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So Avatar didn’t dominate the Bafta’s and Twilight’s Kristen Stewart gains the Orange rising star award. Here is the list of winner:

Best Film: The Hurt Locker

Best Actor: Colin Firth – A Single Man

Best Actress: Carey Mulligan – An Education

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker

Outstanding British Film: Fish Tank

Best supporting actor: Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

Best supporting actress: Mo’Nique – Precious

Rising Star Award: Kristen Stewart

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer: Duncan Jones – Moon

Original Screenplay Award: Mark Boal – The Hurt Locker

Academy Fellowship: Vanessa Redgrave

The Oscars are here, so get ready for the A List stunners waltzing down the red carpet with class. As everyone would expect Avatar has topped the nominations list and if it doesn’t win best picture it’s because he’s up against his ex-wife! The Hurt Locker, directed by ex-wifey Kathryn Bigelow, dominated the nominations also with nine apiece, including best picture.

Bigelow is tipped to win the director’s prize. I love the fact Bigelow is only the fourth woman to be nominated and would be the first female winner. Girl Power!

The awards will take place on the 7th of March.

Check out some of the nominees;

Best Picture:

Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, A Serious Man, Up, Up In The Air

Best Actor:

Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart), George Clooney (Up In The Air), Colin Firth (A Single Man), Morgan Freeman (Invictus), Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)

Best Actress:

Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side), Helen Mirren (The Last Station), Carey Mulligan (An Education), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)

Best Supporting Actor:

Matt Damon (Invictus), Woody Harrelson (The Messenger), Christopher Plummer (The Last Station), Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones), Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Supporting Actress:

Penelope Cruz (Nine), Vera Farmiga (Up In The Air), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart), Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air), Mo’Nique (Precious)

Best Animated Feature Film:

Coraline, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Princess and the Frog, The Secret of Kells, Up

Best Director:

James Cameron (Avatar), Kathrun Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds), Lee Daniels (Precious), Jason Reitman (Up In The Air)

Best Documentary Feature:

Burma VJ, The Cove, Food Inc, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Which Way Home

Avatar has not only smashed the box office, it has now claimed two Golden Globe awards for best drama and best director at the 67th annual ceremony, voted for by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Director James Cameron expressed surprise regarding his best director award. “Frankly, I thought Kathryn was gonna get this,” he said, referring to his ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow, hotly tipped for her work behind the camera on Iraq bomb-disposal drama The Hurt Locker. “But make no mistake,” he continued, “I’m very grateful.”

Avatar beat some hot competition from fellow nominees Inglourious Basterds, Precious, Up in the Air and The Hurt Locker. It has proved a worthy winner and a proud moment for the director and crew.

Here’s the full list of winners at the 67th annual Golden Globe ceremony;

Avatar

*Best performance by an actress in a motion picture – drama

Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side

*Best performance by an actor in a motion picture – drama

Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

*Best motion picture – comedy or musical

The Hangover

*Best performance by an actress in a motion picture – comedy or musical

Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

*Best performance by an actor in a motion picture – comedy or musical

Robert Downey Jr, Sherlock Holmes

*Best animated feature

Up

*Best foreign language film

The White Ribbon (Germany)

*Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a motion picture

Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

*Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a motion picture

Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

*Best director – motion picture

James Cameron, Avatar

*Best screenplay – motion picture

Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

*Best original score – motion picture

Michael Giacchino, Up

*Best original song – motion picture

The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart), Crazy Heart

*Best television series

Mad Men (AMC)

*Best performance by an actress in a television series – drama

Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife

*Best performance by an actor in a television series – drama

Michael C Hall, Dexter

*Best television series – comedy or musical

Glee (Fox)

*Best performance by an actress in a television series – comedy or musical

Toni Collette, United States of Tara

*Best performance by an actor in a television series – comedy or musical

Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock

*Best mini-series or motion picture made for television

Grey Gardens (HBO)

*Best performance by an actress in a mini-series or motion picture made for television

Drew Barrymore, Grey Gardens

*Best performance by an actor in a mini-series or motion picture made for television

Kevin Bacon, Taking Chance

*Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a series, mini-series or motion picture made for television

Chloe Sevigny, Big Love

*Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a series, mini-series or motion picture made for television

John Lithgow, Dexter

*Cecil B DeMille award:

Martin Scorsese

The Twilight sensation Edward Cullen, I mean Robert Pattinson, is one of the hot favourites to clinch the lead role in the new Spider-Man 4 movie replacing Toby Maguire.

