The 10 Best Films Of The Decade About Disabilities
From Oscar winners like The Shape of Water to small indies like The Peanut Butter Falcon, these are the 10 best films of the decade about disabilities.
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The Morning Watch: Julia Louis-Dreyfus Accepts Mark Twain Prize, The Original Cinematic Universes & More
In this edition, Julia Louis-Dreyfus accepts the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Plus, explore the original cinematic universes and more.
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'Just Go With It' Most Popular Redbox Rental Of 2011, 'Fast Five' Tops Most Pirated List
By now you've probably seen dozens of critics' best-of-2011 lists (including ours!), and noticed some amount of overlap on films like Hugo, Drive, and Tree of Life. But there's more than one way to gauge a movie's success, and when it comes to what general audiences are actually watching, a whole different set of titles…
Read MoreThis Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: The King's Speech, Rabbit Hole, Somewhere, Gulliver's Travels, The Way Back, And More
This Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. THE KING'S SPEECH Approaching a story of monumental scope with charm and intimacy, The King's Speech is a finely crafted crowd-pleaser that…
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PG-13 'The King's Speech' Fails To Make Box Office Impact
When The Weinstein Company decided to edit the cursing out of Tom Hooper's Oscar-winning film The King's Speech, they felt the new family-friendly PG-13 rating would help them draw even more money out of their little film that could. Well amid controversy over the artistic merits of such a chop job, audiences have spoken. Last…
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PG-13 Cut Of 'The King's Speech' Opens April 1
April Fools? The Weinstein Company announced today that the PG-13 version of big Oscar winner The King's Speech will open on April 1. The film was originally rated R for a string of expletives uttered by Colin Firth as his character, King George VI, attempts to break through his stutter. Because violence is OK but…
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'The King's Speech' Director Tom Hooper Hasn't Yet Seen The PG-13 Edit Of His Film
Harvey Weinstein has created a new, more family-friendly PG-13 cut of The King's Speech, but the film's director Tom Hooper, the proud owner of a shiny new Best Director Oscar, hasn't yet seen the cut. Within the context of creative enterprise this is an interesting representation of the cross purposes of storytelling and business, but…
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Movie Review: 'The King's Speech'
[Update - Seeing as The King's Speech just won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, we though we'd re-run Germain's rave review from November. Review starts after the jump.] Everyone knows the American Film Institute as the people who do the 100 Years series. But they're much more than that.…
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Edited Version Of 'The King's Speech' Gets PG-13 Rating
The Weinstein Company found itself embroiled in two battles with the MPAA last year. One was over the film Blue Valentine, which was given an NC-17 for one sex scene, and the rating was successfully appealed down to an R without edits being made to the film. The other was for The King's Speech, given…
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'The King's Speech' Writer & Director May Reteam On 'The Lady Who Went Too Far', AKA "A Female 'Lawrence Of Arabia'"
With The King's Speech currently favored to clean house at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards -- after major wins at the Producers Guild and DGA Awards, it's practically a lock for Best Picture -- it should come as no surprise that the creative team behind the film is interested in collaborating once again. Like The…
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Our Best Tips On How To Brighten Your Undereyes
Whether it be a lack of sleep, medical reasons, or not using the right skincare, there are a number of reasons dark circles can develop.
