Film Preview: The Wailing (2026)
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Trailer Watch: 56 Up
The eighth segment in the vaunted growing up documentary series. 56 Up Plot Summary: 49 years after Michael Apted filmed the documentary Seven Up, the legendary documentary series continues with the original interview subjects at age 56. Release Date: January 4, 2013 Poster Trailer Rating: C Commentary: A generic, unexciting trailer that isn’t likely to…
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5 Favorites #112: 5 Favorite Best Picture Slates
Every week, we’ll pose a new “five favorites” question. You just list your five favorites that fit in that category (preferably in preference order) and you’re welcome to discuss and debate the selections and see just how much you do or do not have in common with others. If you want to take a look…
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Precursor: 65th Directors Guild of America Nominations (2012)
So much for all those pundits who said Les Misérables wasn’t going to do well with the directorial effort of Tom Hooper being criticized. Nabbing a critical precursor nomination, Hooper is joined by first-timer Ben Affleck and three other previous winners: Kathryn Bigelow, Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg. Notably missing is Paul Thomas Anderson, a…
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The DVD Report #290
New This Week Ironically after compiling my list of the best recent films to come out on DVD in 2012, the very best of the lot, Looper, was released on December 31st just missing my cut-off. This is one of the most intelligent, impeccably written science fiction films of recent times, coming from a surprising…
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Precursor: 20th Cinema Audio Society Nominations (2012)
The Sound Mixing nominations, a precursor to the Academy’s own category, have revealed that two action/adventure films, one costume drama, one musical and a war-zone film have received nominations for Best Sound Mixing. For the first time, they group has separated out Animated Films, giving them their own category. Nothing terribly surprising here, though the…
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Precursor: 13th Vancouver Film Critics Awards (2012)
Zero Dark Thirty barely edged out two other films for most honored at this year’s Vancouver awards taking Best Picture, Director, Actress and Screenplay as its four. Tied for second place, The Master won all three acting awards it’s been picking up separately all season, and Rebelle was the most recognized film in the Canadian-only…
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Poll: Now That You’ve Seen Texas Chainsaw 3D…
Return Link Poll Archives Now That You’ve Seen Texas Chainsaw 3D… Cinema Sight Asks: Now that you’ve seen Texas Chainsaw 3D, which Chainsaw film is best? Public OpinionPoll Results
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Trailer Watch: Dead Man Down
Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace could make an interesting pairing. Dead Man Down Plot Summary: A vengeful woman captures a murder on her phone and blackmails the killer into killing the man who scarred her, a dangerous drug kingpin. Release Date: March 8, 2013 Poster Trailer Rating: None Commentary: Poster was a placeholder at the…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 6
As the precursor awards continue unabated through the month of December, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (this will be in place of my prior weekly article “Oscar Preview”. Today, we look back at the results of the New York…
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Precursor: 11th Visual Effects Society Nominations (2012)
Peter Jackson’s four Middle Earth film was granted seven nominations, including a double nomination for animated character. The VES awards are often a strong harbinger for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, so looking closely at the nominees, we see the chief competition is between The Hobbit and second-most nominated films The Avengers and…
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The Morning After: Jan. 7, 2013
Welcome to The Morning After, where I share with you what I’ve seen over the past week either in film or television. On the film side, if I have written a full length review already, I will post a link to that review. Otherwise, I’ll give a brief snippet of my thoughts on the film…
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Precursor: 16th Online Film Critics Awards (2012)
The Online Film Critics Society continues a recent trend in honoring Argo as Best Picture of the year. A film which many thought would lose steam in the face of strong competition from Lincoln, The Master and Zero Dark Thirty has quietly amassed a sizable trove of awards this season. All of the winners here…
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Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Rating Director Peter Jackson Screenplay Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro (Novel: J.R.R. Tolkien) Length 169 min. Starring Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott, Graham McTavish, William Kircher, James Nesbitt, Stephen Hunter, Dean O’Gorman, Aidan Turner, John Callen, Peter Hambleton, Jed Brophy, Mark Hadlow, Adam…
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