December 27, 2010 – The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS), the international professional association of Internet-based film reviewers, has announced the nominations for its 2010 OFCS Awards. The award winners will be announced on January 3, 2011. The OFCS is online at www.ofcs.org. The nominees for the 2010 OFCS Awards are: BEST PICTURE Black Swan [...]
The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, are at it again. This time, with a remake of the classic John Wayne western, “True Grit,” starring Jeff Bridges in the Wayne role, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and introducing Hailee Steinfeld. Expect to see this in theaters Christmas 2010.
James Cameron’s juggernaut, “Avatar,” continued its dominance this week picking up a leading 9 Oscar nominations. That number is matched only by one other film, the little Iraq-war thriller, “The Hurt Locker,” directed by Cameron’s ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow. Here is the full rundown of this year’s Oscar contenders: Best Picture “Avatar” “The Hurt Locker” “The [...]
The Coen Brothers’ newest film is the haunting black comedy, “A Serious Man,” about a physics professor in a midwestern Jewish community in 1967. The trailer is an intense, and frankly frightening, couple of minutes that reveals almost nothing about the plot. Take a look:
Sony Pictures Classics is on board to produce Zhang Yimou’s Chinese remake of the Coen Brothers’ “Blood Simple,” reports THR. The 1985 original, the Coen brothers’ debut feature, was a neo-noir crime-thriller that focused on a rich but jealous man who hires a private investigator to kill his cheating wife and her new man. SPC [...]
Ethan Coen is planning a return to the Atlantic Theater Company with a new off-Broadway series of one-act plays entitled “Offices.” Ethan and his brother Joel are together know as the “two-headed director” and have made several iconic and successful films including “Raising Arizona,” “Fargo,” “The Big Lebowski,” and 2008′s Best Picture Academy Award winner, [...]
The Coen Brothers present us with the most nefarious, absurdly idiotic, and intensely repulsive characters, yet somehow manage to make us fall in love with them. This is true of all the Coens’ films, and Burn After Reading is no exception. This zany comedy is about as far from the massively successful bloodfest, No Country [...]
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