Film Independent Co-Presidents Sean Mc Manus and Josh Welsh jointly announced today that this year’s 2013 Spirit Award nominees will be presented by an actress whose name has been in the news quite a lot lately - Zoe Saldana - who'll be joined by Common and Anna Kendrick.
Read More »I'm sure this isn't something that a lot of you even want to consider; BUT, before you have my head on a platter, let me explain myself...
Read More »Compared to the first set of photos I posted last week (there've been others since then), these new pics show a Zoe Saldana that's much further into the transformation to Nina Simone than what we've seen previously, so we had to share.
Read More »Despite the fact that no one really seems to want see actress Zoe Saldana play Nina Simone in an upcoming film biopic (or so says the New York Times), the picture is not only going forward, it begins shooting this week. And some iconic names are joining the cast. Or at least, cast members that will ...
Read More »Yet another development in the endless controversy of the year.
Read More »Despite its technical achievements, long time readers will know that I wasn't much of an Avatar fan.
Read More »A quick round-up of noteworthy films opening in USA theaters today...
Read More »There’s a compelling idea at the core of 'The Words', especially as acted out by Bradley Cooper and the incomparable Jeremy Irons, but it’s nearly extinguished by the material that surrounds it, sorry to say. The premise is solid: a struggling writer chances upon a long-lost manuscript and publishes...
Read More »I just found this interview with Cynthia Mort, screenwriter of the upcoming Nina Simone biopic, which has been the focus on several of our posts in the past two weeks.
Read More »The widespread public reaction to this week's news that actress Zoe Saldana has replaced singer Mary J. Blige in the planned Nina Simone biopic has been very interesting-- if not troubling.
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