Welcome to Part Two of MovieRetriever's Picks for the 15 Upcoming Contenders for the 2008 Best Picture Oscar! To read Part One, click HERE: ***** Movie: The Soloist   Director: Joe Wright Screenwriter: Susannah Grant Cast: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine KeenerTentative Release Date: November 21, 2008      What's it About:  A true ...Read More

OK, 2008, it's time for a little tough love. Since we're such big film fans, the MovieRetriever staff has been trying to give 2008 the benefit of the doubt, but, now that the year is officially half over, we've finally got to say - this is one of the worst ...Read More

While the Hound didn't make it to Cannes this year, he was there in spirit. With that in mind, here are the tallies from this year's festival.The winner of this year's Palm d'Or was announced on Sunday (5/25) and Laurent Cantet's gripping drama The Class, about a group of students ...Read More

The 2008 Cannes Film Festival kicked off last week (it ends on May 25), and we've already got questions about this year's most prestigious French film fete. Granted, some of those questions are things like "What's with all dem subtitles?" and "Is Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Three Monkeys a prequel to ...Read More

The nominees for the 2008 MTV Movie Awards were announced today, and… wow, remember when these awards used to be good? Remember when they had all sorts of wacky categories, atypical musical acts, and gave awards to emerging filmmakers like Wes Anderson? This year’s nominees sound like they were written ...Read More

In theory, we’re big fans of the MTV Movie Awards. We love their non-traditional categories (like their glorious life-time achievement awards for Clint Howard and Chewbacca), their tradition of movie spoofs (remember when they hired the cast of Rushmore to act out their best picture nominees?), odd musical acts (like ...Read More

You might not be able to afford to rent an apartment or eat dinner in New York’s trendy Tribeca neighborhood, but, if you’re in the area, you can probably scrape together enough to attend the Tribeca Film Festival, which is going to run from April 23 through May 4. Now, ...Read More

Here at MovieRetriever, we’re such award-season junkies that we start ranking the likelihood of the next year’s Oscar nominations as soon as that ball drops on New Year’s Eve. Fine, everyone knows that critics and award-voters forget about movies released at the beginning of a calendar year (which is why ...Read More

You can see the results of this year’s Oscars on its own nifty award page here, but, to offer our own brief two cents on the evening, here are MovieRetriever’s top ten favorite moments from the 2008 Oscar Awards: 10. Even with the Writers Strike cutting into their prep time, ...Read More

It's time to stop bankrolling all those "For Your Consideration" ads, producers of Who's Your Caddy?, because the 2008 Oscar nominations have finally been announced!Overall, the Movie Retriever staff is pretty pleased with the results. The nods for Tommy Lee Jones and Viggo Mortensen were nice surprises – ...Read More

One of the Hound's favorite tinseltown traditions took place on January 21 (the day before the Oscars noms were announced), the unveiling of this year's Golden Raspberry nominations. The Razzies celebrate Hollywood's worst, presenting annual "Dis-Honors for Worst Achievements in Film." It's an award show that recognizes unheralded gems like ...Read More

Man-oh-man, the Foreign Press Association must hate the Writers Guild of America. Thanks to the WGA's ongoing strike, the booziest award show of the season essentially got cancelled this year. Because the FPA couldn't negotiate a temporary deal with the WGA (and since the FPA got into a public battle ...Read More

Even though critics got their butts every cleverly handed to them by Anton Ego in last year's sublime Ratatouille (you see, THAT is how you criticize a critic, M. Night, not by having some stupid terror dog maul Bob Balaban in Lady in the Water ), the Critics' ...Read More

The American Film Institute has, once again, put out their list of the ten most influential motion pictures of the year. Probably the biggest surprise is the inclusion of Judd Apatow's Knocked Up , a popular favorite (which did well with critics too), but comedies typically go unnoticed at ...Read More

Congratulations! You've stumbled upon the VideoHound Awards Watch Blog! (Your trophy will be arriving in the mail in the next 3 to 7 years. All awards acceptance speeches will be made by Pauly Shore who lovingly accepts the award in your behalf.) Our purpose on this blog is to try ...Read More