Spreading their awards ultra thin, The Tree of Life, which came in second to The Descendants for Best Picture, earned a total of three awards. Every other film earned only a single mention each. Director, Actor and Screenplay may be locked in for Oscar nominations according to LAFCA history with Actor being a surprisingly strong…
The Boston Society of Film Critics divvied up their awards fairly evenly with no film earning more than three prizes and splitting Best Picture (The Artist) and Best Director (Martin Scorsese). Melissa McCarthy gets a decent boost with this prize as does Michelle Williams. Albert Brooks may be one of the few winners this season…
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Every week, I get several press releases, screening invitations and other notifications from a handful of studio contacts. While I won’t be sharing any information regarding my screening invites, some of the press releases might be of interest to my readers, so I thought I’d start sharing them in toto with all of you. These…
Oscar News The Academy released the short list this week for Best Visual Effects, leaving 15 eligible films. Kung Fu Panda 2 led the Annie Award nominees for animated films, with 12 nominations. Puss in Boots and Rango each got 9 nods. The Washington D.C. Film Critics named The Artist their Best film of the year, while spreading…
The Academy has announced the fifteen films that will compete for five nominations in the Best Visual Effects category at this year’s Oscars. Here is that list. More information follows at the end regarding their selection process. Expect box office duds like Sucker Punch and Cowboys & Aliens to be among the first films dropped…
It’s true. There are no new ideas under the sun. Sister Act wasn’t that long ago… Joyful Noise Plot Summary: A small town church performance choir finds new direction when a member’s step-son arrives to shake things up and lead them towards a coveted victory at a show choir competition. Release Date: January 13, 2012…
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…
Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 (starting in January) years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of…
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Rating Director Tomas Alfredson Screenplay Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan (Novel: John le Carré) Length 127 min. Starring Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Toby Jones, David Dencik, Ciaran Hinds, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Tom Hardy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kathy Burke, Stephen Graham, Arthur Nightingale, Simon McBurney, Amanda Fairbank-Hynes, Konstantin Khabenskiy MPAA Rating R for…