Conventional wisdom unequivocally asserted that the only Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee to hold a candle to Waltz with Bashir was France’s The Class - but that even that movie was hardly as technically groundbreaking or thematically poignant as Israel’s nominee. Regardless, The...

  Dolly Parton has come to rescue Jessica Simpson, although we think it's a bit late for that now. Mike Myers and Paris Hilton won several insulting awards over the weekend. Ladies, don't despair: your best sex comes in your forties. Thanks to this kid, the porn thief has been captured....

  In this week's New York Magazine, prediction guru Nate Silver made some oddball predictions, choosing mathematical calculations done on his computer instead of using common sense. We were baffled by one of his chooses, while he wisely stayed away from all of the categories in which the ra...

  Excuse the terrible headline, but we're rushing to be the first to take down The Man (Mr. Skin) by revealing his Top 5 Naked 2009 Academy Award Nominees in all their free and uncensored glory... Earlier this week, the Hollywood nude database announced the famed annual list of naked Oscar ...

Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent , this week we’re heading to… Israel! Waltz With Bashir opens on an animated, rain-soaked street to the sou...

Over the past day or so, since the Academy Award nominations were announced, I’ve read nothing but contempt for the Academy and its voters. “The Dark Knight was robbed,” “Best Animated Feature is not good enough for Wall-E,” “Nothing for Gran Torino? Really?”...

Came home from Slamdance with a wicked cold, so, forgive me ahead of time if I don’t over-analyze this year’s Oscar nominees. It’s not that I’m not excited about them — because there are some really cool movies in the running this year –but having slept on the cou...

"Oh, good grief, it's Oscar."--Lucille Bluth, "Arrested Development" (The following post is written to the tune of Bruce Springsteen's "The Wrestler," which was not among those nominated for Best Original Song when the 81st Academy Award nominations were announced earlier today.) Have you ever seen ...

Oscar-winning actor Paul Newman responded to unconfirmed reports that he is gravely ill with cancer with a statement that he is "doing nicely"....

A wise man once said “It’s not just about seeing Star Wars two weeks before everyone else. You’ve gotta plow through crap like Marie Antoinette and Catwoman as well.� I have the fortune of being able to see all of the films that I want, and find out that they are only worth one viewing (or l...