Which Mid-Season Replacements Have the Stuff to Make It? Well, it’s Act 2 for the 2011-2012 TV season, a year that’s seen the launch of successful series like New Girl, acclaimed ones like Homeland, and the demise of others like Free Agents. Which new ones have a shot, and which are not so hot? I 
In a small town, dark secrets sure do have a way of getting out, don’t they? Such is the case in Secrets of Eden, premiering on the Lifetime network tomorrow night. Based on the Chris Bohjalian best-seller, Eden stars Uncle Jesse—er, John Stamos, as Reverend Stephen Drew, a beloved Vermont minister whose world is rocked by the shocking 
While most prognosticators are sharpening their knives in anticipation of this year’s upcoming Oscars, some of the darker, more indie prospects for next year’s awards have already emerged, courtesy of the Sundance Film Festival. Jurors in the documentary categories were Fenton Bailey, Heather Croall, Charles Ferguson, Tia Lessin and Kim Roberts. Eugene Jarecki’sThe House I Live In, 
With just under a month to go until the Oscars, the 18th annual Screen Actors Guild awards presentation solidified the conventional wisdom as to who the front-runners are in this year’s Best Picture and four acting categories – or at least, in three of ‘em. Christopher Plummer and Octavia Spencer continued to dominate the supporting actor 
“There are only three great Shakespeare movies,” Harvey Weinstein said last night at the Paris Theater. “Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet, Laurence Olivier’s Henry V, and Coriolanus.” How convenient, then, that Weinstein was introducing the U.S. premiere of Coriolanus, the directorial debut of actor Ralph Fiennes. Weinstein may have been his typically hyperbolic self, but he was not inaccurate. Fiennes’ adaptation of the 
They came, they saw, they drank. And oh yeah, some of them even won awards. Such were the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards, decided upon by the semi-venerable Hollywood Foreign Press Association and shown on NBC. It was a night of few surprises and seemingly even less preparation on the part of those involved in front 
As a movie awards guy, right now is perhaps the most exciting time of the year. Though the lists of potential nominees and possible winners have pretty much all revealed themselves, most races have yet to anoint any official frontrunners. This twilight of the gold won’t last much longer, however, once the Golden Globes are 
For most, the early winter weeks are a time for hibernation and relaxation. In sunny Hollywoodhowever, it marks the season when the stars come out to honor each other for the past year’s work. The first big stop on that train is the Golden Globe Awards, being held this Sunday in Los Angeles. For the 69th year, 
Let’s be honest: the past year saw a lot of versatile takes on interesting subjects in film form. There was plenty of talent on display in a number of movies that were good enough to justify spending the ever-rising price of tickets. But that’s all that the year in film was: good enough, rife with some 
It’s that time of year. As shoppers raid the department store sales, I mark the end of the year in my own crazily secular way: by raiding my DVR. Sadly, while I watch an awful lot, I simply can’t watch everything (sorry, Boss andParks and Recreation!) Forthwith, you’ll find the very best of what I did see 
