It’s been a busy weekend. In addition to our Feed the Queue entry (Meet John Doe, I have a review of one new release (Tangled) and several screeners. However, two of the films have not yet released (Black Swan and Somewhere), so I won’t be able to post my reviews of them at this time.
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(Hollywood Reporter) — Empire Strikes Back director Irvin Kershner died at his home in Paris after suffering from illness, his goddaughter Adriana Santini confirmed to the AFP Monday. He was 87. In an interview with Vanity Fair, he lamented that he should have directed one of the Star Wars prequels. He also directed Sean Connery
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1895: Busby Berkeley (80 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Dance Direction –3 Noms, 0 Wins} 1907: Fred Bohanan (72 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Editing – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1911: Walter Kent (82 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Song – 2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1914: Raoul Pene du
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(CNN) — Leslie Nielsen, whose longtime career as a dramatic actor took a sudden turn into comedy with spoofs like “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun,” has died at age 84, his family said Sunday. The Canadian-born Nielsen’s career reached back into the early days of television, when he made frequent appearances on live drama series
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It’s hard to believe another year of awards have begun. This coming week, the very first precursors announce their nominations (Film Independent’s Spirit Awards). So, in prep of the upcoming glut of precursors, here is a schedule of those soon-to-come events. Since I am unable to verify several dates, I have had to make estimates
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This past week was fairly slow. Of course, two days of the week were considered holidays. Either way, all of our updates this week were 2011. We have four new trailers and three new posters. Here’s how it all went down: Poster Highlights: When the best you can give a poster is C+, picking the
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1896: Lilia Skala (98 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Supporting Actress – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1903: Emil Kosa Jr. (64 at death) {Oscar Winner: Special Effects – 1 Nom, 1 Win} 1904: Gilbert Kurland (73 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Sound/Sound Mixing – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1907:
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Oscar News Because of the short week, there actually isn’t any real news to share here. Don’t worry, though, because precursor nods begin on Tuesday with the Spirit Awards, and it will all be chaos from there! Review Round-Up Love and Other Drugs, Oscar winner Edward Zwick’s return to the romantic comedy genre, did not
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: Alberto Colombo (65 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Scoring – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1895: Adolfo Franci (115-unverified) {Oscar Nominee: Original Screenplay – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1898: Edward Kay (75 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Drama Score, Drama/Comedy Score,Musical Score – 5 Noms, 0 Wins} 1909: James
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Here are the individual Oscar nominees that have been listed in the Film Fun Friday game to date.
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Here are the locations we’ve visited in the Film Fun Friday game to date.
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Here are the film titles that have been listed in the Film Fun Friday game to date.
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Here are the locations we’ve visited in the Film Fun Friday game to date.
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Today, Magnolia/Magnet sent their annual “Everything but the Kitchen Sink” screener set and really out did themselves this time in terms of quantity. Below are all the titles I received, fourteen in total. Also, since there were so many and they were mostly nondescript, I left out a number of the extra details I’ve been
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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 responses are posted below. Wesley Lovell 1. Which of the four new wide releases would
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