Category: Awards
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Freaky Friday: Fun Facts
To help those who want to win Trivial Pursuit, here’s some trivia about movies and actors you might find interesting. 10 years before the teen phenomenon Twilight (2008), Reese Witherspoon, Susan Sarandon, & Paul Newman starred in a murder mystery with the same name, Twilight (1998.) [on losing the role of Frankie, which had been…
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Spotlight on Short Films: “The New Tenants” (2009) Best Live-Action Short Film Oscar Winner 2010
Short films don’t get the recognition that they deserve. They are often the springboards for feature films. The 2006 feature film Cashback, was actually the expanded version of its 2004 counterpart. In fact, the feature film version of Cashback includes the full 18 minute Oscar-nominated short film within it. Short films have a running time…
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I’m Not a __________…But I Can Play One: Writers-Novalyne Price & Robert E. Howard
Long before she won an Oscar for Cold Mountain and thanked Vincent D’Onofrio in her acceptance speech, Renée Zellweger worked with him on a little independent movie called The Whole Wide World (1996.) It was the movie she made right before her breakout role in Jerry McGuire and it was because Cameron Crowe saw this…