The Daily Variety reported movie bosses are planning to make a prequel about Spider-Man’s alter-ego, Peter Parker and Pattinson may be on the cards to play him.

A source tells the Daily Mirror, “The buzz in Hollywood is all about R-Patz as the hot, young thing being lined up to fill Tobey Maguire’s shoes. It would be a hard act to follow as fans were traumatised at the news Tobey was going.”

Could this turn into a war of the hunks as High School Musical star Zac Efron also has his eye on the role. My opinion is neither are worthy of the spider, an unknown actor may be what the Exec’s should go for. Just a little thought.

Apparently it can as according to fans, the need to go to the planet Pandora becomes unbearable when the film ends. While watching the film they are so happy and yearn to be part of the fictional world on the fake utopian planet Pandora. But after the credits roll some fans say they are plagued by suicidal thoughts.

The James Cameron blockbuster tells the story of a typical American corporation trying to mine for a rare mineral on the planet Pandora after Earth’s resources have been depleted, sounds familiar doesn’t it? The planet is full of harmony, warmth and beauty, with fans craving this make believe world once they leave the cinema. On a website, Avatar Forums, one topic “Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible” has more than 1,000 posts. This is extremely worrying. This is one post from a Swedish teenager on another Avatar site,
“When I woke up this morning after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world seemed grey. It was like my whole life, everything I’ve done and worked for, lost its meaning … It just seems so meaningless. I still don’t really see any reason to keep doing things at all. I live in a dying world.”
I seriously think some people need counselling, I mean IT’S A MOVIE! Get over it! My suggestion is to help PLANET EARTH, recycle, don’t use harmful emissions and for God’s sake stop feeling BLUE and start thinking GREEN.

The decade of utter shame for these celebs (and many others) as they couldn’t buy their way out of jail (on most cases) but got a free photoshoot!

1.    Michael Jackson

This looks like a scary character from a film, sorry Mic, it’s just too weird!

2.   James Brown

RIP the Godfather of Funk but dear lord he could’ve done his hair!

3.    Kat Williams

Love this pic as comedian Kat gives the ‘Po Po’ the cheesiest grin ever.

4.    Paris Hilton

Lip gloss? This dopey celeb probably treated the police like her PA ‘touch up please…NOW’

5.    Shia Labeouf

Either Shia overdosed on Red Bull or he is high off some other strange substance.

6.    Mischa Barton

Mischa is sporting the ‘crack-head’ look in her pic.

7.    Heather Locklear

Deer in the head lights?

8. DMX

He is so used to the mugshot routine that he pops a smile.

9.   Kiefer Sutherland

24′s Keifer still keeps his charm in his mugshot.

10.    Mickey Rourke

Mickey looks almost as comfortable as DMX!

It’s back and coming to a cinema near you but you’ll have to wait a few months until summertime for its release. If you’ve just come back from space or are under 25 you may not have heard of this 80’s TV classic remake. Directed by ”Smokin’ Aces” director Joe Carnahan and produced by famed filmmaking brothers, Tony and Ridley Scott, this movie is sure to be one of the highly anticipated movies of the year.

But I must say the trailer is, well…utter rubbish and totally predictable. Unlike Batman Returns and Casino Royale, the A Team remake is not made with a futuristic view. It looks bland, unexciting and minus the special effects, it looks like the same ol’ A Team (minus the original cast). A trailer should be the best parts of the film to entice the audience in but this is only deterring me from watching it. However, I will watch it and hope the film will be better than the trailer but as we know from Transformers 2, this probably won’t happen. Take a look, what do you think?

1.     There will be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)

2.     Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen, 2006)

3.     Mulholland Drive (David Lynch’s 2001)

4.     Team America: World Police (Matt Stone and Trey Parker, 2004)

5.     The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)

6.     The Son’s Room (Nanni Moretti, 2001)

7.     4 months, 3 weeks & 2 days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)

8.     Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)

9.     Timeout (Laurent Cantet, 2001)

10.   Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore, 2004)

According to the Guardian

The first Sexy & the City film was beyond words, I was really surprised at how emotional I got. I cried not once but twice as it felt like Carrie was actually one of my friends! I’m so happy that their doing another film but wonder if it can be as good? I mean I’m a fan from the TV show and will still watch the re-runs but the trailer doesn’t seem so exciting as the first film. What are your thoughts?

