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 [...]
Anyone who has ever worked in a corporate setting or been trained in some unique job or activity has had to sit through an outdated, ineffectual instructional video. When I worked as a data operator for the US Postal Service I was treated to several rounds of carpal tunnel-based warning videos in which both the [...]
127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s (James Franco) remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage [...]
Filmmaker Danny Boyle, best know for directing “28 Days Later,” “Trainspotting,” and Best Picture winner, “Slumdog Millionaire” has signed a three-year producing deal with Fox Searchlight and Pathe Pictures, reports Variety. The terms of the deal stipulate that Searchlight and Pathe will co-finance and co-produce Boyle’s projects although the director has yet to announce his [...]
One of the child stars of the Oscar-winning movie “Slumdog Millionaire” will publish her life story, her publishers said Friday. 9-year-old Rubina Ali’s book will tell the story of her life in the impoverished India village where she grew up. Rubina and 10-year-old Mohammed Ismail, were cast last year in Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire,” about [...]
Irvine Welsh, the author of “Trainspotting,” later adapted for film by Oscar-winner Danny Boyle, is said to be taking the reigns of the soccer comedy, “The Magnificent Eleven” for Angry Badger Pictures according to Variety. The film is a modern take on the classic western, “The Magnificent Seven” and tells the story of a local [...]
The 81st Annual Academy Awards wrapped up just a few hours ago with few surprises. Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle’s little film about a young Indian boy rising from Mumbai’s notorious slums to win a world-famous game show swept the awards winning eight of its ten nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. Heath Ledger, the [...]
The general consensus is that Englishman Danny Boyle’s (Trainspotting, Millions) venture into Bollywood results in a stirring tale of adventure, romance, and redemption. These themes are indisputably present, but represent only the base by which a much more profound and compelling story is told. Slumdog Millionaire, Boyle’s eighth feature film, delves deep into pressing modern [...]
We published an article a few days ago predicting 2009′s Oscar winners, but in light of the Academy releasing their official nominees today, we’re taking the liberty of revising our picks. You can read our picks pre-nomination here, and compare them to our now official 2009 Oscar predictions below: Best Actor Sean Penn – “Milk” [...]
After the ugly incident (read about it here) involving prominent critics Roger Ebert and Lou Lumineckat the Toronto Film Festival we’ve had several inquiries, not about the incident itself, but about the film during which it happened. It was during a screening of the Danny Boyle film, Slumdog Millionaire which tells the tale of an [...]
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