Angela Lansbury ends a good year with a royal honor

Posted by · 6:33 am · December 31st, 2013

It’s been a good 2013 for Angela Lansbury — or make that Dame Angela Lansbury. Weeks after receiving her Honorary Oscar, the 88-year-old actress has received a damehood in the UK’s New Year Honors list.

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Hans Zimmer (who else?) to score Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar'

Posted by · 11:35 am · June 3rd, 2013

The sci-fi epic will mark Zimmer’s fifth collaboration with the director.

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15 films we might consider seeing in 3D

Posted by · 8:00 pm · April 2nd, 2013

Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” is getting the 3D treatment this weekend on the occasion of the film’s 20th anniversary. We’ll circle back later this week with some thoughts on the film and the conversion, but with it in mind, the HitFix team started pondering what other films we MIGHT consider seeing converted to 3D.

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'Dark Knight Rises' and 'Rust & Bone' star Marion Cotillard honored in Telluride

Posted by · 4:08 pm · September 1st, 2012

Actress Marion Cotillard didn’t really explode onto the domestic film stage until “La Vie en Rose,” and what a coming out it was. She managed to win an Oscar that few (ahem) saw coming and transformed that newfound respect and goodwill into a thriving Hollywood career, but it was hardly an overnight success story.

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Aiming for head of the cinematic class

Posted by · 8:39 am · November 16th, 2011

The past two decades have offered up such top-tier works as “Breaking the Waves,” “The City of Lost Children,” “The Thin Red Line” and “City of God.” How is this decade shaping up?

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Hans Zimmer bows out of this year's Oscar race

Posted by · 9:56 am · October 23rd, 2011

Nine-time Oscar nominee Hans Zimmer has opted to sit out this year’s Best Original Score race by refusing to personally enter any of his 2011 scores for consideration — including “Rango” and “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.”

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