Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I wouldn't go so far as to call him an 'exploiter'. He did donate millions of dollars of his earnings towards wildlife conservation and the maintainance of the Australia Zoo (his wife and kids live in a fairly simple one-story house in the suburb) and does express an enthusiasm to educate people ab...

He died doing what he most loved: being videotaped. Irwin's last moments on tape BBC News Videotape of the moment Steve Irwin was hit by a stingray's tail shows the Australian naturalist pulling the barb from his chest, his manager has said. "The tail came up, and spiked him here [in the chest...

It's a write-off. (And this reviewer is worse than Honeycutt.) The Fountain By Ray Bennett Hollywood Reporter VENICE, Italy -- Early in "The Fountain," writer-director Darren Aronofsky's flatulent dissertation on the benefits of dying, someone says, "Death is the path to awe." A...

Venus Mike Goodridge in Los Angeles Screendaily Dir: Roger Michell. UK. 2006. 95mins. The team behind The Mother – director Roger Michell, writer Hanif Kureishi and producer Kevin Loader – reunites for Venus, another portrait of an old character being revitalised by love for a younger. In this case...

I don't know about AMPAS, but this looks like the BAFTA frontrunner. Mirren may not be a babe now, but she does have "Caligula" in her past. I don't know if that's equivalent to "Dawson's Creek" or "Karate Kid 3" or not, but... "The actress from 'Caligula' giving ...

What a funny review. In the first paragraph, McCarthy says it's a very good movie, then tempers his praise all throughout. I don't think he liked it, but he doesn't seem confident enough to say so outright. Little Children By TODD MCCARTHY Variety Displaying many of the same qualities that distingu...

The Last King Of Scotland Mike Goodridge in Los Angeles Screendaily Dir: Kevin Macdonald. UK. 2006. 121mins. Kevin Macdonald has proved himself to be an expert documentary film-maker with films like One Day In September and in his last feature Touching The Void he melded documentary and drama into ...

Children Of Men Lee Marshall in Venice Screendaily Dir: Alfonso Cuaron. US-UK. 2006. 108mins. Unwrap the fascinating dystopian vision of the near-future in Alfonso Cuaron’s Children Of Men – based on the sci-fi novel by British literary baroness PD James – and you find a fairly ordinary movie with ...

American Family Association Vows to Protest 9/11 Documentary Sep 3, 10:40 PM (ET) By LARRY NEUMEISTER NEW YORK (AP) - Broadcasters say the hesitancy of some CBS affiliates to air a powerful Sept. 11 documentary next week proves there's been a chilling effect on the First Amendment since federal reg...

Children of Men By DEREK ELLEY Variety An often grippingly realized portrait of a not-so-futuristic Blighty, in which fascism and infertility have become uneasy bed partners, Alfonso Cuaron's "Children of Men" is a fine but flawed exercise in dystopia. Much more effective when it's a down...

The Queen Geoffrey Macnab in Venice Screendaily Dir: Stephen Frears. UK 2006. 97mins. The British have been making films about their Royal Family almost since cinema began. What is so distinctive about Stephen Frears’ brilliant new feature The Queen is that it is unfolds only a few years ago – in 1...

Black Book (Zwartboek) Lee Marshall in Venice Screendaily Dir: Paul Verhoeven. Neth-Bel-Ger-UK. 140mins. The prodigal son of Dutch cinema comes home from Hollywood with the budget, production values and the epic nonchalance of the American Way packed in his suitcase. Black Book, Paul Verhoeven’s fi...

The Queen By DEREK ELLEY Variety Tradition and informality collide - and mutually benefit - in the deliciously written and expertly played "The Queen." Dramatised version of the week following the death of Princess Di, from the different vantage points of the British Royal Family and newl...