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Gold Rush: Writer’s Guild Award Nominees 2012
Well, folks. The WGA nominees have been announced, and on the whole, I can’t say that I love ‘em. But read below, if you must. ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 50/50, Written by Will Reiser; Summit Entertainment...
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Yay Or Neigh?: Spielberg Ponies Up Two New Family Films
(Movies discussed in this post: War Horse, Attack The Block, X-Men: First Class, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Paul, Super 8, The Adventures Of Tintin.) From The Artist to Midnight In Paris to...
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Hard In The City vs. The Golden Globes: Live Blog & Winners 2012
It’s the Golden Globes! And because I currently have nothing better to do, I am watching and blogging about them. (Nominees here, FYI.) I’ll be doing some sort of live-blogging/recap as we go on, so…...
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First Comes Baby In The Baby Carriage: ‘Friends With Kids’
Friends With Kids co-stars Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Chris O’Dowd, and Jon Hamm, all of whom you will recognize from last year’s biggest (and best) studio comedy. Is this Bridemaids 2? Almost. The...
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The Tens: Best Of Film 2009
Continuing my retrospective Top 10 lists. Keep in mind, this list is from awards season 2010… and I don’t necessarily stand behind every one of these choices anymore… Okay, so this was the year the...
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Dad’s Dead: Sad, Squabbling Siblings In ‘Skeleton Twins’&‘Where I Leave You’
“Dad’s dead.” These are the first words of the book This Is Where I Leave You, spoken by Wendy Foxman. How does she say it? “Offhandedly, like it’s happened before, like it happens every day. It can be...
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The Tens: Best Of Film 2014
It was a very good year at the movies… but a weird one. Reversing the trend of recent years, the summer blockbuster fare offered a surprising amount of good taste, from the goofy-fun Guardians Of The...
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The Not-Oscars 2014
Once again, it’s Oscar time. This year’s race is gearing up to be one of the least predictable in recent memory. For every race that has an all-but-guaranteed winner (Julianne Moore, Best Actress; J.K....
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Girl, Mistress, Queen: A Female-Centric Summer At The Arthouse
Movies these days tend to be events. Even the smaller ones are often given the royal treatment, when it comes from a beloved, established filmmaker. Noam Baumbach is certainly one of those, yet he’s...
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Intelligent Life: Science Rules In ‘The Martian’
The Martian shouldn’t feel like such a treasure, and maybe twenty years ago, it wouldn’t have. Its closest cousin, Apollo 13, was nominated for Best Picture in 1995, back when feel-good movies could...
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