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1980 at the Oscars
By the end of the 1980s several critics’ polls had declared Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull to be one of the greatest films ever made and the best film of the decade. That it was a good movie was never in dispute, but it is a cold, distant, difficult to like film, especially when compared with…
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1979 at the Oscars
1979 was the first year in which the L.A. and N.Y. Film critics agreed on the year’s Best Picture – the domestic drama, Kramer vs. Kramer, though they disagreed on Best Director. L.A. went with Kramer’s Robert Benton while the N.Y. group went with Woody Allen for the second time in three years, for Manhattan.…
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The DVD Report #123
The quality of TV drama has never been better than it is right now, but the ways in which people watch their favorite series have changed dramatically over the years. From the late 1940s through the 1970s, three major networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, dominated broadcast TV in the U.S. Although PBS and local channels…
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1978 at the Oscars
The 1978 Oscar race is best remembered as the year of the dueling Vietnam War movies but it almost didn’t happen. Universal had planned The Deer Hunter for a February 1979 release and didn’t decide on limited New York and L.A. runs in mid-December until late November. The L.A. Film critics were the first to…
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1977 at the Oscars
The National Board of Review resumed its tradition of being the first to announce its annual winners in 1977, naming Herbert Ross’ The Turning Point as Best Picture of the year. They eschewed Ross for the Best Director award, however, bestowing that honor on the legendary Spanish director Luis Bunuel for That Obscure Object of…
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Review: A Little Night Music (1977)
A Little Night Music Rating Director Harold Prince Screenplay Hugh Wheeler (Musical: Stephen Sondheim, Book: Hugh Wheeler, Film: Ingmar Bergman) Length 124 min. Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down, Hermione Gingold, Laurence Guittard, Christopher Guard, Lesley Dunlop, Chloe Franks MPAA Rating PG Buy/Rent Movie Source Material Review How can you possibly go…
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Review: Sorority Row (2009)
Sorority Row Rating Director Stewart Hendler Screenplay Josh Stolberg, Pete Goldfinger, Mark Rosman Length 101 min. Starring Briana Evigan, Margo Harsman, Rumer Willis, Jamie Chung, Leah Pipes, Audrina Patridge, Matt O’Leary, Julian Morris, Carrie Fisher, Caroline D’Amore, Matt Lanter, Maxx Hennard MPAA Rating R for strong bloody violence, language, some sexuality/nudity and partying. Buy/Rent Movie…
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Review: Saw V (2008)
Saw V Rating Director David Hackl Screenplay Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan Length 92 min. Starring Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson, Betsy Russell, Julie Benz, Meagan Good, Mark Rolston, Carlo Rota, Greg Bryk, Laura Gordon, Joris Jarsky, Mike Butters MPAA Rating R for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture, language and brief nudity Buy/Rent…
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1976 at the Oscars
The Los Angeles Film Critics, in only their second year, started off awards season with another tie. Just as they had done with their first awards the previous year, they split Best Picture honors between two films, the acerbic Network and the feel-good Rocky. The National Board of Review, New York Film Critics and National…
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Review: Saw II (2005)
Saw II Rating Director Darren Lynn Bousman Screenplay Leigh Whannell, Darren Lynn Bousman Length 93 min. Starring Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Donnie Wahlberg, Erik Knudsen, Franky G, Glenn Plummer, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Leight Whannell, Mpho Koaho, Beverley Mitchell, Tim Burd, Barry Flatman, Lyriq Bent, Dina Meyer MPAA Rating R (For grisly violence and gore, terror, language…
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Review: Saw IV (2007)
Saw IV Rating Director Darren Lynn Bousman Screenplay Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan, Thomas Fenton Length 92 min. Starring Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson, Betsy Russell, Lyriq Bent, Athena Karkanis, Justin Louis, Simon Reynolds, Donnie Wahlberg, Angus Macfadyen, Shawnee Smith, Bahar Soomekh, Dina Meyer, Mike Realba, Marty Adams, Sarain Boylan, Billy Otis, James Van Patten…
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Review: Saw III (2006)
Saw III Rating Director Darren Lynn Bousman Screenplay Leigh Whannell, James Wan Length 113 min. Starring Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus Macfadyen, Bahar Soomekh, Donnie Wahlberg, Dina Meyer, Leigh Whannell, Mpho Koaho, Barry Flatman, Lyriq Bent, J Larose, Debra Lynne McCabe, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell MPAA Rating R for strong grisly violence and gore, sequences…
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Producers Guild Mimics Academy
In a move that Producers Guild of America said was “in support of” the Academy’s decision to increase the number of Best Picture nominees to 10, the PGA has done the same. It isn’t hard to see what is really happening. The PGA wants to continue its streak of strong predictive capabilities and jump on…
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The DVD Report #122
A cultural phenomenon in the 1980s, Fame, the Alan Parker directed film from 1980, and Fame, the subsequent TV series that ran from 1982 to 1987, have been given new DVD releases to coincide with the release of the new film version of Fame. The original film was nominated for six Oscars and won two.…
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1975 at the Oscars
Early on it seemed as though Nashville would be invincible in the 1975 Oscar race. Right off the bat it tied with Barry Lyndon as co-winner of the National Board of Review award, then went on to win the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics awards all by its lonesome. The…
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