Los Angeles: Meryl Streep joined a very exclusive club on Sunday, winning her third acting Oscar for her role as a strident Margaret Thatcher in 'The Iron Lady.' Streep played the British prime minister as a senile retiree, as well as a hectoring, dominant figure who instilled fear and respect in her own cabinet. At the film's pinnacle, Streep as Thatcher is the backbone of a nation that goes to...
10:22 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Director Martin Scorsese's 'Hugo,' which tells the story of a boy lost in a train station and also serves as an ode to the early days of filmmaking, came into the night with 11 nominations. ...
08:40 AM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on January 24 the nominations for the 84th Academy Awards. The winners will be revealed in Hollywood on February 26. The list of films, actors, technicians, make-up artists and musicians honoured each year for outstanding work in their field is not just impressive, but also confusing. We have compiled a list of five great films that you must watch...
07:04 PM, Feb 18, 2012
London: Silent movie 'The Artist' had a night to shout about Sunday, winning seven prizes including best picture at the British Academy Film Awards. Britain's equivalent of the Oscars rewarded the French homage to old Hollywood over a homegrown favorite, espionage thriller 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'. 'The Artist', a black-and-white picture that has charmed audiences around the world since its Cannes debut in May, was named best film, and its...
10:43 AM, Feb 13, 2012
Los Angeles: Two of The Weinstein Company's contenders for Academy Awards - 'The Artist' and 'The Iron Lady' - surpassed the $20 million mark at the box office this weekend. The company's 'W.E.', directed by Madonna, meanwhile, opened to a run-of-the-mill $45,000 at four locations. IFC's horror-thriller 'Kill List' opened to $12,400 at two locations, according to Rentrak's numbers. 'W.E.' is drawing critical praise for star Andrea Riseborough - The...
02:15 PM, Feb 07, 2012
This week, Rajeev Masand talks about the Oscar nominated film 'The iron lady'. ...
05:00 PM, Feb 04, 2012
London: No one inflames British passions quite like Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister whose biopic 'The Iron Lady' has rekindled debate on her legacy ahead of the film's release on Friday. Legions of admirers cast her as a pioneering politician whose bold policies rescued Britain from economic collapse, but equally numerous detractors see her as a heartless champion of free market orthodoxy at the expense of the poor. Memories...
02:17 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Los Angeles: Making a film about an iconic politician like Britain's Margaret Thatcher is akin to walking into a movie minefield, and casting an American even one as revered as Meryl Streep is asking for more trouble. Yet the makers of new movie 'The Iron Lady', which opens in U.S. theaters on Friday, went one step further. They chose to depict Thatcher, now 86, as a confused, lonely woman looking...
11:29 AM, Dec 28, 2011
New York: Meryl Streep may be considered one of the finest actresses around, yet she says she believed her career was over 20 years ago. Streep, now 62, tells Vogue magazine she was offered three different roles to play a witch after turning 40. She believed it meant women in her age group were "grotesque on some level," and told her husband "It's over." Streep graces the January cover of...
05:42 PM, Dec 12, 2011
New Delhi: Academy award winner Meryl Streep will be next seen in The Iron Lady. It is a biographical film about former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Actor Jim Broadbent will be seen playing Thatcher's husband, Denis Thatcher in the film. Anthony Head and Richard E Grant are also a part of the film. The Iron Lady will be take the audience through a lot of flashbacks. It will also...
12:36 PM, Nov 15, 2011
New Delhi: Manipur's iron lady Irom Sharmila, who is on fast for the past 11 years to demand the repeal of the AFPSA, spoke exclusively to CNN-IBN saying that once the government accepts her demands she will break her fast. Anubha Bhonsle: In this room of the Jawaharlal Nehru hospital as a prisoner, as someone who is in judicial custody, what would you like to say to the Prime Minister?...
06:59 PM, Sep 01, 2011
Irom Sharmila has been on a fast for over a decade and demand that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act must go. ...
11:16 PM, Aug 29, 2011
New Delhi: When it comes to fasts and dharnas, popularity clearly matters. Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare hog the public limelight and the Centre's attention but a woman who has been on a fast in Manipur against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act has been ignored for ten years now. The high profile fasts of activists in Delhi and the silent 10-year long fast of Irom Sharmila - Hazare and...
09:11 PM, Jun 10, 2011
New Delhi: Irom Sharmila Chanu and Anna Hazare have one thing in common " the ability to fast indefinitely for what they perceive is right. But the similarities end there. She has been on a political fast for 11 years but her silent resilience moves you when you realize the sheer magnitude of what she is single-handedly trying to achieve. Far from the glare of studio lights of television channels...
06:40 PM, Apr 20, 2011
Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha admires UP CM Mayawati. Sinha said he considers her as a one-man army. ...
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