Yeah! The Oscar nominations have just been announced and Michelle Williams got the fifth Best Actress slot! (Okay, most likely, she’s NOT going to win–it’ll probably be Natalie Portman). But I’m so pleased the Oscar gods listened to me. Maybe my dad sweet-talked them? Anyway, there were some surprising nominations: Javier Bardem (Biutiful) was nominated [...]

Tomorrow the Oscar nominations will be announced and I only have one wish: Please, god of movies, make Michelle Williams the fifth Best Actress slot! So far, four actresses–Annette Bening, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicole Kidman are virtual locks for four slots. This leaves one slot open. The SAG Best Actress fifth slot is [...]

I must make a confession: I am not a fan of rom-coms. Not. One. Bit. It’s a genre I find not only exceedingly played out but filled with cliches (i.e. the guy chasing the girl down at the end and making his weepy “I love you” aria) so predictable I often wonder if I need [...]

I’m disappointed. I really wanted Marion Cotillard to be cast as Catwoman but I’m sure her pregnancy took her out of the running. Still, it could be worse: Natalie Portman (who’s great in “Black Swan,” probably the last role she’ll be great in because I still think she’s very limited) could have been cast as [...]

Sad news. Susannah York, the lovely and talented blonde actress who co-starred in a number of popular films in the 1960s and 1970s, died of advanced bone marrow cancer. She was 72 years old. York, who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her work in “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” also co-starred [...]

I’m not going to make any predictions for tonight’s Golden Globes ceremony. I can’t really call it a precursor to the Oscars because very often the Globes (which are doled out by the venal Hollywood Foreign Press, a small press corps that is apparently amenable to bribery, gifts and the glamour of superstars) follow their [...]

Courtesy of Films For Women reader, Emma Taylor, I want you all to take a look at the excellent and very insightful article, “10 Famous Films You Didn’t Know Were Allegories” recently posted on the Accredited Online Colleges website. It’s a terrific piece and some of the films cited included “The Wizard of Oz,” “Metropolis” [...]

This surprises me because I thought it was going to be either “Winter’s Bone” or “The Kids Are All Right.” I guess this org didn’t want to step out of line with the overwhelming critical consensus. Fincher was named Best Director, Annette Bening (as I thought) was named Best Actress and Colin Firth Best Actor. [...]

At the beginning of his immortal novel, “Anna Karenina,” a story about a respectable upper-middle class Russian matron in the Tsarist era who destroys her life by having an illicit affair with the dashing Count Vronsky (who later tires of her), the great Leo Tolstoy wrote: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is [...]

Although John Wayne is fun to watch as Rooster Cogburn at no point did I (unlike Jeff Bridges) see him as any other than John Wayne. Kim Darby was terrible as Mattie Ross–just ghastly .Glen Campbell was wooden as LaBeouf. It was fun to see Robert Duvall playing Ned Pepper and Dennis Hopper as the [...]