Every year we lose a number of irreplaceable artists. 2009 was no exception. In celebration of the lives of those we bid adieu to in the year just ended, here are recommendations for films representing some of the best work of just ten of them. Bea Arthur was best known for her TV work in…
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The Producers Guild of America have announced their choices for the Best Pictures of 2009. Below are the lists: The Nominees Best Picture Avatar District 9 An Education The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Invictus Precious Star Trek Up Up in the Air
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Tomorrow, the PGA announces its nominees for the Best Picture, Best Animated Feature and Best Documentary of 2009. Our regular contributors have put together our predictions not only for the PGA nominations, but also our thoughts, as they currently stand, on Best Picture. Below is our list of Predictions. They fall into three categories: common…
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Steve Pond over at thewrap.com has an article about several prominent film scores being declared ineligible for the Original Score award at this year’s Academy Awards. Among those ineligible? Where the Wild Things Are, Harry Potter, Precious and The Blind Side. Below is the list of eligible scores: Adam Adoration Adventures of Power Aliens in…
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The National Society of Film Critics applied the status quo to this year’s race honoring The Hurt Locker. The most interesting choice is the tie between Christoph Waltz and Paul Schneider. Schneider gave one of my favorite supporting performances this year, so I’m quite pleased he picked up something even though I’m sure Oscar is…
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Well, it’s another year and another decade, but it’s still Oscar season. May we all have a Happy New Year and may our upcoming months of Oscar fun be filled with surprises, but only pleasant ones. Of course, we still have plenty of precursors left before The Big Night. So, here’s the breakdown of what’s…
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Below are several links to the ballots. Trailer Suggestions Black Mass Ex Machina Far from the Madding Crowd Inside Out Joy Jurassic World Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian #1 The Martian #2 Max Minions Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation The Revenant Room #1 Room #2 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Spotlight Star…
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Although Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire proved unstoppable by the time the Oscars were given out for 2008, it was not an early favorite. Early speculation centered around such eagerly anticipated films as David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Gus Van Sant’s Milk; Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon and John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt along with Christopher…
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Below are the nominees for this year’s Online Film Critics Society awards. As a voting member, I must say that I’m at times excited (the love for District 9) and at times irritated (Jackie Earle Haley? Seriously?). But, overall, a fairly straightforward list, little of which I’m not surprised to see nominated. Nomination Tallies (8)…
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The Blind Side Rating Director John Lee Hancock Screenplay John Lee Hancock (Book: Michael Lewis) Length 128 min. Starring Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron, Jae Head, Lily Collins, Ray McKinnon, Kim Dickens, Adriane Lenox, Kathy Bates, Catherine Dyer MPAA Rating PG-13 for one scene involving brief violence, drug and sexual references. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack…
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The Library of Congress has selected 25 films (short-, feature-length, and now apparently music videos) to add to its National Film Registry, a list that annually selects 25 works from the length of film history to permanently preserve in their archives. This year’s list includes many films most of you have probably never heard of.…
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2007 was a year in which a good deal of the Oscar prognosticators’ speculation centered on whether or not No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood would be too violent for Academy tastes. The more genteel violence of Sweeney Todd, Into the Wild and Atonement seemed more likely to them to pass…
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Saving the best for last, three recent DVD releases are among the year’s finest films. With the same basic plot as Avatar, South African director Neill Blomkamp’s first film, District 9, is a thrilling science fiction film given gravitas by both its documentary style flavor and its Johannesburg setting. Sharlto Copley heads the brilliant, if…
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When film historians look back on the first decade of the new millennium, I have no doubt 2006 will be seen as the decade’s best year for film. It was the year that gave us such highly acclaimed films as Pan’s Labyrinth; Children of Men; The Departed; The Lives of Others and Letters From Iwo…
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Saving the best for last, three recent DVD releases are among the year’s finest films. With the same basic plot as Avatar, South African director Neill Blomkamp’s first film, District 9, is a thrilling science fiction film given gravitas by both its documentary style flavor and its Johannesburg setting. Sharlto Copley heads the brilliant, if…
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