"The Hurt Locker" has been nominated for numerous Academy Awards including Best Picture.
Nominations for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards were announced today. Here’s a complete list of the contenders.
Best Picture
“Avatar”
“The Blind Side”
“District 9″
“An Education”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
“A Serious Man”
“Up”
“Up in the Air”
Hilary Swank plays Amelia Earhart in director Mira Nair’s biopic about the aviatrix, “Amelia.”
This week’s home video releases include a romantic comedy featuring Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart, an animated picture from Marvel Comics and a biopic of aviation legend Amelia Earhart.
Ellen Page plays roller derby star Babe Ruthless in Drew Barrymore’s first feature as a director, “Whip It.”
This week’s home video releases include a Bruce Willis action flick, a new entry to the “Saw” franchise and Drew Barrymore’s first feature as a director, but it’s a documentary about late pop star Michael Jackson that leads the pack in terms of both quality and stature.
Gerard Butler doesn’t like the fact that he’s being controlled by a teenage video game nerd in the science-fiction action movie “Gamer.”
Sadly, this week’s major home video releases are all second-tier, but the best of the batch is an offbeat comedy that has comedian Ricky Gervais’ fingerprints all over it.
Kristoffer Polaha in "Life Unexpected."
When “Life Unexpected” premieres tonight on The CW, nobody will be more anxious to see the response than former Reno resident Kristoffer Polaha.
The 32-year-old actor stars in the series, along with Shiri Appleby (“Roswell”), Brittany Robertson (“Dan in Real Life”) and Kerr Smith (“Dawson’s Creek”), and he has high hopes for its future.
“So far, this has been a really cool experience, and we’re going to see what happens with the show next week,” he said. “It’s got a really great heart. Every script is better than the last one.”
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Jeremy Renner, left, and Anthony Mackie star in the military drama “The Hurt Locker.”
This week’s home video releases include two of the best movies to hit theaters in 2009, plus a handful of also-rans.
Instead of raining cats and dogs, it rains hamburgers, pickles and mustard in the animated comedy “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.”
This week’s home video releases include a trite horror film, the second season of an excellent TV dramedy and a charming adaptation of a classic children’s book.
Ian McKellen and the rest of the "Lord of the Rings" cast made a series of movies that helped define the decade.
During a good year, compiling a list of the period’s top 10 movies can be one of the most frustrating exercises a writer can attempt.
The reason? Artistic endeavors aren’t designed to be competitive, and top 10 lists have an inherently competitive spirit.
Imagine, then, the difficulty in coming up with a list of the top 10 films of an entire decade. When trying to complete this task for the years 2000-09, it occurred to me that I might be attempting the impossible.
Still, I trudged forward, whittling a once-lengthy pool of contenders to the modest collection of movies you see below.
In my humble opinion, this list represents the absolute best that we’ve seen during the past 10 years.
1) ‘Lord of the Rings’ Trilogy
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Megan Fox embraces her dark side as the title character in the horror-thriller “Jennifer’s Body.”
This week’s home video releases include a horror flick starring Megan Fox, a beautiful animated film by director Shane Acker, 13 episodes from one of the most enjoyable series on TV and a thriller set in Hawaii.
In “District 9,” Sharlto Copley plays a South African government official who must go on the run after coming into contact with alien DNA that turns him into a hybrid species.
This week’s DVD crop is anchored by two of the better theatrical releases of 2009, including a small-budget science-fiction adventure that packs a big-budget punch
