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Trailer Watch: What to Expect When You’re Expecting
The title almost answers its own question. The trailer answers the rest. What to Expect When You’re Expecting Plot Summary: An ensemble comedy about newly-expecting mothers and fathers. Release Date: May 11, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: None Commentary: Poster was a placeholder at the time this post was written. Rating: C+ Commentary: Some of the…
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5 Favorites #60: 5 Favorite Best Director Winners
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: 20th Southeastern Film Critics Association (2011)
Apparently, these were released back in mid-December. Someone forgot to tell their website operator. As for their awards? The Descendants gets some love from one of the few groups to recognize it in other than Supporting Actress and Adapted Screenplay. The rest of the list seems fairly straight forward with Meryl Streep picking up a…
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The DVD Report #238
New This Week The first great DVD release of 2012, surprising to me, turns out to be HBO’s Mildred Pierce, the mini-series adapted from from James M. Cain’s 1941 novel previously filmed in 1945. The 1945 version, directed by Michael Curtiz in the fashion of a film noir, begins with a murder. There is no…
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Precursor: 12th Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards (2011)
Another unoriginal slate of winners gives the Vancouver Film Critics, voting late, a place among the has-beens this awards season. Their entries for Canadian films are at least interesting and fresh. The nominations were announced almost a week ago and their awards announced yesterday, but they weren’t covered by most media outlets and I didn’t…
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Academy Announces Makeup Shortlist & Nominations Announcer
Two pieces of Oscar news came out today. The first was that Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence was going to co-present the nominations with Academy president Tom Sherak. The second news, a little more interesting for us prognosticators, was that the Academy has announced the 7 finalists for the Best Makeup award. This is one of…
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In the Land of Blood and Honey – Live Q&A
This Thursday evening there is going to be a live Q&A with Angelina Jolie about her feature directorial debut: In the Land of Blood and Honey. Below is a countdown app featuring buttons to click through to see images and trailers from the film. Later this week, I’ll be posting a new app that will…
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Poll: Now That You’ve Seen The Devil Inside…
Return Link Now That You’ve Seen… Poll Archive Now That You’ve Seen The Devil Inside… Now that you’ve seen The Devil Inside, what’s your favorite film about demonic possession? Public OpinionView Results
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Trailer Watch: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
The title is more curious than the film. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Plot Summary: A Yemeni sheik attempts to bring the sport of salmon fishing to his country. Hiring a firm to make it happen, a pair of bickering project workers find love among the hatcheries. Release Date: March 9, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating:…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 6
As the precursor awards continue unabated through the month of January, 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: 64th Directors Guild of America Nominations (2011)
The big news here is that two names (Woody Allen and David Fincher) weren’t really expected to be on this list today. Yet, here they are, moving both films into surefire Best Picture contention. Steven Spielberg, Tate Taylor, Terrence Malick, Bennett Miller, Nicolas Winding Refn and to a lesser extent Stephen Daldry all took major…
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The Morning After: Jan. 9, 2012
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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2011 Oscar Season Preview Wrap-Up: October
October 7, 2011 The Ides of March Oscar Prospects: What I said: “This is one of the year’s stronger contenders. Solidreviews and a likable cast could keep it in strong competition throughout awards season in several top tier categories.” Oscar Results: Although its chances had been diminishing, its recent appearance on the Producers Guild Best…
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Precursor: 10th Visual Effects Society Nominations (2011)
The Visual Effects Society changed things up a little this year by adding a category for Virtual Cinematography, removing the Effects Animation and Short Film Visual Effects categories, and splitting the Created Environment category in two for live action and animated feature. Other than that, this looks pretty close to what I would expect from…
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