With just two days to go until Sunday’s 82nd Annual Academy Awards, we at RT have our classy monkey suits and lucky undies pressed, ballots checked and ready, and homeopathic Tomato brews boiling in our dungeon/pantry to take us through our coverage of the show. We’ve made our picks, collected nearly, gone through your reviews of the nominees, and created an Oscar ballot for you to use during the show. So before you make your final picks with your feather dipped in ink from the neighborhood nightingale, we’re going to sum up all the biggest awards for you and give…
Happy Friday Harvest, a weekly round-up of the best pictures, posters, and videos that have become available for viewing/download on Rotten Tomatoes. Each section features the favorite or most interesting item we’ve added for the week, along with several other new highlights. Enjoy!
Picture Gallery of the Week: Survival of the Dead
Diary of the Dead was unwatchable, so I don’t have the highest hopes for Georgie boy’s next flick, Survival of the Dead. His explorations on rehabilitating zombies can be somewhat interesting, but he’s been doing this for decades now, and with diminishing returns. Considering the last 10 years…
“The Secret of Kells” surprised many when it was announced as one of the nominees for this year’s best animated film Academy Award. Salon’s Andrew O’Hehr discusses the movie, and its unexpected Oscar splash, with director Tomm Moore.
Snikt! “Wolverine 2″ has a completed sequel that will send Logan to Japan. Filming is scheduled to begin in January.
Thanks to a recent announcement from Warner Bros., you can officially add “Green Lantern” to the list of upcoming 3-D releases.
Greer Garson holds the place for the longest speech in Oscar history. It was reportedly three hours long. Or was it?
Review in a Hurry: Director Tim Burton and Johnny Depp reteam for their seventh(!) film together, a reimagining of the Lewis Carroll books. This updated Alice should’ve been madly inventive,…
Review in a Hurry: The lives of three troubled law enforcement officers intersect in another tale of crime and corruption in NYC. But the A-list cast can’t elevate Brooklyn’s Finest…
This week at the movies, we’ve got a trip down the rabbit hole (Alice in Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp and Mia Wasilkowska) and a ride-along with the boys in blue (Brooklyn’s Finest, starring Richard Gere and Don Cheadle). What do the critics have to say? At first glace, a Tim Burton adaptation of Alice in Wonderland seems perfectly serendipitous: Hollywood’s most playfully macabre filmmaker would be the obvious choice to reinterpret Lewis Carroll’s darkly whimsical tale. However, critics say the result is curiouser - a film of remarkable visual invention that lacks strong plotting or a sense of wonder. Brooklyn’s…
What happens when a movie goes all out to earn an Oscar nod, but the Academy doesn’t take the bait? Slate has compiled a list of a dozen showy performances that didn’t even get a nomination.
