Despite what some experts may say, forecasting the Academy Awards isn't exactly rocket science; one need only look to last year's Best Picture victory for No Country for Old Men to see the blueprint for Oscars glory.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was the biggest winner following Thursday's announcement of the Academy Awards nominations with its reception of 13 nods; the film managed to score a place for David Fincher in the Best Director category, as well as one for Brad Pitt in the Best Actor division and one for Taraji P.
Defiance, the latest film from director Ed Zwick, tells the inspirational story of the four Bielski brothers who led their own form of revolt against the Nazis during World War II.
Around this time every year, without fail, film critics across the country trot out their year-end retrospectives on the highlights of the past 12 months, usually in the form of a top-10 list.
It is often said that America is obsessed with the race issue. From the signing of our Constitution and the arguments over slavery that led to the Civil War to our most recent presidential election, race relations have always seemed to be at the forefront of our national conversation.
Once upon a time, long, long ago, the Oscars were a simple, understated awards ceremony held to honor the best Hollywood movies of the year.
Clint Eastwood's latest directorial effort, Changeling, portrays the bleak and often deeply troubling story of a mother whose son goes missing.
For some filmmakers, reinventing oneself with a radical new direction seems to come naturally. Steven Soderbergh, for one, has made a career of it, jumping between mainstream big-budget fare like the Ocean's Eleven series and Out of Sight and independent and even experimental works like Sex, Lies, and Videotape and Bubble.
In recent years, the Western genre has experienced something of a revival in Hollywood. While the genre fell off as the preeminent moneymaker for Hollywood after the 1950s, a number of classic Westerns have nevertheless been produced since then.
Burn After Reading is the latest film from the Coen Brothers, the directing duo behind the critically acclaimed No Country for Old Men.
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The Brandeis Jewish Bund holds first event of the academic year, grows interest from students in-person and online