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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“Now I have a machine gun. HO – HO – HO.” Wonderful words, aren’t they? They burst at the seams with a jolly, pudding stuffed Christmas spirit perfection. Thanksgiving is gone, finally, and so are all the leftovers. Christmas lights are beginning to go up, and next week so will the tree in Rockefeller Center. It’s...
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So I suppose it would be a three-way tie for “story of the week” this week. Depending on your level of interest, it was either Steve McQueen’s Shame getting an NC-17 rating (what a silly rating), Joss Whedon making a secret movie of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, or, unfortunately, Lindsay Lohan agreeing to...
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So, yeah, the week was mostly dominated by the death of Apple co-founder and Pixar Studios godfather Steve Jobs. And rightly so. As Bill Maher pointed out on his show on Friday, in this ridiculously divisive world where everyone hates everyone, Jobs was one of the few people liked by both the Left and...
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Most of tributes that are pouring in for Steve Jobs are focusing on Apple, but I think Pixar is just as an important legacy for Jobs. Even though his involvement was more in the role of Godfather than creator, Pixar would have been little more than a footnote in the story of Lucasfilm —...
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