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5-time Oscar winning Composer John Barry died yesterday of a heart attack at the age of 77. Despite being best known for his soundtrack wo...

R.I.P. James Bond Theme Composer John Barry (1933-2011)

In the Bright Future section there are many films that are being streamed FREE on the fest Youtube channel. Streaming is only for 24 hours ...

2011 International Film Festival Rotterdam News

With a very NOT entertaining television traditional awards ceremony show last night SAG gave not much surprises in the film categories (some...

17th Screen Actors Guild Awards Winners

Last night the festival announced the winners and here they are. Feature Films World Cinema Jury Prize : Sykt Lykkelig (Happy, Happy), Ann...

2011 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners

It’s a very good movie. Had to take my first statement out of the way as I believe that this is a difficult to objectively review film and w...

Hors-la-loi (Outside The Law)

I knew that I will like this movie and I did. A lot more than what imagined as film feels and looks like those glorious movies from a long ...

The Tourist

The most recent movie of Mexican director  Alejandro González Iñárritu  portrays a modern-time Barcelona I didn’t know, though I could imagi...

Biutiful (2010)

Winners are in *BLUE . To check complete list of winners go here . Was wrong, not Fincher but Hooper. As you can imagine most critics I fo...

63rd Annual Directors Guild of America Award Winners

Winners are not yet at the official site but from press releases winners for top awards are in *BLUE . As soon as announcement is at site w...

2011 Austrian Film Awards Winners

After some negative buzz had not much expectations about the movie but I tell you that this drama/romantic-comedy is quite enjoyable especia...

Love and Other Drugs

Winner is in *BLUE . To check complete list of award winners go here . --//-- If I have problems with some films in Sundance just imagine w...

2011 Slamdance Film Festival Award Winners

BLUE VALENTINE (Dir. Derek Cianfrane, 2010) It's billed as "a love story", but BLACK VALENTINE is more accurately a toxic lov...

BLUE VALENTINE: The Film Babble Blog Review

As I like to play with numbers here is a tally of what the nominations tells us about films and how many nods each got. List is in alphabet...

2011 Academy Awards Nominations – Ranking

Just checked and is UP! Expect post soon. Nominations are not up yet, but can't believe I guessed the 10 movies right!! LOL! I'm SO...

Very Last Minute Oscar Nominations Predictions

Not yet at the official site but from news, here are the winners -in *Blue . As soon as they publish at their site will post link to check ...

2011 Guldbagge Awards Winners

I missed this film, referred to by some as "the other Facebook movie", when it played in Raleigh last fall, but just caught it as...

Blu Ray/DVD Review: CATFISH

CLIENT 9: THE RISE AND FALL OF ELIOT SPITZER (Dir. Alex Gibney, 2010) It's amazing that former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer sat dow...

DVD/Blu Ray Review: CLIENT 9: The Rise And Fall Of Eliot Spitzer

Seems that Oscar race could be interesting after all -IF trend continues- as last night (well, not long ago) the first actual Academy voters...

2011 Producers Guild of America Award Winners

If you follow me in Twitter you already know that I think that this list is crazy!! Take a look as these are the nine (9) films out of the ...

83rd Academy Awards Foreign Language Film Shortlist

Hope that none of you had problems loading or watching films at the festival; I still have one short that doesn’t load to be over with short...

1st French Online Film Festival - News

Extremely well-crafted film by Tom Hooper that will satisfy you beyond any expectations you might have after the so-much buzz that has gener...

The King’s Speech

Mesmerizing film by Diego Lerman that will immerse you into an Argentina 1982 voyage where on the streets of the Argentinean capital people ...

La Mirada Invisible (The Invisible Eye)

Really like Romain Duris performances so it was an easy decision to give this movie a try; was a positive surprise as for film being a Frenc...

L’Arnacoeur (Heartbreaker)

Yesterday the fest closed with screenings of the best films in the festival and the day before announced the award winners. These are the a...

22nd Palm Springs International Film Festival Award Winners

DOWN TERRACE (Dir. Ben Wheatley, 2009) "You're only as good as the people you know." - Bill (Robert Hill) There is an uneasy...

Blu Ray/DVD Review: DOWN TERRACE

FREAKONOMICS: THE MOVIE (Dirs. Heidi Ewing, Alex Gibney, Seth Gordon, Rachel Grady, Eugene Jarecki, and Morgan Spurlock, 2010) Journalist S...

Now Out On Blu Ray/DVD: FREAKONOMICS: THE MOVIE