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Life is confusing for the beautiful 19-year-old Vivian (Agnes Bruckner). She's an orphan living with a single aunt who seems to harbor resentment towards her. Her cousin is uncomfortably possessive. Her family is forcing her into a union with a much-older man whom she doesn’t love. She found a handsome young artist who wants a relationship with her despite her family's resistance. Oh, and she's a werewolf.

The musical Dreamgirls leads the Oscar contenders this year with eight nominations. Nominees for the Oscars, or Academy Awards, were announced early Tuesday in Los Angeles. But the upbeat musical was not in the top category, Best Motion Picture.

Awards from major critics groups, including the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Golden Globes help make Forest Whitaker a leading contender for the Best Actor Oscar. The Hollywood veteran is earning all this "buzz" for his portrayal of Ugandan president Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland".

“Sometimes a subject just chooses you and it’s impossible to look away. When that happens, you just have to approach the subject honestly and hope others can find value in it.” Filmmaker Ben Coccio gave this explanation for choosing the subject of high school shootings for his first feature length film, a fictional account of two teenaged boys planning and carrying out a deadly attack on fellow students.

The last season of Sopranos being released soon, and as I have been reading one of my books about Machiavelli the last few days, I'm reminded about how badly the show treats Machiavelli. Throughout the show, especially third season, Tony as well as Paulie have intense loyalty to Sun Tzu as a strategist while the only thing that is ever said about Machiavelli is that Tony couldn't really understand his writing.

A child's fairy tale fantasy provides her refuge from the ravages of war in a vividly imaginative film by Mexican-born writer-director Guillermo del Toro. Alan Silverman has a look at "Pan's Labyrinth."

Movie Special Effects as such had very humble beginnings. Technicians and cameraman, while tinkering with their equipment, sometimes unexpectedly came up with some new effects. For instance, film editing was supposedly invented by sheer accident. It is said that a Frenchmen named George Melies, invented (or rather discovered) editing while filming footage for his documentary about the Place de l‘Opera in Paris in 1896, using a hand-cranked camera.

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Nominations for the 79th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 23, 2007, at 5:30 a.m. PST in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Is there an innate desire in us that violence is meted out as a form of justice -- that killing and murder are seen as legitimate means to the end that is justice? If this is so then why is it that killing can in one medium (reality) can be so repulsive, while in another (the movies/ popular culture) it is so acceptable, and even enjoyable?

Everyone becomes a critic during the previews. It is thumbs up or thumbs down. People seem to think that those sitting behind, in front, and next to them are eager to hear their opinion of a film’s trailer.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that seven films remain in competition for achievement in makeup for the 79th Academy Awards.

In 2004, a little science film called "What the Bleep Do We Know?!" was a surprise hit that got everyday average people thinking about quantum physics. Recently has been released a special "Down the Rabbit Hole Quantum" edition of the movie with six hours of additional interviews. It's all part of their plan to take the fear factor out of science.

Unlike other Academy Awards, achievements receiving Scientific and Technical Awards do not have to have been developed and introduced during 2006. The achievement can be a device or a discovery, a formula or a method, but it must demonstrate a proven record of contributing significant value to the process of making motion pictures.

In a world without babies, a newborn child could be the key to humanity's future in a dark and compelling thriller co-written and directed by Mexican-born filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron. Alan Silverman has this look at "Children of Men."