Winter's Bone (movie)

Jennifer Lawrence shines for Dior, eats to stay calm for Oscars

2013-02-22 16:30:00

Jennifer Lawrence goes glam in the new ad campaign for Miss Dior handbags. The Oscar-nominated "Silver Linings Playbook" actress is gussied up in her latest snapshots flaunting the chain-strapped bags from the spring ready-to-wear collection by Raf...

Oscars 2013: Best actress race features oldest and youngest nominees

2013-01-10 11:30:00

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences made history Thursday nominating both the oldest -- Emmanuelle Riva, 85, in "Amour" -- and the youngest --Quvenzhane Wallis, 9, in "Beasts of the Southern Wild" -- actresses in the best actress category. The...

Spirit Awards boost 'Moonrise Kingdom,' 'Silver Linings' momentum

2012-11-27 14:12:00

David O. Russell's screwball comedy "Silver Linings Playbook" and Wes Anderson's coming-of-age romance "Moonrise Kingdom" led the 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards with five nominations apiece, including feature, director and screenplay.� The bounty...

With four films in awards contention, Fox Searchlight has a plan

2012-11-29 06:00:00

It's not unusual for a specialty film label to juggle multiple contenders going into awards season. But it's pretty rare to be pushing the majority of your releases in a single year. That's the situation Fox Searchlight is in as four of its seven 2012...

How Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence found the 'Silver Linings'

2012-11-22 09:35:00

When Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence met for the first time before shooting the new David O. Russell movie "Silver Linings Playbook," they didn't opt for a conventional encounter. There was no leisurely table read of the script, no tell-me-your-...

Review: Emotional 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' is extraordinary

2012-07-26 14:06:00

The Bathtub is a place of myths and wonders, a broken down teardrop of Louisiana marsh and mud in"Beasts of the Southern Wild"and the setting for an extraordinary new drama whose fierceness, like its 6-year-old heroine Hushpuppy, grabs on and won't let...

Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Lawrence tie for No. 1 on soft weekend

2012-09-23 09:16:00

Despite the arrival of four new films in theaters this weekend, moviegoers weren't interested in heading to the box office. For the fourth consecutive weekend, ticket sales were down compared�with the same period in 2011, as none of the fresh arrivals at...

Review: 'The Hunger Games' a winning story of sacrifice and survival

2012-03-21 00:00:00

When you're talking about "The Hunger Games," it all comes down to Katniss. Like other strong-minded women who have driven book sales into the stratosphere — think Lisbeth Salander of the "Dragon Tattoo" triology and even Bella Swan of the...

Quick Takes: Kim Novak vs. 'The Artist'

2012-01-10 00:00:00

No sibling rivalry for Elizabeth Olsen

2011-10-16 00:00:00

Reporting from New York — Elizabeth Olsen recently experienced something that had never happened to her: She was recognized by a stranger. "It was really weird. I was walking in Tribeca and a guy just came up to me and said, 'I just saw the...

Indie Focus: Which pretty new face will Oscars embrace?

2011-11-10 00:00:00

Though many are befuddled this year by the new Oscar math, perhaps unable to parse just how many votes it will take to land a best picture nomination or anticipate even how many nominees there will be, one recent regular equation looks to hold firm: One...

Golden Globes: No 'True Grit' but lots of potential surprises

2011-01-16 00:00:00

One thing that's certain come Sunday evening at the 68th annual Golden Globe Awards — Joel and Ethan Coen's remake of "True Grit" will not be taking home any honors because the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. snubbed the box office hit. On the...

***1/2 (out of four) Is Jennifer Lawrence ("Winter's Bone," "The Hunger Games") the best thing to happen to Hollywood in the last five years? It's possible. She's fantastic again in "Silver Linings Playbook" as Tiffany, who recently lost both her husband and her job.

2012-10-22 00:00:00

This horror flick might look like typical trash, but Jennifer Lawrence ("The Hunger Games," "Winter's Bone") hasn�t made a wrong choice since she�s been established enough to be choosy (in other words, I forgive her for doing "The Burning Plain").

2012-08-29 14:07:00

, looks like a definite front-runner, with Times critic Kenneth Turan calling it a "pure pleasure to experience." Meanwhile, Elizabeth Olsen (younger sister to the Olsen twins) was named the festival "it" girl, thanks to her breakout performance in "Martha Marcy May Marlene.

2011-03-19 17:12:25