This past weekend, Carlton’s beloved Cinema Nova held some special screenings of this year’s Academy Award nominated Animated and Live Action Shorts. Having been an avid watcher of the Oscars for years, the hardest categories have always been the Shorts. One large reason is not having access to all of the nominated pieces before the statues are handed out. When [...]

Ahead of the 85th Annual Academy Awards, screening in Australia on Monday 25th February, Cinema Nova in Melbourne is screening all of the nominated Live Action and Animated Shorts. Ordinarily, it is quiet difficult to view shorts in such capacity, and Film Blerg will be posting reviews next week to celebrate such an occasion.

From the comfort of a house in a suburb of a major city in a Western nation, Iran can feel like a world away.

Stephen Daldry’s adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close delves deep into a singular story of a search undertaken by a young boy whose father died in the September 11 attacks.

Based on the diaries of Olivier studios assistant Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), My Week with Marilyn details Marilyn Monroe‘s (Michelle Williams) stay in England while working on The Prince and the Showgirl with actor/director Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh).

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time. These words were spoken by the delectable Carrie Fisher in her one woman show Wishful Drinking and I cannot think

Spoiler alert to anyone that didn’t want to know. The winners of the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced in a ceremony held just moments ago. Some lovely surprises came with Viola Davis winning Best Female Actor and The Help winning Best Cast in a Motion Picture. The list of complete winners is as follows:

At approximately 12.30am AEST tomorrow (aka Wednesday 25th Jan), the nominations for the 84th Annual Academy Awards will be announced in Los Angeles.

As the Golden Globes momentum dies down, the nominees for the 2012 Orange British Academy Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) are announced. The film nominees are:

Alexander Payne’s latest dramedy The Descendants delves into problematic territory with an exploration of infidelity in a time of turmoil.