Unlike the Best Supporting Actress category, Best Supporting Actor is slightly a lifetime achievement category this year. All of the actors aside from Christoph Waltz has been around forever, and all of them have previously won an Oscar. That makes it hard to handicap though. I’m going to break it down differently than Best...
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Tags: Academy Awards, Alan Arkin, Argo, Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained, Lincoln, Oscars, OW Oscarama, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook, Thaddeus Stevens, The Master, Tommy Lee Jones
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It was a pretty busy week, both in the world of film and the actual world. We finally saw a great speech from John Kerry, and a very great one from Bubba. “Mark Owens’” No Easy Day was released. The claim that the book isn’t political is kind of bullshit. The tail end of the...
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Tags: Aaron Sorkin, andrea arnold, Arbitrage, Armando Iannucci, Backstory Magazine, Bae Doo-na, Bradley Cooper, christina hendricks, Cloud Atlas, Digital Domain, Elle Fanning, Emily Hagins, Fujifilm, Ginger & Rosa, Harmony Korine, Idris Elba, Jaws, joaquin phoenix, Kim Ki-duk's PIETA, kristen stewart, Lana Del Ray, My Sucky Teen Romance, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Philip Seymour Hoffman, prometheus, Ray Bradbury, richard gere, Selena Gomez, Sophia Takal's Green, Spike Lee's Oldboy, Spring Breakers, Steven Spielberg, The Newsroom, The Silver Linings Playbook, The Thick of It, The Wachowskis, There Will be Blood, Tom Tykwer, wuthering heights, Zombie Girl
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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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Tags: amy adams, Apollo 11, Art Institutes, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Bone Brigade, bruce willis, Carrie Remake, Chloe Moretz, Crimson Tide, Criterion, Die Hard, Dreamworks Animation, Emma Watson, Fast Six, For All Mankind, Hitchcock, Howard's End, Jerry Nelson, joaquin phoenix, John McTirnen, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Looper, Merchant Ivory, Michael Winterbottom, Neil Armstrong, ParaNorman, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Phyllis Diller, Pixar's Brave, Quvenzhané Wallis, Stacy Peralta, Steven Soderbergh, Taking of the Pelham 123, The Girl, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Tony Hawk, tony scott, Top Gun, unstoppable
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This week in movies fucking sucked and I don’t want to talk about it. I stopped paying attention to Twitter and blogs on Friday morning, so this week is soft on links. When I went to sleep on Thursday night (well, Friday morning), the story was “unconfirmed shooting at Batman screening in Denver.” I...
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Tags: Ad Lucem, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Branded, Criterion, Ed Catmull, Ghislain Avrillon, Hayao Mi, Hulu, Jeannie Catmull, joaquin phoenix, Karate Kid, Kevin Smith, kino lorber, Leelee Sobieski, Max von Sydow, Moonrise Kingdom, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Pixar's The Incredibles, Ralph Macchio, The Dark Knight Rises
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Is there a better film about the insane longing and irrational urge that is the eternal, unwavering draw of rock n’ roll? About journalism? About both? If there is I’ve never seen it. There are great films about rock and roll, and about journalism, but not about both, and not to the depth of...
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Tags: Almost Famous, Billy Crudup, Cameron Crower, Frances McDormand, Kate hudson, Lester Bangs, local screenings, Patrick Fugit, Philip Seymour Hoffman
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This week’s films are Cameron Crowe’s Untitled (aka Almost Famous: The Bootleg Cut) and Daryl Duke’s Payday. At first glance these films seem to have nothing much in common. One is about a 70s rock band on the fringes of popularity, hoping their one hit single makes them the next Allman Brothers Band, travelling the...
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Tags: Billy Crudup, Cameron Crowe, Cliff Emmich, Daryl Dukes, Elayne Heilveil, Frances McDormand, Jason Lee, Kate hudson, Noah Taylor, Patrick Fugit, Payday, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rip Torn, Sex Drugs Rock n Roll, The Double Feature, Untitled: Almost Famous, Zoey Deschanel
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