Oscar buzz, at least for Best Picture, at least for people who really care, comes in ebbs and flows of speculation. Here's a look back at the Hollywood conventional wisdom, from The Master's weird rise to Zero Dark Thirty's torturous fall and Argo's late surge.
A middle-aged recent immigrant from India recently set into motion a series of events that eventually led to Mississippi finally retifying the Constitutional amendment banning slavery.
What with all of the political drama in this year's Best Picture crop — and Michelle Obama hosting the kid from Beasts of the Southern Wild at the White House — we couldn't help but wonder which films our top politicians would like to see win.
If there is such a thing as winning at fact-checking, Rep. Joe Courtney gets a gold medal for calling out factual errors in Stephen Spielberg's Lincoln. The Connecticut congressman wants it fixed, too.
President Obama said at his press conference Monday that he'd like to socialize with Republicans, but they aren't responding to his overtures. So which is it, a remote president or an opposition party that refuses to hang out with him?
With Oscar nominations less than a day away, the Brits have weighed in with their version — and their top choice, is, well, rather American.
At last night's New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Steven Spielberg read the audience a letter sent by Daniel Day-Lewis, in which the picky and somewhat reclusive actor gently turned down the role of Abraham Lincoln when it was first offerd. It's an interesting little glimpse into an alternate reality that almost was.
Here's your first look at National Geographic Channel's new film Killing Lincoln, based on Bill O'Reilly's bestselling book. And, frankly, everything seems pretty heavy-handed in the time of Steven Spielberg's award-grabbing film about that same president
During a statement at the White House Monday, the president said the following: "I'm going to be president for the next four years. I hope." Did Obama let all those comparisons to Lincoln get to him?
It's rare but not uncommon to see movie stars in multiple Oscar-bait movies in the same year. But it's been a good end of 2012 for those guys who you recognize from somewhere but can't always place. Here are your character-actor MVPs.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where the semantics of Jack Reacher's height will be debated with much fervor.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we're so happy Peter Jackson's plot was foiled by you meddling kids. Thank the skies for meddling kids.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we're watching dreck like Red Dawn until the prestige pictures get here.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where Brad Pitt is the star of our movies, our Chanel commercials, our television shows, and our dreams.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we always take a bowl full of stuffing into the theater with us. Why do you think that's crazy? You're crazy.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we will forever support RPatz and KStew because we remember how heartbroken everyone was when Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams broke up. No one should suffer that kind of heartbreak, not even teenagers on Tumblr.
Today we review two new films about famous men, the Abraham Lincoln biopic Lincoln and the new James Bond caper, Skyfall.
Today in celebrity gossip: She may be done with Conor, but Taylor Swift still has business with the Kennedys. Also, Lincoln gets the Bill O'Reilly stamp of approval, Anne Hathaway does ghoulish cabaret, and Levi Johnston is taking the plunge.
Despite all the grand lead-up to the making of Lincoln — Tony Kushner's much whispered about script, long delays partly having to do with Liam Neeson climbing aboard and then leaving to be an action star — the promotional material so far is pretty underwhelming. And, if we're honest, a little silly.
The fall movie gods are here to heal some of the disappointing wounds left by The Master. They've opened the trailer skies and finally let the full-length trailer for Steven Spielberg's Lincoln fall to the earth.
James Cameron prepares us for a fourth Avatar movie even though the second and third haven't been made yet, The Hunger Games juggernaut rolls along, and a first look at Lincoln.
Today in showbiz news, everyone's favorite downtown diva is heading out West, Catching Fire has once and for all declared its Finnick, and Paul Haggis assembles an A-team.
Matt Damon tells GQ that Tony Gilroy's first draft of The Bourne Ultimatum could have been a "career-ender," Mikhail Prokhorov prepares to submit a bid on a media company, and Dnaiel Day-Lewis did not steal Richmond's Christmas
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