Cult fave "T.A.M.I. Show" comes to DVD 
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    LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – Director Quentin Tarantino ranks it in the “top three of all rock movies.” “Little Steven” Van Zandt proclaims it “the greatest rock movie you’ve never seen.” That’s about to change March 23 when Shout Factory Read More..

     

    Mo'Nique, Harrelson win supporting Spirit honors 
    (AP)

    LOS ANGELES – Mo’Nique won the supporting-actress honor Friday at the Spirit Awards honoring independent film for the Harlem drama “Precious,” while Woody Harrelson earned the supporting-actor trophy for the war-on-terror story “The Messenger.” Both are up Read More..

     

    Harrelson, Mo'Nique win early Spirit Awards 
    (Reuters)

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Oscar nominees Woody Harrelson and Mo’Nique took home early prizes on Friday at the Spirit Awards, the independent film world’s version of the Oscars. Sitcom veteran Harrelson, 48, was honored for his supporting turn in “The Messenger,” Read More..

     

    Environmentalists see "Avatar" in Canada oil sands 
    (Reuters)

    CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Environmentalists aim to hitch their stars to James Cameron’s “Avatar” by trying to draw parallels between the sci-fi blockbuster and Canada’s oil sands industry ahead of Sunday’s Academy Awards. In a full-page ad in the show Read More..

     

    `Avatar,' `Hurt Locker': AP critics split on Oscar 
    (AP)

    LOS ANGELES – Associated Press Movie Writers David Germain and Christy Lemire agree with each other — and just about every other Academy Awards forecaster — that Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Mo’Nique and Christoph Waltz will walk away with the acting Read More..

     

    Review: 'Alice' through a drearier looking glass 
    (AP)

    In Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland,” Alice has grown — not by “drink me” potion or “eat me” cake — into a 19-year-old girl. Working from Linda Woolverton’s very Hollywood screenplay adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic Read More..

     

    Sci-fi spectacles have history of losing at Oscars 
    (AP)

    LOS ANGELES – The first two times science-fiction blockbusters were nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards, Woody Allen and Gandhi beat up on them. Allen’s small comic drama “Annie Hall” won best picture and director for 1977 over George Lucas’ Read More..

     

    Iran's Panahi arrested over 'anti-regime' film 
    (AFP)

    TEHRAN (AFP) – An “anti-regime” film is behind the arrest of award-winning filmmaker and opposition supporter Jafar Panahi, media reports said on Wednesday. Late Monday security agents broke into Panahi’s home in Tehran and arrested Panahi, his wife and daughter as Read More..

     

    "Hurt Locker" producers sued days before Oscars 
    (Reuters)

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Army sergeant on Tuesday sued the makers of Oscar-nominated film “The Hurt Locker” five days before the Academy Awards, claiming the central character in the film is based on him. Master Sergeant Jeffrey S. Sarver believes screenwriter Mark Boal Read More..