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Page 2: The Fifth Element, The Hobbit, Orson Welles, Sherlock Holmes 2, Harry Potter, Looper, Alien, Thor, Roger Rabbit, Whitney Cummings
What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 40 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
Read MorePage 2: Black Swan, The Hobbit, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vertigo, Almost Famous, LeVar Burton, Indiana Jones, The Lion King, Star Wars
What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 28 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
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LOL: IMDb Prematurely Awards "Best Original Score" Oscar To 'The King's Speech'
A couple /Film readers (notably Andrew G and Luis MG) have pointed out that the Internet Movie Database's Academy Award nomination/winners page lists composer Alexandre Desplat's score for The King's Speech as the winner of the "Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score" Oscar. There is no way IMDb has an advance…
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BAFTA Winners: 'The King's Speech' Scores Big; David Fincher Wins Best Director
Tonight the award ceremony took place in London to honor recipients of the British Academy Film Awards, in a show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). The BAFTA winners won't have any particular effect on the Oscar race, but the lineup for winners looks very much like that which has…
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Cool Stuff: Dean Walton's 2011 Oscar Nominated Movie Posters
Illustrator Dean Walton (aka Mr. Shabba) has created a series of posters for the movies nominated Best Picture for the 2011 Academy Awards. Hit the jump to see his colorful yet minimalistic creations for Black Swan, The Social Network, The King's Speech, True Grit, and The Fighter. Walton is also selling a limited edition run…
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Page 2: Up, Comic-Con, Anchorman, Francis Ford Coppola, The Dark Knight Rises, Walt Disney, GI Joe 2 And More
What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 32 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
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/Filmcast Ep. 132 - Enter The Void
This week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, Russ Fischer, and Adam Quigley discuss some of the best films at Sundance 2011, react to this year's Academy Award nominations, and deconstruct Kevin Smith's controversial remarks at the Sundance Red State screening. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us for our next live broadcast…
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WTF: 'The King's Speech' Might Bleep F-Bombs, Rather Than Cut Them
It's the second WTF post for The King's Speech in the past week. It's been a mostly great run for the movie, as it has swept the big guild awards: producers, directors and actors all gave it top prizes over the last seven days. But Harvey Weinstein is considering cutting the film to score a…
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DGA Honors 'The King's Speech' Director Tom Hooper As Best Director Of 2010
The Directors Guild of America announced its award winners for achievement in 2010 last night, and the big winner was Tom Hooper, director of The King's Speech. That, in conjunction with the film's victory at the Producers Guild awards, puts the movie as the odds-on favorite to win the Best Picture Oscar, and makes Mr.…
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WTF: Harvey Weinstein Wants To Cut 'The King's Speech' To Get PG-13 Rating, Bigger Audience
Hey, remember when Harvey Weinstein was all incensed last year about the R-rating given to The King's Speech? It was at the same time as he was campaigning to appeal the NC-17 given to Blue Valentine, so you might have missed the much more minor controversy about Tom Hooper's film. The rating for Blue Valentine…
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83rd Annual Academy Award Nominations Announced
The nominees for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards have been announced. As expected, big players include The Social Network and The King's Speech, but there are very strong showings for The Kids Are All Right, The Fighter and True Grit. The Best Picture nominees are: Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right,…
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'The King's Speech' Wins Producers Guild Top Award For 2010
For those keenly interested in the award season race, here's the first big upset of the year: the winner of the Producer's Guild of America (PGA) Producer of the Year award for films released in 2010 -- aka the organization's Best Picture award -- is The King's Speech. That represents a big upset over The…
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The Making Of 'The King's Speech'
The Weinstein Company have released a 23 minute behind the scenes making od documentary for The King's Speech. Acclaimed as one of the best films of the year, Tom Hooper's film is the story of "King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch…
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Page 2: Edgar Wright, Ghostbusters, David Lynch, The Dark Knight Rises, Paris Hilton, Top Gun, Banksy, Star Wars, Bill Murray And More
What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 33 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
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Directors Guild Of America Nominations For Outstanding Directorial Achievement In 2010
The last big indicator of how the Oscar nominations are likely to shake out is the nomination set for the Director's Guild of America's award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement. The DGA and Best Director Oscar awards often line up directly (there have been only six deviations since the DGA awards began in 1948) and before…
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Germain's Top 10 Movies Of 2010 (And Top 5 Of 2011 So Far)
Looking back, 2010 is not going to be remembered as a particularly good year for movies. In my mind, most of the 150 or so new films I saw from January to December are all muddled together in a big pile of mediocrity. When that happens though, it's so much easier to pick out the…
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