Oscars

Some words on Sunday’s Oscars, presented with little context: " a Crystal-meth nightmare "; " cadaverous, a depressing slog "; "...

Tradition triumphs with wins by Plummer, Streep and ’The Artist’

Film critic Brian D. Johnson offers tips for picking Academy Award winners

Silent film homages lead the race, while Canadians score 2.5 nominations

I got the book The King’s Speech for Christmas and just finished it; in the very wide field of “slender material adapted into a...

While Gervais coated his barbs with a spoonful of sugar, Seth Rogen and even George Clooney trumped him on the outrage front

Why do the Globes treat ’The Descendants’ as a drama and ’My Week with Marilyn’ as a comedy?

Monroe, Thatcher, Hoover, Freud—Hollywood is turning into the history channel

Paul Wells on how everywhere the news is the same: bad

Best Actor Colin Firth didn’t disappoint. He gave an amusing, literate acceptance speech.