And so, here we are. Down to the last category, the biggest category of them all. All of the Oscar prognosticators and armchair opinionators will tell you that it’s a mortal lock for Argo to become the latest in a long line of safe, boring Best Picture winners. Because of a couple of votes...
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So here’s the deal: we’re in the homestretch of this thing now and I decided to skip Best Actor. There is no suspense to the category. We all know Daniel Day Lewis will win. We all know Daniel Day Lewis should win. And he will. There is no point in talking about it because...
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When the nominations were finally announced and broken down it became clear that the two biggest snubs of the year were contained in one category. Both Argo and Zero Dark Thirty were shut out of the category, which counts as huge snubs for their directors, Ben Affleck and Kathryn Bigelow. The issue, I think,...
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For the 8th year in a row AMC Theaters is bringing their Best Picture Nominee Showcase marathon to Orlando, spread over the two weekends before the Oscars air on Feb 24th. It’s a bit of an extended affair these days since the Academy went back to the long list nomination style, which allows for...
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Throughout the day today, the Los Angeles Film Critic Circle is announcing their year end winners on their Twitter account (Dwight Henry for Best Supporting Actor for Beasts of the Southern Wild was the right call, so they’re 1 for 1 so far), as are the Boston Society of Film Critics on their Twitter account....
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While millions of people saw Bond this weekend, I had an odd little experience of being in an almost empty theater on a Saturday while finally seeing Cloud Atlas. I usually like to see movies during the day to avoid big crowds, but I had figured, being a Saturday, it would be packed and...
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It was a hell of a rough seven days, days that saw the end of Tony Scott, Phyllis Diller, Jerry Nelson and Neil Armstrong. For our purposes here, Tony Scott was the biggest loss, but personally, while I liked the other three, I admired the hell out of Neil Armstrong as much for his...
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It’s kind of hard to get away from the Olympics right now, even for movie writers. The Olympics are, in some ways, more cinematic than movies are. Nerves, last gasp thrills and lots (and lots) of tears. All the things we love about movies. I was shocked this week to read that women and...
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Beasts of the Southern Wild — Reviewed this week. (PG-13) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days — It’s The Flamingo Kid turned sideways! Wimpy old Greg Heffey fakes a job at a country club in this latest feature film adapted from the popular kids’-book series. Believe it or not, this is the third annual...
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So it looks like Enzian lost their booking for Beasts of the Southern Wild to run with Moonrise Kingdom for a few more weeks because of its success. Beasts will open at the Regal Winter Park Village on 8/2 instead. As you were. Just a heads up that this is the last week for...
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