Looks like the academy didn’t look too favourably on 13-oscar-nominated Benjamin Button’s de-aging-ness… Instead they favoured Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, it won Best Film, Best Director and six other little gold statues. Mickey Rourke didn’t get the Best Actor Oscar, despite winning Best Actor at most of the other awards shows, they gave it to the already Oscar-winning Sean Penn. Kate Winslet finally received an Oscar for which she started talking about shampoo, and to the surprise of no-one; Heath Ledger won a [...]

Ooh. Now then. Here’s the first teaser trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s new film Inglourious Basterds. And it’s a doozy. It’s been a good while since I can say I’ve been excited about anything Quentin Tarantino has been doing. Kill Bill (vol. 1 and vol.2) were a mess. A big, needlessly long mess… not only were they too long, they were… just too crap. It was nothing more than a multi-million dollar licence for QT’s ego to run wild, creating his [...]

It must be difficult these days being a rich, handsome, award winning actor – what with all that, er… being rich, handsome and award winning… Cases in point, Christian Bale and Joaquin Phoenix – both, over the last few years, have made the jump from promising acting talent to bona-fide Hollywood A-list. Bale becoming the thinking-man’s ass-kicker with the likes of his phenomenally successful spot as the Batmaaan, and then there’s Phoenix who, not too long ago, got nominated for [...]