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By Daniel D'Addario 11/29/12 12:17pm

Charlize Theron Takes on Violent Role in Lady Vengeance

After an unlikely return to stardom in the past two years (preceded by a few years of not working much), Charlize Theron’s found her next sinister role. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 5/30/12 9:00am

movie reviews

Heroine Chic: Kristen Stewart Eludes Death Sentence and Personality in Snow White and the Huntsman

The idea underpinning Snow White and the Huntsman is a charming one. Epic summer movies use the language of fairy tale and myth to tell stories about contemporary heroes (who are The Avengers but a bunch of Olympians?); why not cut out the middleman and make a movie about a story everyone already knows?

Unfortunately, Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 1/23/12 11:37am

The Oscars

One ‘Newsweek’ Oscar Panelist Won’t Be Nominated (Mathematically Speaking)

Newsweek‘s current issue features its annual pre-nominations “Oscar roundtable”–and either it’ll look dated when nominations are announced tomorrow, or we need to adjust our predictions! The panelists are likely nominees George Clooney and Viola Davis (the working-it pair both recently appeared together on an Entertainment Weekly cover, too), as well as Read More

By Drew Grant 1/15/12 7:30pm

Golden Globes

68th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals

New York Observer’s 2012 Golden Globes Liveblog

Welcome to New York Observer‘s Golden Globe coverage of the 2012, where you’ll be able to read (and participate!) in real time as Drew Grant and Dan D’Addario take bets on which acclaimed actor will be the first to slap that lopsided grin right off Ricky Gervais‘ face. Let the fun begin! Read More

By Rex Reed 12/07/11 2:29pm

movies

A Young Adult's Spinster Cycle

Another triumphant performance by Charlize Theron informs and enhances the otherwise uneven Young Adult, an edgy and sometimes disappointing drama about contemporary neuroses with comic undertones from director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody, the team responsible for the surprise 2007 hit Juno. It’s not in the same league as Mr. Reitman’s hugely superior Up in the Air, but Ms. Theron, a true beauty and one of the screen’s most exquisite actors, keeps the film airborne even when it seems dangerously earthbound. She’s a one-woman emergency rescue squad. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 1/26/11 4:00pm

The Oscars

Will Natalie Portman Be the Next Best Actress Winner to Suffer the Curse?

No Strings Attached isn’t just another bad Ashton Kutcher movie (though, wow, is it that). It’s a movie that “could destroy everything” for would-be Oscar winner Natalie Portman, says Rex Reed. Whether or not Portman’s march to the podium is interrupted, there’s a long tradition of Best Actresses immediately following up their Oscar roles Read More

By Rex Reed 11/24/09 12:19am

Get Ready for The Road

The Road
Running time 119 minutes
Written by Joe Penhall
Directed by John Hillcoat
Starring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce

Welcome to the apocalypse. In The Road, the eagerly awaited movie version of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, the end of the world is no longer on Read More

By Marissa Capodanno 11/18/09 12:15am

Viggo Wigged Out by Emotional Role in Cormac McCarthy Movie

The New York premiere of director John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning, doomful tale The Road was conspicuously missing its blond South African star: Charlize Theron.

On the third floor of the Clearview Chelsea Cinemas on Monday, Nov. 16, soft-spoken actor (and poet/musician/artist/sex object) Viggo Mortensen admitted to the Transom that Read More

By Christopher Rosen 1:27pm

Tom Cruise: The Comeback Kid!

A funny thing happened on the way to the funeral being held for Tom Cruise’s career … Valkyrie became a hit. Well, maybe calling it a "hit" is a bit too much. But still, the film, which was dragged through the muck for the better part of a year, grossed a respectable $153 million Read More

By Caroline Bankoff 11/04/08 2:33pm

Morning Memo: Barack Obama Confers With Oprah; Justin Long Downgrades; Lindsay Lohan Gets Out the Vote

Barack Obama did some last minute strategizing in a Monday morning conference call that included Oprah Winfrey and Sean "Diddy" Combs (also Donna Brazile, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, and Rev. Joseph Lowery). [R&M]

Lindsay Lohan is once again harnessing the power of Myspace to remind fans to vote. [People] Read More

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Charlize Theron Takes on Violent Role in Lady Vengeance

Heroine Chic: Kristen Stewart Eludes Death Sentence and Personality in Snow White and the Huntsman

One ‘Newsweek’ Oscar Panelist Won’t Be Nominated (Mathematically Speaking)

New York Observer’s 2012 Golden Globes Liveblog

A Young Adult's Spinster Cycle

Will Natalie Portman Be the Next Best Actress Winner to Suffer the Curse?

Get Ready for The Road

Viggo Wigged Out by Emotional Role in Cormac McCarthy Movie

Tom Cruise: The Comeback Kid!

Morning Memo: Barack Obama Confers With Oprah; Justin Long Downgrades; Lindsay Lohan Gets Out the Vote

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