Month: August 2011
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Trailer Watch: In Time
It’s the kind of film you aren’t sure will be worth the time or not. In Time Plot Summary: Instead of currency, a futuristic society pays its workers in time. No one ages past 25. When a young factory worker, desperate to do something with the time he has remaining, is given the remainder of…
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Oscar Preview: The New Yorker Abroad – Woody Allen
Every week from now until the critics groups start giving out their prizes for the best of the year, I’m going to be spotlighting the big Oscar players and their chances at Oscar glory this year. Trying to spread the love between directors, actors, writers and other players in Hollywood, I thought I’d take time…
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Review: Green Lantern (2011)
Green Lantern Rating Director Martin Campbell Screenplay Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, Marc Guggenheim, Michael Goldenberg Length 114 min. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Tim Robbins, Jay O. Sanders, Taika Waititi, Angela Bassett, Tamuera Morrison, Geoffrey Rush, Michael Clarke Duncan, Clancy Brown MPAA Rating PG-13
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The Morning After: August 8, 2011
Today, I’m going to go with a new format for The Morning After. Each film will have its own separate review posting and this article will bear links to each individual movie review. The only review content that won’t merit it’s own page will be television series reviews, which will continue to be highlighted in…
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2011 Oscar Season Preview: Introduction
This site’s favorite season is the Oscar season, so it comes as little surprise that our favorite preview section is the one covering September through December. If you read my preview last year, you’ll know I dumped all of the months together into one post. This caused a number of incorrect box office predictions (ones…
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This Day in Oscar History: August 8
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Poll: Now That You’ve Seen Rise of the Planet of the Apes…
Return Links Now That You’ve Seen… Poll Archive Now That You’ve Seen Rise of the Planet of the Apes… Now that you’ve seen Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which film in the franchise is best? QuestionsView Results
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Weekend Preview: August 12-14, 2011
There are nine new releases this week. We have previews for five of them below.
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This Day in Oscar History: August 7
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar Week in Review: August 1-6, 2011
Oscar News The Academy this week announced the winners of this year’s Honorary Oscar Awards: Oscar nominated actor James Earl Jones and Oscar winning makeup artist Dick Smith will win Oscars for lifetime achievement, and Oscar nominee Oprah Winfrey will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. The awards will be presented in November. The Oscars…
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This Day in Oscar History: August 6
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Trailer Watch: Battleship
The classic board game with no actual plot comes to life in a film that may actually have no plot. Battleship Plot Summary: A big screen adaptation of the classic children’s game. Release Date: May 18, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: D+ Commentary: I get that this is supposed to symbolize a sinking battleship (much like…
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Film Engineer Takuo Miyagishima Has Died at 83
The Academy has lost another luminary. Gordon E. Sawyer Award and John A. Bonner Medal winner Takuo Miyagishima has died. Below is the obituary from Hollywood Reporter. Takuo ‘Tak’ Miyagishima Dies at 83 One of the most esteemed design engineers in the motion picture industry, he made first mechanical drawing for Panavision in 1954. by…
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What to See: August 5-7, 2011
On Sundays, we list the weekend’s upcoming films along with previews of trailers and posters. On Wednesdays, we preview all of the upcoming new wide and limited releases hitting the theaters the coming weekend. On Fridays, we’ll now tell you what you should see. We pose two questions each week to our contributors and their…
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Review: Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Captain America: The First Avenger Rating Director Joe Johnston Screenplay Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeeley (Comics: Joe Simon, Jack Kirby) Length 124 min. Starring Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Dominic Cooper, Richard Armitage, Stanley Tucci, Samuel L. Jackson, Toby Jones. MPAA Rating PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and…
