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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This was my first year voting, and it was a pleasure and a forehead-to-desk act of frustration. So many good films, so few categories. But the mighty have triumphed – here they are: FFCC Winners Announcement – 2011 December 19 – Alexander Payne’s touching drama “The Descendants” was the big winner at the Florida...
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Nothing happened this week. Seriously. There were some awful trailers for crap like What to Expect when You’re Expecting, and New Years Eve got sent through the critical buzzsaw as pretty much every who wasn’t involved in making it thought it would. Okay, the two things that happened this week were the Scott Rudin/David...
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I woke up with a pretty bad sore throat this morning, so just a quick bit before I go back to bed. I must ask: HOW THE HELL DID THIS TAKE A YEAR AND HALF TO BE FOUND? Grantland came up with a link to the full original Karate Kid, shot on video tape with its...
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So, my big deal of the week (aside from the earthquake and hurricane and cats and dogs living together) was that I signed up for a month trial of Hulu+ to see about cancelling Netflix discs (since their spat with Criterion, the bluray selection has been severely disappointing and not worth the extra money...
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Hope everyone is having a good fourth of July weekend and that you haven’t blown off any of your appendages while celebrating. Transformers 3 is making a shitload of money despite seemingly no one thinking it was good, but that’s just how Michael Bay movies work. I’m gonna go with a short preamble today...
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When I heard this morning that there’s a “singing film critic” on YouTube, I died a little inside. When I heard there’s a puppet involved, I drafted a Last Will & Testament. But…dare I say…it ain’t bad. At least in terms of mildly entertaining online distractions, you could do worse. At least there aren’t...
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Spoilers… Don’t watch this before you see it, I implore you. So, Terrence Malick’s brilliant Tree of Life opens at the Enzian tonight. If you are lucky enough to get tickets you’ll be treated to quite a visual and aural experience that you will probably still be mulling over a week from now. But...
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Well, Super 8, JJ Abrams’ homage to the Spielberg monster thriller, hit screens this weekend and actually outperformed its expectations despite an odd marketing campaign and slugging tracking. That’s a rare thing indeed in this day and age. Go figure. I guess JJ Abrams gets the last laugh on all of the people who...
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Things are starting to heat up outside, but at the box office, well, not so much. X-Men: First Class was the big opener this weekend, showing on almost 7,000 screens in North America. Despite playing on the most screens of any X-Men movie (dramatically so, with Wolverine topping out at 4,100) it only made...
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