The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) were announced on Thursday, with a few surprises.

George Clooney's Up in the Air, which just received a Golden Globe nomination for best picture, was snubbed by SAG in the best ensemble category. Inglourious Basterds, Precious and Up in the Air earned the most nominations, with three a piece. Newcomer Gabourey Sidibe will be competing in the lead actress category for her role in Precious against Sandra Bullock, Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren.

Showtime's Dexter continues to chop up the nominations. It received three, tieing NBC's 30 Rock and TNT's The Closer. The buzz of comedy newcomers Glee and Modern Family seem to have dampered voters love for The Big Bang Theory as it was shut out of the ensemble comedy series category. Toni Collette, who won the Emmy for best actress in a comedy series for her role in United States of Tara will be going up against Edie Falco, Tina Fey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Christina Applegate, who received a nomination for her role in the now canceled Samantha Who?. READ MORE

Glee's Cinderella story. The musical dramedy raked in four Golden Globe nominations on Tuesday. Fox's freshman series was nominated for Best Television Series (Comedy or Musical) and landed Best Acting nominations for Matthew Morrison  and Lea Michele and a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Jane Lynch. Hot on the heels of Dexter's shocking season finale, and record breaking ratings come nominations for its star Michael C. Hall and his onscreen nemesis John Lithgow. Glee wasn't the only new series to land a Golden Globe nomination. ABC's Modern Family also received one.

The Golden Globes, which give out awards in both TV and film, also showed the love to George Clooney's Up in the Air. It garnered six nominations. Rob Marshall's highly anticipated Nine earned five nominations, while James Cameron's upcoming blockbuster Avatar earned four. Summer hits District 9 and Inglourious Basterds also earned nominations. Comedian and Precious star Mo'Nique received a Best Supporting Actress nomination. Woody Harrelson, who starred in Zombieland and played an important role in 2012, earned recognition for his work in The Messenger. Sandra Bullock capped off a standout year with a Best Actress (Musical or Comedy) nod for her role in The Proposal and a Best Actress (Drama) nod for The Blind Side.

Best Television Series (Comedy or Musical)

30 Rock
Entourage
Glee
Modern Family
The Office

Best Actor in a Television Series (Comedy or Musical)

Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office
David Duchovny, Californication
Thomas Jane, Hung
Matthew Morrison, Glee READ MORE

Christoph Waltz, the amazing villain in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, is once again slated to play a master of evil in the upcoming film The Green Hornet. Waltz, who played the Nazi security chief in Basterds, will play Chudnofsky, nemesis to Seth Rogen's Green Hornet. Also in the cast are Cameron Diaz and Jay Chou, but Waltz is a brilliant addition and gives the film some real credibility. Breaking the story was Deadline Hollywood.

I was just checking out the USA Today movie news and found myself in complete disagreement. Today's "Summer Movie Report Card" and it's conclusion that the "Season starts fast, then slips" is wrong. In truth, this has been one of the best seasons in years. With Hollywood actually slipping and fewer movies coming to wide release, the summer of '09 turned out to be a steady delight.  READ MORE

Transformers: The Revenge Of The Fallen

Star Trek

UP!

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

The Hangover

Bruno

Terminator Salvation

G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra

Angels & Demons

District 9

Inglorious Basterds

Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs

This is it, Quentin Tarantino’s crossover film. Inglourious Basterds is pure Tarantino: a simple story full of gruesome, bloody and violent tension with a plot that comes to a complete (and satisfactory) resolution, but which also manages to entertain without constant and excruciating gore. The idea of a group of Jewish commandos volunteering for hard duty killing Nazis in the worst way possible–scalping them–is quite original. And in scripting Nazis as the Basterds' target, Tarantino found a way to make his typical violence seem reasonable… perhaps even palatable. READ MORE

August 21st should be a good weekend for movies, with Inglourious Basterds and Post Grad giving you both action and comedy to pick from.

Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Inglourious Basterds, will be an incredible gore-fest, as evidenced by the trailer. It couldn't be anything else, but will it be good. The renegade director (and one of my favorites) needs a hit, badly. And I predict Brad Pitt will give it to him with a cherry on top. The role of kickass Lt. Aldo Raine is made for the temperamental, though often excellent, actor. The Basterds, think The Dirty Dozen on crack, are Jewish-American soldiers bent on terrorizing German troops: scalping, carving and otherwise defiling anything or anyone to get to Hitler. No Geneva convention here, Inglourious Basterds will be viciously entertaining. READ MORE