Glenn Close knows a thing or two about being nominated for Oscars. She has seven nominations under her belt, with the most recent one being in 2019 for her performance in “The Wife.” But Close has yet to land the actual trophy. This year, many expect her to get another nomination for “Hillbilly Elegy,” with some positing that she might win this time as a sort of career acknowledgment.

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Cinema is a romantic’s medium. To watch a movie is to feel through others, to experience lives and cultures beyond your own or, sometimes, to relate in ways you never could before. The best films invite you to love and care, to believe you’re close to strangers and nestle inside their thoughts, their laughs, their sorrows and their pains. To watch a movie is to become someone else, if for a fleeting moment.

It’s sappy and corny to say as much, but that’s the same with Valentine’s Day.

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Judging by the outcry when the decision was announced, this may be an unpopular opinion, but we were on board with the casting of Ben Affleck as Batman/Bruce Wayne in the upcoming “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.” Less perhaps out of all-out fandom than out of a recognition that Batfleck, as he quickly came to be dubbed, seemed to suggest a nuance in the approach to the film that precious little else had given us hope for.

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Watch: 3-Minute Supercut Retrospective Commemorating Best Picture Oscar Winners Of 1990s

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Harvey Weinstein Says Long Delayed 'Shanghai' Coming This Year, Still Wants To Make 'Shakespeare In Love 2'

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After that film, which is currently shooting, Riley will return to the U.K.

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Since it’s Oscar season and any worthwhile publication knows to offer something more than just annual predictions (if they in fact know what’s good for them), Entertainment Weekly created the “Recall the Gold” project. Seemingly designed to stir up calls of “blasphemy!” and “damn straight!” in equal parts, the project involved sending out re-do ballots to a handful of actors, agents, directors, industry people, etc., asking them to offer up their picks for best acting, directing and picture awards for every fifth Oscar ceremony within the last 25 years.

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But have you seen her lately? She’s apparently going through a 30-something, “I’m a Mom, now” crisis and Defamer has been on Gwyneth-watch of late and done a bang-up job (and a funny one) of covering her every move – moves that seem to reveal less and less clothing and rather tarty choices in fashion (from outrageous hooker heels to skirts as long as a headband).

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