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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I’ve known Damien through his books for more than twenty-five years and personally for about half that time although I met him in person just once, almost ten years ago. Damien was passionate about many things, from the San Francisco Giants to the Broadway Theatre; from liberal politics to good food. Most of all he…
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Return Links Best of…? Poll Archive What’s the Best of February 2011? What’s the best film from February 2011? Public OpinionView Results
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The SAG Awards are often reflective of the larger body of popular opinion, but not necessarily of Oscar predilections. Just looking at the statistics at the bottom of the page, you can see the only perfect correlation comes from Best Actor, a category that isn’t likely to repeat for them this year. Matter of fact,…
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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…
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There are seven new releases this week. We have previews for seven of them below.
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And tonight, as I expected, the race for Best Picture ends. The Artist won the award it needed to in order to become the key juggernaut of the season. We now have both Best Director and Best Picture at the Oscars sewn up…tomorrow’s SAG awards will still leave some mystery, but we might have a…
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Oscar News The 84th Academy Award nominations were announced Monday. Hugo was the most nominated film with 11 citations, followed by 10 for The Artist. Review Round-Up There were no Oscar contenders released this week. Oscar Box Office The $10 million grossed in its wide-opening by Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was the lowest-opening for a Tom…
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Not a film about rescuing chimpanzees. This is a movie about an out-of-control kegger. Not nearly as interesting. Project X Plot Summary: A teenager’s attempt to throw the greatest birthday bash in history turns into one of the loudest, drunkest, most brash parties ever. Release Date: March 2, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: C Commentary: A…
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On Sundays, we list the weekend’s upcoming films along with previews of trailers and posters. On Wednesdays, we preview all of the upcoming new wide and limited releases hitting the theaters the coming weekend. On Fridays, we’ll now tell you what you should see. We pose two questions each week to our contributors and their…
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Time for another week of the Friday Face-Off. It’s a simple affair in which you are given a choice between two Oscar winners in specific categories. You choose which of the two is best. When the game concludes, we’ll have the ultimate winner in each category. For example: If you were to choose between Oscar…
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Saturday and Sunday, two of the major Oscar precursors present their awards. The DGA will announce first on Saturday at a gala dinner that we’ll get snippets from, but won’t be able to see. If you see anyone with a giant medallion plaque in the media, be wary. The first four silver ones will be…
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