The Academy Awards will air live Feb. 24 at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET on ABC. A couple of favorites were “Roma” and “The Favourite”, both with 10 votes each. Spike Lee got his big director break with “BlacKkKlansman“, which awarded him his first directing nomination. Other highlights include Lady Gaga‘s nomination for “A Star…
From scintillating stories of 1970s con artists to cruel tales of pre-Civil War slavery, the past year proved to be a wonderful year for film lovers. Ticket holders were treated to Martin Scorsese’s corporate greed-driven The Wolf of Wall Street, David O. Russell’s star-studded crime flick American Hustle, Steve McQueen’s epic historical drama 12 Years a Slave, and many…
In Silver Linings Playbook, impossibly good-looking people are damaged and dysfunction, and they speak a specific language that only those occupied with equal types of delusion can understand. Directed by David O. Russell (I Heart Huckabees; last year’s The Fighter), Silver Linings Playbook stars Bradley Cooper (the disheveled heartthrob from The Hangover) as Pat Solatano,…
