December 2-4, 2011 Shame Oscar Prospects: What I said: “Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan have been receiving strong praise for their performances in this film. While the film isn’t likely to see the Oscars otherwise, I expect both Fassbender and Mulligan to be contenders in the next couple of months, at least for nominations.” Oscar…
Return Links What Are You Watching? Poll Archive What Are You Watching? (May 25-27, 2012) Cinema Sight Asks: What are you watching? (May 25-27, 2012) Public OpinionPoll Results
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…
New This Week The story of Glenn Close’s thirty year struggle to bring Albert Nobbs to the screen dominated last year’s pre-Oscar nomination talk for almost the entire year. So much so, that by the time the film opened, its mixed reviews seemed to suggest that the talk was much ado about nothing. Nothing could…
Return Link Now That You’ve Seen… Poll Archive Now That You’ve Seen Battleship… Cinema Sight Asks: Now that you’ve seen Battleship, what’s your favorite Peter Berg film? Public OpinionPoll Results
We had two films releasing this weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Battleship What a difference a week can make. When I posited that Battleship was an Oscar contender, a lot was riding on how well it performed at the box office. With a dismal $25 million opening, the film looks poised to become…
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…
Now that you’ve (hopefully) had a chance to watch C.R.A.Z.Y., please join us in discussing this film by posting your comments below. And don’t forget, Sabin, you need to make your selection today for June 2012. You can send it by e-mail or PM on UAADB.
Every week, I get several press releases, screening invitations and other notifications from a handful of studio contacts. While I won’t be sharing any information regarding my screening invites, some of the press releases might be of interest to my readers, so I thought I’d start sharing them in toto with all of you. These…
Oscar News The Cannes Film Festival opened on Wednesday with Wes Andersen’s Moonrise Kingdom, and will continue to show lots of awards hopefuls over the next two weeks. The Directors Guild of America relented last week to allow screeners to get sent to its membership in voting for its annual awards. They had previously resisted…