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A record 20 animated films will vie for Oscars glory in a 2010 race stuffed with wildly popular 3D offerings such as "Up," "Astro Boy," "Monsters vs.

A scene from "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" Stories The Best Animated Feature category at this year's Oscars will be more crowded, thanks to a plethora of films qualifying for the Academy Awards this year.

If you didn't make it to the theaters to see Miyazaki's newest work, Ponyo , take heart -- this amazing anime feature film will hit the DVD shelves on March 2, 2010.

Dynasty: The Fourth Season, Vol. 2 is headed to DVD from Paramount on 2 February.

The craft is impeccable, the comedy is painfully droll, and the immortal question at the heart -- why does God do/allow the things he does -- is left unanswered.

Published Thursday 15 October 2009 07:28pm EST. Kinokuniya fills its shelves with an eclectic selection of Japanese literature.

The Oscars race for best animated feature may look like it's all sewn " Up ," but don't bet on it.

The World Monuments Fund earlier this month announced Kyoto's traditional town houses, called "machiya," were added to 92 other sites that are at risk of disappearing in 47 countries.

IMAGES Matt Damon and Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting .[Credits : Courtesy of Miramax Films] Main American actor, screenwriter, and producer in full Matthew Paige Damon born Oct.

Even thought we're not an Oscar blog, that doesn't mean I don't like to occasionally talk about awards buzz.

It maynot be just best picture increasing the number of itsnominees this year. There's a good chance the best animated feature category could jump from three to five nominees for the first time since 2002, the only year to feature more than three contenders since it was created in 2001.

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The koto player Michio Miyagi was apparently inspired by the scenic Seto Inland Sea when he composed "Haru no Umi" , his best-known work that earned him wide acclaim.

In a landmark decision to protect a historic landscape from a large public works project, the district court here Thursday ordered Hiroshima Governor Yuzan Fujita not to permit reclamation work in the Tomonoura bay.

A summary of the movies hitting theaters this weekend. By the way, if you want to find a movie time, click HERE Zombieland ♦ Starring: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone ♦ Directed by: Michael Moore ♦ Rated: R ♦ Summary review: Director Ruben Fleischer skimps on neither the gore nor the fun in his ...

In a rare win for heritage activists, a Japanese court Thursday halted plans for a road bridge over the scenic and ancient port that helped inspire the animation hit movie "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea". The court ruled that the impact would have been too grave on picturesque Tomonoura port -- which is lined with traditional Japanese houses and ...

Could anyone be blamed if they've fallen out of love with animated children's films? The once proud genre has fallen on hard times lately, with an endless procession of throwaway movies like "Bolt," "Shrek 3," "Chicken Little" and "Bee Movie" spilling into theaters, video store shelves and the inner recesses of impressionable young minds like some ...

Over on the Asian Movie Pulse blog they say that Isao Takahata , one of the co-founders of Studio Ghibli, has announced that he will be directing a new feature-length animated film.

"THE INFORMANT" A rising star at an agri-industry giant turns whistleblower but his efforts mislead the FBI as much as they help.

Movie montages with music are almost universally awful. More often than not, they take a song from a derivative, pathos-mining butt-rock band and set it to a sequence of scenes from a hyper-violent movie.