Philip Seymour Hoffman

So many movies and so little time for showbizzers

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If you're a member of the media or a Hollywood guild and happen to have Thursday night free, allow the consultants who plan the social calendar this time of year to suggest some options.

Holiday movies tout dogs, fangs and DiCaprio

The holiday movie season is a chance to see old friends and make new ones. Among the old pals: Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, the "Titanic" duo, reuniting for "Revolutionary Road." New visitors include the vampires and...

Blasblog: Perego Slays Winehouse For Art’s Sake

On Friday night, Italian artist Marco Perego had just installed his installation The Only Good Rock Star Is a Dead Rock Star, and was fretting that the crowd at the Lower East Side's Half Gallery was preventing viewers from...

REVIEW: 'Synecdoche' is unique, but dissapointing

"Synecdoche, New York" is Academy Award-winning writer (for "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind") Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut. Does he accomplish everything his massive script sets out to do? Not quite. Philip...

Hit films, indies vie for Oscar bid

In a year in which roles ranged from ex-professional wrestlers and 1950s suburban couples to gay rights activists and the iconic Joker, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences certainly has a broad range of choices for...

Oscar outcasts: classics-to-be

Much like the scrawny, bespectacled nerd that you and your punk buddies perpetually used as a lunch money-ATM throughout elementary school, movies have a way of eventually coming back to haunt you. The monotonous biopic you...

Holiday movies are the gifts that keep on giving

Plenty of surprises — and potential Oscars — wrapped inside holiday movie season E'RE SIX WEEKS AWAY FROM THE end of 2008, and Hollywood has failed to produce one bona fide awards contender (unless, of course, you count...

You can't afford to shop. Go to the movies

LIAM LACEY From Saturday's Globe and Mail Yes, we can, said U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, as he check-listed the challenges facing his country. Twilight (Nov. 21) Like Christmas, vampires are big on red and white, and...

Will economy make crowds shun gloomy Oscar flicks?

Escapism comes in many forms, but clearly it doesn’t come in the form that most Oscar contenders take AP Los Angeles: Not long before he’s assassinated, Sean Penn’s Harvey Milk proclaims his key precept for social change: “You...

Movie Review: Suffering for - and from - his art

In the film, Philip Seymour Hoffman, second from right, has hired actors, played by Emily Watson, left, Samantha Morton and Tom Noonan, to perform in his play, a project that continues for 40 years. ABBOT GENSLER I can't...

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