Nothing says Christmas like a top Christmas film, here’s the top ten of all time:

1. The Snowman

In which a little boy learns the hard way about investing far too much emotion in the essentially entropic nature of certain elemental forces.

2. Bad Santa

Billy Bob Thornton’s department store Santa gets drunk a lot and falls over.

3. Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

Jack Skellington attempts to combine Christmas with Halloween… with hee-larious results! Actually, it’s not hilarious. It’s horrible.

4. Scrooged

Bill Murray’s cynical TV exec is shown the error of his ways in this ‘Christmas Carol’ update.

5. Brazil

Owing to a literal fly in the works, innocent family man Harry Buttle is impounded at Christmas, charged for his own arrest and sadistically tortured until he be dead. Merry Christmas from Terry Gilliam.

6. The Muppet Christmas Carol

The Muppets’ take on the Dickens classic with Michael Caine stepping into the miser’s shoes.

7. Gremlins

A mogwai isn’t just for Christmas.

8. Die Hard

Strange, but a lot of people forget this is set at Christmas, with Bruce Willis flying out to meet his wife for the festive season. And walking into a world of yippee-ki-hurt.

9. Trading Places

Notable for the scene in which a broken, booze-reeking Dan Aykroyd pulls a fish from his Kris Kringle beard and, later, a loaded revolver. He’s a bit unhappy.

10. Love Actually

In which Emma Thompson makes the steeliest cynic blub like a broken fire hydrant.

According to Channel 4.

The following list of films are not necessarily the best films of the decade but are what has defined film and changed the ways they are made and viewed. Here is the top ten –

1.    Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

Director: Michael Moore

2.    Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Director: Ang Lee

3.    The Incredibles (2004)

Director: Brad Bird

4.    There Will Be Blood (2007)

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

5.    Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Director: Peter Jackson

6.    Memento (2000)

Director: Christopher Nolan

7.    Borat (2006)

Director: Larry Charles

8.    Amores Perros (2000)

Director: Alejandro GonzÁlez I—Árritu

9.    The Passion of the Christ (2004)

Director: Mel Gibson

10.     Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

Director: Danny Boyle

The above results are according to the Telegraph online.

I have loved the animated films of the past 10 years, Pixar has created 4 out of my top 5, the rulers of animation! It was really tough to choose just 5 films of the decade but here’s my favourite;

1. WALL-E (2008)

This film was so innovative and clever, I was surprised to have really enjoyed a film with limited dialogue.

2. Cars (2006)

3. Coraline (2009)

4. Finding Nemo (2003)

5. The Incredibles (2004)

I just watched the trailer for Avatar and I must admit I am eagerly awaiting its cinema release next week. I think the trailer was as near as amazing as could be but then again so was Transformers and look how that film turned out – utter rubbish! But I do have high hopes for Avatar, I love the soundtrack, graphics, motion capture, the unknown actors – just about everything really, but my only concern is can the story actually be any good? Again, with Transformers the graphics were much stronger than the invisible storyline and the only storyline I could see was some not funny transformers along with a sexy actress, Megan Fox, bending over constantly. I really hope James Cameron can push the boundaries within the future of cinema and dash all the Smurf comparisons aside.

Right let’s get this straight, I am a 25 year old women and am in danger of becoming one of those obsessed teenage girls who love Edward Cullen and the Twilight saga. I am currently reading, very rapidly I must add, the New moon book prior to seeing it in the cinemas. I hear the film is amazing and the love is now shifting from Edward Cullen to Jacob Black. Yes I’ve seen the clips of his muscular body and yes I feel sickened as I enjoy the body of a young man, making me feel like I need a toy boy in my life.

To get to the point I’m trying to make is, are we near a new dawn where movies such as New Moon are causing a serious frenzy among older women being drawn to younger men? I mean check out – twilightmoms.com, it’s a site where women over 25 get to basically obsess over Twilight and they even go as far as attending premieres and chasing downs the lead actors. I mean someone’s got to draw the line. Imagine your Peter Patterson and are being chased, not by sexy young women but mum’s with grey hair and wrinkles? Yes I agree, you’d be terrified and wish you were actually a vampire!