waltz with bashir

Today in Awards Hell: ‘WALL-E’ Beaten Into Submission by Animated Israelis

4:16AM STV | In a timely, sort of surprising portent of things to come this awards season, the National Society of Film Critics chose the Israeli animated documentary Waltz With Bashir as its best picture of 2008. More »

Today in Cannes Hell: Bush Billboards, Early Favourites and Sean Penn Being A Dick

5:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Really, we’re able to enjoy nearly everything happening at this year’s Cannes Film Festival without even leaving our offices: There’s the eerie, 24/7 surveillance available from IFC. There are Hollywood Elsewhere’s billboard glimpses of gay Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor and Jesus Christ straddling a US fighter jet. There’s Andrew O’Hehir tempting us at Salon with his A Christmas Tale rave (headlined “Grief, cancer, Nietzsche and Santa”) and Anne Thompson spilling the beans on James Toback’s “juicy” documentary about Mike Tyson. More »