So tonight is the big night. The official end to the 2012 movie season, which, most likely, will honor the middle ground of an otherwise fantastic movie year (except DDL and whoever wins the animated categories). We’ve all made our picks of who we think should win versus who we think will win, and...
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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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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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When the WGA East & West were having their joint-separate awards over the weekend, there was initially some confusion about who won. The WGA East had started announcing awards way ahead of the WGA West and when word filtered through from New York that Chris Terrio had won for Argo, Tony Kushner happened to...
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We’re only a week away from the big night now: the 85th annual Academy Awards airs next Sunday night, and I still think Lincoln will have a huge night, or at least a bigger night than the heavy-favorite, Argo. I watched it for a second time this week, and Argo is a really good...
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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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It’s a slow film week with Super Bowl XLVII set to kick off tonight in New Orleans. Warm Bodies, the zombie comedy with Nicolas Hoult, easily won the weekend. I’m not all that interested in the matchup of San Francisco versus Baltimore, and the list of movie trailers premiering tonight — like The Lone...
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It’s really hard to not go on a rant about the news that JJ Abrams is directing the new Star Wars. The news is too old by this point to feel like anything but nerd rage. It’s not the cross-pollination with Star Trek I mind as much as the fact that JJ Abrams just isn’t...
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It’ll be a short one this week as there really isn’t that much going on that doesn’t involve movies that are open in Orlando yet. The thing that gave me the red ass this week was all of this NRA bullshit about movies and video games making people violent, and the ridiculous idea that...
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I finally caught Red Tails this week on HBO. I don’t wish to damn it with faint praise, but the George Lucas-financed Anthony Hemingway-directed story about the first all-black squadron of fighter pilots in WW2 was not as bad as you might expect it to be from the trailers or from Lucas’s involvement. Certainly,...
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