• Previews: Week Ending December 13, 2009

    As 2009 winds to a close, the updates for this year’s films also begin to dwindle. While there will be a handful trickling in all through January, we will not be able to close the book on 2009 until then. However, we are fairly close. This week’s updates for the current year include three films

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  • Reviews: Oscar Round-Up, Part I

    At the end of the year, I get tons of screeners and find myself knee-deep in reviews. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. But it does make for a large influx of new content. So, here are all of my reviews posted in this update. While not all of them are exactly Oscar-calibre pictures, most

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  • Visual Effects Semifinalists

    The Academy has announced 15 films that have gone to the semifinals for the three-spot Best Visual Effects award. As the article states, 8 of these films will be left by the wayside when the final 7 list is selected. When looking at a list like this, first ditch true animated features (those that are

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  • Precursor: Detroit Film Critics Society Nominations

    Below are the nominees for the 2009 Detroit Film Critics Society awards. Their winners will be announced in one week on December 18, 2009. Awards Tallies (6) Inglourious Basterds; Up in the Air (4) Precious (3) (500) Days of Summer The Nominations Best Film (500) Days of Summer The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Up Up

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  • 2002 at the Oscars

    If Moulin Rouge! provided a hopeful sign that the musical was back, 2002’s Chicago seemed to cement that hope.  In its wake came announcements of all kinds of plans to make or remake old Broadway musicals into new films.  Alas, few of those plans have come to fruition and none of those that have been

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  • Calendar: Date Changes

    As I explained when I posted my initial calendar, these events that are marked with ? marks are unconfirmed dates. And as I opened the week with a preview, there were several that were not official dates. Since then, I have come across two groups (Los Angeles and New York) that are supposedly announcing a

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  • 2001 at the Oscars

    There was something for everyone in 2001. There was Baz Luhrmann’s anachronistic musical, Moulin Rouge! as well as  Peter Jackson’s first installment of the J.R.R.  Tolkian Lord of the Rings trilogy; Steven Spielberg’s version of the science fiction film Stanley Kubrick left behind, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence and Ridley Scott’s look at modern warfare, Black Hawk

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  • Review: The Informant! (2009)

    The Informant! Rating Director Steven Soderbergh Screenplay Scott Z. Burns (Book: Kurt Eichenwald) Length 108 min. Starring Matt Damon, Lucas Carroll, Eddie Jemison, Rusty Schwimmer, Tom Papa, Rick Overton, Melanie Lynskey, Tom Wilson, Scott Bakula, Scott Adsit, Ann Dowd, Allan Havey, Howie Johnson, Joel McHale MPAA Rating R for language. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source

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  • The DVD Report #133

    “Bon apetit!” exclaims Julia Child. “Bon apetit!” echoes Julie Powell. The feel good movie of the summer, Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia tells the dual tales of Mrs. Child’s eight year long struggle to write and have published her first cook book and Mrs. Powell’s year-long struggle to make every recipe in the book and

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  • Review: Bright Star (2009)

    Bright Star Rating Director Jane Campion Screenplay Jane Campion Length 119 min. Starring Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Kerry Fox, Paul Schneider, Edie Martin, Thomas Sangster MPAA Rating PG for thematic elements, some sensuality, brief language and incidental smoking. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review Not a traditional history lesson on one of the world’s greatest poets,

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  • The DVD Report #133: December 8, 2009

    “Bon apetit!” exclaims Julia Child. “Bon apetit!” echoes Julie Powell. The feel good movie of the summer, Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia tells the dual tales of Mrs. Child’s eight year long struggle to write and have published her first cook book and Mrs. Powell’s year-long struggle to make every recipe in the book and

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  • Precursor: D.C. Area Film Critics Winners

    So, the Monday date was apparently for the winners, not the nominees. So, here are the winners. I was resistant at first to believe it, but this may finally be Jason Reitman’s entry into the winner’s circle. Up in the Air is very much poised as an Oscar winner for Best Picture. It’s a bit

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  • Precursor: D.C. Area Film Critics Nominations

    I don’t know if there’s something in the water, but this is the second week in a row where a previously-announced date was ignored and nominations were announced early. Last week it was the Satellite Awards. This week it’s the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association. Here are their choices: Nomination Tallies (8) Up in

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  • Previews: Week Ending December 6, 2009

    Our updates this week are entirely trailers. There are no new release dates, no new posters, just eleven new trailers. 2009 features a replacement trailer for musical Nine, and new pages with trailers for French foreign language pic French Gigolo (called Cliente in France), marriage comedy Made for Each Other and historical romance The Young

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  • Tributes: October, November & More

    (Updated 3/20/10, 8:37p: corrected tribute links) I have been remiss in not updating the tribute pages. Not only do I have the last-minute tributes from September, I have all of October and November available now. Below is a list of all of the Tributes posted in this update. You can also go directly to the

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