in suspect productions there is almost something perfect about this emerging narrative. Read Nick’s pontification on Davis’s career after the jump.

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The Old Guy In “Star Wars”

Tomorrow Star Wars: The Phantom Menace returns to the big screen yet again, this time in supposedly glorious 3D. It may or may not be another in a long list of missteps by its creator George Lucas. This led Nick to wonder where the franchise truly went wrong – namely, its loss of all mystery.

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Over-Analyzing The “Ferris Bueller” Super Bowl Ad

Honda recently released online the full ad that will be shown during the forthcoming Super Bowl in which Matthew Broderick sort of reprises his famous role as one Ferris Bueller. Nick decided to read way too much into it and nostalgically pontificate on its meaning.

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Channing Tatum: “I Know I’m Not the Best Actor”

Like him or hate him, Channing Tatum is obviously not going away anytime soon. In this past month’s issue of Details, Tatum opens up about his shortcomings as an actor and how he managed to convince Steven Soderbergh to direct his stripper screenplay. Read what he had to say after the jump.

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For Your Consideration: Cosmo The Dog

A grassroots campaign has emerged for Uggie, the Jack Russell Terrier who stole the show in The Artist and at the Golden Globes, to earn an Oscar nomination. I am here today to beg your consideration for the quality work of a different Jack Russell Terrier: Cosmo of Beginners.

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10 Best Animated Movies

When I recently compiled a list of my 100 all-time favorite movies, someone commented on how there was not a single animated film on the list. It did get me thinking, and lo and behold, my list of the 10 best animated movies was born. Just don’t expect to see any Pixar movie.

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