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 [...]

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 [...]

Unlike previous Oscar years, in which finding suitable candidates for the Best Actress nominee slots was comparable to finding a needle in a haystack, this season seems to be an aberration to the norm. With contenders Annette Bening and Natalie Portman already considered locks for their roles in The Kids are All Right and Black [...]

Yesterday the Toronto Film Festival announced its lineup for its annual cinema shindig, which will run this year from September 9 to 19. And among the 50 star-studded offerings are Blue Valentine starring Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling as a couple whose marriage is on the brink and Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman in a [...]

The marriage drama, Blue Valentine, starring two of the finest actors of the younger generation, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, was screened today at the Cannes Film Festival (it premiered earlier this year at Sundance) and according to that very astute film critic Dave Karger of EW, the film is a devastating, probing and uncomfortable [...]