Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (movie)

"The Hunger Games"sequel "Catching Fire" will likely be directed by Francis Lawrence, a filmmaker whose résumé includes the big-budget event film "I Am Legend" and the intimate drama"Water for Elephants," a person close to the production but not...

Lower Mount Bethel Township resident Amy Roth was only 21 years old when she went to work on her first movie. Thanks to her aunt — the Oscar-winning costume designer Ann Roth — Amy's job was helping dress the cast of Mike Nichols' "Biloxi...

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"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is a heart-wrenching movie from start to finish. An 11-year-old boy, Oskar Schell, is trying to find peace and closure from his father's untimely death. Oskar's father, played by Tom Hanks, is killed during the...

"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" transforms the carnage and unruly grief of Sept. 11, 2001, known to its preteen Upper West Side Manhattan protagonist as "The Worst Day," into an occasion for interborough healing and emotional encounters of the...

Extremely foolish and incredibly upsetting. That's my diagnosis of the surprising inclusion of "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,"  one of the year's worst films, in both the Best Picture race and the Supporting Actor category (Max Von Sydow). BTW: In...

This is shaping up to be one of the biggest roller coasters of an award season in some time. The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) unveiled its nominees for the best in film and television this morning, offering plenty of surprises. Perhaps the biggest?...

Allow me to begin my take on this morning's Golden Globe nominations with a sigh of relief: the extremely shallow, incredibly exploitative assumed Oscar contender "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," one of the worst movies of the year, received zero...

0.5 stars (out of four) When people jumped from the burning towers of the World Trade Center, no pretty piano music accompanied their fall. Yes, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” the most insulting 9/11-related movie since Oliver Stone&...

If a critically championed movie earns Oscar nominations for art direction, editing, score, makeup and sound, could all that support translate into a best picture nod as well? That's the question surrounding Martin Scorsese's beautifully crafted "Hugo,"...

The nominees for the 84th annual Academy Awards were finally announced. The nine nominated movies for the best picture of the year are:"The Artist","The Descendants","Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close","The Help", "HUGO", "Midnight in Paris","...

By HANNAH BRANT Meyersdale "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" deserves a ten out of ten. This emotional and inspirational movie about a son, who loses his father in the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, depicts the real life struggle of those who lost...