Oscar-nominated titles, performances and more at Oscar Central TAGS: awards | blue-ray | dvds | home video | oscar nominated movies The Academy Awards are coming up in less than a week. Will Hugo or The Artist win the best movie Oscar? Or maybe Woody Allen will win for Midnight in …Continue reading →

Is ‘Iron Lady’ really all that different from ‘Iron Man’? I mean, really? TAGS: iron lady | jim broadbent | meryl streep | movie review | oscar contender | weinstein   Movie lovers partial to year-end “prestige” movies like to think of the Oscar contenders now dominating movie screens as fundamentally different from summertime fare. What, they may ask, could …Continue reading →

Does this look like Cuba Gooding Jr. to you? TAGS: culture map | george h.w. bush | houston film critics | media | terrence howard I took a look at CultureMap to see what it had to say about today’s Houston Film Critics Association awards gala. The first thing that grabbed my attention was the …Continue reading →

Houston film critics’ award gala starts at 4 p.m. today Be sure to arrive early for this afternoon’s Houston Film Critics Society awards gala. It starts at 4 p.m. at the Museum of Fine Arts’ Brown Auditorium (I gave the …Continue reading →