Best Picture The Artist  (We just don’t understand the appeal. Old story, boringly conveyed. ) The Descendants  (Clooney did better elsewhere) Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Met anyone who liked this? We neither) The Help (Possible surprise winner here) Hugo ( Let Nickelodeon give it an award) [...]

The Academy Award nominations are expected to be released tomorrow (Tuesday the 24th) and so rather than wait for the inevitable disappointments and obvious bit of pandering…DailyHelping brings you it’s anticipated nominees with a few comments about what or who should win. Best Picture “The Artist” (It’s hard to understand why this is so popular!) [...]

Columbia Studios took a look at the recent script treatment for the widely anticipated baseball movie called, Moneyball.  The studio  hated the script so much that filming of the movie, which was supposed to start this Monday in Phoenix has been stopped.  Adapted from Michael Lewis‘ very popular book about building and running a contemporary [...]

Quentin Tarantino has written and directed the kind of World War II movie that he always wanted to see.  Heavy on violence and irony, Inglourious Basterds, is a widely anticipated late summer film.  This is less “Saving Private Ryan” and more like, “Munich“.  A select team of Jewish American soldiers are discreetly dispatched to exact [...]

1. Best Picture: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Frost/Nixon,” “Milk,” “The Reader,” “Slumdog Millionaire.” Will win: Slumdog Millionaire   Should win: Slumdog Millionaire. 2. Actor: Richard Jenkins, “The Visitor”; Frank Langella, “Frost/Nixon”; Sean Penn, “Milk”; Brad Pitt, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”; Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler.” Will win: Mickey Rourke   Should win: Mickey Rourke

The Academy Award Nominations were announced early this morning.  There were some minor surprises among those nominated and those that weren’t, but all in all it should be a pretty interesting award show. Here are some of the major categories and a few of my thoughts on who might win. BEST PICTURE THE CURIOUS CASE [...]

Tonite are the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association needs no help in promoting their star-studded, network televised event.  The show is pretty glitzy and the blending of television and film stars generally makes this one of the more popular award shows.  Though the judges represent 55 different countries and about 200 foreign entertainment [...]