• Friday Face-Off #1

    Starting this week, we’ve got a new weekly feature. 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…

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  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 52, 2011)

    Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 (starting in January) years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of…

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  • Review: The Iron Lady (2011)

    The Iron Lady Rating Director Phillida Lloyd Screenplay Abi Morgan Length 105 min. Starring Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Anthony Head, Iain Glen, Harry Lloyd, Richard E. Grant, Olivia Colman, Alexandra Roach, Roger Allam MPAA Rating PG-13 for some violent images and brief nudity

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  • This Day in Oscar History: December 30

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

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  • Precursor: 7th Austin Film Critics Association (2011)

    When the most prizes you give out is to a film shot in your local area, some of your choices become a bit suspect. That is, if Take Shelter hadn’t already received a handful of prizes elsewhere. This list is fairly straightforward with only Attack the Block coming out of nowhere to earn prizes. It’s…

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  • Poll: Best Original Song (1974 – 1978)

    Return Links Best Picture Poll Archive Best Original Song Poll: 1974 – 1978 Which Original Song winner is best? Public OpinionView Results

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  • Trailer Watch: Cabin in the Woods

    Joss Whedon puts on his producer’s mantle for this new take on a standard horror cliche. Cabin in the Woods Plot Summary: A group of friends go off the beaten path to a secluded cabin in the woods where their mental and physical fortitude will be tested by unseen hands, manipulating their every reaction. Release…

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  • Feed the Queue #78

    Here are the results of last week’s poll. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) The Elephant Man (1980) Ed Wood (1994) Heart Like a Wheel (1983) Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) The Hoodlum Priest (1961) Yankee Doodle Dandy wins and goes into my queue.

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  • Oscar Profile #66: Carole Lombard

    Born Jane Alice Peters on October 6, 1908 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the young tomboy was discovered by director Allan Dwan at the age of 12 and cast as Monte Blue’s sister in 1921’s A Perfect Crime under her original name. She was Carol Lombard throughout the 1920s and Carole Lombard by 1930’s The Arizona…

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  • Review: The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

    The Adventures of Tintin Rating Director Steven Spielberg Screenplay Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish (Comics: Hergé) Length 107 min. Starring Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Daniel Mays, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones, Joe Starr, Enn Reitel, Mackenzie Crook MPAA Rating PG for adventure action violence, some drunkenness and brief smoking

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  • This Day in Oscar History: December 29

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

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  • Game: Week 18 – 2011 Oscar Season Box Office & Week 17 Results

    For a full list of rules, click here: 2011 Oscar Season 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. Top limited release film and its per screen average.…

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  • Trailer Watch: Prometheus

    Can Ridley Scott’s return to the Alien franchise be godsend franchise fans have been waiting for? Prometheus Plot Summary: Ridley Scott returns to the franchise that launched a noted career in this prequel to his legendary sci-fi horror film Alien. Release Date: June 8, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: B Commentary: Sometimes a simple image works…

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  • Academy Unveils 84th Oscars Poster

    The poster, pictured small at right (click it to make it bigger) features scenes from eight Oscar winning films spanning eight decades. If you want to try to guess which films, click the image and guess away before reading the official press release below, which reveals the answers (and the paragraph after this since I’m…

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  • Looking at the Weekend: Dec. 30, 2011-Jan. 1, 2012

    With no new wide releases, it comes down to the battle between Meryl Streep and Iranian foreign language film A Separation. I think Streep will have the higher box office debut, but A Separation will nab the best per screen average of the two. Consensus Below is a list of what we have come to…

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