This year’s Los Angeles Film Festival was always going to be a treat for fans of indie movies, but the thing has now become that much more interesting for those of you into mainstream films and particularly big-budget blockbusters. Two of the biggest predicted commercial hits of the summer have been added to the LAFF more »

We might still be a long way from all the high-profile, glamorous Hollywood award shows, but we’re knee-deep in the festival season, so it’s time to start counting our chickens and predict the year’s biggest indie hits. Closely following Seattle’s recently announced impressive line-up of films, the Los Angeles Festival has now made its schedule more »

The Seattle International Film Festival is no Cannes or Sundance, but judging by this year’s massive and extremely impressive lineup it’s getting there. The festival’s 39th edition will feature 447 (!!!) full-length motion pictures and 175 shorts, out of which there will be 18 absolute world premieres, 38 North American and 6 US. The opening more »

And that’s a wrap on this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, the competition’s 12th annual edition and likely the one with the richest and most impressive line-up ever. We’ve been hearing rumble for a number of solid indies from New York, but ultimately there will only be a few who’ll remain in the collective memory. The more »

Though many expected Alexander Payne to take on a bigger budget project following the modest, but extremely well-received “Sideways” and “The Descendants”, the director/writer/producer chose an even lower-key film – “Nebraska.” And, unlike “The Descendants”, Payne didn’t even get the star support of someone like George Clooney, instead focusing on underrated veterans such as Bruce more »

George Jones didn’t just sing country music, he lived it. It was a life filled with flawed marriages, drinking binges and bad business decisions. He chronicled all of them in his music, and did it better than anyone since Hank Williams. Jones died Friday at age 81, leaving behind an often imitated but never duplicated more »

Ever since it was announced that Steven Spielberg will be heading the Cannes jury and that Baz Luhrmann’s “Great Gatsby” will be opening the festival, we got the feeling we were going to be in for some real treats this year. And boy, were we right! The official selection of films to compete for the more »

With the rumor mill grinding like crazy on who will step in Seth MacFarlane’s shoes as the next Oscar host (Justin Timberlake is in pole-position right now, by the way), it’s probably time to take a little breather and talk about something else concerning the Academy Awards. Like the next award season’s schedule, which has more »

Remember when we told you a few weeks back about the nominees for the “only truly legitimate movie awards” out there, the MTV Movie Awards? Well, what my esteemed colleague Eric Deamer didn’t take into account at the time was the Kids’ Choice Awards were right around the corner. And you can definitely count on more »

Dick Clark’s fingerprints are all over the music industry and the awards shows that celebrate it. Now the Academy of Country Music will honor him by naming its “Artist of the Decade” award after Clark. Garth Brooks and George Strait, who won that award for the 90s and 2000s, will perform together for the first more »