Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ Kathryn Bigelow ’

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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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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What a boring week. Or perhaps I just paid less attention to the internet this week because of the annoyingly ubiquitous “A-Rod is benched” story that the baseball media jizzed themselves empty over this week. I keep meaning to separate my Twitter feed (where I got 90% of these links from) but am just...
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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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A little bit of a late start this morning, as I wait for the Palme d’Or to be announced. Cannes has become a weird entity lately, as Twitter and blogging have become so prevalent. You feel like you were there, experiencing it, hearing the gossip and the stories about the rain and the green grocers....
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So, StarzPlay is officially purged from the files of Netflix now. In sheer terms of titles it’s a major blow to Netflix’s catalog (so much Disney and Columbia, over 800 titles apparently), but what did they (and we) really lose? Unless you stream Netflix to an old TV or have terrible eyesight, we’ve really...
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So, we’ve been away from the Roundup for two weeks now and I’ve collected a whopping two stories over that time. Two. Honestly. Nothing about my scouting routine changed, there is just nothing going on lately except nonsense year end lists (except our year end list, which was awesome, of course), which are swiftly...
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