Monsters and Critics

Actors - Forest Whitaker

DVD Review: The Great Debaters (2-Disc Special Collector's Edition)

May 13, 2008, 11:47 GMT

Denzel Washington steps behind the camera to direct this film about the 1935 Wiley College debate team.  The team overcame racial prejudice in the 30s, but those expecting historical accuracy will have some nitpicking.   ... more

Vantage Point comes to DVD and Blu-ray

May 2, 2008, 16:01 GMT

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment invites you to witness the action-packed thriller of the year as Vantage Point arrives July 1st on two-disc DVD and Blu-ray High Def as well as on a single-disc DVD and PSP.  ... more

Forest Whitaker and Tim Story in talks for Patriots

Jan 16, 2008, 13:43 GMT

The Weinstein Co. is in talks with Forest Whitaker to star in the upcoming sports drama Patriots. The studio is also in negotiations with Tim Story to direct the film – which is scheduled to start shooting in April. ... more

Liev Schreiber does Mambo with Jude Law and Forest Whitaker

Nov 28, 2007, 14:29 GMT

Liev Schreiber has joined Jude Law and Forest Whitaker for Universal’s upcoming Repossession Mambo. ... more

DVD Review: The Marsh

Apr 18, 2007, 16:40 GMT

The marsh holds both a secret and ghosts as a young children’s author finds out when she goes searching for the cause of her nightmares. ... more

DVD Review: The Last King of Scotland

Apr 17, 2007, 15:40 GMT

Forest Whitaker is electrifying with his title role in ‘The Last King of Scotland’ playing the reviled Ugandan dictator General Idi Amin – a man who was able to charm a nation into a reign of terror that lasted almost ten years and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. ... more

DVD Review: The Shield – The Complete Fifth Season

Apr 3, 2007, 20:39 GMT

I have watched this show since it first premiered in March of 2002. Just from the ads promoting the show as the first original F/X series, one could tell that this show was going to push things further than any cop show had ever done before. ... more

Emmy winning cop drama “The Shield” returns to DVD with Season Five

Mar 25, 2007, 17:44 GMT

The “most unpredictable and gripping” cop drama on television and FX’s longest-running original series starring Emmy Award winner Michael Chiklis returns when “The Shield” Season Five DVD collection arrives March 27th from Fox Home Entertainment. ... more

Back stage at the Oscars with Forest Whitaker: The press interview

Mar 2, 2007, 15:21 GMT

At the Academy Awards every year, after the winners receive their Oscar, they are herded into a photograph room for their official photos and then into the press room where international press have an opportunity to 'talk' with the winners.

Here is the interview with Forest Whitaker - best performance by an actor in a leading role.

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Forest Whitaker is the King

Feb 26, 2007, 14:39 GMT

The boy from East Texas, who was raised in Carson, an utlying Los Angeles community, actor Forest Whitaker has taken home the best actor Oscar at the 79th Academy Awards for his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. ... more

Helen, Alan, Jennifer, Marty and Forest 'got Oscar'

Feb 26, 2007, 5:27 GMT

Ellen DeGeneres turned in a stellar and sly comedic performance at the Oscars.  Another Oscar delight was Robert Downey, Jr., who quipped: 'Visual effects: They enable us to see aliens, experience other universes, move in slow-motion, or watch spiders climbing high above the city landscape.' (a beat) 'For me, just a typical weeknight in the mid-Nineties.' ... more

Suspense thriller The Marsh comes to DVD in April

Feb 5, 2007, 23:57 GMT

Supernatural terror and suspense lurk under the surface of The Marsh, a bone chilling psychological thriller debuting on DVD April 17th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for the suggested retail price of $24.96.  ... more

New stills from Vantage Point!

Jan 28, 2007, 17:34 GMT

We have added some new stills from the political thriller Vantage Point starring Matthew Fox, Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker and William Hurt. ... more

Weekend box-office: YAWN! Stomp takes it but oh, how boring!

Jan 22, 2007, 0:50 GMT

Beginning of ‘07 is starting off s-l-o-w at the box-office.

Here we are going into the fourth week of January and weekend box-office figures barely broke double digit receipts with only one new release, ‘The Hitcher’ from Rogue Pictures, dropping in among the top five.

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Mirren, Whitaker & Scorsese big winners in Critic's Choice Awards

Jan 14, 2007, 6:03 GMT

The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) announced the winners of the 12th annual Critics' Choice Awards at a star-studded ceremony January 12 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. ... more

Forest Whitaker to be honored at New York's Lincoln Center

Jan 9, 2007, 10:42 GMT

Adding to the Oscar ® buzz and other Award kudos surrounding Forest Whitaker, Fox Searchlight and the Film Society of Lincoln Center will honor the actor in a weekend salute January 19-20. ... more

Dallas - Fort Worth movie critics chip in their two cents

Dec 19, 2006, 11:18 GMT

It’s beginning to feel a lot like….award season. ... more

Martin Short and Forest Whitaker join New York Times Arts and Leisure Weekend

Dec 15, 2006, 2:38 GMT

Planning on being in the Big Apple (New York city) in the New Year?  Like movies and want to meet a real live 'star'? ... more

Forrest Whitekar and Martin Short to meet public in New York

Dec 15, 2006, 2:09 GMT

Martin Short and Forest Whitaker are among the TimesTalk  Special Edition participants scheduled to appear at The New York Times Sixth Annual Arts and Leisure Weekend, January 5 - 7 2007. ... more

Forest Whitaker to Play Idi Amin

Apr 13, 2005, 11:37 GMT

Forest Whitaker has been cast as Idi Amin in 'The Last King of Scotland' for Fox Searchlight. ... more

Casting for Mary Magdalene Feature

Feb 1, 2005, 8:21 GMT

Juliette Binoche, Heather Graham, Forest Whitaker, and Matthew Modine will star in Abel Ferrara's religious-themed Mary, currently filming in Rome. ... more