From now until the Oscar nominations, we’ll be bringing you periodic updates to our personal predictions for this year’s Oscar nominations (and after that our predictions for the winners). Today, after a series of guild nomination announcements and before we head into the first major awards-giving ceremonies of the year (Broadcast Critics tonight, Thursday, and…
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A secret world that’s not so secret…on top of everything, the concept seems a derivation of The Rescuers The Secret World of Arrietty Plot Summary: A species of tiny humanoids, living in the walls of houses and stealing what they need to survive, find themselves at risk when a human discovers their secret. Release Date:…
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For a full list of rules, click here: 2011 Spring Box Office Predictions Game Rules. Submit Your Predictions for This Week Top Ten Films at the U.S. Box Office of the week in order from most money to least. Individual monetary predictions for each film. Final box office tally for all new wide releases. Awards…
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A day later than their own timeline dictated, the ASC has finally announced their nominations. The big news is that Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a film no one exactly saw claiming a nomination here, especially for a frist-time nominee, managed to sneak its way into this list over the likes of Oscar winner Eduardo Serra…
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Like The Lion King before it, I see the 3D re-release of Beauty and the Beast doing very big business. Consensus Below is a list of what we have come to a general consensus on. The number in parens represents the percentage of our contributors who agree with the statement. Beauty and the Beast 3D:…
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Just an informative piece about the TFCA choice for Best Canadian Film. Note the winner received a $15,000 prize. It’s also the Canadian entry to the Academy Awards this year. In addition to the nominees and/or winners listed below, this year, we’re giving you a quick background on each individual precursor including founding year, first…
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Return Links What Are Yuo Watching? Poll Archive What Are You Watching? (Jan. 13-15, 2012) What are you watching? (Jan. 13-15, 2012) Public OpinionView Results
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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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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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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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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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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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