The rushing floodwaters in Evan Almighty, the heaving seas of the latter two Pirates of the Caribbean movies and the dragon’s flaming breath in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire all featured computer-generated fluids in spectacular action. The science behind those splashy thrills will be recognized Feb. 9 with an Academy Award for Ron [...]

 
The following list of films may not match up with the grades that I gave all the movies over the last 12 days, but it does have the advantage of perspective. Now that the Sundance Film Festival has pretty much come to a close, I am able to look back on all the films that [...]

 
Behind the scenes of blockbuster movies like “Transformers,” “The Matrix” and “Braveheart” is the foley stage — a cluttered studio full of noisy knick-knacks and a soft-spoken woman named Mary Jo Lang.
Lang is one of the few female foley mixers in the world, recording sound effects created by foley artists and then mixing them to [...]

Crash, the movie which unexpectedly won best film at the Oscars two years ago, is being turned into a TV series.
Thirteen one-hour programmes will be made US cable channel Starz. The show is expected to premiere in August.
Crash focused on racial and ethnic tensions in Los Angeles and was made with a relatively small [...]

 
British screen legends Daniel Day-Lewis and Julie Christie bolstered their positions as Oscar frontrunners last night by clinching top acting honours at the Day-Lewis, who won a Golden Globe earlier this month, was named best actor for his role as a tyrannical oil prospector in There Will Be Blood.
He used his acceptance speech to pay [...]

While you won’t yet find a clear front-runner among Best Picture nominees, it’s never too early for Oscar observers to pile on the movie they don’t want to win. Crash and Little Miss Sunshine kept the bile churning in 2005 and 2006, respectively, and it appears now that Juno is bracing itself for this year’s [...]

 
When the director of ‘La Vie en Rose’ cast a virtual unknown as Edith Piaf he struck gold - for the mesmerising Marion Cotillard looks set to add an Oscar to the string of awards she’s already won for the role. Not bad considering this particular Little Sparrow decided to wing it without so much [...]

Dark and violent themes colored the Oscars nominations Tuesday as crime thriller “No Country for Old Men” and epic oil industry drama “There Will Be Blood” topped the list of contenders for this year’s Academy Awards with eight nods each.
The two films edged out British historical drama “Atonement” and legal thriller “Michael Clayton,” which both [...]

 
It’s not an awards show with the vibe of an all-star party; it’s a party masquerading as an awards show. That’s the Golden Globes when it’s in full, fulsome flower. For one night, the TV viewer gets up-front gawking privileges, a chance to see George and Johnny and Julia and Jodie act, not like actors, [...]

The tragic romance “Atonement” was named best drama Sunday at a Golden Globes event that was deflated from star-studded revelry to dry, news conference-style awards announcement because of the Hollywood writers strike.
The bloody stage adaptation “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” was chosen as best musical or comedy. Its star, Johnny Depp, won [...]